Review Blooming Garden - Newcastle

Had a lovely evening here recently. Service was friendly and price very reasonable if you love a good Korean buffet. Plenty of pre made dishes to choose from plus a very generous selection of marinated meats for you to cook yourself at your table. I would have liked to see a more extensive wine and beer list though as it was very limited. We would definitely go back.

First time there and had a lovely evening. Plenty pre made dishes and large variety of marinated meat which you could cook at your table. Friendly staffa and I would come again

Beautiful little restaurant!! Loved the atmosphere. The food was fresh, tasty & very enjoyable!! Lovely staff, reasonably priced! Make sure you book a table as it can get very busy!

Their staffs are so nice, love to have a Korean BBQ in here🥰 Just be sad that they stopped to provide wagyu and jokbal🥲

I went there for the first time, it was a great experince with my family. It was amazing that I could freshly grill and cook all the food right at my table. In term of food variety, there were quite options. It was a good chilling, chatting and eating place. The staffs were friendly too. I will definitely coming back.

Quiet a good experience but if your not prepared to cook the food yourself then this is not the place for you. Everything was very yummy especially the duck, service was okay was our first time and being a little different would have liked an explanation as to what we do which we didn't get maybe something to work on but all seemed a bit rushed and not overly friendly except Jim ( I think that was his name) he was very helpful and had a smile on his face most of the night. Definitely book here as you could wait a while if you just walk especially on a Saturday night. GF options where minimal same with vegetarian for $50 a head seemed a bit average.

Went there for my birthday meal with my partner and honestly was disappointed. I went through the google reviews and was happy to try this place, it looked heaps promising. We booked in and went got there was seated and handed gloves. Was offered drinks menu and left alone. Finally got to order drinks. The only highlight we found was the spicy chicken. No wagyu beef or much variety of meats. After paying over $100 for 2 people and drinks we left very dissatisfied. Unfortunately we won’t be back nor will we recommend this place to friends.

Hmmmm... I'm not sure how this place has such high reviews. Perhaps the people coming here are easy to please. Usually I am pleased with places I go to. My gal went entirely by the Google reviews and thought we should give it a try. I don't usually like restaurants where I cook my own choices of food but it's something different and hell I've eaten a shish kebab in Lifou Island knowing it had snails on it and loved it the poor couple that followed me got a shock while talking to me with a mouthful of what they thought was beef. So yeah let's try something different. THE GOOD. Yeah OK the flavours in the spicy chicken for BBQ and the hot fried chicken are pretty nice. The beef was reasonable and so was the flavoured porks. The salads again reasonable. THE NOT GOOD. When we walk in the staff sit us and start the cooker and Walkaway. Not once did they ask if we'd eaten Korean BBQ before or even offer us a drink to start considering those drinks make them extra money that little extra bit of service makes a difference and since we had not done this style of eating before it would have been nice to been told a few things. The only thing we got told was that we had to wear gloves to serve but the few people on the table next door conveniently kept forgetting and were having a lovely loud conversation about Covid. Irony. Saying the food is reasonable was being generous. Yes the flavour is there but I've tasted better flavours in AYAM cooking sauces and I don't pay that much for that. The atmosphere was kind of disappointing. The pictures you see posted above are definitely during the start of service and there is little in the way of maintaining that look throughout. The hot food was not very hot in fact that whole section was only good when a fresh batch came out. The Kimchi tasted bottled but I just sampled all the salads to see what I thought. Again reasonable but not worth the effort of going back for something I kind of liked. The coffee... Omg I never knew you could get instant coffee in a packet with sugar and powdered milk all in one. For instant it was drinkable but I am a coffee lover so yeah Nah mate. Overall the bad definitely made the good bits seem mediocre... If the service at the start had have been better maybe this would have been an overall better experience. The final indignation is the fact that the $100 price got raised by a surcharge for using EFTPOS. Seriously? I definitely won't be going again and to be honest it has put me off ever going to Korean BBQ or Korean in general and as my other reviews show I definitely enjoy food but this was a major disappointment.