Bi Bim Bap is one of those cheap and cheerful joints in Soho where you can get a really good meal for 10 quid. The name of the restaurant stands for their main specialty dish - bibimbap which means mixed rice. This is the first time I've been to an all bibimbap restaurant that offers so many options and varieties to a standard staple korean dish. I ordered the spicy pork bibimbap and happy to slather it with chilli sauce in the ketchup like bottle. It's the perfect quick meal to have in the winter time as it's pipin' hot and spicy. I find that good authentic Korean food hard to come by in the UK so this place nearly brought a tear to my eye. read more

tasty and inexpensive! got the beef bulgogi bibimbap, and shared jap chae & tofu appetizers. the steamed tofu was fine, but not amazing, while the jap chae was quite tasty. the beef bulgogi was delish...and i even ordered it with brown rice (my attempt to be healthy). there was not a grain left. very clean & new looking, good for a quick, casual meal. service was also quite pleasant. i have to say, i was a bit skeptical about the food when i saw how 'chain-y' the place looked, but after eating there...i'd definitely go back. thumbs up. read more

Really nice place with amazing tasty food. The place is simple but the food is traditional and really tasty. The quality was really good and cheap. We really enjoyed it! read more

Bibimbap - Korean Near Me - London, XGL

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possibly the weirdest name for a restaurant i'd ever encountered....then was enlightened by the lovely staff that it's a traditional Korean dish, oh of course?!! bi offers a great range of healthy grub thats really tasty, it's also a great place to go if your vegetarian. This includes the signature dish which comes out still cooking in the hot stone bowls which lady stirs up for you, sadly they don't feed you as well however. the real treat of this place is that they take a polaroid of you after the meal, pin it to the wall and get you to sign it...how cute!! the place was lacking in atmosphere a bit but i'm guessing that's cos it was so new, you could still smell the paint! if your in soho a great place to check out for luncheon or dinner just make sure you get blue steel ready...say cheese now! read more

The bap itself is nourishing and wholesome though not very sophisticated, but the location is a bit gaudy, and the staff was a bit snotty.

Friendly staff, good beer and amazing Korean food. I long for another bebimbap--fried egg and all. Meals are served in roasting hot stone bowls which keep their contents warm and continue cooking it as you eat. And it's good value at £7 for a meal or so. Nice venue, too. read more

I LOVE THIS PLACE! i got there ten minutes before they opened but the lady was nice enough to let us in :) (some people are REALLY rude and don't even bother noticing you. that's when you know you should walk away, fyi). But yes, the interior was cute and small. After we were seated, we ordered our food. I orded the Dol Sot Bibimbop. AMAZING. the egg was actually visible! ahha the rice was really good as well as the vegetables that came along in the stone pot. The seafood bibimbop was also amazing. Their miso soup however does taste like any other miso soup. Their green tea however is a MUST TRY! Comes in a little teapot per order :) read more

Dang, that was disappointing. Fairly decent food in a charmingly quirky space, completely ruined by weird customer service. I can give Bi Bim Bap a little benefit of the doubt over the fact that I arrived really late to our small dinner party (was having too much fun at the Yelp Audio Lounge event--stunning sound and free gin, go figure) of five, and it was confusing to have one person order while everyone else was finishing up. What happened next, though, was even more stunning than the Audio Lounge stereos: Server: Are you finished? Friend: *with hands on bowl* I'd quite like to hold on to it, it's so warm! Server: *makes gesture to clear stone bowl* Friend: Oh, but may I keep it a little longer, please? It's just so nice to hold! Server: No. *takes stone bowl* Me: *jaw drops* Okay, so maybe there's a second benefit of the doubt in the fact that my friend has an abnormal fondness for cuddling heated crockery, but she was being charming and smiley about it, and the server was being humorless and rude. The restaurant wasn't even very busy at this time, so the theory that they needed the bowl to serve more bibimbap was out. Or so we thought. Some ten or so minutes later, four steaming bibimbaps appeared for my friends. Who had already eaten their bibimbaps (and had their stone bowls snatched back by force). After a brief moment of confusion, the bowls and servers stole away as quickly as they appeared, with someone muttering at us "we didn't cross the order off" by way of reluctant explanation. Mistakes are understandable, but somehow the interaction left us feeling really guilty that four perfectly good bibimbaps were being sent back to the kitchen because of us. Oh yes, and there was also this gem of an interaction: Friend: May we see the dessert menu? Server: No. We then figured out that they don't serve dessert, but what a response! To add insult to injury, there was no toilet paper in the ladies room (or the men's--I checked). There was an apologetic staffer who came back with a roll--but only after I asked for it. And the dol sot bibimbap was fine--but definitely not as memorable as the customer service. read more

