Thura Nay Zin

Got seated around 16:50, wanted to get the Lunch special but I was worried since it was getting close to 5pm. However, the lady was really nice and let me get the lunch special so I was quite pleased. Great service! The food also tasted great and was of great quality. I would definitely recommend others to come dine here, especially during the weekday lunch special (11am-5pm).

Christa Bee

Road to Seoul is easily one of the best Korean BBQ spots around. It was my first doing the happy hour and it was still worth it! The staff was friendly, attentive, and made the experience smooth and enjoyable, while the atmosphere was lively yet comfortable. Highly recommend for a great Korean BBQ experience.

Wayne Guan

Came here for AYCE lunch on a Sunday. It was packed but wait time to get seated was less than 30 minutes. They have a side bar with vegetables, sides, and sauces. You can also order rice paper and steamed rice from the staff. Food came out quickly. Can order up to 4 meat options on the first order then 3 per subsequent order. Service was great. Good value. Highly recommend!

Moises Berber

I would choose this place over Gen which is across the street any day of the week. The portions are adequate. The food is good and it’s not always packed like Gen

GUANGRUI LIU

It is our second time here. Happy hour is 20.99 and great. but we chose deluxe because the best rib eye and beef toung are the only available in deluxe menu. The vent is not so strong. A little bit smoky

Tina Nguyen

Been here so many times that I’ve lost count! Great food and good selection of meat! I love that we can grab side dishes on our own. Service is fast and very attentive! Their lunch special is also a great deal. Will come back soon!

Judy Wong

Overall I had a good experience. The price was good $20.99. We did pay $3.00 for tea also. The meat was good but limited to what was on the list. Rice and rice roll was free. Kimchi and sides were free. We were stuff. Staff was also nice and they had a robot thing bring the food. Wait staff did still have to put on our table.

Breanna Rivano

I love this place. The quality of the meat is great. Service is amazing. The buffet area is always clean.

Henny M

Just tried Korean BBQ and it did NOT disappoint! 👌🔥 Service was incredibly good — the staff checked on us often and kept everything flowing smoothly. The meat portions were overflowing (literally had to make extra room on the table 😅), and every cut was fresh and flavorful. The kimchi was also on point — perfectly balanced, not too sour, not too spicy, just the right kick to pair with the grill. Overall: amazing service, amazing food, and definitely worth coming back!

Jesse Hiteshew

The Road to Seoul is easily one of the best Korean BBQ spots I’ve been to. From the moment you walk in, the atmosphere feels lively and welcoming, with fast service and staff who actually pay attention to your table. The all-you-can-eat menu is packed with great options, and everything comes out fresh and well-seasoned. The meats were the star—tender, flavorful, and perfect for grilling. I especially loved the [insert favorite meat here], and the side dishes were plentiful and constantly refilled. The kimchi, rice paper wraps, and dipping sauces added so much flavor to every bite. What really stood out was how quickly everything came out and how attentive the team was without being intrusive. Even when the restaurant was busy, the service stayed consistent. Overall, The Road to Seoul delivers great food, great value, and a great experience. If you’re craving Korean BBQ, this place should be at the top of your list.

Cling Jewelry

​Thanksgiving break started early, so we seized the opportunity for some delicious Korean BBQ! 🥳 We hit up their lunch special since the kids were out of school. Seeing the robot deliver our food was such a fun, modern touch! Our waitress was on top of things, constantly swapping out our plates (a huge win for K-BBQ!). The 3-plate-at-a-time rule was no problem—we just kept ordering and dumping it on the grill! We easily spent a glorious 1.5 hours enjoying the all-you-can-eat spread. Pro-tip: We found free 4-hour parking behind the theater and just took a nice little walk over. We'll definitely be back for another round!

Kithly “Kith”

Road to Seoul is one of the best Korean BBQ spots I’ve been to! The meat was fresh, flavorful, and cooked perfectly on the grill. The side dishes were all delicious and constantly refilled. The staff was friendly and attentive.

Veronika C

I came here yesterday with friends and was pleasantly surprised. They're pretty attentive with taking your order as well as changing your grill. You can get most, if not all, the sides yourself from their buffet. The quality is good and the flavor is there!

Mark Espinoza

Excellent quality for AYCE KBBQ. Vibes are good and the service is very good here. They play great music (from 90s R&B to Korean house) and the buffet option takes this place up a notch. Jake takes really good care of his tables and we can’t stop ourselves from coming back. Our favorite meats are the beef belly, thinly sliced pork belly and the brisket. Def recommend if you’re looking for some quality AYCE in Alhambra!

kink

I’ve recently started coming here and it’s now my go to Korean BBQ spot. I love the small variety of sides that are free to get and the choices of meat that are available. The service is great and the environment they create is lively and friendly. The deals midday are great.

tina

Dennis was our sever and he was so nice. He is very attentive. The manager Scott gave us an accurate wait time. He was also very attentive. Our table was clean and our food was delicious. There is a self-serve salad bar with sides. The sauces were also really good. Highly recommend.

