Most popular items are the wings, bulgogi burger, and truffle japchae. Wings are decent--not marinated but rather fried and sauced after. Japchae is packed with the cheapest, lowest quality truffle oil I've ever seen in my life. Cocktails are soju based. They have a rule that you can only use cash or AMEX; this is the most deceptive, dishonest practice I've ever seen. In fact, the restaurant CAN accept other cards, but the "owner" made this rule to force customers to use the ATM in the restaurant so that they can make more money off of them.
The ambiance is solid! Interior is pretty, the record collection is cool, and there's live DJs who play music regularly.
Now, as someone who formerly worked there, here's the good, honest truth about this place: the "owner," who you'll probably see moving things around in the restaurant and dancing with the DJ, is a RAGING alcoholic/cokehead. In my week of employment there, he was on a bender the whole time, stealing bottles of sparkling wine from the fridge to get black out drunk with the DJ. He sexually harasses employees AND customers frequently. He plays the music WAY too loud--so loud that you will not be able to hear the person you're speaking to--and if you complain, he'll probably tell you to leave.
When I had multiple customers ask me to turn the volume down, I told him, and he cursed me out and told me to leave. However, here's the funny part: he's really not even the owner. He is a complete piece of s*** idiot who happens to be friends with the owners of the restaurant group, and they've essentially given this restaurant to him to keep him busy while they focus on their other restaurants. In just a week of working there, I saw him sexually harass female customers daily, steal alcohol, give free alcohol to customers he thought were hot (he even told me I could make special exceptions for pretty women), serve alcohol to minors (guess what gender? yup. please watch your teenage daughters if they come.), get wasted, smash a glass vase in the dining room (with customers present) to intimidate me, drunkenly fall over onto customers' tables, scream across the restaurant in drunken rage, and physically grab me when I refused to let him send me home (again, he's not actually the owner--the manager who hired me and to whom I answered wasn't present, so he really didn't have the authority to send me home) because it was extremely busy and most of the servers were brand new to working in a restaurant and would not have been able to manage. Another employee told me she'd previously found his cocaine bags around the restaurant.
The ONLY reason this place is still in business is because people like the ambiance--because it's pretty to look at. There really isn't anything special about the food, and this guy, whose name is MJ Chung, should 100% be in jail or in rehab right now. In fact, the manager who hired me (the poor woman) is more like a full-time babysitter for this full-grown man. Once, after we closed, he drunkenly went to a karaoke bar and got into a fight with another patron. He proceeded to try to leave without paying the bill, and when the cops were called, she had to come and save him and pay his bill. The next day, the day that he and I almost got into a fistfight because he kept grabbing me, he'd come to work with a bruise on his face from that fight the previous night.
If you care about hospitality in the SLIGHTEST....if you have an issue with dirty silverware, dirty glasses, broken shards of glass being left out on the dining room floor for DAYS at a time....do NOT come here. I was absolutely baffled by what I saw here; it was such a huge disgrace to everything I know about hospitality. Really, in just a week, I saw enough to make a movie about. This dude is a danger to himself and to the people around him. read more