McGully Alley

Place look good and the food is good too…

I must have visited this place some time end of October and just had the great idea of reviewing it…
The first thing i noticed was its peculiar name as «McGully» sounded very American. After a few hours, i realized it was a play on words of the liquor they were serving called «Makgeolli.»
So the place serves Makgeolli. Wikipedia describes it as: an alcoholic beverage native to Korea. It is made from a mixture of wheat and rice which gives it a milky, off-​white color, and sweetness. It is made by fermenting a mixture of boiled rice, wheat and water, and is about 6.5−7% alcohol by volume. Most Makgeolli contains more wheat than rice these days; a few brands contain no rice at all. It was originally quite popular among farmers, earning it the name nongju, which means «farmer liquor». However, it has recently started to become more popular in cities, especially with the younger generations.
I enjoyed drinking Makgeolli, but I did not enjoy McGully Alley’s scene as a whole. The bar seems to have a gentleman’s club vibe and that’s totally not my scene. Like if you were to spend a night there and pay the inflated prices, the only justification would be to ogle/​flirt with the women who work there. Personally, i find that to be lame. But to each their own!
P. S. — What’s up with all the artwork of cats in the place!!!

Tasty Korean alcoholic drink called McGully is made pretty good over here. There are a variety of flavors, mango, lychee, soda, and more fruit flavors. The food here is surprisingly good too but their prices are pretty awful. Their seafood pancake was excellent. It was nicely cooked and crunchy.
My biggest problem here is just the price. The drinks and food is great but the prices aren’t appealing at all. $ 18 for seafood pancake? Come on, on a dead Monday night… you could do better. Each McGully order was around $ 18 I think too. Every dish averaged $ 18 bucks. between 3 people, our bill was roughly $ 90 for 2 dishes, 2 orders of McGully, and 2 orders of rice. If you ask me, it’s clearly a rip off. The place was dead empty the entire time we were there.
Whether or not if they make their business on weekends, their prices need to change. I understand that most Korean restaurants are pretty much have high mark ups but McGully Alley is in the middle of no where on Northern Blvd. It’s a type of place where I would like to come back and recommend to friends but they gotta do something about their prices. The place is clean, they played good music, service was good but hey, there were no other customers except for us… This place has potential. I hope they make some changes and have a successful business some day.