Mon Korea — Restaurant in Birmingham

Going into this, my partner and I were skeptical. We aren’t the biggest fans of East Asian food but we wanted to try! I personally quite enjoy authentic Chinese food, so I am not wholly adverse to the idea of let’s say “unusual” foods, from a Western perspective. Unfortunately this was bitterly disappointing bordering on disgusting. I hate to say it. I love supporting small independent restaurants. The various “meats” in the Korean BBQ were dry, leathery, tough, and tasteless, with occasional thick rinds of fat on some pieces. Small bowls of steamed rice came with the barbecue, unfortunately exacerbating the dryness of the dish. The bbq also came with some side dishes such as a bowl of lettuce leaves, two fiery tofu broths - bland, unseasoned lumps of tofu, so soggy they began to disintegrate like mush. It was disappointing to say the least. It was a basic café style restaurant, which was okay, but it was freezing cold with a door that doesn’t shut properly (so it kept blowing a gale). We sat in our coats and scarves for the meal, like hobos at a soup kitchen. They only stock a very limited range of cold drinks, are not licensed to sell alcohol (which might have helped embitter us against the cold). Overall it was disappointing. We won’t be returning and we wouldn’t recommend trying this restaurant unless you are a hardcore fan of mediocre, bordering on...

“Experience the taste of Korea”

This place is as authentic as Taco Bell is to real Mexican food! The food was average at best, however most of the menu items weren’t available especially on a Friday night, fine we can let that slide but the bigger issue was the waiter / owner seemed disinterested and was quite rude when serving us, and separately when we went to pay for our food she over charged us until we questioned the amount and when we used our contactless it crashed the payment device and we were told we may have to pay for a new card machine, if a restart of the device didn’t work? Don’t think she may have understood that the issue may have been with the payment device?

Anyway do not recommend, if you want decent Korean food go to Cocobab or Kimchi, better food and much...

Don’t bother. Unfriendly, unwelcoming and unprofessional, I didn’t even get as far as ordering food. I was told that I would have to pay cash, because the card machine was broken, for some reason; I guess because of the unwelcoming atmosphere on entering the restaurant and the unfriendly demeanour of the person behind the till when I went to place my order; I was not convinced it was true. Having looked through some of the other reviews it’s seems my instinct was correct and who gets to pay with their card and who they demand only cash payments from depends on whim or whatever dodgy criteria they have. Just an all round disappointing and...