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    Jantchi

    3.9 (155 reviews)
    ModerateKorean
    Closed 12:00 pm - 3:00 PM, 7:00 PM - 10:30 PM

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    Moderate noise
    Casual
    Good for kids
    Good for groups

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    Toby B.

    The food was yummy! Especially the rice cake & glass noodles together. The fried chicken felt normal to me, but that was also tasty. The BBQ meat for 2 was filling, especially when they gave you side dishes as well. Come and give it a try. You may come again to share it with your family and friends.

    Korean fried chicken

    I absolutely love this place; the food is delicious and the service fast and friendly!

    Eh, not recommending anything on the table
    Natalie Y.

    What do you do when you crave Korean food while youre travelling in France? Use Yelp! Thank god for Yelp because without it, how am I supposed to know if theres even Korean restaurants in France?? I was craving Korean food after days of eating all this carbs and cheese, I knew I needed something to balance out what was in my system. Jantchi was my choice. After reading reviews, it seemed pretty legit. Well, it wasnt great. I dont see myself going back here ever again. I feel that the workers here are very weird. I dont know why but I feel that at certain Korean Restaurants, Koreans treat Koreans worse. Can anyone agree with me? Come on now. Upon entering, they greeted us in Korean and sent us to the table upstairs. Sat down at a table with nothing set up. Then I see a table next to ours, all set up with fancy plates and water cups, but later I found out that was for non-Koreans only. Are you serious?! Why can they treat all customers equally?! Ive looked around and all the tables with Koreans or Asians, they sat at a table with nothing yet I see all these French and other non-Korean tables with full setting. Ugh! I had those small metal cups you get at a typical Korean restaurants, HAHA Ordered Spicy Squid Stir Fry (SSSF) and Bulgogi Rice (BR). SSSF was nowhere close to what I know as SSSF. It wasnt spicy, and they used cuttlefish instead of squid so it had no leg parts like tentacles. Only white cuttlefish fillets. It had really weird texture and flavor and I absolutely disliked it. BR was served on a hotstone pot and portion was generous. However, Bulgogi wasnt really Bulgogi. It was definitely missing something. Servers were very stuck up too. Everytime I asked for something, she wouldnt even reply back instead she will look at me and come to our table and just leave it there, i.e. napkins. I was so done with that kind of attitude. I really wanted to flip the table and leave. Its like, what is your problem? What did I do to you? Ughhhh, thinking about it makes me soooooo mad. I knew this place wasnt going to be it when I saw they gave us those tiny metal cups when other tables had wine glasses for water. So freaking shady. Price was not that great, food wasnt either and side dishes were mediocre at best. Service was horrible and parking is almost impossible in the area if you bring a car like me. Theres a lot of other Asian and Korean restaurants on the same street so PLEASE GO SOMEWHERE ELSE IF YOU CAN!

    Gabrielle K.

    I came here around 7:30, and surprisingly, we didn't have to wait at all (although there was a bit of a line by the time we left.) My friend and I got the dakgalbi to share, and it was 38euros for 2 portions - a lot more expensive than Korean food back in the US, but not too bad considering we didn't have to pay extra tip and tax. We also got a pot of makgeolli, which went well with our food! I hadn't had Korean food in a long time, so everything tasted amazing (although in retrospect, it was just above average - I've definitely had better dakgalbi in Korea and NOVA.) They don't do refills on the banchan, which surprised me, but you do get to choose 2 extra banchans for free!

    Ojingomuchim (sp?) (i.e., spicy squid)
    Paul O.

