The food here was amazing, ambiance was very street Korean and comfortable, and the service was…read moregood - Sunday surcharge was a bit steep, but the meal made up for it.

Cute little Korean restaurant on Rose Lane, the "new laneway" in the Upper West Side building…read more Korean Table is surrounded by I Love Chicken, Hakoya Ramen, Kyoto Mart, and Rolling Nori - and it holds its own for sure! I came here on New Years Day for dinner. The menu is 6 pages long, but there is a picture of every dish, which makes it really helpful to decide (I assume especially if you're not Korean). I kept it classic and went with the beef bibimbap, and boy am I glad I did! The only adjustment I made was no bean sprouts. Served in a sizzling hot stone bowl, you'll have to control yourself for a couple of minutes to let the rice continue to cook and get all crispy on the edges. The server was quite sweet and asked me if I knew how to eat it when she delivered the bowl. I sheepishly said, "um, mix it all together?" and she nodded in approval and skipped away. All of the ingredients and flavors blended together perfectly, aided by a generous helping of gochugang (sweet/spicy red sauce). I added a grapefruit soju to wash it down. Like many places, you'll self serve cutlery (chopsticks, spoons, napkins) as well as water from the counter. Someone takes your order either at the register or your table (didn't seem to be rhyme or reason to which or why), and then drops off your food when you're done. Space is tailored to groups of 2 or 4, though one group of about 6 or 7 kids came in together looking worse for wear after NYE. Prices are about $15 each for most entrees. The food was delicious (see photos) and I will be back!

Trying to get a late night meal in Melbourne CBD was like pulling teeth. The initial place I went,…read morethe kitchen was closed so I walked down a bit farther and found this place. I came here twice because, ​on my 1st visit, I had already placed my order before I realized they had chicken feet. If I​ had known I would have just gotten the chicken feet. Anyway, my first order was this seafood bowl thing. It was $15 of hot ass mess. I can't find the menu to get the full name. But it was Tofu and what was supposed​ to be seafood/shrimps. It came with a side of rice. I had ordered it to-go, so imagine my surprise when I arrived back to my hotel to the disaster awaiting me. I ended up just scooping some of the soup broth onto the rice and eating that..the rest was trash. My 3-star is for the chicken feet I got the next night. "Wait, You went back there?" You ask. Yes, yes I did. I really wanted those chicken feet. They weren't bad, I have definitely had better but they were better than whatever nonsense soup/hotpot thing I ordered the day before.

My friend and I had just arrived in Melbourne CBD in the late evening and we were looking for a…read moreplace to eat at 11pm. We saw that Sool Tong closes at 3am, so we decided to give it a try. And we are so glad that we did! We ordered the spicy chicken feet and the Korean-style beef short ribs. The spicy chicken feet was cooked perfectly so the meat fell off the bones with ease, and the spicy flavor was really addicting. The Korean-style beef short ribs were definitely one of the best I've ever had. Again, it was cooked perfectly. Enough to be tender, but not so much that it was tough. On top of that, the flavor was also amazing. tl;dr: Really authentic hole-in-the-wall Korean restaurant. The food was really fantastic. You gotta come try it at night!

Totally underwhelming…read more To start off the place smells like a deep fryer. If the food had been great I'd have been happy to overlook that but it wasn't. The starters we had (dumplings and pancakes) were fine but not amazing. The mains (#21 bibimbap with spicy pork and #55 the pork belly special with kimchi) however were utterly boring. I've just come back from a trip to Seoul and the food was amazing - nothing as dull as this was. Some of the dishes had some spice but no flavour. If this was my fist experience with Korean food I'd never try it again. As it wasn't I will try again - just not here.

One one my friends managed to break with the tradition of going out to the stock standard pubs that…read morewe tend to go to on a Sunday night and instead dragged all of us down to this place, a place that here and her boyfriend (not that they actually claim to be an item, but they always seem to be together, but that's another story) go to when we go to a place they don't like. Well, I have to say that while the restaurant was pretty nice (it's Korean) I wasn't all that impressed with my noodle dish. It started off okay, however by the time I got to the noodle at the bottom I simply couldn't finish it. Also, they don't split bills, which is a big put off for me, especially since I don't always carry spare cash on me. It's okay, but not one that I would be hurrying back to anytime soon.

