Grill Time Korean BBQ House

Read the older comments about how the service was bad. i thought in my mind i was scared that i would get the same bad service today, although i didnt really care cause all i wanted was just the food, if the service was bad just dont pay the tips! So i went there, turn out the service was REALLY GOOD, FAST and EFFICIENT, pays full attention to customers, everyone was nice there, unlike all the other asian place having Chinese servers that cannot speak ENGLISH and gives you bad attitude.
P. S. if you want real Korean BBQ with Korean owners, do not come here, this is a fusion restaurant, being in Canada when it says fusion you should know what it means… Price is reasonable and fair!!! it is way better then the other chain Korean bbq restaurant who adds in loads of MSG which i believed this one adds way lesser then what it should have.

Came here for lunch today. When it was time to leave me and my friend asked for the bill. When we got our computerized bill we noticed it was modified by pen. The server had the nerve to write in his own tip on the bill! He wrote in «service charge $ 3.00» in pen. I understand tip is automatically added on bills with big groups but for 2 people!!? If this didn’t happen we would have gave him a bigger tip than $ 3.00. He messed up by doing that. This isn’t right and I will never return again!

Came here after work… Kimchi was super cold, the Bento box was inedible, and the place wreaked of wet mop. Avoid at all costs. The prices are low here but it’s too high a price to pay for the lack of service, the garbage food, and the stench of poor hygiene. The tastiest thing was the water… But water isn’t supposed to taste like that.

Normally I Unilocal a restaurant first before I even consider it, especially when I’m traveling. However, we were starving as we left our hotel (Courtyard by Marriott) and Grill Time was just across the street, so we decided to give it a shot. And for a random walk-​in, I was pleasantly surprised and very full by the time we left.
The good: My favorites were probably the short rib and the squid. The rib got a nice char, and the squid was sweet and flavorful. We also liked some of the banchan: the kimchee, the pickled radish, the spicy bean sprout, and the potatoes.
The bad: The fish, which was nice to have included and justified the higher than average buffet price (around $ 20 with unlimited drinks), was bland.
The funny: We loved the banchan so much (and were so hungry while our meat was cooking) that we kept asking for refills of our favorite sides. By the third request, our main server (who was very nice) finally got the hint and brought us a «supersize» bowl of each that sustained us for the rest of our meal.
Would I recommend to a friend? Probably if they were stuck around Yonge and craving Korean BBQ like we were.

Went here with a friend, trying to show her what Korean AYCE BBQ is like.
Grill Time is a large place with grill tables as far as the eye can see. The place itself is fairly clean and seems to be meant for large groups. Looks small from the outside but don’t be full. The menu and the prices are pretty standard for a Korean AYCE grill restaurant. I believe it was $ 9.95 on just your standard lunch
The menu consisted of marinated beef, pork, chicken, squid, and fish. This place did a good job of bringing the food out fast so that the feast could commence. The beef and pork were real good but not any different from most other Korean BBQ places. The chicken was pretty bland and many cuts were too thick or fatty to be cooked well. The fish and squid were odd and we didn’t order seconds of those.
Not really sure what more I can write. This is another one of those Chinese owned Korean BBQ places so you’ll get efficiency, quantity, and consistency as opposed to uniqueness and quality. I love these types of places but there are much better ones around than this one. Prices aren’t bad though and I didn’t have a problem with service like other reviewers seemed to have.

