Bryan’s BBQ Real Korean

The place is cool looking and the food is pretty good but I won’t go back again.
If you’re gonna check it out anyways make sure you go with good friends that you can laugh with cause I imagine Mr. Grumpy Pants could go from mildly endearing to annoying if you’re not with good company. And for the love of cake and candy do not ever take a date here! Fortunately I was with good friends so when Mr. Grumpy Pants began nagging us about not moving the vent and how to grill the food we got a good giggle as soon as he walked away. Actually we spent a good chunk of the meal giggling and doing little things to annoy him lolz. I wish I hadn’t used the bathroom here. They were sooooo gross and dirty and there was actually a sign telling customers not to flush toilet paper but to put it in the rubbish bin. Eeeeewwww! So gross. If they cleaned the place up, fixed the toilet and got Mr Grumpy Pants under control this place would actually be decent cause honestly the food was really not bad at all.

Holy… I should have checked the reviews before going there.
Last time I went to this place was probably 5 years ago and can’t say I had a bad experience but this time it was totally the opposite.
I’m probably going to repeat what many others are saying, but it’s the truth.
First thing, if you’re only 2 people better go somewhere else! We got full after the first serving. They will bring the same size no matter if you’re 2 or 20! Was it worth paying $ 24.99 per person? HELL NO!
For the price you get a choice of 3 meats. We ordered regular beef which was okay; then there was another beef which I’m almost certain was for stew and not BBQ (so hard to eat). On top of that there was so much of it (oh and you have to pay it if you’re not done, can’t get a substitute) Haha and the pork… first time the guy brought the dish it looked nothing like the picture. It was so fat! We had to return it and got another dish of the same but actually looked as it should have been. So much inconsistency! I imagine everyone is getting same treatment just to see if they can go away with it.
So what do we have? Overpriced meal that’s not even decent! oh yeah, the pancake was good! pretty much the only thing I could say.
The owner (I assume) was too impatient, kept blaming us for doing something wrong! We had to bother them to change the freaking plates.
There was nothing right with this place. Save your money and just go somewhere else!

I feel like I’m being generous by giving this place one star. As you can see from my reviews, I rarely ever give a «1 star rating» to any place and when I do, it’s usually for one single reason: horrible customer service. And this place lived up to it too.
My boyfriend and I decided to go on a Sunday night. The place itself was pretty well-​lit but was definitely run down and seen better days. It was a husband & wife operation (with chef (s) at the back).
1. $ 19.99 vs $ 24.99
The first mistake we made was to go for the $ 24.99 option where you got soup as well as dumplings (steamed/fried)/rice cakes/​lettuce/​grilled vegetables/​kimchi cake. If you had a table of 4 or more, you had the option of jap chae as well.
DON’T GO FOR THE $ 24.99 option. SO not worth it. The soup was SO disgustingly salty, I thought I was going to suffer from dehydration. When we told her to remake it, the woman brought back an equally salty soup.
They also pile a bunch of chicken for you because it’s the cheapest meat. Their intention is such that you’ll be so full that you won’t be able to order the other meats afterwards.
The $ 19.99 option provides you mostly with just the meats — I say just go for that if you’re even going to step foot in this restaurant.
2. Stingy on resources
I had accidentally touched raw meat with my chopsticks and asked for another pair. I pretty much had to get down on my knees and beg for another pair b/​c the man was so reluctant to give them to me. I finally told him I just dropped them on the floor and he finally gave me a new pair.
3. CRAZY Micromanagement
I could have sworn this man checked on how we cooked our meat every 5 minutes. The first few times, it was tolerable. After that, it became unbearable. He wouldn’t let us cook it at intense heat (to prevent meats from drying) and pretty much made us cook them at low heat, thus drying all our meats, making them taste even less desirable. He also kept shutting our gas off.
His constant micromanagement caused serious indigestion. And if that was his strategy in getting his guests to eat less, he won.
Oh, and because I didn’t want to chew the meat around the bones of the kalbi, my boyfriend & I were given some serious hell about how we’re wasting food. I then flat out told him that I recently had oral surgery, at which point, he just kind of avoided any sort of eye contact and kept saying the same thing about how I should eat the meat around the bones. I then told him AGAIN that I couldn’t do that. And he just finally left.
4. Meat quality & marinating
I don’t know where they get their meat but someone needs to investigate these farms because the meat was as tough as leather. The meats also lacked any flavour, especially the steak.
**OVERALL**
I agree with other Unilocalers here. HORRIBLE customer service and seriously STINGY!!! I don’t understand why these Louis Vuitton owning bosses (look at their LV bags at the back of the shop) would be SO stingy and offer an AYCE service AND be so rude at the same time.
Word of advice to these owners: save the micromanaging for your own spawn, forget the AYCE service if you’re going to be so cheap, and oh, read your reviews because in case you’re wondering why you’re so empty, it’s because you’re epically rude.

Why is this place still even open? If you’re even thinking about going here, DONT. If you’re there right now, RUN. It’s even more embarrassing that its run by Korean people and in Korea Town.

