Nak Won

very very bad unrespectful awful service.
I was told by one waitress that we cant get cold dishes refilled because we only ordered one main dish. The fact was that my friend went in and ordered food earlier and I came after her so that waitress didnt know I ordered food. When I asked to get refill she showed a very disrespectful look and refuse to refill. Just because my food was ordered later and didnt come up she thought I didnt order anything

Got yelled at for asking tea.
Did not give us tea until we asked them 10 times.
Horrible service.

Decent place for affordable, comforting food with fairly quick service. Not a bad place for dinner if you’re craving Korean food. They have call bells at the tables so you don’t have to struggle to get your waiter’s attention. Though we didn’t ask for refills of the banchan, we saw other tables asking for them and they got it with no fuss.
I had the dolsot bibimbap and enjoyed it. I added a bit of spice to my taste. My friend had the bulgogi and she really liked it. Perhaps I’ll give that a try next time.
Overall, it was good for the price and I’ll likely visit again.

I had always wanted to check this place out after I saw the neat looking plastic food models for some of the dishes displayed on window; a common practice which is mostly seen at many Japanese restaurants. The food displays gives Nak Won this appeal that would draw your interest to it.
I finally checked it out for a quick bite after a joyful karaōke session at Twister Karaōke next door. With our appetites going, our hungry group were given one of the small enclosed booths.
The menu features a mix of Korean and Japanese cuisines including some Korean takes on Chinese dishes. I was definitely hooked on the ban-​chan that were served before the mains, especially the potatoes with the sweet glaze and also the japchae and the sliced fish cake. I had the pork tonkatsu with stir-​fried egg and rice which was pretty tasty and comforting. Our food did get brought out at a reasonable pace and the dishes looked good enough. The guy across me had this sizzling plate of Kalbi which looked real good even though I’m not a keen fan of ribs of any type. Even more sassy was that it was served in this bovine-​shaped hot plate.
Perhaps one of the most interesting features at this place which I had never noticed in other Korean restaurants was the red «Call» button used to ring the wait staff’s attention. It was a pretty nifty feature and I’m glad got a chance to «play» with it whenever we needed someone to come tend to us.
Our experience was decent, and the service was alright which was not overwhelming and also not neglectful. The food looked and tasted comforting enough, with a quick-​fix level type flair. I’ll be back next when I’m in the mood for some Korean food.
I might also check out the Dundas location when I’m downtown.

This restaurant is near my work so I often come here for lunch and sometimes even dinner with my coworkers, friends, or my wife.
Overall I think this place serves great food from its side dishes such as the honey glazed potatoes to the kimchi. Even staple dishes like the pork bone soup ., bulgogi bento boxes, and bibambap rice bowls are recommended items on their menu.
They have a lunch menu for around $ 10. Most of their items are between $ 8 – 15. With the side dishes, you should be quite full with ordering one item. The bento boxes include salad and dumplings. However, when I ordered my bento box with bulgogi, they forgot to give me soup in one of the sections of the bento and replaced it with a dumpling!
They never have the Korean beer, even though it’s on the menu.
What isn’t the greatest it’s a service. Once you get seated it takes a long time to get water or even the menus. When you come here, expect to wait a lot. Even the service buttons that’s located at each table does not work all the time, which means you have to press the service button at least twice to get someone to help you. They sometimes forget to bring you what you asked so you have to remind them again. We had a group of six one time and we ask for 6 glasses of water and they only came with five. We never got the 6^th glass.
In terms of food, one of my friends ordered a chicken katsu which did not come with the sauce, and we had to tell them to take it back and add the sauce back. For the side dishes the potatoes with honey is always a hit, but with a party of 6 they only gave us 4 potatoes and expected us to share. Not sure how that makes any sense.
The food itself is great, very flavorful and spicy just like I expect it to be. It is full of authentic décor in the restaurant, wooden booths and the flat Korean chopsticks. My favorite is by far the pork bone soup, it spicy and goes really well with the rice that they give you and the side dishes of bean sprouts, fish curd, kimchi, and seaweed. I will probably keep coming back because it’s close by but you just have to watch out for the service that you get.

This place is really good! I come here at least twice a month, every time time I come here I get the kimchi jjigae. Altogether this place is pretty inexpensive. Service isn’t amazing but isn’t horrible, waitresses are fluent in Korean and Mandarin! 1 or 2 of the waitresses are fluent in English the rest have a basic understanding.
OVERALL HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS PLACE FOOD IS REALLY GOOD!

