ATTO Korean BBQ & Buffet Restaurant — Restaurant in Guildford

This weekend I visited the restaurant with my two friends. Food was great, portions were amazing.

Me and my one friend wanted to order unlimited BBQ and my other friend wanted to order something from the other menu.

The waitress told us we can’t do that and he asked her manager. We have to order unlimited BBQ for all.

Manager explained we can’t do that, my friend who is not ordering unlimited BBQ, what if he eats from our food! Than my friend and me said ok, we can choose something from the other menu and he didn’t allow us to do so.

Ha ha unlimited BBQ price is more than the normal menu 🤭.

Anyway I wanted to leave that place immediately, it was so embarrassing. Who eats food if he/she doesn’t order for it! And if I can pay for 2 person’s unlimited BBQ why not for three!

I understand may be some people made some situation in that restaurant but the way of telling to me was rude and disrespectful.

If they have to explain to their customers they should find a better way for explaining and at least need to be careful to whom they should explain, to whom they should not! May be to a big group, with lots of teenagers or kids.

Even though food was good but I am not going there again and I will share my experience with my friends. There are so many good options to eat, why I would choose some place that made me uncomfortable and...

Was a little disappointed with this place foodwise unfortunately.

We had a kimchi jeon which was quite floppy, fell apart and tasted of nothing with no hint of spice, it seemed to be mostly pancake mix and not much of the kimchi itself. It wasn't cut up when brought to the table which was a little unusual. I've been to a lot of Korean places and I think this is the first I've had where it's not cut up, especially a pancake of this size. For £12.60 I expected better a lot better, we ended up leaving most of it because it just didn't taste of anything.

The chicken was fried well, nice and crispy but the sauces were a bit bland and the rice bowls we ordered to go with it were lukewarm at best, fairly sure they were just the CJ microwave rice bowls put into a metal dish to serve 🤔

Everything felt very expensive for what it was, even some London restaurants don't charge this much for the same items.

Plus side, staff were nice and attentive, the teas were delicious, the decor was nice and music was good (mainly girl group kpop artists) but the food itself was really disappointing and very expensive compared to other places we've been to :( we had a tea each, a rice bowl, a chicken dish each plus mandu and the kimchi pancake to share and it was £31 each.

(Forgot to take photos until we were going to leave so only have the...

We received Atto's flyers through the letter box recently and decided to give it a try, with high hopes.

Here's what we found. First of all, the food isn't all Korean. The dishes are similar to Kokoro, which lives literally 10 seconds walk away, that has many of the "crowd favourite" dishes mainly for takeaway, but cheaper and they do sushi. I guess you do pay for the sit-in experience at Atto.

We ordered a few dishes. The chicken curry was excellent. The sweet and chilli pork was up to the mark. These were the good bits.

But the real problem we had was with the made- to-order dishes. The Udon soup dish was way, way too salty; and the hot Korean noodles (teokbokki with noodles) were way, way to spicy. We are used to hot food having lived in tropical Asian countries but they made it disproportionately spicy that it became unpleasant.

Our conclusion: Some good prepared dishes (not better than it's competitor Kokoro a few shops away) but Atto is more expensive with smaller portions (unfortunately). On the flipside, the made- to- order dishes are a letdown, with the two that we ordered being too hot or too salty; and suffers the same "small portion" syndrome. At this point, we can't say that we will return. There are comparable/ cheaper Japanese and Korean places nearby e.g....