🌟 Tao's Google Restaurant Reviews 🌟 Really cool Korean inspired eats and drinks here. I had seen their advertisements on Instagram and Tik Tok and knew I had to come. They were very accommodating with reservations and you're free to message them on IG as well. We ended up seating 6 and getting the: Garlic butter fries - really delicious, highly recommend this as a shareable. Spicy pork kimbap - was nice and moist, pretty decent. Spicy raw crab - really depends on your taste profile. It's actually not too spicy and was tasty, though I thought it was a bit pricey for the amount you're getting. Beef tartare - also one of their highlights of the menu, I thought the taste was quite mild and mainly you were experiencing the texture with it. The kimbap served with it was nicely made though. Truffle udon - I highly recommend this one! Super creamy and carbonara-like, one of our favourite dishes. Traditional tteokboki - pretty decent, can help supplement your calories. LA Kalbi - one of our favourites too, very juicy and served still warm on a hot plate. Strawberry makgeolli - they came out with cups with strawberries and boba for you to pour in!
Overall, I really enjoyed our experience here. I would get the ones that I highly recommended again. Service was very nice too. I can tell the detail put into the restaurant, nice high quality plates etc. I'd say the one thing, and probably not as controllable during the summer, was that there were a few bugs/flies that got in our experience despite sitting inside.
🍲Food: 4.5/5 🧑🍳Service: 5/5 🍴Atmosphere:...
Read moreI honestly debated on making a review since I came earlier this week....Food was okay. The interior and vibe was nice but the music was really loud despite it not being full when I went. It was hard to chat with the people I went with. Small inconvenience but not terrible. I'd say it's a good place if you just want apps and a drink, I guess. Maybe better when the weather is warmer?
Went there for the soy marinated crab - it was pretty good but the other food we got was disappointing. The portion size for the price I found ridiculous. I found it a bit overpriced. Small portions and expensive.
Small thing of note ( another slight inconvenience), the menu said that certain food would be great with rice which sounds great. Thought it would come with it. Apparently not. In other k- restaurants, they usually come with at least 1 bowl of rice. Here, you had to pay extra for even one.
A bit slow in terms of service but they seem generally nice until the bill came. The default was 18% and we didn't feel that the overall experience was worth such a tip and we were not even a large group. Just three people. A tip was still given though. It was a bit awkward when the waitress came back and demanded to ask why the tip was so low/what was wrong with the service. But I can also understand.
Not sure if I would like to come back again though after that....but overall it's meh. It's not super terrible but...
Read moreI was looking forward to trying this place out from hearing about it from friends and seeing their stuff online.
In my experience, the restaurant is not very organized and service wasn’t great.
Made a dinner reservation here and when we checked in, we were told that they were going to put us at this small bar counter facing the street. We pushed back on that because we made a standard dinner reservation and we weren’t told ahead of time or selected bar seating. We were seated instead at this table at the very back of the restaurant beside the staircase to the washroom. The ceiling lights in this area of the restaurant looked like they haven’t been replaced and it was pretty dark.
We ordered their premium makgeolli, and the server didn’t know what it was. I had to point it out to him on the menu.
After that, we waited a while for anyone to come back to our table and check on us. There was a group of guests that just sat down beside our table and somehow they were able to get their orders taken and food served before anyone even checked back with us to take our order.
The food itself is fine, but nothing really special out of what I had if I compared it to other similar restaurants I’ve been to elsewhere in the city.
There’s really no reason for me to return here, and I can’t recommend this place based on the...
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