Decent bi bim bap, but really could have served a bit more meat. I don't want to pay 9.45 pounds for a few strips of beef. Relatively cheap though, so this place makes a good bite if you're in the area and fancy a quick lunch. read more

Not worth the wait and food so hot when served it burnt our palates. Not the best introduction to Korean cuisine either. I'm sure the queues have improved as we went in the first week of its opening, so we felt a bit kettled like sheep. read more

First time trying bibimbap, and I really enjoyed it! I had the dol sot bibimbap, which is their classic. It comes with cucumber, daikon, bean sprouts, spinach, carrots, mooli, and a fried egg on top. It was tasty, healthy (I got brown rice for a slight extra charge), and cheap. My kind of food! I noticed some complaints in other reviews about small portion size, but I didn't find this was the case. I have a big appetite, and my bowl filled me up just fine. read more

The bibimbap is good. The price is decent 9$ for a bowl. Pour your own sauce. Not too much vegetable.

Priced at around £7-9 their Dolsot (meaning 'hot stone bowl' in Korean) Bibimbap is undoubtedly great value for the money. If you need to quickly fill of your tummy before heading to one of the neighbouring clubs/pubs/bars, this is definitely a place you should pop in to. The Bibimbap comes along with Gochujang and Doenjang sauces with the former being made from red chili peppers and the later being white bean. You can make your Bibimbap spicier by adding Gochujang. The Korean Hite beer is also worth trying. The servers were neither very attentive nor friendly on a busy Saturday evening but it didn't bother much. read more

I have been to this place quite a few times now and I have not been dissapointed yet. The place is great located in soho and the interier is cool , funky and fresh. To add to the cool factor you can have a polaroid taken with your friends and stick it on the wall that is full of pictures. I am a big fan of the raw beef bibimbap dish and take it every time. the spicy rice cake are amazingly tasty and the miso soup is great aswell. Service is top. Everyone is friendly. Prices are great. And portions are enough to fill you up. Can't wait to go again. read more

I would give Bi Bim Bap a 5 star rating because the restaurant, food and service were all fabulous, however as I've never had Korean food before, perhaps it is unfair to award the very best score possible... Anyway, I had a really great evening out with friends here not that long ago and really enjoyed myself. I wasn't so keen about sitting downstairs :( but the food more than made up for it! A plentiful serving of hearty good food that doesn't cost a fortune FTW. I enjoyed the sizzling hot stone bowl, the soft rice and veg, mixing everything together and adding the sauce, it was fun and tasty. In fact I liked it so much I've been recommending it to everyone and going back again this week (and maybe again next week). read more

It looks like good reviews from English or residents in London?? But it was very disappointing food, price and service for me as a American. Plum wine is way too expensive (18 £) , 3 starters - jab chae, tofu and sea food pancake - were in small tiny dishes, not interesting flavor in bibimbaps-nutritious, salmon and beef. No side dishes at all like kimchi and charged for a fried egg. It was a busy day but Service was not fast or nice.Oh my! read more

Great place for a post work catch up with friends. Great dishes at reasonable prices and lovely little spot to while away the evening. Especially nice beers! read more

My friends and I came here looking for something with plenty of veggies, so a bibimbap was perfect. We ordered a spicy pork one and a beef one. The veggies were quite tasty, but the meat itself were rough and overcooked. read more

One of the worst dinning experience: terrible service. First I was asked to wait until my friend arrived to get seated, because that was the "rule" but then I saw many people were seating there alone waiting... after I waited half an hour I thought maybe my friend was downstairs already and I maybe could just check, then the waiter said No, "because no one is there"... after another 10 min, my friend come up from downstairs ! Because there were no signal there... can't believe this, this horrible restaurant can survive in London... The food is so so .. more like Korean fast food.. anyway won't be there again ... read more

The bibimbap is almost as delicious as what I had in Korea and reasonably priced considering it's London and not Seoul. There's a variety of dishes to choose from. You go away feeling full and satisfied but it's healthy food so you don't feel bad about cleaning your plate - lots of yummy veggies. The staff is friendly and the service is quick. There are lots of photos on the walls and k-pop in the background. I always enjoy a dinner here! read more

The food is mediocre. I ordered Bulgogi and the meat was dry and had little flavor. I was really excited to try the restaurant out since the reviews were great and I love Korean food. I would not come back. The service was also pretty bad. read more

