Jang Dok Dae

Food is amazing. Food is all freshly made and presentation is clean. Hidden gem in duluth for korean food and blue fin tuna. Definitely give this place a try if you like korean food. Owner and staff are extremely friendly. My grandparents love this place and so do I. Highly recommended and will continue to support this establishment. Best food for hangovers or just a really nice meal. Best blue fin in the city. Melts in your mouth.

I can say this is the place we can find the most authentic Korean food.
The menus are unique. Some menus are very unique that you cannot find at other restaurant.
Kind of Japanese? hybrid foods are also available.
If you would like to enjoy authentic Korean food but at same time something you never tried before, this is a good place.
I like blue pin tuna and Kobe steak. Kobe steak is awesome food for a group of people.

My mom and I try to do a weekly Korean food date. I saw that this place had opened and after a H Mart shopping trip, we decided to grab some dinner here.
We ordered small octopus stir fry (because my mom and I are fiends for this dish) and it was probably one of the best ones I have had! Their banchan was very good and I think we got seconds and finished them and that normally never happens because I get tired of eating them mid serving through, but it was so delicious my mom and I cleaned the plate-​twice.
The stir fry is pretty spicy and my mom said she had a bit of a heart burn. I highly enjoy super spicy stuff and we did it on regular spicy. I loved how they had put small thin rice noodles on the side on top of parilla leaves. We kind of did a small wrap with the stir fry, noodles, and the leaves (since my mom was complaining it was too spicy) and it was really delicious. I would highly recommend this dish for sure.
They also gave us some sullongtang (bone broth) on the side and it was very, very good quality. My mom is pretty picky about these things and she was duly impressed as well.
Great service and the chef came out to greet us and make sure everything was ok. I’ll definitely be coming back to this place for some more Korean food :)

It takes over 40 minutes to eat a bowl of naengmyun here. How crazy. They serve white customers first, and then everyone else. So if you’re white, great!

For the hardcore Korean foodies, this is where you come for your hometown Korean soups. Soups come out boiling with different meats — tasty and great for a cold day.
Music is 70s and 80s music like Santana, Van Morrison, Simon and Garfunkel. Interior is lots of wood, Korean private booths.

My korean friend, B, recommended this place after his parents introduced it to him when he moved back from California. I was hoping that this place would measure up, and since California has some of the best korean food in the country, I figured that this place would be pretty good! I had to get the oxtail soup because it was so cold that day, and it was one of my favorites to get up in Baltimore during the winter days:
Korean Oxtail Soup ()
PROS
–hot, bubbling in a stone bowl
–very rich and creamy like it’s supposed to be. Does not appear to be watered down like some places (more than Lee’s Tofu down off Buford Highway near Chamblee)
–clean and fresh tasting, warms you to the bone kind of feeling
–lots of green scallions to add to your dish (this is a personal thing because some people can’t stand green onions)
CONS
–not as much meat slices or vermicelli as Hanbat in LA.
Would I get it again? Definitely. I got to taste the broth from my friend’s blood sausage stew which was really tasty as well. I’ll definitely get that the next time I come to Jang Dok Dae. But truthfully, it’s got some great flavors for being only fifteen minutes away from home. Being that I am not much of a meat eater, and I’d be eating this dish for the soup, I would look more for the sustenance in the soup consistency than the actual meat or vermicelli amount. It is served with rice so that is filling in and of itself. The panchan dishes are also not too bad, especially with a large piece of mackerel or fried fish served.
This place is located just behind the H-​mart in Duluth off Pleasanthill Road. It’s actually a bit hard to find and doesn’t have an English name on the front. I’ve realized that it tends to be a restaurant more for older generations. That’s probably more appropriate for me being that I’m aging day by day. I do love a good hot korean stew, especially in the winter. In summary I’d give this dish about ***.85 (3.85 stars). It’s pretty darn tasty! The address is below:
2550 Pleasant Hill Rd
Ste 204
Duluth, GA 30 096
There are definitely other places to get korean stew, but I like the quietness of this place. The service has always been pretty good for me, requiring only to lift the curtain to get service. While it is a bit difficult to communicate being that I do not speak fluent Korean, the service is still always polite and fast. I’d totally come again, especially since it’s so close.

This place advertises itself as «clean Korean food» so I was curious to see how it tasted. I really like their sign. The white backlight really enhances that clean food feel. The food itself was pretty decent. I don’t know what the clean part means. I’m assuming it’s no MSG but I didn’t ask. The food was pretty good. The yook gae jang ($ 8.99) was kind of small compared to other places and it lacked noodles but overall it was good. The miso stew ($ 7.99) was the standard tasting Korean miso. I thought the bibim noodles ($ 11.99) were really overpriced. It came in a large bowl but was a little thin on noodle quantity and it had just a few pieces of sliced meat. For $ 12 bucks I expect more. Not worth it IMO. The side dishes were pretty good as well.
The inside is designed like an old Korean village. It’s pretty new considering I can still smell the paint and «newness» of the materials. They have several tables in the middle but for the most part the tables are closed off with dividers.
The service while very friendly was not attentive. They never came back to check on us so we had to stick our head out 2 times for water and 1 time for the check. The check never came so we had to get up to ask them. They weren’t rude. I got the feeling they were new to the restaurant business and were a little lost. They can improve on it. But like I said, they were friendly. They brought out bone broth for my baby son since Koreans really like it for kids. That was much appreciated.
It’s a pretty good Korean restaurant but the service can use improvement but overall I would recommend this place.