SK Korean steakhouse — Restaurant in Dahlonega

My highly anticipated wait is over! A hot pot/korean bbq in the Dawsonville/North Forsyth area!! Finally, somebody put one here!

The location looks like a former Ryan's steakhouse and parking is plentiful. There are grand opening signs around the parking lot!

I came here on a Thursday early afternoon and there wasn't many people here. Walking inside, I was super amazed by the decor as they have beautiful sea fish background with cool lighting. The owner was at the front desk and seated us right away.

Our waitress was super nice and asked for our drinks immediately.

We opted to get the hot pot only ATCE and the lunch menu for $20 was amazing! Surprisingly, there is a large seafood selection which includes: clams, shrimp, mussels, red clams, and squid. As far as meat, they got your typical prime brisket. Soup base, I went with beef soup base.

They have a sauce bar, dessert bar, and a hot food bar. I was amazing at this. Hot food bar included the fried rice, fried fish, japchae, egg rolls, and seasmee chicken.

Let me say, there sauce bar had my favorite sauce (green lime sauce) and it was amazing! I saw the other sauces they had.

Everything here was super tasty including the shrimp and squid. It appeared to Be super fresh! And dipping everything in my favorite green sauce was just amazing!!

They also have an ice cream cooler that you have to check out. I didn't have any because I was already full from eating all their cherry tomatoes.

Service was here was amazing as wel. She was super attentive and always checking on us every 15 minutes.

The hallway to the bathrrom blew me away. It's a must to see for yourself!!

I can't wait to come back again for their dinner menu and also try out their Korean bbq portion.

I highly recommended everybody in the area to try it out. I know hot pot and Korean bbq is very new to the people of Dawonsville but once you try, you...

I never thought we'd have quality Korean food in Dawsonville, but I think they've pulled it off. Only a few tiny shortcomings, but nothing bad enough to take away a star.

Our server was very quick and attentive and frequently asked how we were finding the dining experience. Ron, the manager or owner, was welcoming and friendly. The atmosphere felt like walking into another world, and the K-Pop was there but was quiet enough that we could easily carry on a conversation. The meat was high quality, especially the ribeye and the soy pork steak. We loved being able to get sides, salad, and sauces from the buffet. And the grill was nonstick, so I could just wipe it with a wet napkin when it gets messy instead of having to wait for a grill change. The server was happy to let me grill my own meat and didn't argue or try to take over grilling like they do at some KBBQ spots.

Only a few small complaints. There was no thin-sliced pickled daikon (ssam mu), as nearly every KBBQ restaurant serves; we asked for it, and we were brought thick raw slices. The tteokbokki sauce was very bland; it could definitely use more gochugaru or something to add some flavor. Again, nothing worth taking points away, but just some things to think about.

This was a great KBBQ experience, and I hope they can maintain this level of quality at this acceptable price point despite our...

A furistic (for North Georgia - probably contemporary for South Korea!) Korean steakhouse with cool and interesting decor and streaming entertainment.

The welcome and service were exemplary and the range and quality of the food was exceptional.

We both chose to grill versus hotpot (for an extra $5 you can do both). You can have as much meat and as many of the varieties offered as you can eat in two hours, for $33 including the starter/salad buffet and desert.

You order two proteins at a time to cook but the friendly server was hovering both to help us cook and offer the next round. I estimate that you could fit in eight to ten rounds so sixteen to twenty proteins in two hours. Problem is, they would not fit in me!

We had the spare rib, spicy bullogi beef, belly pork and oyster mushrooms. All were tender, well seasoned and tasty. The portions were very generous and more than we could eat.

Next time we will have the hotpot as the large range of seafood is very tempting.

For desert we had a cream filled cake, mango jelly and banana custard from among the offerings on the buffet and a tub of creamy strawberry ice cream from the self-service freezer.

Back to the service... friendly and efficient for both the manager/greeter and Alex the super server. It was the type of interaction that makes you want the...