Oh goodness. what a terrible experience. I wanted to go to Hashi Izakaya, which is just a couple doors down from this place, but majority ruled that we go here for dinner. Got seated as soon as we walked in. alright, so far so good. Spent some time deliberating over what to order. When we had decided, they took FOREVER to come by and take our order, despite us ringing our call button every couple minutes. They only bring you your sides after you order, so those eventually arrived afterwards. The sides were the standard kinds you usually get at Korean places, about average quality. They give you disposable paper place mats to eat your meals on at this place, so while the four of us were waiting for our meals, we started using the back of one to play Pictionary. When a waitress arrived with two of the four entrees we ordered, she already had a disgruntled, sour look on her face. Either she was in a really bad mood or she hates her job. Maybe both. She just started arbitrarily all-​but-​flinging the plates on the table, mumbling the names and not even bothering to figure out who they belonged to. The two dishes she brought first were mine and the girl sitting across from me, us being seated furthest away from her. Of the two people sitting facing each other closest to her, one was missing her place mat (we were using it for Pictionary) and the other had it in his hands (he was drawing on it). The waitress paused and stared at what he was doing, then in the biggest display of passive aggressive attitude ever, yanks his own place mat from under his elbows and places it in front of the other girl who was missing hers. Okay. I would understand her behaviour if she was trying to serve my friend her meal and wanted to ensure there was something under the dish. But no. She didn’t have anything else to serve us and just stormed off. The other two dishes didn’t show up for another five (the guy’s meal) and then ten (the girl with the missing place mat’s meal) minutes. So. what the heck was the point of all that? The food itself was horrible, too. Maybe I just ordered a bad dish. I can’t be sure. I ordered the dak kalbi jungsik (marinated and BBQ’d spicy chicken on hot plate with rice). The dish was mostly onions, with a few pieces of chicken that were mostly gristle, connective tissue and cartilage. Horrible. It wasn’t even a decent sized portion for $ 12. When we finished our meals, it also took forever and a day to get our bill. I think the fact that we were sitting in a booth didn’t help because they just seemed to forget about us, but the call button on the table should mitigate that fact. Whatever. I’m not coming back here unless I get dragged and the meal’s free. Waste of time and money in an area overflowing with better options. Don’t bother.

Every time we eat at this restaurant likes been like pulling teeth. Straight off the bat, I will say I AM NOT A FAN (not anymore) OF THE PLACE! It has been our go to place every now and again… but after the last time, my dining companions and I will be boycotting this place. The sad thing is the food at this place is pretty decent. It is the service that is the definition of nightmare… I’m not even talking about glacial slow service, I’m talking about rude servers that not will bluntly ignore you or yell at you. I don’t think there’s server a time that we’ve received service the first 2 times requesting it. Last time there, it was so bad that we didn’t get the water, bowls, spoons and simple utensils requested. We had 5 people and ordered 4 dishes to share, but apparent by their standard, that was not good enough for them. The lady serving us completely ignored most of our request… come time for tipping, stopped us demanding 10% minimum (to which we refused). Service tends to forget that tips are earn and not an entitlement. Most of us, had worked in the service industry once or twice, and can understand the downside of the industry… but the service we received was absolutely unacceptable. I will never return to them with my business or those of my friends. On the other hand, their food was good. There are some hit or miss but their Kamja tang was memorable. I would skip the fish stew as it was a chewy mess. The side dishes are good but beware how stingy they are with refills. I would pass because it is very generic and standard.

This place is the best for lunch. I spent many hours of ttc to travel here and eat their appetizers and kalbi beef. Today I was being brave to venture outside the lunch menu and into new hidden territory.
Seafood pancakes have been staple in many Korean restaurants. However, this one was practically oily and the seafood assortment was limited.
The service and appetizers are the redeeming factor. I guess I should stick to the kalbi beef.

The sides and food cost is what keeps me coming back. There are many to choose from in this Korean area. However, the food is pretty good here. The service I can do without.

Nak Won has been my go-​to Korean resto at Yonge & Finch for quite some time. Best pre-​meal nibbles (i’m sure they have a real name, but they’re called nibblies in my book!), great tempura and super tasty soups! Best on a cold or rainy day. LOVE!

I was with my friends for a nice lunch. I had a really terrible service last time so I was hoping that it would be better this time.
The food came in one at a time. I ordered stone bowl bibimbap and it was alright, but kimchi chigae wasn’t great, and dumpling soup was definitely below average and it took them 40 minutes to make it! Considering that it wasn’t a busy time, there is no excuse that they couldn’t serve it faster. I would rate it 1-​star, but the quality of the side dishes and the actual bibimbap earned them an extra star. There are so many other options in NY area and so I am not coming back.

