Koren BBQ (삼환축산 남포점) — Restaurant in Busan

Dining Experience @ Samhwan Livestock The Premium. . We visited twice over 2 days, because they impressed us with their ambience, service, food quality, and reasonable prices. . Ambience is lively and comfortable. The warmly lit space is packed with wide sturdy tables centered around a charcoal barbecue grill. The exhaust ventilation is good, with little cooking odour hanging in the air. The self-service salad bar is clean and brightly lit. . Service is friendly, helpful, and engaging. The menu has helpful English translations, making ordering easy. The owner-couple/siblings were very friendly, offering recommendations, and helping diners grill the meats. They also check on diners regularly. Other staff work efficiently, be it cleaning up or serving orders. . Food is Korean cuisine, focused on pork and beef Korean barbecue. Cuts of meat are freshly sourced locally, and vegetables and fruits at the salad bar are fresh and replenished regularly throughout meal service. Portions are nicely sized, and every diner has to order something. Prices are affordable and reasonable, budget about KRW ₩33,000 / SGD...

Random place that we discovered at the food alleys near BIFF. The shop looked new and we wanted BBQ for dinner and the price was reasonable as the menu was displayed outside of the shop.

The shop seemed to be managed by a couple and both were welcoming.

The meat quality was good and the self serve vege/condiments were nice too. They have pork and beef here.

We were in a party of 3 to 4 pax and ordered between 215 to 250 gms per pax on each of our visits. Yup, we were there for dinner for 2 consecutive evenings.

On our first visit, the bosses helped us to grill the meats. Second visit, we helped ourselves and the bosses would come by to see if we needed assistance but I think they felt we didn't need any, since they left us alone. Keke.

Overall satisfying and doesn't burn a big hole in the wallet. Comfortable environment where diners could enjoy their...

So here is the thing, it's one of the most expensive Korean BBQ we've been into, the quality is pretty good but it's not amazing. Here is the issue: the menu prices and the listings outside of the place are based on the 100g but everytime your order a first of any kind of plate you have to order 500g. You can imagine when we got the check we were surprised to see the amount. I think this is a little deceiving and unfortunately we fell for it. Nevertheless, if you keep this in mind and work around a little bit of math when you're ordering it...