MADANG Restaurant & Cafe 마당 — Restaurant in Englewood Cliffs

Service was NOT it. My friend recently had her bridal shower party here by reserving a room. Great place to have get togethers and parties. She had the place reserved at 11:30 am and she arrived 15 mins earlier to set up the room since it was for a celebration. However, the worker there was saying how the room is reserved for 11:30 am and made things awkward for her for coming early, already ruining the mood. This place is also BYOB - my friend thought it was sweet to bring mimosas but the server gave her a hard time for bringing orange juice separately because they sold it there.

We all arrived and went into the room without knowing all this happening beforehand. Since it was a bridal party, my friend prepared little boxes for us to open. We were all so excited and happy and opening the boxes as you can clearly tell. Not even 5 minutes into us walking in, this female worker upstairs came in to ask us if we're ready to order food. Could she have not read the room that we clearly are enjoying a special moment? We were all hungry, we wouldn't waste time like that either. She then proceeds to say "there are people coming in now so it would be best if you can order now so we can get it going." Aren't we customers too? We were so taken aback by that but we brushed it off because we didn't want to ruin a special moment for my friend. So we quickly looked at the menu as she stared us down and ordered appetizers and told her we will order entrees in a bit. She gave us a look and literally came back a minute later to take our order...

We also asked her if they have coffee as we planned to order some after our meal. She says yes and a minute later she comes back and sees that we brought a small cake. She proceeds to say "since you guys brought dessert, you need to order something later like coffee" Did we not just tell you we will after we eat? Her approach of the conversation was just rude and disrespectful.

I. then went out of the room to use the restroom. I was heading down thinking it was downstairs. She yells "where are you going?? The bathroom is up here!!" I was so shook I've never received such rude service like that at a restaurant before. Why was she almost scolding me?

Towards the end, we were taking pictures before we cleaned up but she comes in and handed us the check. We just took it and literally less than 5 mins later she comes in and asks if we're ready. And we ask her to give us a few more mins. She then says fyi we close at 2:45 pm. It was 2:25 pm. She comes back and goes "are you guys ready? It would be nice if you guys can pay because I need to leave soon and need to wrap this up." She was treating us as if we were getting all this for free or something.

Overall, the service was TERRIBLE. Food was decent though. I enjoyed the room and the time I spent w my friends. But would I recommend it to my friends? No!!! Go somewhere else so the server doesn't ruin your celebration with your friends!!! Not worth revisiting unless you want to...

Me and my wife really love this place, the atmosphere, food and the service. I had a big problem with the valet parking person today. After church me and my wife decided to go to madang.

It was pouring out and the valet guy came up to us, I told him since its raining heavy & there are so many parking spots Ill just park the car (literally right in front of us) myself.

I parked the car and I asked him for the parking ticket and he demanded to pay him right away since I parked the car myself. I was like "huh? Okay how much do I owe you" he replied there is no charge, but you have to pay for a tip. (I'm not a cheap person, I agree hes working on a rainy day, but demanding his tip on a pouring day with my car door open...? And we didnt even eat yet... ) and he was really giving me an attitude. Maybe he was upset that I parked the car myself? I dont know.

I told him you are making the restaurant look bad by treating customers this way. He said "go talk to boss" and started mumbling curse words and thats when I got so upset and decided to write a review.

I dont usually write reviews (11 reviews and 95% of them are 5 stars and only 1, well now 2 reviews are 1 stars) I do not want to hurt the business and I'm sure they are using a 3rd party valet company for their restaurant.

I want mandang to succeed, but they have lost their loyal customer...

This restaurant is open early on weekends, and they do serve real, solid food! The restaurant looked like a big house, and it has a large parking lot, which was great. The inside was nice and big, spacious and clean. It was certainly not your neighborhood Korean eatery, but more upscale and elegant feel to it.

They offer a really nice breakfast menu until 10:30am. They come with complimentary banchan, and a house coffee.

For food, we ordered Seaweed Soup, and Dried Pollack Soup. Seaweed sSup had bits of beef in it, with a crazy amount of seaweed. Packed with nutrition, certainly good for digestion and cleaning out your system. Dried Pollack Soup was awesome, comforting soup to the max! It had a great flavor with generous amount of fish meat. It also had tofu, egg, green scallion, and maybe daikon radish? A great deal for the quality and quantity you receive.

We had a nice breakfast here. We were full and satisfied. The staff (who looked more like a manager than a regular staff) was very polite, courteous, and welcoming. We would like to go back again and try some other dishes they offer...