I'm from LA so my review may be biased since there are so many awesome Korean restaurants in LA. Two things that I love about dol sot bi bim bap is the fried egg and the crispy rice that comes on the bottom of the stone bowl. Neither came in my bulgogi bi bim bap. I was missing Korean food, so this was good enough to satisfy my apetite. read more

Delicious food, nice service, and so many vegetables! I love being able to find places that will satisfy both my husband's need for meat and my need for vegetables. read more

I have been here a couple of times in London as this is probably the best Korean restaurant in London. Korean food is generally pricey but Bibimbap Soho has great inexpensive prices and amazing food which is the big reason why I keep coming back. Service: Is definitely okay, sometimes the waiters are a bit inattentive but most of the times they are on pointe. Food: The appetizers like the spicy rice cakes, kimchee, seafood pancake comes in very small portions but okay for sharing if you are only two. I tried the spicy chicken bibimbap and the beef bulgogi bibimbap, and they both are amazing!! They come with miso and hot sauce so you can mix the flavors how you want. Best Korean food in London!! read more

The food isn't terrible but it's certainly not the best Bi Bim Bap out there. The polaroids are cute and the servers pretty friendly. If you are getting Bibimbap, the beef bulgogi is good along with a fried egg. Not sure why but quite a few people eating in here don't mix the bowl of food together. It's worth a good mix, both to experience the traditional way of eating the hot rice bowl, and to make sure your rice doesn't end up stuck to the bottom of your hot stone. May be worth avoid the soups as they tend to pretty salty. read more

Bi Bim Bap is a cute little place in Soho that serves fresh Korean food in a jiffy. After a morning of wandering around Mayfair, my boyfriend and I came in here for lunch after reading a review in the Guardian. We were seated quickly even at midday lunch - the crowd was mostly tourists - and though the room was pretty full, downstairs where the toilets are they have another dining area so you shouldn't ever be waiting long. I got the mixed seafood bibimbap. Bibimbap, for those who don't know, means "mixed rice" and is served in a hot (very!!) stone bowl. You'll get rice (extra charge for brown), mixed veggies, and marinated meat. On the table are hot sauce and miso sauce. Often a raw egg is placed on top and gets cooked as your stir the bowl around. This is one of the only foods I know of where your dish actually gets hotter as you eat! It starts out warm but the bowl heats it throughout, so by your last bite you'll be in danger of scalding your tongue! Great on a cold day. The portions here are small, and I think the flavors need to be upped a fair bit. The meat has allegedly been marinated but tastes plain, and without tons of added sauce from the table, there's really not much flavor. And the rice didn't stick to the bowl (maybe not enough sesame oil?) - eating the crisp rice at the end is supposed to be one of the best parts! It's serviceable and pretty healthy, but I would've liked to see a bit more flavor and a slightly bigger portion! (I'm Amurrrrican, sorry.) read more

This place is my ultimate hangover cure - stodge and super tasty to soak up the booze. I visit this place quite regularly as it is super cheap (£8 for a main), very central and ridiculously scrumptious. I normally go for the beef bi bim bap which comes in a hot stone dish and kinda cooks in front of your eyes if you get the raw egg on top. It gets quite busy so sometimes you have to queue but it's worth the wait for sure. The staff are friendly enough and the service is quite quick. read more

I am not a Korean food expert. I have only had Bibimbap once before in my hometown that is notoriously nicknamed Johns Korea, so I trust the food I had there to be relatively authentic but most importantly, delicious. Apart from the "authenticity snobbery" the food here was equally as delicious. Several coursemates and I had stumbled in here after classes on Friday and our ritual trip to the pub. Already well... erm... socially lubricated we were ravenous and hoping to get some decent food. After stumbling around in the cold in search of this place we came across a small sliver of a restaurant; easily missed if you're not being too careful. The restaurant is small so trying to seat the 8 of us proved to be difficult. We had to wait but it wasn't very long before we were all snug in a booth in the back drinking soju (Korean Rice Liquor) and eating kimchi dumplings. I ordered the bulgolgi bibimbap which may be a bastardization of the actual traditional food but hell... it was damn good. Bulgogi is beef marinated in Korean barbecue sauce and is essentially the food stuffs of gods. I have a serious and unhealthy love affair with Korean barbecue but it's quiet expensive even back in America. Fortunately, I will take bulgolgi in a bibimbap. I got the raw egg on the Bibimbap and let it cook on the hot stones and really amid the dulling soju and real ale the food was incredibly flavorful. The meat was tender and well marinaded with a sweet, yet savory sauce. The bowl came with pickled radishes and bean sprouts that worked beautifully with the sweet and savory flavors of the meat and egg. The best part about this place was the price. £12 will get you a decent meal and in Soho... that's a bargain. It's a casual place and easily missed or forgotten about. If you're looking for a decent and different bite in the Soho area, check out Bibimbap. read more

