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Was so excited to find a AYCE korean bbq, only to be really disappointed all around. I'm from Los Angeles and was hoping the korean bbq would be similiar to those from L.A. I was wrong. First, we went on a holiday weekend (saturday night), and the place was empty. A waitress led us to a table where we can cook our own meat. She explained that "red" items on the menu will be brought out automatically, but the "black" items on the menu would have to be ordered. We asked for the garlic endamame and spicy tuna roll. I will admit that that spicy tuna roll had a lot less rice than other AYCE sushi places - but that's because we weren't having AYCE sushi, but AYCE korean bbq. /shrug The waitress checked on us frequently, but everything about her was fake and it was obvious she was just going through the motions and didn't care at all. To prove this point, our waitress took orders for 3 different types of meat (bulgogi, kalbi and cow's tongue). She brought out the bulgogi first and while others have wrote that the staff cooked the meat for them, we had to cook our own. She would come by from time to time and toss the meats around, but left the cooking to us. After bulgogi and kalbi, our grill was completely crusted from the marinations from the meat. At this time, the waitress forgot that she didn't bring out the other meat and brought it out only to dump it on top of the crusted grill - note: cow's tongue is unmarinated and she completely ruined the flavor of it. We didn't have a chance to ask for more meat cuz all she wanted to do was turn off the grill and be done with us. We were the only patrons - you'd think they would try to please their only customer rather than shooing them out the door. Overall, I would never go back. While $20 for AYCE sounds reasonable, it seemed too much for the quality and quantify of this place. Service made it even worse....OPTIONS: -negative. -positive. I think the answer is
negative