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Address:227 High Holborn, London WC1V 7DA
Tel:020 7430 9006
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Website:Visit Asadal website
Price: £41.00Wine: £14.00Champagne: £29.50
Opening Hours:Mon-Sat 12N-3pm 6-11pm Sun 6-11pm

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You might not guess it from the dingy entrance next to Holborn station, but Asadal is named after a mythical land in Korean folklore. It all makes a bit more sense once you descend the stairs to find a magical dining room with atmospheric lighting & romantic wooden partitions. The reasonably priced lunchtime menus, offering Korean staples such as chilli-rich squid or seafood noodles, pull in a suited crowd of lawyers & local office workers, but come evening the seductive space puts on its glad rags & the menu moves up a notch. Marinated beef ribs or salty-sweet bulgogi are cooked at the tables on mini hotplates, while vegetable bibimbab (layers of brown rice, dried dates, chestnuts, ginseng & ginkgo nuts) arrives in a sizzling stone pot. Service is politely attentive, adding to the sense of a capably run business.

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Reviews: 1

Foodlover ( 30s, london )

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.

June 2009
Overall:1
Food and Drink:1
Service:1
Atmosphere:2
Value for Money:1
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