Being a Korean, this place is a disgrace to my food and my people. It really pisses me off that foreigners who don't have good idea of what Korean food is really like, will think this is authentic Korean food! I had spicy pork bibimbab and soon tofu soup. Pork was not properly seasoned and the soup had weird flavor. Chili paste(gochujang) on the table didn't taste like Korean chili. Nothing was right about the food. I would have returned the food if they served this shitty stuff in Korea. Don't give me the crap saying this is localized. Many people are already exposed to thai spicy, mexican spicy, and they can handle Korean spicy. I wanted to give silent signal to the people coming in. "Get out! Save yourselves!!!) read more

One of the first Korean restaurants I've been to that didn't make my clothes smell like BBQ (don't believe I saw any grills in this establishment, which explains why). Interior was very nice and cool looking. Service was spotty. It took a while to grab a waiter's attention and to get the bill. The spicy rice cakes were delicious and the only dish I enjoyed. For entree, I ordered the plain chicken bool-go-gi rice, and thought I could use the kim chi side dish to give it some kick, but the dish turned out to be just average. The chicken was very dry. And sadly, they do not provide any side dishes at this establishment...I tried to scrape the sauce from the spicy rice cakes from my rice dish, but it didn't provide enough flavor :-( read more

The food, staff and every was good. The only reason this is not 5 stars is because the food was served in VERY hot stone dishes like you cannot eat right away, we waited 10+ minutes it was still the same! I preferred that the dish was less hot. read more

I have eaten here twice and yet to be disappointed. I particularly like the fillet beef bibimbap at £9.45, which consists of strips of raw seasoned beef fillet that cooks once mixed in the stone bowl with the julienne vegetables. Add a raw egg, opt for brown rice, and load up on the sauce and you will have an awesomely filling and healthy meal. I can also recommend the kimchi pancake and chilli squid. Super cool to have been asked to mark my first trip with a polaroid snap, which they then stuck up on the wall amongst the many other smiling customers. read more

Considering all the random things mashed up in it... should it taste good? For those of you who live under a rock, it's basically an assortment of toppings (veg, etc.) on a bed of rice in a hot stone pot. You can order a fried egg for a pound, to which hot sauce is then added, and then everything is mixed together. Looks absolutely revolting... tastes surprisingly good. Coming from someone who has no clue what bi bim bap SHOULD taste like, I thought it was delicious for £8.95. Although, it wasn't amazing. read more

I called to reserve for a table but unfortunately they don't take bookings unless it is for a huge group. For a Tuesday night, it was pretty busy. However I can imagine how busy it would be on a Friday or Sat night. Their Jap Chae was amazing. It was literally the best one we've had and we have all been to several Korean restaurants. Too bad the portion is small, yes I know it is only a starter! We also tried 4 other starters and all ordered the same bibimbap (yummy). What you're paying is pretty good for quality & quantity. I'd highly recommend anyone to go if they have a craving for Korean without forking out a fortune! :) read more

The rice was burnt and the pork was just average. The dish was a bit too dry as well. Only good thing is the price. Not how it used to be. Sadly. read more

Bibimbap - Bibimbap with pork - Korean Near Me - London, XGL

Went here tonight, first of all amazing atmosphere, the really friendly staff show you to a table. The menu has a large choice of reasonably priced korean dishes, I chose a Dol Sot and my friend had a (Kim Chi Bibimbap), these were served after a very short wait, which was good since we were hungry, they were served in these Wonderful hot traditional dishes, and tasted well... like if paradise had a taste well that's what it would taste like. So if you want a real rauthentic korean meal, this reasonably priced place is totally the place to go. I strongly recommend it ! read more

I LOVE. Good value for money but most importantly absolutely delicious. We ordered a Chives Mandoo and Spicy Rice Cakes and that was tasty. Careful Rice cakes can be very filling. Then I had the Hot Stone BBB Spicy Pork with a raw egg - LORD SAVE MY SOUL. The whole thing was tasty. The Shitake Mushroom was plentiful, the pork was not too much where it overpowered. So tasty that I didn't need to add miso or chili sauce. Oulong tea was proper. Only issue is the space is tight and they are understaffed. Oh one more thing that is absolutely charming. The glass doors and parts of the walls were decorated with K-Pop artistes. It's so authentic! WILL RETURN FOR SURE! read more

Nan, definitely over rated. Went there for lunch and tried seafood bibimbap and gingsen tea. Service was pretty good but food is just so-so