Went to Nak Won for lunch recently & found that everything seemed generally a little worse than when I last reviewed it.
Side dishes are not quite as tasty as they used to be.
Kalbi seemed overcooked and not as tasty.
Pork bone soup (Gamjatang) was okay.
Service is not great. It’s still difficult to get a server’s attention, but when I was there last, it seemed like they were deliberately ignoring us. When we got service, it was curt and bordering on rude.

ehhh not bad — 2.5. but not really good, and some of their prices are too high for what you actually get.
ex. some of those $ 30 hot pots… there’s really nothing much in there and no real special soup taste.
I doubt I would really come here again by my own choice since there’s a whole bunch of better cheaper options in the yonge/​finch area.

Not a bad place for a quick bite, but don’t expect much.
This is one of the lower-​end cheap korean eats in the ynf area.
The service is mediocre (usually quite slow) but the apps are plentiful and the prices cheap.
The food is edible but not great — the jajangmyeon tastes super watery and bland, the kamjatang is really oily and also bland… basically the food here is bland and tastes cheaply made, but edible for a quick meal or for an after-​drinking binge.
Since competing restaurants in the area have only slightly higher prices, I would opt for one of those instead if possible. You can get a meal 100X better at Owl or elsewhere for only a slightly higher bill, plus the service is better.
Only go here if you’ve just left twister drunk and starving. Or if you are too lazy to walk anywhere farther.

This Nak Won is da bomb!
So this place rocks, it’s so much better then the other Nak Wons! Even though they have some servers that travel to all locations. The quality there is just so much better then the rest!
The Food is amazing I’ve gotten so many dishes there… All so delicious! Best part is when the servers recognize you and they act so much friendly haha! I’ve gotten away with 2 Arizonas without being charge. Wasn’t sure if that was a mistake or on purpose, but happiest day on life mmmhm. One time my Gf and I did table cooking and lettuce, to get more lettuce we had to pay more… So that was a bit of downfall since the table cooking meat is 3 times more then the lettuce given :(. Still those free Arizona aww yea definitely never forgetting those! Might not happen to everyone but I’m sure when it happens it’s like ahhhh yea!

I gave them an extra star only because of all the side dishes they give and I love them all. No nonsense service: if they are busy then you gotta wait, figure out what you want before you call them over or they’ll leave, when they are ready they will come over to you, and they will bring you everything you need eventually. Super fast service and food, in and out restaurant. They won’t smile at you, and no five star service if you can live with that, but at the same time there’s no fake smile, if they are pissed you will know.
They food is pretty decent, I usually have the pork bone soup, the mackerel with tofu soup or the bulgogi in soup. Everything is usually tasty and consistent. We come often for good economical fast Korean food. It gets a bit chaotic when it’s too busy. Will definitely come back but maybe not during the busy times.

The food is decent. Pretty typical Korean food. I think its a little more salty than what I’ve had at other places, but not by a big margin. Portion size is quite big.
However, my main problem with this place is the service, or lack thereof. The last time we went, we waited over a half hour to get our food after we placed the order. Also at the start, we didn’t even get menus, and it took the waitress at least 10min to come after we rang the bell! So the bell is kind of pointless… the place is clearly understaffed (2 waitresses for a full restaurant on a Saturday lunch). One final point is that the banchan comes out just before the food (I’m not sure if this is typical in Toronto, but I’m used to it coming out shortly after placing an order). That being said, the variety of banchan is pretty good compared to other places I’ve been in Toronto.
I hate waiting a long time for food, so I don’t think I’ll return.

I’ve always liked this place. But lately it seems they have been lacking a bit in terms of food quality.
We ordered the sweet & sour chicken. The dish was $ 18.99 but most of it was batter and fat. Very little chicken… I would not recommend ordering this ever.
I had the spicy tofu seafood soup (came w/​rice). Always consistent and tasty. Though I wouldn’t mind more spice to it.
The thing I love most is that they give you lots of appetizers. More than any from around the neighbourhood. You can always ask for more, though at this location, they are stingy with the sweet potato.
Service is fast.

The Nak Won @ yonge and finch is one of the best ones out there!
The service is always quick, and they will always attend to your needs. There’s no ‘forgetting’ to bring you something, and if they’ve done something /​wrong/​, they will quickly apologize. However, I do agree that a few times the service has not been up to par– once or twice, they have been quite rude in seating us, it seemed as we were being rushed.
The gamjatang is by far my favourite; I’ve tried pork bone soup mostly everywhere and this one is the best! I love how the spice is JUST right, and the bowl is big enough for all the pork– unlike some places that have it overflowing. I especially love the touch of dubboki cakes inside the soup, so yummy!
Their side dishes are some of the best side dishes in a korean restaurant, I love the jap chae, seaweed, beans and potatoes! They’re flavoured so well.
Their other dishes are also pretty yummy! Ugh, it’s so unfair how I crave korean food almost every day now because of this place.