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    Bonchon Bloomington - Leslie Dr

    3.7 (45 reviews)
    Closed 11:00 am - 10:00 pm
    Updated 2 weeks ago

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    What's the vibe?
    Casual
    Moderate noise
    Dogs allowed
    Good for groups

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    Soy garlic chicken. Japchae. Bulgogi fries
    Jennifer D.

    The food doesn't taste like any bonchon locations we tasted. The chicken was served room temperature and doesn't taste like soy garlic. The japchae doesn't taste like japchae. The bulgogi fries were little serving and again, all the food was room temperature. The service, I cannot blame coz there's only 1 server serving the entire restaurant on a Saturday dinner. The restaurant location and ambience is one of the most gorgeous location especially the fountain outside the restaurant

    This is the hostess station and their robot that delivers food
    Glenn H.

    I enjoyed the food. The service is always slow here. But the staff is very friendly. As for the background noise and videos that are playing, I'm not a fan but I understand why they have the videos playing that they do. I wish the happy hour was everyday. Is -point when they're holding events like trivia and stuff like that. It's just way too loud to have a conversation with your partner. I do recommend the wings over the legs and that is just a personal preference because to me the legs are too large for what I'm expecting. The wings are the right size for knee and I enjoy them the best. The Korean barbecue is the sauce that it's a general purpose. Got a little heat to it and sweet and middle of the road for a spicy sauce. Otherwise, if you're not a spicy person, get the the soy garlic. It's very tasty.

    Wings, what else, lol

    We haven't had this for awhile. We worked outside in the yard because it is a beautiful day so we thought we would order out. To our disappointment, the chicken wings and drums are not like what we had before. In general the size is smaller. Not only that it just tastes different!. Well, maybe it is the slower turn around with the food with less people eating out. Might try that again in the future but ugh!

    Spicy Garlic wings, plain and Korean BBQ wings. Also Parmesan fries
    Melissa R.

    Food is delicious. Wings were cooked perfect and fries were good also. Monday night is $.50 wings and you can't beat that. Also got Korean donuts to go. Service is ok. Kind of slow the serving staff and server out our to go bag on another table and after us sitting Waiting she brought it over and apologized.

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    Diana P.

    The hubby and I came here for lunch. We got Korean BBQ wings, Popcorn shrimp and a thinly sliced ribeye steak dinner with white rice. The food was delicious! The prices are average. The atmosphere is a bit noisy, but it's up beat. This establishment is new and modern. The service was friendly and attentive. We will be coming back.

    Detailed side of the menu
    Pete R.

    Brought the lady a couple nights later and altho the crispy/juicy/flavorfully-sauced wings and the potstickers - with their doughy/crispy texture mix and chicken-flavored pork filling - were a big hit with her as well, one aspect of the the experience seems to have suffered, the service. Be advised that if you elect to sit at the bar, there's a decent chance you will be ignored for several minutes at some point, and apparently the best chance of this happening seems to be as soon as you sit down. Altho we were able to walk up and order drinks pretty quick, we then watched another couple and a solo patron sit on either side of us, and separately wait several minutes without any employee contact and then leave in disgust. (I'm guessing there is at least one 1-star review resulting.) The truly frustrating part is that the exact same bartender/server that I had just raved about on their opening day, was the same person now ignoring customers! Nevermind that she later made an off-handed comment about working pretty much every hour that the place had been open -which by that point would have constituted 4-straight 12-hr days. While there's a whole other discussion around that, the bottom line is that this is ultimately management's responsibility so when a manager rolled by as we were leaving, we decided to let him know. Unfortunately he immediately turned the conversation to our own food experience, which was of course positive. Suffice it to say, good food or not, the manager's reaction left a bad taste in our mouths. And a drop from 4 to 3-stars.

    Tacos
    Lisa S.

    We went to Bonchon for the first time tonight and loved it. The service was fantastic, the drink list was vast and the food was so amazing. We had the fries (so tasty), the drumsticks (Korean BBQ and the tacos. Everything was so delicious. Let me just say the drumsticks are HUGE and the medium order (10) feed for adults. We will definitely be coming back and trying different things in the

    Half yum yum sauce and half Korean BBQ wings.
    Stephanie H.

    The chicken was so good! We loved the yum yum and Korean flavors. We also had the spicy chicken fried rice. It was spicy for me but my husband loved it. Service was excellent!

    8 pc Wings
    Randy P.

    Excellent crunchy wings! Great sauces. The Korean sauce was the perfect blend of flavor and spice.

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