Kalbi Korean - Menu

36 Rosebery Ave, London, EC1R5HP, EC1R 5HP, United Kingdom

🛍 Bbq, Meat, Sushi, Korean

3.7 💬 13 Avis

Téléphone: +442072780008,+447949006173

Adresse: 36 Rosebery Ave, London, EC1R5HP, EC1R 5HP, United Kingdom

Ville: London

Plats: 35

Avis: 13

Site Web: http://kalbi.co.uk

"Such a disappointing evening at Kalbi Korean BBQ restaurant dining on inferior food with slow and inattentive service. Our group of eight gathered at Kalbi expecting to enjoy a Korean BBQ buffet meal as advertised on the website. To our surprise the BBQ buffet menus at the restaurant were completely different to those on the restaurant website. The prices are higher and the choices are much more restricted. Fortunately for the restaurant manager they decided to offer our table the menu as advertised on their website without much objection but this wasted over 20 minutes of our time! NOTE that the wrong misleading menu is still on the restaurant 's website even a week after our meal? Is this their marketing ploy to lure unsuspecting diners? 1) Menu Of the 3 available buffet menus we planned to choose menu A £26.90 (mon wed), this is the most expensive menu supposedly offering the most meat appetiser selections (see photo for details). For menu A we expected to be able to choose 8 types of BBQ meat and 5 out of 13 appetisers. The actual menu A at the restaurant only allowed 4 BBQ meats, that is half the advertised quantity! Only 3 dishes out of a considerably fewer number of appetisers are allowed on the actual menu A. The side dishes are optional extras, the price of these were higher in the restaurant than on the website. 2) Food Appetisers yang yum prawn, royal tobokki, yang yum chicken, pork rib, seafood pancake. Most notable was the seafood pancake for the distinct lack of seafood. The texture was thick rubbery tasting of what I would imagine reheated cheap frozen microwaved pancake consisting of flour and spring onion without seasoning to taste like! I normally try hard not to waste food but the pancake tasted so awful I could not eat more than 2 small bites. Meat the rib eye and sirloin steaks were frozen tough and lacked flavour. 3) Service Service was slow to the point that the grills were burning empty of any meat for long periods of time. Note that there is only 90 minutes of ordering for the BBQ buffet. Unlike other Korean restaurants, the servers did not operate the barbecues for us, we had to BBQ the meat ourselves. When I observed that the fried chicken starter was sprinkled with nuts, I asked a waiter whether any of the other dishes contained nuts. He left presumably to consult the chef but never returned to answer my question!!! 4) Extortionate Credit Card Surcharge There is an unadvertised 10% surcharge for card payments, such a rip of for customers and HMRC! Forcing diners to waste time to leave the restaurant to get cash from the ATM to avoid the surcharge, this caused some people to miss their train home. 5) Overcharging Finally once everyone had sufficient cash to pay, upon checking the bill it turned out that they charged us for 10 pints of beer instead of 6. At a hefty £5.90 per pint that 's an overcharge of almost £24!! The staff did not acknowledge their mistake until the manager said 'if the customer say that they only had 6 beers then they are right. ' They eventually admitted to charging another tables drinks order onto our bill. Again this wasted time to resolve. At this point I could not even be bothered to mention that they charged the wrong higher prices for the side dishes. Needless to say I shall not be returning to Kalbi, the quality of the meat and food is just too unpleasant to eat. The drinks prices are very high. The BBQ buffet menus both those on the website and at the restaurant are very restrictive in terms of quantity and choice."

Anna Anna

Very busy and a little tough to get seating even with a reservation lots of que but all worth the wait amazing staff and even greater food!

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Yiran
Yiran

The buffet menu is completely different from what's on the website. You can only get tiny amount of beef in the most expensive set, and if you want more meat (you can't get more beef though) you have to finish all the things you have ordered. I've been to so many Korean bbq places that do buffet and this is the most absurd thing I have ever heard of. And the amount of beef they give you is way less than they supposed to. Basically the whole buffet thing is a joke. Also we didn't get our drinks until all the appetizers and rice were served. The ribeye was also really bad. It is definitely not the kind of meat can be served on your table. This restaurant is truly phenomenal. I tried to find at...


Nida
Nida

I'm so happy to have found a good KBBQ restaurant in London. And yes, there is a grill on the table. Not to mention their great Happy BBQ prices from 6-6:45PM where their BBQ meats are discounted since they're still relatively new. My friend and I, both Korean food lovers, stopped by to try it out since Kalbi is pretty close to our school. We ordered 4 different meats and loaded up on side dishes. Everything was tasty and 4 BBQ meats seemed like the right amount for the two of us especially since we had the side dishes. Although it isn't the best KBBQ I've had ever (the best is in LA), it's pretty damn good and satisfy your craving if you're having one. All the meats are well prepared and th...