NEVER AGAIN AM I EVER GOING HERE!!!
This girl… SALLY…man the service being slow and lazy is one thing RUDE is another thing. I sat down i’m almost finished my decent meal and I ask for a refill on the coke. She drops my glass on the other table and tells the guy in mandarin «Don’t fill it too much or they’ll stay longer». HOLY SHIT just because I speak english doesn’t mean I don’t understand you!!!
So of course to throw her off I asked for my bill in Mandarin, oh you should’ve seen her face! She was shocked because she realized I understood her. I get my bill and I noticed THEY ADD A $ 5 SERVICE CHARGE. Are you kidding me in what world is there a service charge in a korean bbq for two people… or in any restaurant! I ask what the hell is this that i’ve been there for years and i’ve never seen this, she tells me oh sorry i’ll take it off.
She gives me the bill I go up to pay and of course i ask for her name and the managers name because I think what she did was crazy. I pay I DONT leave a tip and as i walk out I see her roll her F*%$ing eyes and scuff at me. ARE YOU SERIOUS RIGHT NOW?! I go up to her and I say «excuse me what as that» she said she didnt say anything… wonderful i don’t care if u didnt say anything I saw you roll ur eyes and im getting mad at this point… so what does she do
SHE HOLDS HER FINGER UP IN MY FACE AND TELLS ME TO «SHHHHH»
Even my bf lost it there and hes a very calm guy. I start going a little thermal nuclear on her until the manager comes and asks whats going on, of course he doesn’t speak a lick of english and my mandarin isn’t that great. He said if i hadn’t paid then just leave, at this point im demanding a refund for the WORST service. The other waiters know me I’ve been there once a month for 6 years or so. They eventually tell the girl to walk away and stop arguing with me because boy was she still arguing with me.
The other two waiters had to translate for me to tell the manager what was happening. They tell me the girl is new (I don’t care), they tell me they will take my tip off (ARE YOU CRAZY U THINK I’D TIP THAT BITCH?), they tell me finally that they can’t fire her, WTF when did i ask u to fire her? I said she should be fired but worst comes to worst she NEEDS to be trained. I told them i don’t want her fired I just want my money back for ruining my evening. Their reasoning was you ate the food so just go. I argued but at the end I had no time I really wanted papaya hut.
So I give you a true solid F*#(YOU to this business, and I hope my fellow Unilocalers will stop going here as I think service should stand for something. I think we deserve better than rude people telling their customers to «shhh» and telling them not to fill the cup so they’ll leave. I think we deserve to go on a night out after working 8 hours to a nice meal, not to a eye rolling bitch.
Who cares if I can swallow the food, with service like that it’ll just makes me sick faster than the food poisoning you’d get.
IMHO.

If you like being yelled at by a waitress with only two months experience, then THIS is the restaurant for you!
If you like to be told by said waitress that the menu is wrong, then talk to the manager (or, someone I THOUGHT was the manager in a tremendously dirty shirt) and was told that the menu isn’t wrong, all the while the waitress is now yelling louder and all the back of house staff are now coming out to see what the yelling is all about… then, this restaurant is for you!
I should have realized that if a downtown restaurant, at 6pm across from a plethora of tourist filled hotels and attractions is empty of customers, then there’s something definitely wrong.
I’ll know for next time, I guess!
It’s slid a long way from it’s niceness when it first opened.
Blek.

Well — ratings for this place are all over the map. I give 5 stars with a note that I will be back to confirm or update, but my quick take out experience last week left me very impressed and wanting more.
Came in very late. It was obvious they were closing. People were finishing up. They told me that I could only order bibimbap. That sounded fine. I love that dish. I ordered the beef one, to go. When I got back to my hotel room, I opened the container to see something that looked unlike any bibimbap I had ever had. But I had already left, and they had already closed, so I dug in. Wow. The flavours were awesome. It was 11:30 at night, and I knew I shouldn’t be eating that much, but I just couldn’t stop. I was really pleased.
I tasted the broth that I was given, and it, too, was delicious. If I were in the mood for something hot, I would have downed the whole thing. I regret not doing it anyway.
All this to say that I will be back, for sure, on my next trip to Toronto, and I will be checking to see if this was a fluke or if they’re really that good. In the meantime, I recommend!

Fast service, they fit us in even though it was the end of the night, delicious meats, tons of variety and what better way to get to know your fellow diners than to see how well they can grill? I was more than satisfied with the all you can eat meal for more than a day after I had already eaten it. Delicious, worth it, definitely visit this grill house if you get the chance to.

If you want to pay for food poisoning go ahead. Yeah it’s that bad! I rarely give one star but this one deserves it! Day old meat, crummy sides and poor service.

Best place ever if you’re doing the whole low carb thing. Make sure you ask for NON-​MARINATED MEAT to really avoid the carbs. You can always phone in and ask if they have that there. They usually do.
I would really recommend this place for post workout :)
Don’t order the bibimbap here. Just don’t. It is sub par. There are other Korean places that make it better.

Today was the first time I’ve ever been to this location when the service wasn’t so horrible I wanted to grill my own hand. So improvements on that end. Note that we went past 9 pm, so the place was winding down for the night, as opposed to busy dinner hours.
Food is good, although you do get the feeling everything is reused (i.e. if you don’t finish your beef, the same table next to you is getting it). The bathrooms are really gross and the trip to get to them makes you even more uneasy about health violations.
So why three stars? Well, you get to eat a lot of radishes and bean sprouts and the sausage is delicious. What can I say? Endless amounts of meat earns a star.
Oh, and they will always try to give you the worst possible table location first. Don’t settle for first offer.

My friend and I usually stop here when we’re really hungry and
are downtown near the Eatons Centre. The service here is average,
it’s not exceptional but it’s not too slow either.
Drinks are bottomless, which is great during the summer. In addition to the korean bbq, they’ve now added sushi to their lunch/​dinner! The sushi wasn’t
amazing but after going there 3 or 4 times, it was nice to see
change.
Love the meat, very delicate and tender. But the fish was terrible, after the first time I stopped ordering fish. When it’s on the grill, the fish spreads apart.
Overall ³⁄₅.
I would recommend it to a friend.