    The few times we have traveled to Europe, we have inevitably gotten to a point in each trip where we seriously needed Asian food. More specifically, Korean or Japanese food. When that time came this last Summer, we were fortunate to find Jantchi. Sometimes it's hard enough to find decent Korean food in the Bay Area, let alone in the middle of Paris. All I need to say is this: we came here twice in seven days. A few notes about Jantchi: We've only been here twice but there was a line (with at least a half hour wait) each time. Once was on a Saturday night around 7:00pm and the other was a Wednesday night around 9:00pm. They make you pay extra for panchan (i.e., the small side dishes). They will bring you ice if you ask for it. We ordered bulgogi and it was good each time although a little on the sweet side (which I'm fine with). We did not BBQ at the table. We also ordered japchae once, and stone pot bibimbap another time. All the dishes were pretty good as evidenced by the fact that we came back a few days later.

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    Ruby F.

    Great korean food in town!! I really love the taste of their foods!! Very recommended!! No wonder with the Michelin every year!!

    (seafood pancake)
    Elizabeth A.

    The place opens at 7pm and we got there just before 7 and there was already a bit of a line, us being 2nd. By the time it was 7 the line was significantly long! So if you want to make sure to get a seat - get there early :) but then again we visited on a weekend. We ordered the seafood pancake as a starter and although it's not like the original from SK it still tasted really good! The tofu stew was amazing, loved the small bits of beef they put in it. Service was average :)

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    Stephanie C.

    There was a line of locals waiting to be seated...you know it's going to be good. Wow how they move tables. We didn't have to wait long at all. The place was packed!! The food was delicious. No English menu so download google translate app.

    Pork bibimbap with ginseng tea
    Helena K.

    I'm Korean. So I can't rate Korean restaurants against the benchmarks that are my Mom's superfreakinamazing cooking nor the original versions of different Korean dishes I had in their respective regions of Korea. I am rating this place based on the fact that it is located in Paris, the price point, the quality of the ingredients and the state of Stomach post dining. It is true that sometimes delicious Korean food I eat out at restaurants give me tummy aches due to the MSG and the excessive species they use. This place gets a 4.5 star rating. I only ordered the pork bibimbap but banchan that came before and the the ingredients in the "sot" (pot) were both delicious. Where it lacks half a star is the fact that it came in a fake dol sot meaning it wasn't the actual hot stone bowl. But since a few days have passed since I actually ate here, I'm now unsure if the menu reads dolsot bibimbap or just a regular bibimbap. If it reads a regular bibimbap then I apologize for wrongly accusing the establishment. Another star off of not accompanying the bibimbap with a small bowl of soup - whether it is miso based or egg and fish based. It is not customers for Korean places to serve just the rice dish alone - we just don't eat rice without soup. If this place was truly living up to it's reputation was one of the best customer rated Korean restaurants in Paris then they HAVE to serve at least a mini bowl of soup as a good gesture. This made me realize that the Resto is definitely doing well (that is why they do not need to serve the extra-somethin') and that they cater mostly to non Korean customers. My dish was around 14 Euros and I did not get a tummy ache when I got home :)

    Abbie O.

    Jantchi has some really satisfying bibimbap and kimchi! I'd love to come back and try some of their other dishes.

    Bulgogi jungol (stew for 2)

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    Meh. Doesn't even come close to what you can get in NYC. The best authentic food of course is in South Korea. Waitress was rude too.

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    Ilang - The bulgogi beef

    Ilang

    4.1(17 reviews)
    0.4 kmOpéra, Place Vendôme, 2ème

    I totally forgot to give my review for this disappointing service restaurant. We had such a…read morehorrible experience here. The food is really great. We were so happy to find this restaurant at first. But on our second visit, they put us in the upstairs area KNOWING it would close within 30 mins. We thought the restaurant was closing in 30 so we ate super fast. Despite doing so, they rushed us twice. After going downstairs we saw many customers still downstairs and was told that only upstairs was closing. WHY DID YOU PUT US UPSTAIRS THEN? We complained to the server and owner, both of them just shrugged. We are Asians - my husband is Korea actually. This is so embarrassing when our own kind in a foreign country treats people this way. I do not recommend coming here until their attitude improves.