I've wanted to go to this place for ages. We went on a Monday and as is everywhere in Soho it was busy. This unfussy and informal place is great-there's a long bench for single diners (why can't more restaurants stop treating single diners as lepers!). Walls are covered with photos taken of diners and posters of K Pop stars-all very Seoul. The food was fantastic. We had crispy chilli squid, panko breaded prawns and some kimchi to start (I understand it's almost an insult not to have the latter!). All were excellent, the squid was crispy as promised and spicy. For mains we all bowed down to king Bibimbap. This bowl of lovelyness comes in a red hot stone bowl. I've never eaten anything before that remains hot to the last mouthful. And what a mouthful-full of flavour, I could have eaten another straight after. Service was youthful and friendly. We washed it all down with Hite beer. What are you waiting for? read more

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Price: £ (£8 for one bowl of bibimbap) Portion: 4/5 (one bowl easily feeds two people with an appetizer and some sides) Friendliness: 2/5 Taste: 2/5 Convenience: 4/5 I remembered going to this place A LOT when I lived in London before, so I brought my man here for a recent visit to the city and I was not as impressed as I used to be. Portions are good, but bulgogi meat was dry and I missed having free banchan (side dishes like kim chee and other veggies or noodles). We did order kimchee for an extra quid and a half, and the bibimbap is cheap enough so that the whole meal is still relatively inexpensive, but I probably would not come back. It is conveniently located in Soho, so it could be a good choice for a quick bite before a show or after shopping, but I wouldn't go out of my way to return. TIPS: - The line can be long, but it doesn't take long to be seated. - Arrive before 7:30 pm to avoid a crazy line. - Share a bibimbap bowl and try appetizers to get more flavor. read more

so delicious bi bim bap there, the best i have ever eat! my salad bi bim bap was so tasty: much veggies (love) and this holy marinated chicken (miss it) the guy seemed to be very annoyed when i asked whether he could explain what bi bim bap would be last but not least the waitress forced us to go immediately after we had paid, that was not very charming. okay new guests came in but i prefer to sit and relax after dining a bit. all in all i just don like the service that much. read more

As I walked around London today, I knew I wanted something different to eat and this place hit the spot. I am a Korean American with access to a variety of Asian food in Southern California so I was a bit skeptical at first; however, after my first bite, I knew I made the right decision. I thoroughly enoyed every bite of the beef bibimbap. I ordered it with a raw egg and everything cooked within seconds in their hot pot. If you're in the mood for something different, put this place at the top of your list. I gave it 4 stars because nothing is better than my grandma's home cooking :) read more

Bibimbap - Fillet Beef Bibimbap - Korean Near Me - London, XGL

As we were leaving our hotel in Edinburgh, the doorman's parting words were, "You're going to London? You HAVE to eat at Bibimbap on Greek Street!" We decided to give it a shot (it happened to be convenient also). We arrived, and there was a bit of a wait. We were seated in the downstairs section (a bit of a hole in the wall, but quieter). I ordered the Beef (bulgogi) Bi Bim Bap (with egg), which came so quickly, I was sure we got someone else's food. In reality, I'm guessing that most of the ingredients were ready to be assembled. Anyway, the food was delicious and the portion large. I ate more than I meant to because I wanted "just one more bite." So good! We'll definitely go back! read more

I am in love. Its been a long time since I had Korean food. I was skeptical at first discovering a Korean restaurant in London, but Bi Bim Bap did not fail to satisfy. I got the bulgogi bibimbap with kimchi (special request) and it was mouth wateringly delicious. I cant say the kimchi was the best, but it sufficed. You must order the kimchi pancakes--they are to die for. Absolutely incredible and comparable to Korean dishes. read more

Stumbled upon this place while looking for a place to eat on a Friday night--eekk, in Soho ? ! not the best idea..alas, there was a short queue (5 min) and we were seated. The service was fast & good..and the food comes out fast so if it's a date --forget the small talk! Food was great, filling & affordable, I'll be back ! read more

Recently went again and found out their prices have gone up by about £1.50 all over - it's still cheap-ish I guess - but it's lost it's allure for me slightly now. Food still just as good... Can't complain. Definitely a nice healthy and warming option for the colder months. read more

Quick, tasty and quite cheap. Not the best bi bim bap available. Portions seemed small and were over-simplified. Try Koba or Ran for much better examples of this dish. read more

