Seoul House BBQ | 스틸스 서울관 — Restaurant in Vaughan

This has very quickly become one of my favorite Korean BBQ restaurants anywhere.

First, the service is wonderful. The servers are incredible fast and efficient. Very polite and attentive and make you feel at home. They bring hot tea to start and give you plenty of time to appreciate the extensive menu.

Speaking of which, it may seem a little overwhelming but the menu is actually divided into a few categories. Perusing by category helps to cut down on confusion as the restaurant offers numerous specials and combos ala carte, but also a robust in-table BBQ which offers some of the most delectable meats I've ever had.

Personally my favorite is the seasoned premium pork, found in the middle of the menu. It's a little bit more expensive but this well seasoned, soft marbled beef is absolutely delicious. The meal comes with rice as well as a medium bowl of soup to share. Additionally, many side dishes are on offer as well which you can have more of if you're a big boy like me. Side dishes include potatoes in a delicious sauce (TRY them!) as well as shredded radish, kimchi and spicy peanuts just to name a few.

We also tried a kimchi pancake which was super delicious... Warm kimchi inside a soft pancake pan fried to crispy golden goodness on the outside. Mmmm.

I come here whenever I'm hungry and craving good, hearty Korean food. I would recommend even someone just thinking about it to give it a try. You'll be...

We ordered Kalbi, marinated and non-marinated ones. They came with an egg pudding, many side dishes, green lettuce, many sauces, soybean stew and bowls of rice. Everything was okay. Marinated Kalbi may have contained some MSG, because I felt my tongue freeze during the meal. We also got some cold buckwheat noodles to finish the meal. I liked the noodles. They were fresh and sweet. They also serve you complimentary cold tea called Su-jung-gua. Service was okay. Male servers did a great job (e.g. cutting the meat very well for us, and bringing us what we asked for promptly) while one of the female staff was forgetful (e.g. we had to repeat our additional order of a can of beer and extra green leaf lettuce, and she brought us what we didn't order) and unprofessional (e.g. she went to greet other customers in the middle of cutting the meat for us). Overall, it was a decent Korean BBQ experience. In terms of authentic Korean BBQs, I prefer Sariwon or Piggy's Restaurant...

Update: I had a function here in a private room for about 30 people. The food was set up buffet style. We had three staff serving all of us. The food was fantastic and the service stellar! The waitresses even packed up all the food into carry-home containers for guests. Please keep in mind that we were in a private room and not in the general customer area. If you have a private function this restaurant delivers - 5 stars! I would not hesitate to recommend it for this purpose.

It was clean and nice inside. It was my first time in a long time here. The food was prepared and served quickly because it was not busy.

All the meals of my party of five were good but lacked the punch to get them up to five stars. Given the plethora of Korean restaurants in this area I would probably recommend others before this. Also keep in mind that none of us ordered the BBQ that you cook at the table, which this restaurant...