BBQ Night — Restaurant in Hawaiian Gardens

My nights are hot...........

and steamy..........

and sinfully carnal...........

....whenever I'm at BBQ Night!

A former diner serving American comfort food, BBQ Night serves up delicious AYCE Korean BBQ in Hawaiian Gardens. I had a power lunch with my Yelp buddy, Steve, in celebration of my birthday. We miss ya at events, buddy!

Banchan & dipping sauces greeted us at our table. Sesame oil & salt is available upon request.

Fresh salad & rice paper were brought out, before the meat orgy commenced.

Spicy soondubu to warm the soul.

We went with the $14.99 Plan B. Wait, this isn't the morning after pill. I meant, the $14.99 Special B. Yes, that's it.

Some meats we had - brisket, spicy shrimp, pork jowl

My favorite were the.......wait for it...........Large Intestines DUN DUN DUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNN!!!! Steve was highly reluctant to avail himself of pork offal, but I managed to convince him to suck it up & try a piece. He liked it! And, he went back for more! Chewy, fatty & packed with flavor, the large intestines at BBQ Night didn't have a poopy taste at all. I loved it so much, I had 3 plates of it ;p

Grilling our various meat was easy on the round grill. It was only changed once during our visit. The grill does tend to dirty right away. The chadol seemed to stick onto the surface. Perhaps a non-stick style surface could help with that.

No better way to end all the meat mayhem than with AYCE Thrifty ice cream! Come to Daddy, baby! Green tea, strawberry, rocky road, lemon sherbert and, I think, some vanilla/strawberry swirl were awaiting my grubby mitts to lovingly scoop them up into my styrofoam cup. I went back for seconds, but I didn't feel bad about it. Live to eat, not eat to live. Right? ;p

Service was okay. We were given an extra tong so we could man the grill on both sides & the requested sesame oil & salt were brought out as asked. The waitstaff are young whippersnappers, so if you've had difficulty communicating with attendants at other Korean BBQ places, suffice to say, you won't here at BBQ Night

Parking is in a private lot at the Zion supermarket center, which can be difficult on the weekends. TV's are available to watch the game or the latest episode of your favorite Korean soap opera. Sufficient seating for large & small parties.

Hungry, my friend? Hit up BBQ Night for delicious meat that won't break the bank. The food's on point, the price is right & the AYCE Thrifty ice cream will bring a little sunshine into your life.

Highly...

Well, I'm kind of torn between the ratings here because like a typical Chinese restaurant, the food here is good and the service here....well, read on.

We live pretty darn close to here. Though not walking distance, but it's the closest KBBQ to us, nevertheless. When this place took over an existing KBBQ, we thought of coming. We didn't because we love CSG in Buena Park. Yes, that place is like comfort food for us.

Surprisingly this place has all the same banchans and the same sauces. The broc, tofu skin, cucumber and regular kimchi, potato salad, bean sprouts, seaweed (ok, CSG doesn't have seaweed). They also have the Dduk and radishes along with the greens. In addition to the $14.99 weekday AYCE, they also have the egg pot which we love.

The meat here I have to say looked pretty darn fresh. It did help though that we were the first one in line at 11:30am. However, as strange as it was. We noticed when we finished the first round of meat (you get 3 types per round), getting help here is non existent.

The bell on the desk you can hear throughout the restaurant, but no one comes. 15 minutes later, finally our waitress comes back. Seriously, 15 minutes of NO Food in an AYCE restaurant is not really what I look forward to. We were out of water, food, banchan. What's more, we had to change our grill so that takes another 10 minutes or so.

Because of the time lapse, we had to leave after our second round and we weren't able to order anymore due to lack of time. I do have to say the Top Sirloin was huge and nice piece! The marinated beef was awesome too. The prime brisket was a good cut , you can see marbling. Also the Thrifty ice cream was nice and cold and has all the popular flavors like green tea, black cherry, malted chocolate krunch like I like.

I would like to go back again and rejudge this place. It's good but I would not like to sit the furthest away from the kitchen. Maybe coming in first is not a good idea. We saw people who sat closer to the front of the entrance getting more service so we will ask for...

So you could say I'm a KBBQ veteran of Cypress, Buena Park, and Cerritos. I've tried a bunch and always enjoy myself. That being said, BBQ Night definitely ranks among the top of them

One of the best parts is there is no wait. We got there at about 8pm and were seated immediately with the table already completely setup with all the sides and fixin's.

The menu is great. They have a huge selection of meats and different things to try. I got the bean paste soup, it was pretty good but I much rather have gone with the egg. We tried just about all the meats and they were all absolutely delicious. The BBQ beef (bulgogi) was my favorite (as usual) but the spicy pork and marinated pork belly were definitely up there. The only meat we didn't care for too much was the sausage, it was just a bit bland.

The service was absolutely spot on. We never had a shortage of sides or meat. They brought us so much stuff, so often, that our table was starting to get too full to have any room to put them on. Most KBBQ places I've been to we've run out of everything and have to wait a bit to get them to bring more (like pulling teeth). Not at BBQ Night, we never even had to press the service button.

The ice cream was tastey, but nothing too special. I'd love to see a soft serve machine there! And unfortunately they ran out of most of the flavors by the time we got around to the ice cream (however it was right about when they were closing).

I highly highly recommend this place. Awesome service, great good, and a decent price ($17 for dinner).

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