Nara Korean Cuisine — Restaurant in Columbus

This is a small Korean restaurant (cannot say it is a food court, although they claimed it) inside Korean grocery store. They serve variety authentic Korean food at reasonable price. If you like to know what the taste like home cooked meals in South Korea, this is the restaurant you can experience. One of the chefs reminds me like my mother and she does everything (she makes side dishes to serve and sell). That being said, their dishes' taste can be a bit different depending when and how she cook (she does not measure nor has a fixed recipe for each dish). I watched her cook and that is how most Korean mothers would cook. The restaurant itself, it is like a fast food and self-service restaurant. Although Korean grocery store opens on Wednesday, they close the restaurant on every Wednesday (two chefs still works on Wednesday to prepare side dishes though).

Here are tips: Parking: plenty Service: self-service (fast food restaurant style) bathroom: shared with Korean grocery store Ambiance: This is far from a fancy restaurant and does not offer Korean BBQ...

I was devastated when they announced they were closing a little over a year ago. When I saw that they recently reopened, I almost cried!! This place is a major part of my childhood, and I've taken almost everyone I could here over the years to introduce them to wonderful food. The prices are more than fair, and honestly with the quality of the food that you get, they COULD be charging closer to what standard sit-down table service restaurants charge!

The staff is SO sweet, and their food is honestly better than any other Korean restaurant around! You can tell every dish is made with so much care and attention. Everything feels and tastes home-cooked.

You'd never find this place if you didn't already know about it. Those are the best types of places, too (-;

If you haven't been here yet and love Korean cuisine, please consider stopping by!! You order at the front cash wrap, they give you a paper ticket and you drop it off at the kitchen in the back. Your food wll come up at the counter soon after! Enjoy some wonderful barley tea...

Ordered fish soup and requested not spicy as my 95yr old mother can't eat spicy. The soup is done and I hear the younger woman behind the counter tell the older woman (cooking the food) that I wanted it not spicy. The older woman instead of remaking it, tries to play it off and pack my order. Unbeknownst to them, I speak Korean and understood everything they were saying to each other. In Korean, I tell her " I requested NOT spicy!" Then the older woman tries to convince me that this soup doesn't taste good not spicy. What in the world? A customer requests to make the soup not spicy and instead of apologizing for the error and offering to remake it, you try to trick me and pack it anyway? Then to make matters worse, after being caught, you try to convince me that the soup is better spicy? in the end, the cook re-made the soup. However, non-Korean speaking people, watch out! Absolutely do not recommend this place! If you go, make sure you bring someone that...