Wanrada
Wanrada

Great service, fast and good. I just had dinner here with my mom for the first table at 6 pm. Korean BBQ was so good. I chose Plan B and it worth to try. You can order as much as you want : meat from plan B, and number 4. NOTE : Buffet not include drink. Pork and chicken were tender and juicy. I suggest spicy pork and pork belly. Staff will help you out with grill thing but you can do it yourself, just tell them. It will feel more comfy. Appetizers and sides came out with 1 large plate only 1 time for 2 potion and it were so great, hot cooked and tasty, I like it!! (be careful it very hot) Kimji bibimbab was fine, they used sushi rice. You can order more if you want. 3 house sides was soooo...


Joy
Joy

For two years I've avoided going to Korean BBQ because I generally don't think the Asian food in London is that great. But the yearning for it came so we tried this place during the week as they have a special price for their buffet. I liked their interior design of dark/black wood and modern grills set in the tables, and the service was good, even though the waitress had me hang up my own jacket, which was so weird for such a nice place. I was so disappointed, and almost insulted to hear that the appetisers like the radish and kimchi were not included. What kind of Korean restaurant does not offer free appetisers?? Some restaurants even provide more than one serving... unbelievable! The buf...


Josy
Josy

Yelp, kamsa ham nida! I've been meaning to Kalbi for a while (ever since Nida took a group of yelpers here on her birthday and posted yummy looking photos! I love Korean food, and wanted to introduce the in laws to the happy, spicy flavours. We decided to order a la carte, rather than do the all you can eat menu (mostly because there were so many starters that I wanted to try! Spicy Squid This was fresh, and pretty spicy. Nom. Namul and kimchi sets I can't see this on a menu without ordering some. The pots were perfect size for sharing a small taste of each type. Kimchi jeon This is probably the pancake thing that Andrew mentioned in his review. It was perfect...a light batter with plenty of...


Ela
Ela

Came back this month for a friend's birthday. If they have read my review, I am glad, because they have improved, albeit slightly. Firstly, the menu on the website is the same as the one in the restaurant now. However, we didn't get off on a good start because when we turned up at the restaurant, they had somehow lost our booking (we were 10 min early) and our table somehow became lost and was given away. They tried to fix this by rearranging furniture in the corner to accommodate and while I appreciate the effort, we had to negotiate weird furniture to get in and out of the table. i.e. I walked into a ceiling lamp a few times, and also the extraction fan was not at the correct location on o...


Nicola
Nicola

Who say no to unlimited Korean BBQ!!! Miss this the most from Asia! I arranged a group of 8 ppls and we were planning to have a festive night, full of yummy meats!! However, we were very disappointed by the night ' experience. With the food, I initially were going to give them a 3.5 stars out of 5. But here were what happened to us: 1. We came here as we saw the Buffet deals on their website and there are so many dishes choices. However, when we reached to the restaurant, they had two different menus with higher price and less choices for the buffet!! lucky my friend did talk to the manager when we booked, so she allowed us to order from the website menu with the original price. But it waste...


Jacqueline
Jacqueline

My friends and I came here to take advantage of the Eat Out to Help Out scheme but were quite disappointed even with the government subsidizing £10 per head. We made a reservation for seven people and were initially seated at a long table with two grills however I was quite annoyed that the restaurant asked us to downsize to share one grill due to the number of people who were queuing, which was quite inconvenient and showed really poor planning on their side when a reservation was made. From the all you can eat menu for £26.90 per person, we all chose Option A, over Option B, which is £3 extra per person but included beef and everything that came with Option B (pork and chicken , however we...


Pen
Pen

Such a disappointing evening at Kalbi Korean BBQ restaurant dining on inferior food with slow and inattentive service. Our group of eight gathered at Kalbi expecting to enjoy a Korean BBQ buffet meal as advertised on the website. To our surprise the BBQ buffet menus at the restaurant were completely different to those on the restaurant website. The prices are higher and the choices are much more restricted. Fortunately for the restaurant manager they decided to offer our table the menu as advertised on their website without much objection but this wasted over 20 minutes of our time! NOTE that the wrong misleading menu is still on the restaurant 's website even a week after our meal? Is this...

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  • Bbq Savourez les saveurs fumées et savoureuses de nos offres barbecue. Des côtes tendres aux briskets juteux, chaque plat est grillé à la perfection avec nos sauces et épices signature pour une expérience BBQ authentique.
  • Meat Découvrez notre sélection de viandes savoureuses, comprenant des steaks grillés à la perfection, du poulet tendre et des plats d'agneau savoureux, chacun assaisonné à la perfection pour une expérience culinaire inoubliable.
  • Sushi Délectez-vous de notre sélection exquise de sushis, composée d'ingrédients frais, de rouleaux élaborés avec expertise, et de nigiri traditionnels. Chaque bouchée offre un mélange harmonieux de saveurs, promettant un véritable goût du Japon.
  • Korean Découvrez les saveurs vibrantes de la Corée avec notre menu, mettant en vedette des plats traditionnels tels que le bulgogi, le bibimbap et le kimchi, préparés avec des épices et des ingrédients authentiques pour un véritable goût de la cuisine coréenne.

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