We were back in Melbourne for the evening so for dinner, I wanted Korean BBQ. There's a ton of them…read morenear the Queen Victoria Market so after a quick search, we settled on Toodouri. This street houses three other KBBQ spots (Donwoori, Woo Ga and Hallah). Talk about stiff competition. We dropped in on a Tuesday evening (around 7:15pm). It wasn't too busy so everyone was sitting on the main floor but they do have an upstairs. This place is legit; the BBQ's are charcoal style. The menu had some happy hour specials (10:00pm to 1:00am) and daily specials (Monday to Thursday only). The rest of the menu consists of charcoal BBQ (beef, pork, chicken, seafood), set menus for 2/3/5-6 people, casserole (aka. hot pots), soups, main dishes and drinks. Service is great as they do all the cooking and cutting for you. They also changed our plates halfway and took out the hot charcoals when our last meats were done cooking (so that they didn't overcook). FYI: they give a 5% discount if you pay with cash. Otherwise, they charge you for using card (1.5%) and it has to be over $30.00 AUD. - Purple rice ($2.00 AUD) - oddly, you don't get any rice with the set menus so we had to order one bowl to share. - Banchan - you get three types (kimchi, bean sprouts and pasta salad) and it's unlimited refills. The kimchi actually impressed me as I'm not usually the biggest fan. Bean sprouts were good, pasta salad was boring. - Beef set B ($47.50 AUD) - beef bulgolgi, LA beef ribs and kimchi soup. They bring out a basket of lettuce wraps (the cheap kind) and pickled onions. The kimchi soup was fantastic! Great broth; again, tasty kimchi and there was a mix of tofu, enoki mushrooms, jalapeños and green onions. Bulgogi was nicely marinated and LA beef ribs were thin, satisfying bites. - Pork belly ($13.90 AUD) - this is their Tuesday charcoal BBQ special. You get three pieces of pork belly. They weren't too fatty and got crisped up on the BBQ. Another solid Korean spot. Reasonable prices, great service and tasty food.

Quirky and eclectic, but the food is tasty and reasonably proportioned for the price. Side dishes…read morequite generous with up to three refills each. Recommended.

Ok, so I am a very very fussy eater but this place is just absolutely magic. We went for a seafood…read moresoup that's cooked on your table on a portable cooker. For a guy that does not eat mussles and calamari....man I was ripping in to it! Seriously, I would give it a rating of 15/10 if I could. And make sure you come with a big appetitie! I confess, I ate there on Friday and was back there on Saturday....and maybe just maybe....I could sneal in there today! The prices are reasonable, food is fresh and ambience is great and waiters are polite....do I keep going..on and on!! Enjoy!

Wow. The atmosphere, service and food are remarkable…read more I had fried beef dumplings and a beef bibimbap in a stone bowl for lunch and it was some of the tastiest Korean food with high quality ingredients I've had in a long time. I look forward to trying some of their vegetarian stone bowl options too.

Delicious. I can find it hard to get vegetarian Korean food but there are plenty of options here…read more We shared the kimchi pancake (chomp!) and the tofu and veggie hot stone pot. Both great. I wish there was a veggie dumpling option. Our than that I loved it.

THIS PLACE IS AMAZING. Full stop…read more Giant jugs of Korean beer, exquisitely-marinated meat (I cannot recommend the Spicy Pork Belly enough), great kimchi pancake, and spectacular customer service. If I lived in Melbourne, it'd be hard not to want to come to Mapo at least once a week.

The food was fair to good nothing special. Service was even though the place filled up quickly…read more They only served 3 sides with our BBQ combo plus a salad. Like I said nothing special and soso food.

For someone who eats a lot of food, I'm actually pretty clueless when it comes to Korean food…read more Everything about it (spicy stuff, grilled meats and crazy soupy things) sounds like my kind of thing yet for some reason I've just not eaten a whole lot of it. Until now... Darac has been in my bookmarks now for some time and last night I finally got there for an early dinner. My dining companion and I shared the gyoza and then had a bibimbap each. The worst thing about this place? We waited for what seemed an eternity after ordering and I wanted to lunge myself across the table next to us to eat things from their bubbling cauldron of "stuff". It smelt amazing, btu having waited for 30 minutes for ANY food to arrive on my table meant I was about ready to chew my own arm off. Finally, the bibimbap arrived and shortly thereafter, our Gyoza (which sits under the Japanese banner rather than the Korean, but hey let's not get technical). The filling was fresh, the dough soft and not greasy and the side dish of yuzu dipping sauce was amazing and lifted the seafood filling. The bibimbap? AWESOME. I'm all for participative dining, so anything I need to mix, assemble or play with is good in my book. Bimbimbap fits the brief, needing to be mixed up (with the accompanying mild and sweet sauce or the hot chilli EVIL) being being devoured. I drowned that bad boy in chilli sauce and loved that the hot clay bowl it comes served in continued to keep the whole dish hot throughout my eating frenzy. I'll be back Darac... and I'll probably give you more stars if the service gets better.

Dolsot Bibimbap FIlled with Vegetables and Meat…read moreSunshine Centre Awaits. 1. Come during lunch 2. Get Bibimbap 3. Let it rip That is all.