Thursday, April 1, 2010

Gyu Kaku - New York City





So last weekend, I went (yet again) to another birthday celebration. Happy birthday to Jason Wu + congrats on your new job! I was super tired already from a long day of work, but I wanted to go out with them all to celebrate. They picked 'Gyu Kaku' because we couldn't make reservations at 'Ninja' (a restaurant where NINJAS SERVE YOU!! which by the way, I'm going in late April, so be prepared for an entry on that cool place- soo stoked to go there!!!) Anyway. I got LOST trying to find this place. Partially I was impatient since it was pretty cold that night, I was carrying a lot of camera equipment and I was feeling extremely sick- but yeah- googlemap on my blackberry couldn't even take me to the right place- or perhaps I was just delirious- but be warned!

Anyway, I finally got there, and we were seated. The waitress was really nice, pretty, patient with us- since this was a surprise dinner and Jay had no idea we were coming, and it took Alice awhile to lure him into the restaurant. The atmosphere is nice, there is a small bar area at the front of the restaurant incase you're waiting for a table. The place is overall a quiet, dark and warm place.



The food served there is basically an asian fusion of Korean BBQ and Japanese food- but extremely overpriced. I'm sorry to say that the food they served was NOT at ALL worth the money they tried to steal from your wallets. I mean, 5 uncooked pieces of Kalbi was $13, and a bowl of Unagi (eel) bibimbap was $10- but it had like 2 small pieces of ACTUAL eel in it. I guess what I'm saying is that if you're going to eat some amazing Korean bbq-like food, you're better off hitting up 33rd street and k-town... for some REAL DEAL MEALS. (haha, I just made that up and it totally works!) and if you want some authentic tasty japanese grub, just hop around the corner to the other small restaurant around st marks place.


For dessert people ordered the "Green Tea Mille Crepes" (image left) and the "Dorayaki Ice Cream"(image right) The crepes were amazing. The green tea cream in between each layer of a crepe was perfect, sweet, smooth and salty-all at the same time. The vanilla ice cream that came with it definitely made it a perfect hit. That was my favorite thing at this restaurant- if I were to ever come here again, I would just get dessert. The Dorayaki was pretty cool too. They basically give you red bean ice cream, with REAL red bean on the side and 2 little pancakes. You toast the pancake (on the grill) then you layer the ice cream and red bean on top and make a little pancake smore thing out of it. It tastes amazing too!

So overall, what is this place like?
It's a great place to eat dessert. That's all. :)

Taste: 2/5
Atmosphere: 3/5
Cost: $20-30

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