I've delighted in introducing friends to this delicious place since it opened. I wish I worked/lived nearby so I could go more often. Who would have thought that a steaming hot, volcanic rock bowl of rice and vegetables with a fried egg on top could be so incredibly tasty? They do also come with meat, and each time I visit I plan to try it, but them the simple veg option (dol sot) is so darn blinking good I haven't bothered to explore the menu yet. Hmmm... I want one now... Cheerful, bright, friendly... have a quick £10 supper with friends or hang out for a while in booths at the back. Just make sure you get your piccie taken for the wall :-) read more

Greasy kimchi pancakes, service for bibimbap was so slow we just gave up after 40 minutes waiting. Very rude guy in charge who couldn't care less about anyone, when asked about when the food was coming he just yelled coming soon and walked off. If you love Korean food like me don't spoil your evening with this poor excuse for a restaurant. read more

Bibimbap is my go-to restaurant in Soho. If you're an expat earning absolutely nothing in London and you want don't want to break the bank before a night out this is the place for you! It's one of the cheapest eats right in central London. Make it there before 7pm on weekends so you don't have to wait too long, but otherwise you're guaranteed to get in pretty quickly. The food is tasty and the service is super quick. Highly recommended! read more

I have been to this restaurant about twenty times - great for a quick meal. The bibimbap are the star of the show (don't forget the raw egg and I ask for brown rice). I also like a side of kimchi. Some of the starters are winners too .. For example the Jap chae. read more

Huge, delicious warm bowls of Bibimbap at very affordable prices. Delicious Kimchi too. This is a great place to get a fast, filling bowl of great Bibimbap. Super specialised and pretty authentic, this restaurant has fast decent service. Make sure you order an extra egg and go crazy with the chilli sauce! read more

I tasted British-style,American-style and India-style in past few days.Now I have to go back to Asian food in order to make a rest! I yelped this place and tried Chilly chicken+Aloe Vera Juice+Fried egg.Delicious!Nice choice.The waitress looks like a friend of mine though she looks a little nervous against me-such a stranger.My friend asked me why not take a pic?Oh,yes,I didn't expect to threaten any shy girl and looked weird.Anyway,stunning food.Worthing my 30mins underground+walk. read more

Bibimbap - Chilly chicken+Aloe Vera+fried egg - Korean Near Me - London, XGL

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This is a great place if you're in the mood for Korean and on a tighter budget. We ordered the seafood soon tofu stew with white rice and hot stone bowl tofu bibimbap with fried egg for £19. Both tasted great, right up there with similar dishes at popular restaurants we've been to in LA. The service was meh, typical for a crowded and understaffed little establishment like this one. Also, would have liked to have the standard Korean side dishes accompany the mains, but they cost extra. read more

Delicious! I have been wanting to try this place for a long time now and tonight I finally got around to goi g there and it was worth the wait. The menu was simple and easy to understand. There was more vegetarian choice than I expected, especially considering Koreans don't have a word for vegetarians in their language. I ordered the Kimchi bibimbap with a fried egg and my friend ordered the original with brown rice. Both were good. I'll try the brown rice next time. read more

As a starter we've ordered kimchi and dumplings. Although not marked as spicy, the kimchi was too hot for most of us. Dumpling were perfectly done. We've ordered 4 different kinds of bibimbop, all were delicious. It recommended! We've returned the next night :) read more

Bibimbap - Chicken bibimbop - Korean Near Me - London, XGL

Excellent food if you crave this sort of thing. I had the raw beef Bibimbap with raw egg. Also I added a couple of shots of soju that rounded out the meal. Excellent place for a casual meal with some Korean flare! read more

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Ingredients are very fresh and tasty. Great location and prices are reasonable. Will definitely come back.

My boyfriend and I had been wandering around London, starving, trying to find something that was both within our price range and not sketchy-looking. I was so excited when we found this place (though I would have eaten anything by that point)! It had been a few months since I'd had one of my favourite dishes, bibimbap. It was great! The interior was really cute & bright. Would go back again. read more

Great little restaurant for a quick meal. I went with a friend after work. We both ordered a bibimbap. Generous amount of veg and beef for the price! The restaurant is small but busy, the queue was fairly long when we walked out. read more

Great food, great prices, friendly staff, and great place for an intimate date. I recommend getting the dish share's the restaurant's name.