I’ve come here so many times, I’m pretty much a regular here.
But why haven’t I reviewed it?
Anyways, this place is awesome!
The meats are good, and plentiful.
THE RIBS THE RIBS THE RIBS THE RIBS THE RIBS THE RIBS THE RIBS
ps, I love the ribs.
Go for the special dinner. Totally worth it.
My fav meats from this place
1. THE RIBS
2. THE RIBS
3. The LAMB
4. The Chicken
5. THE SAUSAGE
6. THE RIBS
I’m pretty sure they drugs the ribs.
I love you ribs.
Oh, they also have other things.
All you eat sushi, hand rolls and maki.
Not the best sushi, but why would you bother?
The side dishes are standard.
Drink is 2 $ with free refills.
Sometimes, if you want veggies you may have to ask a few times.
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This is my first 1-​star review. It takes a lot for me to rate something that low. Checking past reviews, it seems this place has gone downhill in late 2011/​2012, because ratings were almost all above 3 stars before then.
Unfortunately, as my first Korean BBQ experience, this whole thing was bad. My party of two was seated by a waiter who couldn’t explain how the whole «Korean BBQ» system thing worked, because his English wasn’t adequate. The menu is written in badly-​punctuated English, also adding to the confusion.
Service took forever. After ordering the meats, we moved onto Sushi, and that took another eternity. The waiter didn’t understand we’d actually ordered Sushi earlier at the beginning of the meal, so it never came. We had to order again. I asked for a water refill, which never came, until more food was delivered. The chicken had too much cuts of fat in it. Our waiter never asked us how our meal was, and never came around when he didn’t have to. Upon the sushi’s arrival, I asked for soy sauce and wasabe, and he looked at me like no one had ever asked for that before. The teriyaki chicken sushi was too salty, and the avocado-cucmber’s roll was too tough. All the rolls were cut into piece too big to eat properly, so they all fell apart upon consumption.
By the end of the meal, we didn’t even receive our cheque. Our waiter was nowhere to be found, and we had to go up to the register to pay. I couldn’t get out of here fast enough. Never again.
Also, what is with the horse racing channel on all the TVs? Are the wait staff placing horse wagers in between serving customers? Maybe that’s why our orders were so slow.

Please don’t eat here.
The food is low-​quality, cold, and overpriced.
The staff are unpleasant and poorly trained.
The atmosphere is off-​putting.
There are other Korean BBQ places less than 15 minutes walk away. Go to them. They are better.
I have nothing witty or funny to say about this restaurant. I was happy when I arrived and sad when I left.

