O2 K-BBQ — Restaurant in Guttenberg

All you can eat Korean BBQ in the Queens area. I do not recommend visiting.

Food Recommendation: steamed egg and pork skin.

Food: The menu offers 19 meat options (3 chicken, 7 pork, 8 beef, 1 squid) and 8 sides (including garlic & jalapeños, white rice, and salad). The steamed egg is good, and the pork skin has a sweet flavor that I liked. The other meats are okay, except for the pork belly, which had an unpleasant taste (腥味)—I’m not sure how to describe it.

Pakring: Street parking.

Price: We end up paying 50 bucks including tax and tip. To be honest, it is not a cheap all-you-can-eat, considering what they offer. I was looking forward to the meal and sadly it does not worth the price. The following are the reasons:

You can't really eat much because of the taste: The BBQ meats are heavily seasoned. The radishes are bland so you don't have food to cut through the grease. The beef soup is heavy on the white pepper. We drink more than 4 cups of water.

Their grill is a round plate and the oil splatters a lot—I got splashed several times. If you go, I recommend wearing a good jacket and hopefully you have your hair protecting your face.

100 minutes seating limit. My first time to see a seating time limit for a buffet.

Suggested tip for all parties begins from 20%, with option of 20%, 22%, and 25%.

One buck per ice cream. They mentioned that they had a "sale" on Melona for 1 bucks each. While it takes only 15.59 for 24 counts in Costco. It’s pretty generous of the restaurant to serve all-you-can-eat and then only charge $1 per Melona.

In all, I regret...

Where to start:

This place when I started going after Covid had amazing service! However, at my recent visit on 6/18/22 I noticed the service was not the same. It’s a shame considering that tip is mandatory at certain hours and the fact that you’re paying $38 per person for a good time. The first issue was the first person (the server with the seashell choker) who was cooking the meat for the one Area. From the beginning he looked like he hated his life. However, he proceeds to then tell another worker either “fk you” or “fk it” and that he will now not give his 100 percent. I could careless what he’s going through however, it becomes my problem when you’re coming over with the attitude and you throw the meat on the hot grill and the oil spills over the side and gets all over the place even burning my arm a bit.

The next issue was the snickering of two female workers who kept looking back at us and just laughing and saying things to each other. Or the fact that when they need tables they start rushing you to order things so you can get out quicker even though you only just got there.

The only reason I’m giving this place 2 stars is because of the 2 workers that came to the rescue. Unfortunately I couldn’t get the male staffs name nor the woman’s. However, the woman has a short low fade haircut and she was extremely respectful and helpful throughout the rest of the visit.

After this experience I don’t know if I could suggest anyone...

I've been to O2 BBQ a few months ago and I had a wonderful experience! However, I recently had a terrible experience which will refrain from myself and others to come back again. I went to eat for dinner with my sister, and at first, we had an attentive waiter but we were soon ignored as our waiter walked past our table multiple times ignoring our presence. This lasted for at least 30 minutes until we had to order with someone else and only then did our waiter come to speak to us only to ask if we were done. To make it worse as we were eating another employee came up to us and 1) said "oh you're not getting dessert right" 2) and proceeded to leave a check on the table and then proceeded to walk away. We have never felt so unwanted at a restaurant and we were made to feel as though we did something wrong and that was why we were treated so horribly. I spoke to the waiter as I was paying and asked if I overstayed my welcome when he replied "yes kind of" I would have felt much better if this was communicated to me instead of paying for service where we had to be treated as if we didn't exist. I wish that the employees here were able to communicate better to their guests instead of ignoring them and being passive-aggressive. I truly hate to write a review like this during trying times but this was one of the worst experiences I've had at a restaurant. I'm so disappointed my experience was so horrible that I would not be...