Yummy food. Thank you. Just like in Gangnam. Service is great and Wagyu was super tasty. 감사합니다. 맛있어요.
We came by on a Saturday night. The restaurant was half full. We ordered a few cuts of wagyu beef, steamed egg and side veggies. The quality of the meat was good - fatty and tender. Unlike other restaurants. they don’t cook the food for you. I was a little annoyed by the waiters and waitresses just standing around not helping. What I liked about this place is that there’s a heated ring around the bbq which they filled with canned pineapple, raw garlic in sesame oil and cheese corn. The cheese corn was delicious. The furniture is oily and a little sticky and needs a good clean. Halfway through the meal the black grease from the vent on top of the bbq dripped onto our veggies on the bbq and we had to ask the staff to change it for us and clean the vent which they kindly did. In summary, the food is pretty good but service needs improvement.
Pros: the cheesy chicken stew was flavoured really well with a very generous amount of cheese! Not too spicy which is what I like. The steamed egg here has seaweed added on top, a nice complement.
Cons: steamed eggs were a bit dry.
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We have been to Soko a few times now and they have value for money BBQ meat sets available. The place is looking pretty run down though with seat coverings that are coming off and taped up ceilings. Service remains unchanged with staff not being very hands on with the cooking process.
Having said all that though, the food continues to be delicious. On our most recent visit, we had the fried chicken with spicy sauce which was packed with flavour. The bulgogi stew was tasty and had lots of beef in it. We had the BBQ beef set and portions were quite generous.
Soko is still a good choice for Korean food.
Previously:
We came to Soko on their opening weekend a few months ago (note that the overall zomato score and reviews are also based on Soko's predecessor Sut and Wine). We were totally underwhelmed by that first visit. Craving for some Korean BBQ, we decided to give Soko a second chance.
Fortunately, it was a great decision. The food has certainly improved significantly and I'm in love with their fried chicken - boneless pieces of well seasoned and carefully fried tender succulent chicken...mmmm.
The pork set was delicious but we were slightly disappointed by the wagyu set - the beef was chewy. The kimchi soup was spicy and full of ingredients including seafood. And the kimchi was addictive.
The main down point was the not very attentive service. Expect to cook your own meats even though Soko appears to be adequately staffed - they seem to like to congregate near the entrance to exchange their stories of the day.
Extra points for their 'live' musician - it made our second Soko experience very pleasant.
We came here for dinner on a Friday night (3 people) without booking, it was about a 20 minute wait which we were fine with. The meat and sides were delicious and portions were okay. However, it took a long time for the food to come out. Granted they were busy, however majority of the food is cooked by the customer anyway on their bbq plate.
Great food and atmosphere. Only K BBQ place that also has small side dishes served on the side of their grill. Super cool.
Chicken was delicious and the sauces provided were perfect. Highly recommend this place and will be coming back!
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Lovely kbbq restaurant in Box Hill with a great set menu. We came as a large group, and despite not having a table booking, they decided to accommodate for us. We ordered the set F, which came with a plate of wagyu, a plate of beef and seafood, as well as a giant pot of stew which they call a casserole. We even ordered original fried chicken which was incredibly succulent and juicy, yet still crunchy. The meats were all of a high standard, and cooked on coals which is an added bonus, as it gives a more charcoal taste. The only down side is the wait staff don't help you cook and cut it at this restaurant, nor do they help change your grill pan. They gave us very blunt scissors which was a pain to cut some meats with tendon. We also ordered kimchi pancake, which was average, and ddukbokki, which wasn't spicy and actually sweet which we didn't like. But the meat and the fried chicken, as well as the stew, makes up for it. We each paid around 40$ each, which is what you'd expect from KBBQ. 100% would return now that I know what's great and what's not so much.
Big portions for the beef set for 2p, we ordered that and a bibimbap and an extra LA style rib for a table of 5, and we left full. quality of the beef is pretty good, the bulgogi beef stew was yum, and so was the bibimbap. Good price and good food, would recommend.
Overall great food, ok experience, soko is a restaurant that mainly focus on BBQ but also have decent amount of non bbq dishes. Singing performance on saturday night, the staff are efficient but they will not help you bbq the meat. Price wise not too expensive, one thing to note is becareful with the vegetable, they don't wash it.
Clean place with good options of BBQ sets, slightly pricey, but with the amount of food served. Waiters had time to serve us initially by helping us bbq the meats, but when the restaurant gets busy, we do it ourselves since our meat get burnt, but good thing about that is they replace the burnt meats too, great service
Classiest Korean BBQ place around.
To date is still probably the premier venue for Korean BBQ; foodwise and wine list/drink list.
Great set up, roomy and very pleasant service, just the exhaust is not strong enough, you'll come home with that BBQ aroma.
Still classy though.
After we left due to extremely unkind manager looking waiter at Secret kitchen, I rang Sut and Wine and made a booking. I have requested window seat, waitress advised me on the phone window seat wasn't available and I told her to put best possible seats on hold, we were guided into window seat when we arrived.
As we planned approx $200 with duck place originally, we chose $130 meat set for 2 and seafood tufu soup for 2. As always, foods were fantastic, amount were good enough for 4 adults and 2 young kids.
It would have been 5 star if main waitress had some smile on her face, she had face with no emotion. Another non-korean waitress were kind and shot very great photo for us too,
Overall good selection of dishes and BBQ meat. The only down side is that our pork got burnt. Sometimes it's hard to tell whether we should wait for staff to turn the meat for us or do it ourselves. When we do it ourselves, they come and take over..
Very yummy, reasonable price, comfy and stylish place, some one will do the BBQ for you on the table. I especially like the set beef. Our favourite restaurant in boxhill !!!
Good service and yummy fried chicken
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