The Korean Kitchen

first time eating here, needed to find a place with rice cake but without spiciness (husband likes it!) and this was first one I found where they had it with soy sauce! portion although advertised as «snack» was plentiful, sauce w beef pieces, carrots, zucchini, mushrooms snd sesame was divine! didn’t wait long, servers were nice and helpful. returning next weekend for my bday!

5 full stars! This place is awesome! This spot opened up not too long ago and is across from baskin robbins on christie. The Korean kitchen is one of the few restaurants that is currently carrying the ever so famous fruit flavoured soju, brands such as soonhari and jinro. This was all the rage in Korea the past summer, and now us Canadians can finally try it! Woo hoo!
We arrived around 6pm earlier today and it wasn’t that busy and were seated in a booth (not very comfortable though). After looking at the menu, my bf wanted to order the garlic pork hock (pretty much the pigs leg including the feet) because it’s not often that you’ll see this on a menu. Apparently, this is a popular dish to get here. So we ordered that, an egg roll dish plus the grapefruit soju. We also had small side dishes to start and they also gave us deep fried spaghetti sticks coated in sugar! Very interesting.
Onto the food, when the garlic pork hock came, it also came with dipping sauce and a few pieces of lettuce to wrap if you want. The pork hock itself was very good, it wasn’t dry and paired with garlic it has a sweet taste to it. But of course don’t get this if you don’t wanna have garlic breath for hours. The egg roll with sausage covered with ketchup and mayo was not too bad, but i’d skip that next time. The grapefruit soju however was bomb! Very sweet and you can definitely taste the grapefruit flavour. It goes down smooth and doesn’t have that strong taste in your mouth like regular soju! But I’m a lightweight so I definitely cannot drink more than one bottle lol.
Finally, the service here is excellent! All the servers are friendly and they know how to smile! Yay! Our server would stop by occasionally asking if we need anything else, and giving us extra napkins. The owner is also very nice too, after asking if they carried this other Korean alcoholic drink — the one with the weed sign…(don’t ask lol) He apologized and said they don’t carry that atm. and he seemed genuinely sorry. He also gave us a small dish of donkatsu on the house! After eating, the owner personally went to see us out! So nice. He did a good job training his staff on customer service because it’s quite important here.
Recommend to come here at least once!

I come here almost every week. This is a great place for gatherings during the day and at night. Awesome food and drinks, and they have an extensive menu for both drinks and food compared to other restaurants in the area, but what really makes this place nice is its ambiance (dim lighting, music, dark walls compared to the bright and neon décor of other restaurants in the area). Prices are fair and are prepared nicely. I usually get the kimchi stew and nappa cabbage stew which the chef kindly makes vegetarian when asked. My boyfriend recommends the fried rice, kimchi fries and tornado potato as a snack. The staff and the owner are incredibly kind.