K Place

My friend suggested this restaurant as we were looking for something gluten free and she had a Tastecard. It’s actually a really good find. As soon as I entered the basement restaurant, I was enjoying the delicious smell of barbecued meat. We got 50% off the mains, which range from £9 to £14, and you have to order a minimum of 2 to do the Korean barbecue. I did regret a bit that we didn’t do the buffet style, which is only around £24 to get 3 types of meat, and only a bit more for unlimited. There were no pictures on the menu so it was rather difficult to tell what cuts we were getting, and I went for the marinated short rib, which interestingly enough came without the bone I was expecting and was a medium sized portion. My friend had the sirloin and it was three medallions, but definitely did not seem like enough food. We also had a pork belly to share, which was three long ribbons, and necessary to complement the otherwise small portion sizes, but I could have easily eaten two or three more portions as well (unfortunately our Tastecard did not cover more people, but we had a friend with us who was not eating). The fourth member of our group got the bibimbap, which looked delicious, but also not a large portion so he got some dumplings as well. The starters are not cheap at around £7, so if you get 50% off you might as well go for a main. I saw some seriously good meals on the tables of other diners, including a massive soondubu tofu stew in place of the barbecue in the middle of the table. The one thing they didn’t have was the nice small dishes that you sometimes get at the beginning of a Korean meal. And the chairs are pretty uncomfortable. But despite that, I think this place has a lot of potential and I would like to come back and do the unlimited buffet.

K Place is a nice little Korean BBQ place nearby to my work. It’s always pretty dead as far as eat-​in Customers are concerned during Lunch hours, but I’m quite happy with the lunch meal deals (e.g. Sweet and Sour Chicken) you can find there.
Each has been a quite tasty full-​size bowl with a couple of little start dishes and does a great job filling you up for less than £6.
Obviously the meals take about 10 minutes to prepare, being made fresh, but when I’m not in a particular hurry, I find it well worth the stop in, especially compared to the price of all the fast food places in the area!

Naru has been my long running fave Korean restaurant in central London for quite a number of years — whilst it’s still good in a great location, I’ve found a new place to direct ppl for awesome Korean food.
We had a really early reservation because we had tickets to the RWC later that evening — got there right at opening around 5:30. This place looks like a proper Korean BBQ place because they have the vents that suck the BBQ smoke from the table.
We were tempted at the Buffet menus but given that it was quite early we decided on getting the kimchi jeon, spicy pork and fried chicken. First they came out with banchan & kimchi — very few places in London offer this so a major plus as it reminds me of places in NY. The kimchi jeon was really good — at first looked a bit small as only two pieces came out but there was a bit of a confusion between the lunch menu so we got the other half later on!
The spicy pork was good — I much prefer the one at Naru but still quite good. We asked them to cook it in the kitchen as it’s not worth the effort to bbq at the table for 1 portion.
The Korean fried chicken was probably the best I’ve had in London so far. We wanted half and half and they were quite nice to offer the sauce on the side. It was deliciously fried — comparing this to On the bab last week, we like this one a lot more.
One funny thing to highlight is the plain rice. I grew up with a mom who was quite fussy about white rice and this place… they do it quite well. Fluffy and a bit on the sticky side.
Lastly, in a typical Korean restaurant fashion, we received fruit salad at the end of our meal.
We will definitely be back!

This is a brand new Korean BBQ place. It really is a great place. It reminds me of Korea town in LA! Ahhhhhhhhh… Meat sweats again! Good night !

Delicious Korean BBQ buffet in the middle of the city of London. You don’t believe me right? It’s true. Forgive the lack of creative naming but K place is a rare find particularly if u r a city worker. In fact the city is plagued with chains simply because they are the only ones that can afford to rent in the area but this place is really special. Even if you don’t go for the all you can eat buffet at £23 the stand alone dishes on the menu are also worth trying. Generally speaking anyone looking for good Korean around Bank/​Monument will struggle. (For anyone who remembers Old Justice which has now closed this is the New Justice ;))

A new gem in the City, K Place fills the Korean barbecue sized hole in my life that I didn’t know I had.
We had the 10 course buffet with unlimited meat. Every course was flavourful and fresh. Kimchi pancakes, mussels, omelette rolls with barbeque sauce… but this was all just a prelude to the star of the night — unlimited pork and beef, a hot plate and condiments aplenty.
The meat seemed of reasonably high quality, and while delicious, we couldn’t handle anything close to taking advantage of the unlimited offer, though we did our best.
While it probably won’t be a regular haunt, I think I’ll be heading back to K Place before long.