Bibimbap is a traditional Korean main dish cooked in a round stone pot, with a mix of rice, meat (or not) and veggies, which comes to your table super-hot and which you have to mix all together - just don't touch the pot. I had their delicious and fresh bibimbap pot with teriyaki chicken for a very reasonable £9, which filled me up very satisfyingly. I added a little red hot sauce. Service was fast and very courteous. Recommended. read more

Disappointed the Korean fried chicken was not available but not the reason for the stars given. Asked if banchan is given also, and she was like...uh, what's that? Oh boy...ordered the bibimbap bowls and it's a good size. The taste was just ok. Also ordered the seafood pancake and it looked undercooked. It wasn't even crispy. read more

I love bibimbap SO MUCH and ever since I became gluten intolerant I've had to go without (soy sauce makes its wicked way into everything, it seems). This is the first Korean place I've ever found that has clearly labeled gluten free options. I got the raw beef hot bowl and it was AMAZING. I would have licked the bowl if it wouldn't have burned all the skin off my tongue. Absolutely as good as anything I've had in Los Angeles. Staff was friendly, service was fast, but the space was pretty crowded so some strategic hovering might be in order. read more

I've been a fan of Korean cuisinefor a long time and I've eaten at a fair few in the West End. Its great that there are now so many Korean restaurants and now the prices are more reasonable. I've not been to Korea, so I don't really know how authentic the Korean food in London is, in comparison to what they serve back in Korea. However, seeing Koreans eating there is a sign that they are doing something right. Bi Bim Bap is relatively new, but its popularity and fan base has grown very quickly over a very short period of time. The first thing you notice when you arrive is the modern decor and it looks smart. The service is acceptable and the food is very good. I've been to a number of Korean restaurants, where there is little or no effort in presentation. Of those that try to look classy, you have smartly dressed staff that don't really know what they are doing and the service is awful. In such places I go for the food, but I wouldn't tip. The great thing about Bi Bim Bap, is that the menu is not complicated. So ordering is easy. Sure, I'd like to see a few more dishes, so that I don't have to visit other restaurants, for say bi bim nang myun (Korean cold noodles). But whenever I am in the West End, I'd certainly consider eating at Bi Bim Bap. I love it, its not complicated, the prices are right and the staff are friendly. I could think of lots of things they could do to improve, but I am more than happy for them to be as they are. If there is a restaurant that will improve the profile of Korean cuisine in London, Bi Bim Bap will be the one. A fantastic restaurant and an experience that is worth every penny, every time. read more

Now I must admit that my exposure to Korean food is entirely limited to this restaurant and my actual real-life Korean friend who occasionally whips me up a multicultural storm in her Brixton kitchen. One time, having stayed over after a particularly heavy night out, I even managed to catch her parents popping over mid-morning and, due to my enviable ability to loiter, snagged myself an invitation for lunch. My, but those noodles were good; and her mum's home-made kimchi cleared up my hangover like a gift from the gods. But beyond that, all I know is Soho's wonderful Bi Bim Bap. I should probably try another restaurant but I never really got around to it. And I don't honestly see the point because I loooove Bi Bim Bap. Looooove it. It's worth the extra Os. It's my go-to cheapy dinner spot in Soho, and I've dragged many a friend here to show off my international taste in good food. It's especially ideal to lure in your pickier dining companions since the brightly-coloured decor and mini-polaroids covering the wall lend it a slightly fast-food-esque, less terrifying aura. By the time they realise what's on offer, it's too late. Although to be fair, the food isn't live octopi or skewered snakes or whatever else Korean food has a reputation for being. It's kind of like Thai, but you know, not really. And it's all cooked really, um, nicely. I don't like summing up a nation's cuisine in a few sentences because not only will I inevitably get it wrong, I'll probably insult an entire culture at the same time. I have the eponymous bi bim bap every time. It's rice, vegetables and thinly-sliced beef in a sizzlingly hot stone bowl, which you mix around so that it cooks merely by touching the sides. I slosh in a healthy dollop of miso sauce from the alarmingly green bottle on every table (if you're averse to heat, avoid the red one; it's not ketchup, it's mega chilli) which gives it the perfect saltiness and depth. Much like I ought to try another restaurant, I ought to attempt another dish too, but I probably won't. I'm all for variety but I don't really see the point of branching out here when it's Just So Good. I have at least tried the different meats on offer (all gorgeous) and both with and without the egg (also both gorgeous) so I see no reason why the rest of it wouldn't be equally excellent. So if you want to be the guineapig, go ahead. But I figure if it ain't broke, don't fix it. (An aside: service is enormously hit and miss. Friendly faces, HUGELY slow. Last time I went, the couple next to us got their meals before we'd even had our orders taken, and we arrived first. My companion was a lot more hacked off than me, but then I've lived in Asia so I kind of slip back into that mode and just go with the flow. Besides, it's worth the wait). read more

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

The food here was delicious. My only complaint was that this place is kinda cramped and the servers ended up being rude near the end. They told the group I was with to get out after we were done eating our food. read more

Bibimbap - Korean Near Me - London, XGL

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