Nara Korean Cuisine

Every bite warrants an aggressive “MMMM”. The dining room is closed, which is not advertised on Google. But that led to an opportunity to check out the Columbus park of roses, which was a beautiful place to devour this scrumptious meal of bibimbap, kimbap, bean paste stew, and kimchi pancake. This restaurant is inside a grocery store, you order at the cash register in front. You are given a ticket to take back to the kitchen. For us, it was a 10-15 minute wait.

Delicious delicious delicious gimbap!! Dining room is closed. It’s inside the market! $10 minimum on card. So convenient to grab market things and a quick meal.

It was alright that food was pretty bad, took to long for getting the food 40 minutes for something that wasn’t that hot

really really good food and good price! Authentic korean food, one of the best Korean food in town!

This is a small Korean restaurant (cannot say it is a food court, although they claimed it) inside Korean grocery store. They serve variety authentic Korean food at reasonable price. If you like to know what the taste like home cooked meals in South Korea, this is the restaurant you can experience. One of the chefs reminds me like my mother and she does everything (she makes side dishes to serve and sell). That being said, their dishes' taste can be a bit different depending when and how she cook (she does not measure nor has a fixed recipe for each dish). I watched her cook and that is how most Korean mothers would cook. The restaurant itself, it is like a fast food and self-service restaurant. Although Korean grocery store opens on Wednesday, they close the restaurant on every Wednesday (two chefs still works on Wednesday to prepare side dishes though). Here are tips: - Parking: plenty - Service: self-service (fast food restaurant style) - bathroom: shared with Korean grocery store - Ambiance: This is far from a fancy restaurant and does not offer Korean BBQ on the table

Ordered fish soup and requested not spicy as my 95yr old mother can't eat spicy. The soup is done and I hear the younger woman behind the counter tell the older woman (cooking the food) that I wanted it not spicy. The older woman instead of remaking it, tries to play it off and pack my order. Unbeknownst to them, I speak Korean and understood everything they were saying to each other. In Korean, I tell her " I requested NOT spicy!" Then the older woman tries to convince me that this soup doesn't taste good not spicy. What in the world? A customer requests to make the soup not spicy and instead of apologizing for the error and offering to remake it, you try to trick me and pack it anyway? Then to make matters worse, after being caught, you try to convince me that the soup is better spicy? in the end, the cook re-made the soup. However, non-Korean speaking people, watch out! Absolutely do not recommend this place! If you go, make sure you bring someone that speaks Korean!

This is my husband and I’s favorite Korean place to visit when we are in Columbus. This place shows that Korean food does not need to be expensive to be delicious. It’s a small cafeteria style restaurant in the back of Arirang Oriental Market. We got so much food and only paid around $20. We ordered Budae-jjigae and Kimbap. It comes with side dishes. Normally this stew is expensive in other restaurants, but here it’s less that $12! They have water available, but we like to also buy drinks inside the market. After we eat, we like to go shopping around the market.

Ordered the cold noodles and the bulgogi (I'm fat). Both were delicious. Definitely plan on going back and dining in next time.