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Oh Geul Boh Geul Restaurant
Category: Restaurants Korean Korean [Edit]
5320 Yonge StNorth York, ON M2N 5P9
Neighbourhood: Willowdale
(416) 733-3385
- Price Range:
-
$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Wi-Fi:
- No
- Good For:
- Lunch, Dinner
- Alcohol:
- Beer & Wine Only
- Noise Level:
- Average
- Has TV:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
7 reviews for Oh Geul Boh Geul Restaurant
7 reviews in English
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Review from Darren L.
Scarborough, ON
4/25/2012 1 Check-in Here
Not the best Korean food I've had but the portions are large and the side dishes are plentiful. We had a group of 12 and they were barely able to fit us in. One staff was very friendly but the other was easily angered.
Lots of food, but not the best taste. -
Review from Jiao S.
4/15/2012
This place used to be, still is like my food court or the place to go when I couldn't think of what I wanna eat.
Just, just, don't get me started on their service.
I could stand that they ignore you when they are busy, or you stop getting teas or they just stop refilling your side dishes. BUT! Last time they had me over the mustard sauce bottle for cold noodle. The bottle was sticky !
I still like their food, till last Friday, the rice I got looks like left over rice from the morning. I was so disappointed, since I was the one who suggested the place and I've always ask friend to go with me.
I still love their side dishes, the cold noodle with beef ribs. Still love their pork bone soup. Still love the green onion to go with BBQ. The yellow fish grill combo is still my favorite.
Just, the days I walk 10 mins just to get the black bean noodle are gone.
It really become a -okay to me now. SIGH! -
Review from Tee Jay R.
Toronto, ON
8/18/2011
This was my first time dining in Toronto's new Koreatown up north of Sheppard. I was told the culinary center of gravity had left Bloor & Bathurst and that this place in particular was one of the best, so I had rather high hopes.
This place is definitely cramped: if you don't get a booth, you may end up sharing a long table with two other parties, and it's hard to get in and out of your chair to use the restroom. In fact, it's so crowded that apparently not all the cooking is taking place in the kitchen: the pajeon griddle is set up out in the hallway! Kind of cute, this level of disorganization quite reminded me of many small restaurants in Seoul. Despite being crowded, it feels airy (nice high ceilings) and bright.
On the appetizer front, it's all good. We all know that Toronto Korean restaurants hold back when it comes to panchan. Most places give you 3 or 4 (compared to 8-12 or more in Cali!). And where are my tiny dried chewy fish and fermented tofu strips?!? Here, you get at least 6 -- including sweet potato kuroke & ggakdukgi (essentially kimchi made from chunks of daikon: my fave) -- and they're of decent quality. They throw in a small spring onion pajeon (pancake) as well, which is customary in Korea but unusual in N. America; nice touch. (Mugubuka in SF's the only other place I've been to that does it.)
I'm sad to report that the main dishes were disappointing across the board. The haemul (seafood) pajeon was uncooked in the middle, with little unpleasant pockets of batter around the seafood pieces. The dough was too sticky, and underseasoned.
The LA style (cut across the bone) kalbi was not especially flavourful, and a little greasy. The kimchi chigae (stew with tofu, pork, and kimchi) was a big letdown. It was quite watery and not sufficiently pungent. This stuff is really supposed to knock your socks off with heat and umame but it really just tasted like sour water. I actually thought of asking for some gochujang (hot pepper paste) to mix in, which I've never done at a Korean restaurant in all my life.
I wanted it to be better, especially since they have some neat stuff (including ja jang myun -- thick noodles in black bean sauce) that I haven't seen elsewhere in Toronto, but it didn't live up to my hopes.
The search for plentiful panchan and delicious non-BBQ K-food continues! -
Review from Antonia W.
Toronto, ON
10/10/2010
Had a chance to try this place finally... after hearing about how great the banchan was from different people. They really do have probably the most/best banchan I've had here in Toronto so far! I also think their kimchi is one of the better ones I've had.
The two of us ordered the same dish, dol soht bibimbap, except my friend had beef and I asked for no beef on mine. I don't like how they use ground beef on the bibimbap.. it's just not right. It's gotta be bulgogi to be GOOD! But unfortunately, they're not the only one that do this and there are several others that cheap out and use ground beef instead.
The dol soht bibimbap was alright, there was a good amount of veggies in the dish, but it wasn't hot enough. I usually gauge that by how the rice gets at the bottom, and this one barely got that crispy/crunchy layer.
