Old Village Korean Restaurant

11/23/09

Charcol BBQ ftw

by jcmh86 at Citysearch

Unique charcol grill to bring out the meat flavor.

All the meat there is fresh!

The servers are awesome!

So much variety in the side dishes!

The cold noodles are really good too.

Reminds me of LA style Korean BBQ Restaurants.

As authentic as it gets.

• Pros: Everything
• Cons: Nothing

06/29/09

Worst Korean Food and Service

by ECARU at Citysearch

Second time going there. First time food was horrible and service was non-existent. Second time we ordered an octopus stew and it was so salty and inedible that even the waitress admitted but wouldn't take it off the bill. I'm going to stop going to Korean restaurants. It's a cultural and attitude problem with doing any business with them.

• Pros: Nothing
• Cons: No Service and Lousy Food and Attitude

01/20/08

Good food, NONEXISTENT SERVICE!

by jan3do3 at Citysearch

Good tasting food. No service at all! We left after an hour and a half, without finishing our meal because no one would service our table. The flame on our grill went out and we couldn't finish cooking our food. Then the waiter argued with us because we didn't want to pay for the uncooked food. I would not recommend this place to anyone...

• Pros: Good tasting food
• Cons: Service

09/04/07

Great Spicy Cold Noodles

by huskyduck at Citysearch

Stick to what OTKV does best which is spicy cold noodles. The banchan is merely average and they only offer about 6 different small plates which is below the norm for most Korean restaurants. Tofu stew and barbeque are average or above average. You can get better tofu stew at Hosoonyi and better barbeque across the street at Hae Nam Galbi. Their Pae Jun (Korean seafood pancake) is pretty good and can hold it's own with other places. However, if you are in the mood for a large bowl of spicy cold noodles, Old Town does this traditional Korean dish the best in the area. The decor is much improved after new ownership with new high quality flat screen TV's.

• Pros: Spicy Cold Noodles, easy parking, always open.
• Cons: Below average banchan and barbeque.

06/06/07

Worst Korean restaurant ever & not worth your $$ or least my $$

by tigger_rock at Citysearch

I saw the review on this restaurant on Korean newspaper and made an addition trip out there from Lake Stevens. Me & my husband went there on Sunday around lunch time. It was pretty busy but we were willing to wait for a good food. Well.... Service was bad (waiting time & had to wave my hand at them to get an attention), Panchan(side dishes) were low qualities and above all Kimchi was horriable (my mom always told me to try Kimchi first. If Kimchi doesn't taste good, more likely the food isn't good. And I really hate to say this but my mom was sooo RIGHT!!). We ordered two different Kalbi which costed us little over $55. Kalbi was pretty bad. No flavor & too fatty... Looks like they used low quality meat. I was so upset the fact the review was so wrong, food was horrible (I could make it better) and felt I just wasted my money on bad food. On the way home my husband had to stopped by a Korean Restaurant name "New Seoul" on HWY 99 to fullfill my satisfaction to have second Korean meal. Old Village might be good on other Korean food but I won't go back to even give them another chance...

• Pros: None...
• Cons: bad service, bad food, bad price