Asadal

I work in Lincoln's Inn Fields and often bemoan the lack of restaurants for lunch nearby. It's all chains like Strada and Cafe Rouge. Asadal is a real find for lunch or dinner and is excellent value.

The food is really tasty (try the Kan Poong Gi Bab; marinated fried crispy chicken. Not fatty or covered in thick nasty batter, just really light and crispy. Amazing) and the lunch deal includes a bowl of miso soup and a slice of melon for dessert. Excellent value, particularly when most of the lunch dishes cost about £8. The Korean root tea is also really good – similar to ginger tea but with a slight hint of spice.

The Korean barbecue menu for dinner is also excellent value and great dining theatre; the tables have a gas barbecue recessed in the table and after you've gorged on 3 rounds of starters a chef comes to your table with marinated meat/fish/similar, as well as lots of vegetables, sauces, rice etc and cooks it in front of you. Great fun and the smell of barbecuing food is really appetising.

Service is prompt and discrete.

Do not come here.

I used to love this place, recommended it to friends and even organised a work function here, but this place has become bad and is a dissappointment on all fronts:

• the worst service you will find
• salty food
• lukewarm miso soup
• overpriced menu
• small portions
  

No time to look at the menu.
They cleared plates from around us, brang out a quarter of orange (meant for dessert) and gave us the bill – ALL WHILE WE WERE EATING!!. The next insult was they interrupted my partner while he was on the phone to tell us the restaurant was closed and we had to leave NOW. They gave no prior warning.

We arrived for lunch at 2pm, and finished in 1 hour. The thing is, there are no signs to say opening hours on the door and when we arrived the waiter who seated us did not warn us that they were going to close or that it may be rushed at any point.

This was the worst experience. Do not come here. You deserve to be treated better.