Nadoori

This is one of the worst restaurant I have ever been too.
Rule number one of trying a place you know nothing about is make sure there are other patrons. Why oh why did we go in after noticing the place was completely empty. I’ll tell you why… we figured it it 3pm not exactly prime eating times. However, we were in a busy part of Manhattan aka surrounded by hungry bitches at all times of day. We should have known better.
It would be kind to call the service inattentive. We are the only people here how one earth does it take you fifteen minutes to take our order? You should be jazzed that some one accidentally wondered in.
The food was decent but way too expensive not to be delicious. And this is coming from the person who was most satisfied with their selection. I ordered a fried rice dish plus chicken and the waitress had to pull out a magnifying glass to point out the tiny morsels of chicken. Which were generally the size of three rice grains. I might be a blood thirsty carnivore but when you pay extra money for meat you should be able to find it on your plate.
After finishing our meal we waited another twenty minutes before finally tracking down our waitress to get our check.
The worst part of it all is I just waisted more of my time writing a Unilocal for a place that will surely go out of business.

don’t be scared of this place. the bibimbop was really good. there is only like one lady that works here. she is really nice. i suggest to give it a shot.

*TIP: Lunch specials are only valid on weekdays!
Our initial destination was Ippudo NY but they were closed Jan 2^nd. We walked toward St. Mark’s instead. I didn’t even know about Nadoori until we walked past it. We decided to give Nadoori a try even though the place was empty. I quickly opened up the Unilocal app and found Brian and Cee C’s mediocre reviews on Nadoori which gave me second thoughts but I am always willing to try new restaurants and decided to give Nadoori a chance.
My friend ordered the pork kimchi tofu dish (see uploaded photo) while his girlfriend and I ordered a chicken and veggie fried rice dish. The rice was uniquely purple and delicious.
Appearance: The stir fried rice with veggies and chicken dish looked small (see photo) but it was filling.
Taste: The stir fried rice was yummy! The pork kimchi was meh. Too much kimchi sauce that overwhelmed the taste but this review is for my dish so it gets 4 stars.
Price: $ 10.95 for the stir fried rice and $ 16.95 for the pork kim chi. Free tea.
Tea flavors: The server surprised us with the flavors and they were surprisingly good. 1) Ginger honey 2) Cinnamon
Service: The server was wonderful. She came by to make sure our dish was good and to refill our teas.
I would come back and recommend Nadoori to my friends.
Note: Brian C. is right. Nadoori is Korean, NOT Indian.

After deciding that I couldn’t wait out the line at Ippudo, I decided to try out this new Korean restaurant around the corner. The service was friendly and professional, but couldn’t make up for the below par food. The soon dubu chigae was flavorless and too watery. The kimchee was decidedly too ripe. And only two banchan dishes? They just opened, so I hope they’re still working out the kinks.

First off, this place was wrongly tagged on Unilocal as Indian. It is a Korean restaurant. It is in the same spot as what was Sura: The King’s Meal (
). It seems like one day Sura was gone and Nadoori was there. I had never gone to Sura before and I have no idea if the name change has anything to do with new ownership or just an arbitrary name change.
I should disclose upfront that I am not terribly knowledgeable about Korean food. I know what I like and what I don’t, but as far as authenticity goes, I can’t really comment.
I went last night for the first time and it wasn’t bad at all. It is definitely a great alternative if you don’t feel like shlepping uptown to K-​town. It wasn’t crowded and I came close to bumping them up to four stars because the service was above and beyond the call of duty (they certainly deserve a 3 ½ if the option was available).
The seafood scallion pancake was pretty good – although I typically like it just a bit crispier. The spicy seafood tofu soup was also flavorful, but would have liked to see a couple of pieces of shellfish served in the shell with it – maybe a couple of clams or mussels. But, with that said, the dish was still nice and a cold and rainy night.
One thing to keep in mind is that Nadoori doesn’t appear to be serving alcohol yet. I’m not sure if this is as a result of them just opening or if it is for the long haul.
I probably should have asked questions while I was there. However, I suspect I’ll return and hopefully next time, the place will be a little more full with patrons and I can learn a bit more about how this place came to be.