San Soo Gab San

Another Korean BBQ place and I do believe the first one I ever experienced.  Also, as another personal milestone that won't mean anything to anyone other than myself and perhaps 4 or 5 of my friends, it was the first location of our weekly post bowling dinner. (Edit: I was wrong, it was not)

This place is on the opposite side of the spectrum as Gyu-Kaku.  It doesn't look trendy in the least and seems to be going more for a generic "crappy-restaurant" look.  But the food is equally good, really good.  

Wait.  

This should actually be clarified. Before I went I wouldn't have thought I'd need to include this in my review, but I can not emphasize this enough: do not, under ANY circumstances, order the sushi.  Most people would know not to order raw fish at a place that specializes in serving another country's food, especially when that specialty is focused on cooking meat to your liking on a stove at your table.  But, I can now say from personal experience that for some this instruction needs to be explicitly spelled out.  You know who you are.

Saturday night the line was out the door. Meeting a couple of friends who were in town from MN and enjoyed it the last time they were in town so wanted to go back. If there are no spots in their 7 spot lot you can park in the subdivision near the restaurant. The wait was under 30 minutes. Service = wasn't the friendliest but I suspect the limited English contributed to what came across as rude.

We shared 3 meat dishes to BBQ and there were 27 side dishes that made it fun! The whole table was FILLED with them - kim chee, spinach, tofu, seaweed, broccoli, bean curd, eggplant, etc. Each meat dish comes with soup + rice and they bring out romaine lettuce to wrap the BBQ in. The bill was $60 something with no drinks. 2 meat dishes to share between 3 ppl would have been more than enough.

If you have time, are in the area, and ok with a really smoky room (from the grills) try it out. The massive amounts of side dishes were very enjoyable.

keeping it short... came here a few times..

horrible service if you're not Korean.. prepare to get ignored and get treated like you're a no body..

food is just OK.. average Korean BBQ food ..

last but not least... bad service! never mind i think i listed that already..