The people that run this place have achieved something extraordinary: a restaurant that is so terrible, it is spectacle to be experienced first hand… that is, if you don’t have better things to do with $ 20 (which would be better spent on bartering with the block corner hobo for his half eaten Tim Horton’s sandwich).
But anyways, you see, this place is full of amazing surprises. The set-​up is standard enough, just what you might expect from a typical Korean BBQ joint. But…
It all starts when you sit down, and attempt to order your food. First you will discover no one working there is in a hurry to coming around. Actually you will find the employees standing as far away from you as possible, in a small huddle talking to each other. Their strategy seems to be to ignore your pitiful existence and your audacity to take up space and breathing room in their restaurant just long enough so you may leave already. «Well, no, that can’t be», you say to yourself, and you are patient, so you can wait… but after 15 minutes of waiting, even the oh-​so-​patient you decides it is time to yell one of the waitresses over.
Ah, but yet you will utterly fail like a moron. You see, they are much smarter than you, and they already expect you might try to holler for their attention. On each side of the restaurant, they have installed three massive large screen TVs, which are somehow perpetually on a channel that is broadcasting soccer games of obscure leagues in some Slavic language blasted at such high volumes that you can’t even hear yourself yell, so much for the waitresses.
But you still persist. Now you might resort to helplessly flailing your arms, jumping up and down. Yes, the waitresses can’t ignore you forever. Ah, success! One sees you and grudgingly walks over while rolling her eyes. But when she does, you will wish you had never called her over. You will wish you could just shrivel and die in that moment. Why? Because the waitress will look at you with the most heinous look, so full of despite and inexplicable hatred, you become suspicious of yourself… «did I ever beat-​up this girl’s grandfather? I must have done something to deserve this!!».
«Snap out of it. That can’t be. I’ll just order my food.» You say to yourself… insanity is already slowly but surely creeping in.
So finally you can order what you want. Here you will see the most amazing feat of memory being displayed in front of you. You may order 10 different things. The waitress nods her head every time you say something, but you don’t see a note pad. Incredible! «She is memorizing everything I am saying, how can she?! Wow!!!»
But it is not long before you discover her magic secret. You see, between the blasting TVs, her poor English, her complete hatred towards you as a customer, on top of her utter apathy towards her responsibilities as a waitress, she didn’t actually attempt to remember anything you said. She just went to the computer console, and just punched in some random dish orders. As long as you get some sort of thing that looks like food, it will be sufficient and she can go back to the little huddle they are making in the far end of the restaurant, far again from the despicable stench the customers.
Endless eternity passes, and the food does come… eventually anyways. At least they got the water you ordered right. You taste the food… incredible! Somehow everything tastes like week old dog food. The fish, the meat, the rice. Everything tastes like stale dog food. Wow, how do they do that? A culinary feat indeed.
So you eat and finish, because you are starving, and you don’t complain because you don’t want to offend the angry people any more than you already have by coming here. Now it is time to pay, and you are itching to get your sorry ass out of there. But it is also an opportunity to strike back and get a bit of revenge. Since the service and food was so incredibly bad, perhaps you will try to retaliate by not giving any tip.
and then BAAAMMM! The next awesome surprise blow. A kick in the balls so hard, that you may just throw up the dog food: A $ 2 service charge automatically slapped on your bill. This is how incredibly smart they are. They just charge $ 2 from everyone. No need actually give any service. And I guarantee you, at this moment you will wish that you could instead use that $ 2 to pay someone to beat the leaving crap out of you… because that will feel better than paying $ 2 for the atrocious «service» and food you got here. In a last desperate attempt to get back, you think about vomiting the dog food you just ate in the restaurant… but you must hold back, realizing that the only thing worse than the after taste of the dog food is the after taste of the dog food flavored vomit.
You walk out, disillusioned, hating life, hating yourself… vowing never to return, forever having been scarred by this dining experience. But cheer up… after this, no other restaurant can possibly seem bad to you.

DO NOT EAT HERE! This was the single worst dining experience I have ever had — and I am not a super picky eater or anything.
The service was terrible, food was cold, my drink came 10 minutes after my friends’ with no explanation. My friends ordered hot pots, the server asked them if they wanted hot sauce, one did, one didn’t. Instead of bringing the sauce, he put TONS into the pots himself (even the one who didnt want any) and then proceeded to smash the food around in the bowl to mix the sauce in himself, he wouldn’t stop when we asked him. He broke all the shrimp in the bowl and made the food like mush as he smashed each pot for at least 2 minutes without letting us stop him. My food was cold and unflavorful.
I’m not a big fan of chain restaurants, but if you are looking for this type of food in this area, walk about 3 blocks south and go to Korean Grill. At least they will ask you how your meal is and not smash it to oblivion.

This place is cheap. 14.99+tax for all you can eat dinner, that includes beef, chicken, pork, ox tongue, fish filet, salmon, squid and all the side dishes, soup and rice, etc. But this place is also cheap for a reason.
The only thing that was redeeming was the kimchi; the rest of the stuff were all a little stale and bland. This is the first time I had to eat at a korean bbq where I had to dip my food in the soy sauce NOT because it wasn’t salty enough, but because i wanted to hide the stale taste of the meat. Needless to say, I walked away feeling like I just ate a bucket of salt… definitely gonna be bloated tomorrow.
The service is insanely slow. Barely anyone in the restaurant but it’ll take you over ten minutes to wave down a server, and another fifteen minutes before you can get what you asked for. Sometimes you have to ask them twice.
I would rather pay extra and get better food.
TIP: don’t get the ox tongue. On the menu, it says ask for it if you want it, which makes the meat turnover rate to be very low. When I got the meat, it was still frozen and pretty stale. I regretted asking for it.
Now excuse me as I will now need to take a shower and attempt to wash the grease off of my face and the smell off of my fingers for the third time.

I guess the price has gone up for dinner. $ 13.99 is the price now but I think it’s still a great deal. You can pay more for shrimp and lamb added on but I already had enough food for 1 person.
Water or tea is free. You also get an assortment of 6 – 8 side dishes (kimchi, sprouts, mashed potatoes, etc).
Got dishes of beef, pork, chicken, salmon, snapper, short ribs, squid and beef. I think putting the fish on the grill didn’t work well because it stuck all the time. Next time, dip it in the sauce and grill it. But, my fav dish was the short ribs — had to get 2!
The service was great. Perhaps it was that there weren’t alot of people at 6:30pm on a Wednesday night.
Will come here again but would do it in a group.