Kuili korean BBQ Barcelona 奎梨 — Restaurant in Barcelona

⭐☆☆☆☆ Extremely Disappointing – Not Real Korean BBQ

I’ve had Korean BBQ in many countries around the world, and I can confidently say this was one of the worst experiences I’ve ever had.

Let’s start with the most basic expectation: side dishes (banchan). A proper Korean restaurant offers a generous variety of authentic sides — here, there were barely any, and the few they served felt like a last-minute afterthought. Shockingly, they didn’t even have homemade kimchi. That alone should disqualify it from calling itself a Korean BBQ.

The meat was ok, the grill setup lacked any kind of personal touch, and there was zero authenticity in the flavors or presentation. Honestly, I’ve had better Korean BBQ in mall food courts.

To be fair, the atmosphere was nice — clean and modern — but that’s about the only positive thing I can say. It felt like someone copied the look of a Korean restaurant without understanding anything about the culture or food behind it.

If you’ve ever had real Korean BBQ, skip this place. It’s Korean BBQ...

First of all, I am Korean - which may make the review biased. Having said this I think its fine non-Koreans run Korean restaurant (by now u may have guessed, the restaurant is ran by non-Korean) - its acceptable non-Frenchie run French restaurant, non-Japanese run Sushi restaurant etc etc.

Anyway, back to the point.

Food was OK - not authentic but a decent imitation. They could have improved some essential details (like the sauces) but overall good effort.

As for service, friendly staff and good service! I could also see through the kitchen that the chef’s were hard working.

Otherwise nice atmosphere and ‘retro korean’ look-a-like interior but when you look closely at the details they are poor imitation and ai-like images - none of the letters really make sense, literally. Some more efforts could go into improving as it was mix of hilarious and embarrassing.

Wish the restaurant improvements so the future guests can enjoy more authentic experience and leave the restaurant with a good aftertaste of ‘Korea’! Wish all...

Had two encounters already with the supposed “owner” who was very rude and had no regard for welcoming customers. When I went for the first time, we didn’t have a reservation so we had to talk to the owner in hopes of getting a table. We were standing by him and greeting him and he looked at us with a smug look and continued to ignore us for about 10 minutes. We just left because, he quite literally never spoke to us.

The second time we made sure to make a reservation and went in person to make one. Upon arriving 10 minutes earlier than the reserve 9pm time, they said they won’t seat us until 9:30. So we asked him why but he couldn’t give a straight answer. We then also kindly asked why he accepted the 9pm reservation if the next free table was 30 minutes later. Without hesitation, he became verbally aggressive in Mandarin, cancelled our reservation and erased our name.

This is definitely not a restaurant that I would ever pay money for as even from entering the door, we were greeted with disgust and rudeness...