Sa Ri One Korean Bbq

PHENOMENAL! I absolutely love this restaurant. I love their food, their servers are always friendly, some of them are very knowledgeable and go into detail about how the food is prepared or why certain things are served with others. It is a wonderful atmosphere. I go to this restaurant about once a month or so and I thoroughly enjoy it. I don’t plan to stop anytime soon.

Okay let me start by saying. I rarely give bad reviews and 2 stars and I eat out a lot throughout the United States. The bad started when we walked into the restaurant and waited 5 minutes to have hostess come sit us. It took another 10 minutes to get a soda to that we ordered. Follow that by not being asked once do we need more drinks, having no utencils given to us until we asked and given too little of small plates and chopsticks...having to ask for napkins is ridiculous. When the appetizers came and I got a lot of flack for ordering too many...they were miniscule in relation to other Korean restaurants in Tampa. Then the dinner arrived. It tasted good no question. I am not going to go into what we ordered but you can see by the pics. When I ordered Chili Paste I got another Korean sauce and the lady that took order for chili paste said "that is a Korean sauce". Any considering our bills was $167, I was less than enthusiastic about the service. We left less than the normal tip due to how horrible the service was. I will NOT go back again because I don't want to spend money being treated like they don't want us there. There are many restaurants that would be happy to have consumers spending that kind of money in today's economic times.

First time at this Korean Restaurant/Sushi Bar. Unfortunately, the All You Can Eat isn't available likely due to COVID driving prices sky-high, but as far as their other dishes go (Rice dishes, Noodle Dishes, and Meat Dishes), absolutely phenomenal flavor. Side dishes weren't overly spicy like some other restaurants I've been to and the staff is attentive as well as the fact that they have a Call Button to get your waiters attention. Overall a great dining experience. 20/10 Would come again.

We went here yesterday around 2 pm. They don't have their main All you can eat option anymore. We called ahead so we were aware of this, keeping that in mind any meat dish didn't seem worth it since it was already expansive and barely any meat. The Tempura vegetable was delicious and Meat Mandoo. They were actually low on a lot of items on the menu so everything we wanted originally we weren't able to order.

We went to this place a few weeks back in November because we were craving Korean bbq. Due to Covid, they don’t serve all you can eat (AYCE) so definitely keep this in mind when you go. We already knew this before we went but the staff was nice to remind us again just in case before we got seated TLDR: you might want to wait until they offer AYCE again because they charge a lot for Alan carte but also the surcharges for small things (see pricing section below) Food: we ordered bibimbap, marinated LA Galbi, and pork belly slices. The food was ok but not worth it for the price (see pricing section) Service: they were really, Really, REALLY nice and on top of everything. They would come to you with napkins before you even need them lol Pricing: because they don’t do AYCE anymore, everything is a la carte. We don’t have a problem with it but there are some things you need to expect before you go: - each bbq dish is from $20 to $24 a la carte - you only get three slices of pork belly and three slices of LA Galbi - they charge $3 for a small basket of lettuce. $3! - ban chan (side dishes) are extra if you want refills Verdict: not worth visiting right now. We ended up paying $80 for these three dishes (tips included). I don’t like the extra charges they put on because it feels like they are nickel and dime everything. Will visit again once AYCE is back.