Delicious rice bowls. Stick with the white rice as you seem to get more compared to brown rice it seems! Beef bolgogi was excellent. Seafood pancake also good. Kimchi portion is tiny (be warned!). The only other negative was the place needs a bit more ventilation, especially if everyone orders the hot stone bowls. Arrive early on the weekends to avoid the queue. read more

I was trying to finish up my souvenir shopping in the area, but my protesting stomach told me to quickly drop by here. Now despite the name of this eatery, I didn't order the bibimbap. I ordered the spicy pork with rice and it was delicious. A bit disappointed that my meal didn't come with any banchans though. Nonetheless, very quick service (food came in what felt like 3 minutes), reasonably priced, and delicious food. Would recommend! Note: Cash Only! read more

A must go for those who fancy korean food! I had a beef bimbimbap it was nice but for me the meat is not enough. Recommend Teriyaki Chicken rice, big portion and delicious! and the korean fried chicken is yum!! We (5 of us) went there for a dinner but we queued for 40 mins. But a table for 2 takes much less time to get. read more

Very good food. Small place that quickly fills up during lunch. A lot of Asian customers so it must be good. ;) Cash is preferred. Korean chicken was really good. Bibimbap was pretty good too. read more

Really great food and speedy service. We had Kimichi pancakes (delicious) and Dol Sot Bi Bim Baps. Couldn't have asked for more.

Very good dol sot bibimbap! Quick service as well. They also have Hite beer and some other Korean foods on tap.

I went on a Thursday with a friend and we both ordered the bibimbap rice dishes in the hot stone bowl. We both absolutely loved our meal, and for 7.50 pounds it was a generous portion. The restaurant was a bit warm and the seating was really tight. It was hard to get in to the bench because the tables were so close together and there was no where really to put a jacket or purse. The meal came very quickly, so it's a good place to go if there's a free table and you don't have a lot of time. Overall we really enjoyed the restaurant/meal and plan to go back with friends. read more

Great food...sizzling hot and spicy. One of my most memorable meals in London. Simplicity.

I have registered with Yelp solely to write this review in the hope that I am contacted by the management of Bi Bim Bap and to let potential customers know as to how they may be treated if they're thinking of going here. I don't know if this is typical of the service at this restaurant, or a one off but I'm deeply confused as to what myself and my partner experienced. We were in the queue and were invited to sit at the counter, so that we did not have to wait any longer and we happily agreed to two seats. Whilst we were deciding what to eat, we were told that it was possible, when it was ready, to eat at a table behind us that was being cleaned, something that was really appreciated. A few moments later we were told that we could sit at another table that was already ready. We ordered and after we had settled, which was around five minutes, we were told that the table was given to us in error and that we would have to leave to go back to the counter. An apology was made but the information was given to us by way of a demand, which was unappreciated. We asked if it was possible to move to the table which was being cleaned but was told that it was no longer available, furthermore, the only counter seats that were now left were different to the ones we were initially sitting in, placed directly in front of the cash register and where the manager was, making it a squeeze and something of a downgrade. The next part is what made us leave. When my partner asked a waitress if it would be possible to move to another table, as well as asking when another table would be available because we were not happy to be at this part of the counter, the waitress went to verify with her manager. The manager, clearly unaware that we could clearly hear him said the words "if they don't like sitting at the counter they can go back into the queue." This would mean going back to the end of the queue. This was shocking. My partner and I literally felt like customers on some kind of Yo Sushi conveyor belt. This remark made us feel very uncomfortable and tense, and we completely lost our appetite along with any desire to stay there any longer so we left as our food arrived. Atmosphere is essential to being able to enjoy a meal, especially in a restaurant where customers are paying for a service. It's one thing being told to move without a succinct apology, but it's another thing to be made to feel as being dispensable and unwanted. This restaurant is clearly popular as it was quite busy, which must be a reflection of its food, but it is deeply saddening that this appears to be a line of legitimacy for secretly treating customers as mere mouths to feed. I would be grateful if a member of management could contact me about this, maybe the team were having a terrible day, maybe they're trained to see and treat people in this way, whatever the case don't for one moment think that it's okay to treat people like this just because you have a fast turnaround. It's disgraceful. jackjjewell@gmail.com read more

So the Bi Bim Bap was pretty good ( I got the classic) and I actually really like the miso sauce which was new to me. Definitely satisfied my craving for korean food. Had to knock it down two stars because my friend who got the chicken chow mein type dish and found several hairs in it... pretty unfortunate since otherwise the food was quite good and the restaurant's interior is quite cute read more