Judging by the buffet-​loving crowd on a weeknight, Bryan’s BBQ Real Korean seemed like it was worth a try.
This place is CASH ONLY. There’s a minimum of 2 BBQ orders to use the grill-​your-​own BBQ, so no table BBQ for 1 person only.
Their BBQ buffet options include side dishes like seafood pancake, kimchi pancake, soybean tofu soup or dumplings. There’s a strict «no waste» policy for buffet customers, they will weigh your leftovers and charge you accordingly. Or if buffet’s not your thing, you can order individual entrées.
I tried the LA Kalbi to grill at the table. Though it was not the world’s best Kalbi, it was still tasty. The final redeeming quality of this restaurant was the friendly and attentive service.

One server on Sunday night is a bad idea, who is really nice and doing his best.
Mean owner who insisted on us paying more tips, in addition to yelling at the poor server. Outright robbery.
Cash only. It’s 2015.
Let alone the strict rules you have to follow for the «buffet» price you pay.
Amazing how greed can drive people to such indecency.

The food is coming fast (because u have to cook it urself) however, there’s one waiter who is severing the whole restaurant.

For some reason Bryan’s will not serve a single person the AYCE BBQ menu.
Server is nice, but the fact I can’t eat alone in peace makes this a 2 star for me.

CLEARLY none of these one star reviewers have been to Korea. The ‘AYCE’ options may be slightly deceptive, but just ask questions. Can you not ask questions? I’m asking questions right now. It’s easy.
Owner Bryan is a bit of a dick, but his demeanour is ‘grumpy uncle’ at worst. He warrants a half star off tops.
Solid KBBQ if you’re not a moron.

The worst Korean BBQ I ever had. The All-​You-​Can-​Eat option is really really a bad choice, for that it does not have the varieties, and they would easily run out of your appetite. In addition, no real waitor seems to present there, instead just the owner and an old lady.

Didn’t like it. The whole place is dripping in grease burners are covered with caked on food. Forks and knives covered in caked on food. Utensils were not consistant. The water they brought to our table in an old scratched up container from the dollar store with chipped plastic and again a nasty film all over the rim. We gave them some cash for trying, but left without eating. Will never step foot in there again.

We came here after not wanting to get super expensive food at the Korean Village restaurant. I have a mixed feeling about this place.
The good: The service was good. Our male server was friendly and he kept up with our orders. Explained everything nicely to us because the bbq all-​you-​can-​eat style is quite different at this place compared to the average all-​you-​can-​eat. We didn’t find this style a huge problem as other Unilocalers did, but it was probably because we got the $ 24.99 instead of $ 18.99 set. The kimchi pancake and soon-​tofu was above average out of everything else.
The bad: The meat were just bad. They weren’t very marinated. Even mixed with the vegetables, sauce, and garlic, it still tasted plain. The only good tasting meat were the chickens that we ordered. The steak and pork belly were very plain. Steak was also terribly hard to eat considering how hard and tasteless it is. It was like chewing on something weird.
Another bad thing i want to mention is the way the bill is set up: they include their own tip in the bill. Personally, I just find that terribly rude. Its almost like they expect not to be tipped from their service (which weren’t bad for us). Or they didn’t get tipped countless other times and needed people to actually tip for the servers… Either way, its rude.
Probably wouldn’t come back here again. The bad outweighs the good. Think there are better AYCE bbq with a similar price with better food.
Tips:
— Ask about the difference between the two types of AYCE korean BBQ
— The kimchi pancake is very filling!
— Tips are included in your final bill

Absolutely hate this place！too many rules！it seems like eat in a prison！One of the female waiters is so so rude… this is the 【first time】 and 【last time】 to eat in this BBQ restaurant！

Must avoid. As soon as we walked in, we regretted it. No server was on site. Just the owner and the kitchen lady. There was no customers, but a table was full of dirty dishes and wasn’t cleared until we were done. We ordered short ribs, but the owner said they weren’t fresh today. That should have been the sign to get the hell out of there, but we were hungry… Meats were cut too thick, resulting in longer cooking time. When we ordered a second round, the owner seemed annoyed and kept emphasizing he would have to charge us if we didn’t eat everything.
All in all, horrible dining experience. Avoid at all cost.
This place definitely does not provide «solid KBBQ».

So my friend just moved in from Vancouver 2 weeks ago. I wanted to show him around Toronto and bring him to a bunch of restaurants.
I have to admit that walking by Bryan’s BBQ had me a tad worried at first. It was around 8pm at night and the place looked empty and small. We almost passed the place but something inside me just decided to give it a go. Good thing too because I would have missed out on some great food!
I do confess that at first, ordering was confusing, but the guy that was working there explained how everything worked in their restaurant. It wasn’t like other table top korean bbq places in Toronto where you point at different things in the menu and they bring everything out. Here, you choose 3 main things from their list… and trust me, it was WAY more than enough.
My faves were the bulgogi and the sliced ribs. They were marinated amazingly!
Oh, at the end of the meal, we were so amazed and full that we forgot a bag with our groceries in it: P Came back 4 days later and they were kind enough to hold it for us!
Will definitely recommend the place and will obviously be coming back here again!

