Hae Woon Dae Korean Barbeque Restaurant

Pretty sure my lunch companion and I crashed a Korean Funeral when we arrived here. We did not know that they were not open for lunch. We show up, the door was open and the place is filled with people in Black Suits and Funeral cars in the parking lot. We were not able to put two and two together until we arrived. hahaha.

Place was good. the first BBQ we got didnt really work so they had to give us another one. It took a while to acutally get through the lunch. This was my first Korean BBQ expreince. I had mongolian BBQ in my head so the time may of been about right for a Korean BBQ expirence. Decent food, meat was pretty fatty. The staff was great even though they didnt speak english.

I came here with my family and a family friend last December last year. We do not go out as a whole family too often so we looked forward to this occasion.

*note - the family friend that came spoke Korean.

When we got there the owner came and informed us that their server had not showed up so they would be taking our order (translated by friend). The owner spoke no English.

We asked for water and a hot tea for my grandma. She brings out the waters and the hot tea. After a couple seconds, we notice that the cup that the tea was in had a crack in it. Tea was leaking out onto the table. My dad went and asked if we could get another one to replace it. The owner refused. My dad brought the cup and put it on their counter and the tea leaked all over their counter. They brought us a replacement.

We ordered some kind of korean bbq special where we would grill it ourselves. The wait time was ridiculous. Over 40 minutes had passed and my brothers and I had drank all our water. We waited for someone to come and refill our waters. No one came. The owners (husband and wife) were no where to be seen. Some one could have literally came into the restaurant and stolen all their furniture and they would not have even noticed. After awhile my dad gets a little mad at the poor service. We can see water pitchers full of water in a fridge through the glass door in the back. My dad walks to the back, opens the fridge and takes the pitchers, walks back to the table and refills our waters, then puts the pitcher back. No one noticed. No joke. We could have fucking walked to the cash register and stolen all their money and they wouldn't have noticed. That's how bad it was. No attentiveness at all.

When the food finally came out, it was not that bad... at first. We noticed that some of the pieces of meat had spoiled. My brothers and I noticed it first and quickly put it aside. We didn't want our dad knowing and have him flip a shit. We ate quickly and then gtfo.

Overall this place was garbage.

The service was piss poor. Paid no attention to us whatsoever. The meat  that was edible (what they're supposed to be known for) was so-so. And then there was the spoiled meat.. wtf... are you kidding me?

I can understand if a place serves food that just doesn't taste good. But serving spoiled food is a sin.

F*ck this place. Do not come here.

I was all excited about the charcoal grill. We started with the usual: seafood pancake. It was just ok though, not quite crispy enough and I thought the sauce was a bit boring. For entrees, we got the soondooboo, kalbi and spicy pork. I didn't care for the pork: the cut was too lean and I didn't like the marinade. The kalbi was excellent though. Soondooboo was standard fare. My biggest complaint with this place was how COLD it was! I guess they didn't have central heating, so there were two tiny portable heaters which didn't do much unless you sat right in front of them. Guests at the table next to us were eating with their coats on. Everything cooled down far too quickly for us to enjoy at leisure. I might come back when the weather's not as cold, but in winter this wasn't very comfortable.