Arirang BBQ House

Scott K, your prayers have been answered. This place is officially out of business. Yipppee! We are finally saved from dreadful Korean BBQ. The location is great and parking is great but this place really sucked.
I am giving 4 stars to the Sheriff department who came in on 5÷4÷16 and evicted them. Not that I enjoy seeing an establishment going out of business but this place didn’t care about their customers or quality.
Good riddance. Irvine deserves much better. Now if they can do the same to that Pizza Hut on Culver by Trader Joes, I would be happy.

I can’t wait for this place to go out of business. The meat quality is f. cken horrible. They advertise kobe and prime meat quality. It is economy or select. Service is more into the televisions then the customers. They come and turn the meat more once in a while with tongs that touched raw meat and cooked meat. Thanks for the cross containimation. Stay away. From this place.

Horrible first impression. My girlfriend and I walk into the restaurant and wait to be seated. No one greets us or acknowledges that we even walked in.

The worst experience I’ve ever had. Meat quality is moderate but worse than other BBQ restaurant. They explicitly give more favor for «expensive» customers. I won’t visit here again.

Jenny made our night. Meat was excellent quality and my date was hot! Definitely recommend this place. Upscale Korean bbq at regular Korean bbq prices :-)

I like this place give to five star, because food is very good quality and good side dish (seven different kind banchan taste very good), specially great service.

Not sure why this place gets such a bad rap. Must be another «bad review campaign» from the competing KBBQ establishments.
–Great service: Staff was very attentive and consistent.
–Great meat: Selection was on point.
–Banchan was fresh
–Environment was clean
Keep doing what you do Arirang! We’ll be back for more!

Me and my girlfriend went here on a Friday because I wanted KBBQ without worrying about waiting 2 hours to be seated. Saw this place on Unilocal and decided to swing by. The place was empty (few parties there), quiet, a few TV’s on. The service was decent, wasn’t the best but meh. As for the meat, we had the touge and it was okay but when we got to the bottom of the plate the meat looked dark. The brisket was very fatty.
So this place isn’t terrible but I wouldn’t come back due to the meat not being up to par for the price. One perk is that there wasn’t a wait on a Friday night.

The food is good and they have private room.

BEWARE OF THIS RESTAURANT:
Do not go here.
Let me tell you why.
* bad quality meat
* bad grills
* NOT worth what you pay for
* meat takes forever to cook and is NOT right when it’s done
* the proximity to Laguna beach is NOT worth eating here. GO ELSEWHERE.
* FOOD POISONING!!!
I know I sound like one of those crazy reviewers but I’m not. I was shocked at how disappointing this place was. 22 $ for bad food is just plain ridiculous. eat something else! I beg you. That’s all.

It was ok.
I liked their lunch specials because they were very good deals.
I did not like their side dishes if you have tried the side dishes from DaeMyung Ok before.
Galbi Tang is my favourite as always, so I ordered it for my lunch. It was fine, not surprisingly good.
They had very good service, 5 stars for that, maybe it was because that it wasn’t too busy there during a Tuesday lunch.

Holy cow! Awful food!!! Price is not cheap considering the quality of food. Awful!!! Only few customers were there tells everything ~~~

This is the worse BBQ restaurant ever. Most restaurant only charged half price for kid to eat. This particular restaurant without even asking they charged full price for kid to eat. My kid barely had 3 pieces of meat and had to pay full price. And their meat selection was not even all that to choose from. 4 regular meats and intestines, my kid usually eats the meat from other BBQ restaurant and he didn’t even wanna eat any meat from this restaurant and still got charge full price. This is the 1^st also the last, we’ll never come back to this place. Horrible experience ever. 1 star is generous cuz there’s no other rating for this restaurant. I never wrote any review to any restaurants or any services I used but I had to make this commend so that people can be aware of this scamming restaurant **** there’s a reason why they are only 3 rating stars on Unilocal

First time review! Just to share a horrible experience in this place. I just had lunch here and found a nasty hair in one of side dishes.
I called the server and he said «shit» in Korean without even saying «sorry.» I asked for the owner to come over, but he NEVER did… I should have taken picture of the nasty hair…
I, myself, is a business owner serving people, so I do understand people make mistakes. It is matter of how to handle the mistakes that they made. If anyone said «sorry» one time, I wouldn’t leave this negative review.