    After 4 days in Paris, we needed a break from French cuisine, so we ended at Ilang, which was near…read moreour hotel and had decent reviews. The restaurant was quite busy, and there is seating on two floors. We sat on the ground level, cooled off with some Cass beers, and ordered away. Definitely get the spicy squid - it was very flavorful, spicy without kicking your butt, and oh so tender. Skip the Korean fried chicken, which had an odd texture. While we didn't have the largest assortment of banchan, they were all quite good. The haricot vert was a little odd, as I have never had that in Korea, but I guess it makes perfect sense in Paris :). Prices are very reasonable, and service was fast. Definitely a nice spot for Korea food in a convenient location.

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    Ilang - Spicy pork - recommended

    Spicy pork - recommended

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    Séoul Opéra - Mandu and miso soup

    Séoul Opéra

    3.6(16 reviews)
    0.3 kmPlace Vendôme, Palais Royal/Musée du Louvre, 1er
    €€

    This was a fairly decent Korean meal in Paris…read more Reservations can be made on their website if you have basic French language skills. This is highly recommended as it's a small place, and they accepted very few diners without reservations on the night we visited. The interior is quite simple, but the staff were very friendly and spoke pretty good English. There is a tiny restroom upstairs. We each had the "opera" set menu which included fried dumplings, soup, and a choice of entrees. Everything was quite decent. The dumplings were hot and crispy with tasty filling but seemed like they were store bought and not made in house. The soup was decent but a bit bland. I had the bulgogi for my entree which was grilled at the table. It was also decent but not particularly flavorful. It was tender though. Overall a perfectly decent meal for your Korean fix in Paris.

    Lucky to have gotten the last table available cos I couldn't walk anymore from hunger The server…read morewas really nice and accommodating, he explained some dishes. I tried a typical Korean white wine (7€ for a glass). It was made from plum, so it's very fruity and sweet. I ordered chicken wings for an entrée and Uke Bibimbap for my main plate. The chicken wings were freshly fried and placed in a sweet sauce with some vegetables. It wasn't spicy at all. I wish the chicken would've been fried crispy tho, the textures would've been better. Compared to bibimbap, Uke bibimbap is placed on a hot plate with the beef still raw on top. The heat from the plate will cook it as you mix all the ingredients together. I added some soy sauce and gochujang to increase the flavors and must I say, this dish fulfilled my Korean food cravings. I loveeeeeeed it so much! Will definitely dream of eating this dish again.

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    Séoul Opéra - Interior

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    Guibine - Kimchi stew

    Guibine

    3.8(79 reviews)
    0.1 km2ème, Palais Royal/Musée du Louvre
    €€€

    I gave 5 stars because the first impression is they actual gave us ice water when we requested for…read more"ice water". A lot of places just gave you cool water. Cold noodle wasn't as cold as I expected, but the server gave me some ice cubes for my cold noodle. They also have lunch special menu with appetizer, salad, main dish and rice for less than €20. This place has no AC, a little bit hot inside.

    I'd heard good things about Guibine, and I decided to head out for dinner on Friday night to see…read morewhat it was all about. Since I've had plenty of Korean food back in the States (especially K-Town), I wanted to see just how legitimate Korean food in Paris would be. I arrived before it opened for dinner, and there was already a small line outside: I was able to get a seat inside, but within 15-20 minutes, the restaurant was entirely packed! Goes to show that it's popular and that both locals and tourists love this spot. Opted for the classic bibimbap, which came with a good portion of banchan. The bibimbap was pretty good, served piping hot and with plenty of ingredients (carrots, cucumbers, beef, rice) inside. I would say that it tasted just like what I would get back in K-Town (aka standard), which is excellent while abroad. Perhaps it was because I came for dinner, but it was notably pricey (17 euros) compared with what I would pay for otherwise. However, the quality is pretty good, and I left full and content afterwards. Worth a try!

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    Guibine - Ice water with ice

    Ice water with ice

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    Onion crepe

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