The service at this place was great though, the ladies are friendly and I would definitely give this place another chance and try something else. -
Review from Cindy L.
Toronto, ON
10/18/2010 1 Check-in Here
I have dined here numerous times.
On many occasions they are short staffed and there is a tendency for bad service. On one occasion, the person serving my friends and I ran out because we apparently did not tip. Of course we did but she assumed we didn't because we had paid half cash and half debit.
The food is average. I have tried the soon tofu, dolsot bibimbap, rice cakes and some others; but it is nothing impressive. Sometimes the soups can taste too salty and the kamjatang isn't spicy at all.
The only positives are:
- Price is decent for what they offer
- Variety in side dishes
- Open later than some restaurants
- Variety in food (in terms of whats available on the Menu)
- Service is terrible when it is busy but average when it isn't -
Review from Phil H.
Toronto, ON
8/12/2010
Went here once recently and once about a year ago.
As mentioned before, they give a veritable treasure trove of banchan. The last time I went with a friend we got 11 and had about 8 the time before that.
I've tried their gamjatang (pork bone soup) and soondubu (tofu stew). Nothing too notable about it, merely competent (which isn't a bad thing). I've also had their broiled mackerel since it was only like an additional 2 dollars to get a soondobu meal with it and that was fine. Not undercooked, not overcooked. I don't really feel excited about perfectly cooked mackerel, I just kind of expect it for some odd reason.
My friend really likes their samgyetang (ginseng chicken soup) and goes on about how clean, healthy, and good it tastes (despite noting how it was better the last time as opposed to our most recent excursion).
Really.. I just enjoy having a lot of banchan so this place satisfies that craving. Price point is pretty much the same as everything else in the area (although if you think about how much more banchan you're getting, it really does provide more bang for your buck). Haven't had anything bad yet (haven't had anything great yet either) but hey, I'm not complaining. -
Review from Joyees Y.
Scarborough, ON
5/12/2010
Eating here is like a roller coaster, first things are looking up! But then the rest is just going doooooooooooown well not that down but it does kinda disappoints.
First off, the great thing about this place: the fucking banchans! I guess I've been raised on dim sum for too long cause my favorite part about Korean cuisine is the banchans. Which is those little side dishes they give you. Usually restaurants give you three and maybe four if you're lucky (and one annoying time, two) but they had like seven or eight AND an extra Korean pancake to boot. And you get free refills (okay it's new information for ME, could've saved a lot of fighting with chopsticks between my friends for a few years). Anyways, I love their pancake, their clear noodles thing, this tofu in seasoned soy sauce, this sweet and mildly spicy potato, and the sesame bean sprouts. Those were the highlights for me banchan wise. But they are not always the same though. The next day I went they didn't have the potatoes.
Next: the mains. I went there twice and in those times I've tasted the beef simmered in hot and spicy broth with green onions, cham pon (spicy seafood noodles), ja jang myun (soy paste noodles), kal bi (short ribs), and fried chicken.
Noodles: nice texture. The seafood noodles had a very strong seafood taste which was great. However the ja jang myun, I thought the flavor was lacking, it tasted one note, it's just kind of sweet and tasted of onions. My boyfriend said it was "meh" and he grew up on it so it wasn't just me not liking the taste.
Their broth lacked flavor. I did taste some kinda of beefy flavor in my soup but it was very faint and totally overpowered by the spiciness. I like spicy but I like it with something flavorful whereas this soup was all spicy and that all I could taste. Also that beef was overcooked to the point of rubber.
Kal bi had a nice flavour but the meat was once again, a bit on the tough side. And I like my kal bi to have a bit of the chew but it was to the point where it was a bit hard to eat.
Finally the fried chicken! It was at the same time too crispy but not crispy enough? The outside was very hard but not in the way I liked it...my other experience with Korean fried chicken was Kokoya and I thought theirs was much better. Also this chicken had been battered with too much szechuan pepper. On the up side, the chicken was very moist and they were all splits, and they split it first and THEN batter and fry so if you like their batter, you get more!
I'm not going to write off this restaurant though. I saw that a lot of their items have this "table cooking" where you cook it yourself and lot of people were having it so it might be their specialty? Anyways the table near mines were having this pork table side cooking and the pork looks very fatty so I imagine that could be quite tasty.Listed in: Bob-Muk-Ja! Sheppherd and…