A group of us went to eat at Bryan’s BBQ after we discovered Joon’s Restaurant was closed every second and fourth Tuesdays. There are a ton of Korean restaurants in the Bloor and Christie area but Bryan’s happened to be across the street and they had an all you can eat barbeque so we decided to give it a try.
It’s been a while since I’ve had All-​You-​Can-​Eat (AYCE) and when I do it’s normally Japanese, which tends to be pretty good with a wide of variety of food to choose from. However, we left Bryan’s BBQ less than satisfied.
There are two options if you decide to have AYCE. Special #1 is available at $ 18.99 and with this combo you get a random assortment of meats that comprises of beef, chicken and pork. At least we know we’re not getting some random meat dish. The other option, Special #2 gives you more of a flexibility in that you can choose which meats to BBQ.
We went with Special #1, as we were not picky with what we wanted and really, how can it go wrong — we all enjoy different types of meat and don’t mind surprises. However, we spoke a little too soon… eating AYCE at Bryan’s BBQ had a lot of restrictions and limitations. We felt like we were 5-​years old all over again except replace the vegetables with the meat!
Here are some rules to their AYCE:
1. The restaurant dictates the order of the meat you are serviced, which is fine because we knew that ahead of time.
2. You cannot order the same meat that you just had, meaning you can’t order beef again if you just had beef. You have to order the exact order of pork, chicken and then beef. If you only want beef after the first round of order, you would have to eat pork and chicken before the second helpings of beef.
3. Each meat plate is huge in portion — we started off with pork and chicken and we were told that we had to finish all the pork and chicken before the beef dish would come out. Saying that the plate of chicken was massive is probably an understatement and there was probably enough to feed at least 10 people.
We wanted the beef so we had no other option but to finish the chicken and pork. When we finally finished everything, the beef was brought out. According to the waitress, if the raw beef meats are left untouched & uncooked, we won’t be charged extra… good to know…
It seems that this is the restaurant’s antic to fill up diners with the chicken and pork so they don’t eat as much beef… It certainly worked because we were unable to eat it all. The beef itself, however was quite bland and tough so wasn’t even really worth consuming all that chicken and pork for.
We were pretty surprised that the restaurant was full on a random Tuesday night but there is only one girl working the entire restaurant. Her service wasn’t bad but she didn’t have the time to attend to each table when they had requests.
I will not return to Bryan’s BBQ for their All-​You-​Can-​Eat in the future. They also offer an a la carte menu but as we didn’t order from that menu, I cannot comment on the quality of those food items.

It was freezing night when we were walking along Christie and Bathurst and we don’t have idea where else to eat. My phone was depleted and never had the chance to check it on Unilocal.So we were just choosing random restaurant and ended up here when we saw it was an all-​you-​can eat korean grill-​like restaurant.
It wasn’t a bad looking place in a Korea town. Place was decent, well lit and waitress was nice. Unfortunately, this is not the best place if you feel like having a korean bbq! The meat were not that fresh, the pork had lots of fats, the chicken didn’t look good and the beef was plain and no marinate! The pork and chicken were not marinated well and the beef wasn’t marinated at all. The place is actually pricy. Next time, I will just stick to Korean grill restaurant.

The worst place to go for Korean BBQ ever!
When I get there for all you can eat bbq, man who looked like the owner of the restaurant kept turning off the grill. He told me it is difficult to clean the grill when meats are burnt, but THE MEAT WAS NOT FULLY COOKED YET!!! Did he want me to get food poisoned or what??? I asked other waitress to turn the grill on, and she did, and the owner came back and TURNED IT OFF AGAIN! I am not mentioning how RUDE he is! He is rude to customers, and I saw he was yelling and shouting to poor waitresses. Wow. what a place…
I am never ever going back to that place again.
I recommend some other bbq place. This is the last one I am going for bbq.

Very confusing in ordering — but this place isn’t as bad as some of the reviews have made it out to be. The food is good, the time is fun. The ordering is a little too complex for an all you can eat.

My friend and I walked it craving a korean bbq. First it smelled like fish inside an there were plates on the table next to us, probably the staff’s dinner. They could have taken it away right away…
The menu is very confusing as to what you can and mostly what you can’t have. We took the $ 25 AYCE special because the special #1 didn’t include appetizers and other stuff.
So you can order 3 types of meat (for the two people), not 3 types each and small portions no no! Same you can pick one appetizer for 2.
Food came in a very random order. One soup and then oh a bit of meat, after 20min here is the rice (we asked for it).
We had 3 huge piles of meat. Meat was marinated and good but not thinly chopped at all. The opposite. I don’t know if it’s how it’s supposed to be for korean bbq but I did not like that.
The only veggie we had was lettuce and there were no sauces. Makes it even harder to finish all that meat…
I feel like it’s AYCE but they just try to stuff you with meat. I would like smaller portions of meat but a wider variety.
As for the taste of the food itself, it was ok i guess.
Server was nice at least.
My biggest issue with this place is that it looks very unsanitary. Will not come back.
Also, they only take cash. There is an ATM in the restaurant with a $ 1.50 fee