If you like Korean BBQ or have an adventurous palate then definitely give it a try. It’s not the best but its good– and fun. Veggies are fresh. Wish the meat was a but leaner or even grass fed but that’s wishing for a lot. You will be glad you tried it.

Wednesdays means galbi tang lunch specials. This is probably one of the best bang for your buck lunch deals in Irvine hands down.
Service was quick and prompt. The sides are tasty and my only complaint was that I wanted more galbi tang when I was done. I would definitely come back on a Wednesday!

I would give –5 stars if possible. This is a first time I have left a review before i even had a chance to eat their servings.
It was Saturday 5pm. There was just one other table. Super empty. At first, I thought since its not a Bbq time, there is not that many people dining.
Since we were group of 5, we ordered combo B for BBQ. While we were waiting, the waitress turned on the grill and put a grill on the table. We were waiting about 10 minutes. No side dishes or no nothing except water came out. We were bored and happened to look at the grill closely. I saw small dusts all over the grill. Then we wiped it with a napkin and a dark black dirty left over from previously used was on the napkin.
We were displeased and asked for a new grill. Same thing with the new grill. We were wayyyy too uncomfy to BBQ anything on this grill. So we just left after complaining to them.
If you cant even wash your grills clean, dont do your effing business here.
STAY AWAY FROM THIS RESTAURANT.

Arirang BBQ House quietly churns out inspired banchan with delectable thinly sliced meats in Woodbridge Village.
I have become an Arirang loyalist over the years and it is a pretty good thing I didn’t think to check the Unilocal reviews prior to dining here or I never would have. Several of dependable OC Unilocal Elite seem to have given the restaurant low marks from 2008 – 2011 and my only conclusion is they got their act together because I have enjoyed every meal I can recall at the time of this writing. New management perhaps? I digress…
Arirang is extremely clean and modern for a KBeebz spot and thanks to a view of Irvine’s North Lake, wins points for ambiance. The service is attentive and quick, but matter of factly. Having a Korean speaker helps but isn’t a mandate; just point at the banchan dish you want refilled and they will happily comply. The Beer and Soju are ice cold and reasonable priced for Irvine’s standards and they regularly show local sports on their flat screens, which is nice for us Ducks and Halo fans.
I have dissected the menu 1000 different ways and the $ 20.00 all you can eat is your best value regardless of circumstance. Bulgogi, Filet, Sirloin, Rib Eye and Brisket are all available at this price level along with limitless banchan that rotates with seasonality, all of it delicious. The staff will cook the meat for you or you can go it alone and risk the dreaded «Galbi Fist» that lasts a good 10 hours after eating. I like medium rare, so Galbi Fist it is for this Unilocaler.
The secret to a good life? Cook your Kimchi. Better still, get Mugunchi and fire it. Happiness.
Arirang’s menu is extensive and I really should venture out of my comfort zone to try some of their other offerings but whenever I see the KBBQ table before me, I can only order one thing. Delicious KBeebz. I am now famished.

Was a little concerned to try this place after reading several reviews. But my wife and I arrived for an early dinner on Sunday and found the restaurant clean and the wait staff prompt.
The food was good and plentiful and as for the purple juice on the meat from a previous review, that is wine spritz added for flavor.
We had no complaints and will be back, oh and the beer is cold.
Thumbs up Arirang BBQ House.

Out of all the korean bbq places in Irvine, this was the only place that didnt have an hour to two hour wait on a saturday night. The emotion of surprised kicked in that there wasnt an hour wait. Then later turned skeptic about the place to why they werent busy.
The place was empty when we arrived. We were seated right away. Uncertain for what they have to offer we order the brisket with their Combo A all you can eat.
It really wasnt a wow meal. It was more like. Oh my god i gotta finish my food so I can get out of here. Why you ask???
The rice paper was hard as hell.
Their meats were thin as hell.
And lastly for a place that was really empty, their service was slow as hell.
You wouldnt get your moneys worth here. I’d rather wait an hour at Shik do Rak or Gen in tustin than go here again.
First and last visit at this place