Jul
06
Kokuryo - 2 people, 2 courses, Drinks, £18
Who was there:
- Boydie
- Briggs
1138 Argyle Street
Glasgow G3 8TD
Telephone 0141-334 5566
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Who was there:
1138 Argyle Street
Glasgow G3 8TD
Telephone 0141-334 5566
Lunch at ‘the Korean’ as its known is an institution and central part of my healthy eating lifestyle.
posted on July 6th, 2007 at 1:41 pm - #5Good food at a cheap price : £5.60 for main course, miso soup and some Korean style picked things.
Miso soup did strike me as a little lacking in flavour today - pickles more than made up for this with the small pieces of fish with picked runner beans being immense - as alwaysMain course of ‘Jap Tang Bab’ : No 15 on the lunch menu is fantastic: got extra spicy version. Seafood, spice, flavour rice and vegetables. Great squid, sweet baby clams and a huge prawn made for good eating.
Shall have to return on Monday for something new - or may even be adventurous and have dinner.
Some people say the way to a man’s heart is via his stomach. The owner of Kokuryo Restaurant in Finniestoun certainly understands this and has created probably the best place to lunch in Glasgow when it comes to diverse food.
posted on July 6th, 2007 at 2:13 pm - #6We go to Kokuryo at least once a week, they have a two course lunch menu consisting of a starter of miso soup and some finger food and then a main course from a huge selection. As always I had Kimchi Jji Gae (Hot Pot) it;s a sort of spicy soup with pork and tofu. I probably go to Kokuryo abit to much, but we’re always guaranteed good food at a resonable price. And it’s just along from the office. Oh yeah and I don’t even need to order anymore when we go i they just get us the food we always have, sounds weird but it’s only lunch.
Thanks for calling in on my website. As you saw, I agree absolutely with your assessment of Kokuryo. Sadly I’m not able to eat there very often as I don’t live in the city, but any excuse to go there is a good one.
posted on July 7th, 2007 at 7:20 am - #8i’m a big korean food fan, i eat it almost everyday. unfortunately kokuryo is not really representative of good korean food, they sell japanese sushi, not able to russle up some good kimbap it seems. (they have a western sushi chef for the love of…) most importantly their kimchi is poor, and they only have one type! galbi jjam is dry as the bones under the meat, and they put far too much gochojang in almost everything. stay away from the dolsotbibimbap, it will put you off a wonderfully interesting dish for the rest of your life. it was certainly not a very korean atmosphere either, just full of druken glaswegians who think wine is a natural accompanisment to korean food, yukkk! drink soju, at least they have soju
posted on May 21st, 2008 at 7:30 pm - #768@Martin - cheers for the heads up. Do you know of any other Korean restaurants we could visit in Glasgow? If you do I’d be really interested in going along and giving it a try.
posted on June 2nd, 2008 at 3:53 pm - #775hi, i’m afraid to say that there are no other korean restaurants in scotland, so technically it is the best one we have! i could recommend some really good ones in london that my girlfriend sourced out. my favourite one in london has korean karaoke. if you want korean sojo, they sell it at seewoo for £3 or £4 per bottle; at Kokuryo, they sell it for £7 or £8. I’m withdrawing my criticism of the western sushi chef though, that wasn’t nice of me. It is just such a disappointment to be in this restaurant, to have a great enthusiasm for the food, and then to only be able to share it with Chinese or Westerners. Fair enough, there aren’t too many Koreans in Glasgow, but the ones that were there were seemingly too busy behind the front desk. The beauty of the London ones, apart from the far cheaper prices and far broader selection, is that I can try my Korean and they love to talk about their favourite Korean food, especially Sogogi Jangjorim. hehehe, I had the owner lady banging the window of her Chinatown based Korean restaurant as I left, to draw my attention to her waving goodbye, hehehe, that’s lovely, and thats the kind of warmth I like to share when I have a love of the food and when I express a keen interest in it. Kokuryo leaves you a little cold.
posted on June 20th, 2008 at 9:27 am - #789amendment, kokuryo sell sojo at £10.50 for a 375ml bottle, eeeek!!!
posted on June 23rd, 2008 at 9:22 am - #792