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Korean Food

dravnx

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I'm going to the de Young museum this Sunday and have a hankering for Korean food. Any recommendations, hopefully convenient to the museum or at least somewhat north of there so we can stop on the way home to Santa Rosa.
 
there's a number of good korean restaurants in the inner richmond. mugaboka is the closest to the museum. check out online reviews and the menus and hours(!) and pick one, or see if someone more expert chimes in here.
 
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Thanx, review wise and location give Mugaboka a win unless something else pops up.
 
https://brothersrestaurantsf.business.site/?utm_source=gmb&utm_medium=referral

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Mugaboka is good, though it's been years since I've been there. I once tried to order some strange an unfamliare sounding dish and they said I didn't want that... maybe if I'd pronounced it right they'd have let me order it; they were probably right!

Find parking in the Richmond (or museum garage), go to the museum, walk to the restaurant; check out JFK drive; check out Entwined (JFK drive just east of the conservatory) after dark.
 
mbsv said:
Mugaboka is good, though it's been years since I've been there. I once tried to order some strange an unfamliare sounding dish and they said I didn't want that... maybe if I'd pronounced it right they'd have let me order it; they were probably right!

Find parking in the Richmond (or museum garage), go to the museum, walk to the restaurant; check out JFK drive; check out Entwined (JFK drive just east of the conservatory) after dark.
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Sounds like a great dinner plan but our guest is in her 80's and mobility challenged so walking is probably not going to happen. Thanks for the recommendation.
 
HappyHighwayman said:
Toyose

3814 Noriega St San Francisco, CA 94122
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I've been lurking on BARF for a while now and this post got me to join. This is my ex-coworker's restaurant. He was grinding through an accounting job through busy seasons, covid and all, while managing the place with his wife late nights. I haven't made it in yet, but it looks really good.
 
mitanokaseifu said:
I've been lurking on BARF for a while now and this post got me to join. This is my ex-coworker's restaurant. He was grinding through an accounting job through busy seasons, covid and all, while managing the place with his wife late nights. I haven't made it in yet, but it looks really good.
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My memory is not only the food good but they treated us very very well.
 
WIth mobility challenges... well I'll update my suggestion:

* If she can walk a few miles, slowly, do the walk anyway but in a different order--check out entwined, walk to restaurant, then send someone to get the car and pick the rest up.

Alternately....
* Parking in the residential neighborhoods is a PITA. The restaurants on Geary may have easier parking than on Balboa.
* If you have a disabled placard, park in the lot behind the bandshell. May be free (this is new as of last year). If not, pay the extortionate rates to park in the garage.
* Want to look at JFK? You can take the free shuttle bus to, say, Peacock meadow, get off, hop on it going back. Though it's not as interesting as walking.
 
DUH

dravnx said:
de Young .
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dravnx said:
Korean food.
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MANNA
there is no other choice..

however. it is small, crowded, cheap, and there might be a line. yeah well because it's that good and cheap. Young and young-sh audience plus many real Koreans
It's literally walking distance.
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The other famous one is Han Il Kwan, even more authentic...down to some gruff service. (depending on who's ordering. if you know what I mean)

HappyHighwayman said:
Toyose
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mitanokaseifu said:
I've been lurking on BARF for a while now and this post got me to join. This is ...
I haven't made it in yet, but it looks really good.
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Haven't been. So no idea.
This is of course hilariously much farther than.. "the de Young".
 
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AbsolutEnduser said:
DUH






MANNA
there is no other choice..

however. it is small, crowded, cheap, and there might be a line. yeah well because it's that good and cheap. Young and young-sh audience plus many real Koreans
It's literally walking distance.
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The other famous one is Han Il Kwan, even more authentic...down to some gruff service. (depending on who's ordering. if you know what I mean)





Haven't been. So no idea.
This is of course hilariously much farther than.. "the de Young".
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Right, Toyose is supposedly way out in the surfing district in a residential garage somehow.
 
Thanks for all the suggestions. I'll submit them to the planning committee. Wherever we go, it'll be a drop the oldster off at the front door and then go find parking.
 
mitanokaseifu said:
I've been lurking on BARF for a while now and this post got me to join. This is my ex-coworker's restaurant. He was grinding through an accounting job through busy seasons, covid and all, while managing the place with his wife late nights. I haven't made it in yet, but it looks really good.
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Welcome to BARF! :Barf

I am going to have to cast another vote for Brothers.
 
Okay. I like Brothers. I like the food. I like service. I like how the poor ventilation makes your clothes smell like meat for days.

But I am not Korean. I have no idea what good Korean food is. I'm not qualified to recommend a "good" Korean restaurant. Is anybody of Korean ancestry, or is in some other way qualified to judge Korean food? Maybe someone who lived in Korea? Or grew up around Koreans?
 
AdamFiveFive said:
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But I am not Korean. I have no idea what good Korean food is. I'm not qualified to recommend a "good" Korean restaurant. Is anybody of Korean ancestry, or is in some other way qualified to judge Korean food? Maybe someone who lived in Korea? Or grew up around Koreans?
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+1

When I read a yelp review that reads “its the most authentic Feijoada”… What is that yelper’s qualifications?

Paging R6btch :love
 
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AdamFiveFive said:
Okay. I like Brothers. I like the food. I like service. I like how the poor ventilation makes your clothes smell like meat for days.

But I am not Korean. I have no idea what good Korean food is. I'm not qualified to recommend a "good" Korean restaurant. Is anybody of Korean ancestry, or is in some other way qualified to judge Korean food? Maybe someone who lived in Korea? Or grew up around Koreans?
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:rolleyes

One doesn't have to be a particular ethnicity to understand and appreciate that ethnicity's cuisine.
 
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