INSA Korean BBQ — Restaurant in Newcastle upon Tyne

This is the best Korean barbecue restaurant I could find in the Newcastle so far. It is a very Morden and clean restaurant and has very few tables, locate in the very small neighborhood. However, the stuff is Asian and quite friendly. I think the crew cook might be Asian as well. Anyhow, the meat is so tender, although it comes with a whole chunk or piece of slice, so you have to cut a smaller yourself which most restaurant would cut it smaller for the customers as it’s served, but I think it’s good that we can customize how small or how big we want to cut. Highly recommend spicy pork or bugolgi beef, but if you like mushrooms, go for Enoki mushroom with garlic. It was really good, but it takes quite long to cook unless you put in the center of the pan. If you ask for extra sauce or extra cabbages they gonna charge you 1.50 each time, so I think it’s acceptable. Kimchi pancake could be better, but as long as the meat is good, I have no complaints about this place. Highly recommended this place. It’s a bit pricey, so probably will be the best if you split with the people...

Well, my partner suggested for us to go there after an exhausting gym session at the club, I was super excited to enjoy Korean food, we ordered meatballs and Korean barbecue Chicken with rice and vegetables for me , it took quite long to arrive when it came I swear to God, the bowl had literally 2 packs of rice with 4 extremely thin square pieces of chicken like 2 centimeters thick and 2 centimeters size, so basically it was Korean barbecue chicken with no chicken at all :( , how dare you open a restaurant, put a dish on the menu but when you serve the dish the main part is not there? I felt awful, I felt insulted. My partner said prior to the order that he did not want Oysters, because he is allergic and she said they took them out, the dish just came with 2 prawns, but he believes it had oysters. I have been to the best Michelin star restaurants across the world, if the chefs and the owner don’t change that the restaurant won’t last long. It was extremely expensive for not nice food and quantity. WHAT A WASTE OF...

After our original place let us down by booking mix up, this place accommodated us for a last minute birthday meal and everything was phenomenal. The manager (I believe) was so understanding, and delivered top notch service as well as the waitresses there. Food was brilliant, we’re enthusiastic foodies and this place really exceeded our expectations, definitely be coming again. Highly recommend the bulgogi beef and lamb chops barbecue, and stir fried udon noodles. The manager and waitress stayed back 45 minutes after closing as we were still eating and they did it with such a refreshing and happy attitude. They also provided a free cheesecake for my husbands birthday. Could not fault this...