Cho Sun Ok Restaurant

Bring your friends and have a great party. This wonderful Korean specializes in BBQ prepared at your table with an incredible number of side dishes that come with the main course We ordered the chicken fried rice as an extra, but we really didn't need it. We had the bulgoki (spicy marinated beef) cooked at the table and it was great. BYOB restaurant so don't forget to bring some good red wine! This is a very popular restaurant so try to arrive during the early part of the week and then try to arrive late or early that night when they are not so crowded. No one would confuse the service with a five star french restaurant, but we are not Korean and we thought we were treated with great courtesy. Remember, this is a small restaurant with bargain prices and a small staff. These people are busy and work hard. They serve one of the best ethnic meals around.…

Authentic Korean. this place has been around for over 20 years and the reason is the food. very authentic, especially the kimchees, with no "americanized" dishes. i went here as a child, moved away for 10 yrs, and returned, but food hasn't changed thank god. favorites are chadolbaegi, yookgaejang, moolnaengmyun, sollungtang. some dishes that are popular with my american friends include japchae, manduguk, ojinguh bokum, and of course galbi. place has no ambience whatsoever, wait svc is always rushed (even if you're korean, which i am) during peak hours 6:00-9:00. tip for the newbies: if you want to cook at the table, order the non-marinated meats, or order at least 3 portions of the marinated meats. otherwise they will cook it for you. they only do the tableside post-meat rice saute if you order a non-marinated meat. also if you like your roasted fish, but prefer not to have it staring at you while you eat, ask them to cut the head off for you before serving.…

Maybe next time..... I thought the service was poor... first our waitress didn't explain the menu to us... we were first-timers... 2nd we wanted to order something we could cook on the table... when we realized we ordered food that the people in back cooked they wouldn't let us change our order... ( we realized our mistake 1 minute into ordering initially, plenty of time to change our order)... Third , our waitress never came back to our table to refill our water... Forth, the parking poor... you have to search on the street.

One waitress was nice enough to fill our water and bag our leftovers... but she wasn't our initial waitress...

I hate to say this but you're better off being Korean to be served better ( I could be wrong, but prove me wrong )…

Unless You are Korean -- Fogettaboutit. If you're Korean, maybe the place is ok. If not, then 'fogettaboutit'. Panchans (for non-Koreans), not spicy and not much variety. Had to ask several times, until we got at least SOME of the real Korean stuff. As for the Cook at the Table Dinners, again we were not allowed to cook our own (while the Korean diners were). Also, not provided with the plate of spliced green onions like all other Korean Diners (we like onions too!). Also, not really impressed with 'stone-top' cooking versus real over-the-coals BBQ. Also, really surprised NO ONE was provided with at least grean lettuce leaves for roll-ups of the BBQ meat, like other Korean BBQ's (let alone the even better large radish roll-ups) along with garlic cloves. Enough experimenting with 'other' Korean restaurants, I'll stick with the best -- King Nam (where you get EVERYTHING -- even korean pancake and soup included, for virtually same price; and all the wonderful Korean panchans -- and not treated like a 2nd-class citizen).…