BANGIA

서비스는 한국과 동일합니다. 뉴욕에서 한국어를 쓸 수 있다? 친숙한 물병이있다? 부대전골을 시켰지만 햄을 찾을수가 없었습니다. 두부랑 라면으로 맛을봤습니다. 뉴욕에서 소주가 마려운 구글맵 사용자는 한번쭘 가볼만 한것같습니다. 다들 뉴욕여행 화이팅

Waiters are pushy. And the main manager yells at his waiters frequently. Food was good, typical korean bar affair. Bottles were pushed quickly out to us as needed. If your not sitting in the main area, your pretty blocked off from the main atmosphere.

Great

As a Korean girl, I only came here because my friends wanted to come here. I usually don’t go to Korean places, but this place was actually pretty good! The tteokbuki was cooked right and they even gave us an extra one as service. In fact, they gave us like 2 rounds worth of drinks for 8 ppl as service! They had such a great time! Shout out to John for being so great! Thanks!

Service was a bit disappointing. My friends and I are not Koreans and we didn’t feel very welcome. I also got yelled at when making the line at the bathroom. I originally thought it was just a random event and didn’t want to post my review, but checking the other reviews it seems people have complained about the same issues.

The atmosphere reminded me of Korea, and so much of the beginning experience filled me with nostalgia—I loved that the (original) makgeolli was served in a kettle with metal bowls, the seaweed soup that was given ‘on the house’, and the buttons to call the server over. I had high hopes for the food—but the food was not great, especially at the price point. We got the beef brisket ddukbokki—the rice cakes were overcooked and the flavor was underwhelming. I love both spicy and soy sauce-based ddukbokki, but this one was a total miss, almost inedible. The jokbal (pig trotters) was cooked well, but it seemed to have been marinated with a lot of aromatics (more than what I prefer). It is not served with saeoojeot (fermented tiny shrimp), which was unfortunate, but I liked having it as ssam (wrapped in lettuce). Towards the end of our meal, there was some confusion—a staff member asked us to move to a smaller table to make room for a larger group. Almost as soon as we did so, another staff member was trying to seat a new couple at the smaller table we had moved to, so we were awkwardly with our unfinished makgeolli and coats/bags in our hands as the new couple was waiting for us, and we hadn’t even gotten the chance to take out our wallets to pay the bill. It seems to have just been poor communication going on, but it left a bad impression, and what was supposed to be a celebratory dinner ended up as a “never again.”