MyeongDong Korean Gastropub — Restaurant in Quezon City

For me, food was not sulit for its price (699 pesos). Food was average. My favorites were the sashimi, nachos, and the brown fried rice (cant remember what its called but it took long to refill.) Idk if we're just unlucky when we visited but their grilled dishes and fried chicken were dry and lacked flavor. The flavors they offer did not have that much distinction in taste. Not all the food that we placed was served. One of the meats still had some pink, raw spots in it. My family tried ordering the spicy beef twice because we did not get anything spicy on our first order so we thought that maybe they just forgot to deliver our order so we just tried again but we still didnt receive the spicy beef on our second order so we just gave up and ordered something different on our third order which was our last time to order grilled meats. Kimchi soup was good but served lukewarm in the buffet area. Their ribs were a bit hard to chew we didn't enjoy it. Our first orders of calamares and tempura were good but as people filled the place, they might have rushed cooking our orders that we ended up having some wet batter on both the tempura and calamares. We just got tired of waiting so we did not bother having it replaced. Their boneless chicken were really small like smaller than normal chicken poppers. The only flavor i liked was the buffalo chicken. The rest was hard, dry and bland like the meat itself was not even marinated with salt and pepper.

As we were finishing up our food to leave, a plate of meat that we did not order arrived at our table. We were confused so we called one of the employees'attention and returned the plate to them. Gladly they did not insist that we ordered that. We just felt that they just serve whatever they want to customers instead of actually giving what was ordered. 😥

The toilet was dirty when we visited but the staff were very attentive and cleaned the area immediately when we brought our concern to them.

Overall, the food was okay, nothing special. The staff were really accommodating and kind. The ambiance was nice, really enjoyed the music btw. I also want to mention how I was so pleased to see this business give job opportunities to middle-old aged women. (Lola at the sashimi and sauces section was sweet.)

I found this resto on tiktok and i thought it was just overhyped by vloggers/influencers. I just hope people are responsible enough to share real and honest reviews. Maybe i also expected a lot since the owners are Korean. I will definitely come back if their food and...

Super duper mega over rated. Sorry to say but this is my overview of the store.

They have 3 flavors here: Spicy, SEA WORTHY Salty, Bland. I normally like Samjang as a sauce. But here I thought I was dipping my food in the sea. Their Kimchi supposedly a palate cleanser. But it went to palate destruction. Note: Their garlic aoli is very delicious. Without this, no saving grace.

Though they have a wide array of cooked food already. I didnt know if the chef really tasted the product. Day madaming offering sea food flavor. Yung tipong iisipin mo pupunta ba ako sa doctor para ipacheck yung kidneys ko? Super alat as in. Ramdam ang dagat. So to not be surprised if you wished to go here. After all of my red flags. Hahahahaha. I suggest get a spoonful first.

Serving of grilled food is too few. They would say each serving is good for 2, but when it arrives after 30 minutes (tagal teh, pero exage ito. Hahahaha) it was just a spoonful or 2. So dissapointing. Imagine this-we are eating a group of 8 and we are served with that amount. It is super funny. Good thing my companions got their food on the buffet already getting their fill.

Service is not bad. This I cant remove from the store. They are attentive, easy to reach out to if you need anything. Even the store owner will check your experience with the store. Gustong gusto namen sabihin. Ang alat ng pagkain nyo teh. Yung spicy impyerno level. Tapos yung grilled food, baka pwede ikuha dun sa maaalat na food yung asin para dito sobrang tabang. Parang hospital food. Hahahahha. We went our cool and said everything is okay.

The soju bomb is so over hyped. Dios ko. They offer it as 2 soju and 2 beers combo with the owner doing the show. We thought, the owner will blend all of the drink for us. But he will only do one round. The second one, bahala na kayo. Hahahaha. Take note, this cost 800 pesos. I dont think it is worth the money.

Again. This is based on my experience with the store. Kung experience mo maganda. Edi go. Swerte mo. Hindi ko din sinisiraan ang tindahan. Ito ay nagmula sa aking panlasa, na adik sa kbbq.

Ps. Wag na kayong magalit kung mali grammar ko. English is my 2nd language. Kala mo naman perfect ka....

We went here to celebrate the good things, but we ended up in a bad mood.

They have the worst service ever.

Plus, while their food selections are palatable, not all of them are served all at once. Most of them are for refill - you have to wait until they are served. From what I can remember, they are represented in tiktok as having plenty of selections. But we were disappointed to find out that they serve few food at the buffet table. You still even have to wait just for the plain rice. They don’t serve lettuce all throughout, too. They just serve food at intervals and they don’t serve everything all at once. The dessert was hidden too, and there were just only two - coffee jelly and mixed fruits. If you don’t ask, you wouldn’t know that they serve desserts.

As to service, they have the worst. My friends and I were enjoying and conversing, yet, the crew was disrespectful. She kept on cleaning our table even though we’re still there. She kept on doing that several times after we ate our food. I asked her why, she told us passive aggressively that our table was messy, that’s why she kept on cleaning our table.

When we left for some drinks, she told my friend who was left at the table that our time limit was up. But there was no time limit, as we found out.

Lastly, she asked for our payment even though she didn’t give us our bill. We asked for the receipt, of course. It’s as if she was demanding payment just to see if we have the money. But when we asked for our bill, she gave that to us after twenty minutes. She was really the worst.

Don’t believe the influencers who post on soc med. Sobrang budol. I don’t have anything bad to say in the places I’ve dined in during this lifetime, but this was exceptionally worst. I hope you spare yourself from this place.

And oh, they charge 5% service charge for such horrible service.

In my picture are the only available selections at the first hour I was at Myeongdong.

Edit: And oh, tinitipid din nila yung sashimi. The staff handing out the sashimi makes you feel shamed when she gives you another piece, even though you paid for a buffet. Mind you, I only took two pieces and she gave me an eye for it.

This is such a GREEDY...