Leon M

We dined there for weekday lunch, experiencing minimal crowding. The $20.99 per-person lunch buffet presented exceptional value, offering approximately fifteen diverse entree selections alongside a self-service salad and soup bar. Service was adequate, with attentive staff regularly replenishing the grill. Parking was readily available in the rear structure; however, the consistently malfunctioning elevator lacked any out-of-service signage, a matter requiring immediate municipal attention, particularly given the inconvenience for patrons with strollers, especially those parking on upper levels. Aside from this deficiency, the overall experience was highly satisfactory, and we intend to return.

Weekend ayce special from 11-3pm for $26.99 and order from standard menu is a pretty good deal. If you can make it on the weekday between 11-5pm, it's even cheaper at $20.99 and same menu! Other disc…

Food is amazing meat is so fresh! I came here almost once a week. Our server Yoyo is so friendly!

Everything great \nSo good and tasty\nPrice affordable \nService fantastic and good staffs

food is amazing meat is so fresh! I came here almost once a week. Our server Yoyo is so friendly!

Food is amazing meat is so fresh! I came here almost once a week. Our server Yoyo is so friendly!

Everything great \nSo good and tasty\nPrice affordable \nService fantastic and good staffs

Food is amazing meat is so fresh! I came here almost once a week. Our server Yoyo is so friendly!

Third time at Road to Seoul bbq\ngreat buffet and service easy instructions if your a first timer. I do love when the robots bring your meets!

Third time at Road to Seoul BBQ\ngreat buffet and service easy instructions if your a first timer. I do love when the robots bring your meets!

The quality is top tier and the self serving salad bar in next level. We came here for a birthday and it was great.

The quality is top tier and the self serving salad bar in next level. We came here for a birthday and it was great.

Great place for korean bbq! Always friendly staff that are on top of everything. Always a favorite spot!

salad bar is my fav!! Came on a thursday night and there were a ton of people. The sides are always fresh

Food was good for the price, loved the beef belly. Awesome service from Yoyo! Restaurant is clean and they have a good selection of sides.

Food was good for the price, loved the beef belly. Awesome service from Yoyo! Restaurant is clean and they have a good selection of sides.

Food was great. meat was very good quality and the happy hour special was on point. Hot and cold bar was good too.

Great food great service definitely worth the value. Great options for the price thank you.

I came here with my boyfriend and coworkers. We had such a fun time. The food was great and they have a buffet style setup for the other food items that were not raw meat. \n\nThey had a wide selec…

Happy Hour AYCE? Heck yes! Didn't expect much but boy did it change my viewpoint. Tastes and freshness of meats and salad bar were on point. Service was half robot cat and half human, both were on …

Veryy clean, verry yummy, verry good and highly recommend. verry amazing with everything 10/10

Service was fast! Food was fresh! price was great for the quality of service and food you're getting. Standard AYCE is $30, but if you come M-F 11am- 5PM there's a $20.99 lunch special. Totally wor…

amazing atmosphere, so clean! awesome mirrors in the lobby and a really good playlist. also they have tteok-bokki!

Always my go to korean bbq spot definitely reccomend to my family and friends. Service is always 10/10 and food comes out quickly! The vibes are great! Date night and birthdays we have spent here.

Great lunch korean bbq spot! The octopus and brisket were the stars--fresh, flavorful, and cooked perfectly. Loved the large selection of meats and sides, and everything came out fast. Solid spot f…

Decent nachos and the service kinda sucked even tho I was one of the only ppl at the bar lol.

Quite Loud🤬 Reason Being Sports Game Night Fans Cheering Screaming Yelling🙉🙊🙈 My sister and I were there dining. It wasn't quiet as usually it is. Don't ever go on a game sports night cuz you won't be able to hear one another talk or have any conversation. Other than that it was relatively good restaurant to eat. The sports bar is right next to the dining room. It's not even separated so you don't have really have much of a choice!!

Came here on a Tuesday night, we got the nachos appetizer, ribeye and Cajun chicken pasta. There was more chicken than pasta and it was well seasoned. The ribeye was decent and the nachos had good taco seasoning layered. We got to watch the dodger game. For price, quality and service I would come back here.

MeiZhen Lin

Place is great since it is in the central. Food is also good though haven't tried everything yet

Draco Guan

You walk in and immediately get hit with a full-on happy birthday song somewhere in the room. The place feels bright, loud, and oddly nostalgic — very festive. Tho if you’re a lone diner after midnight, you’re kind of swallowing the meat and the emo at the same time, with salad bar fading off earlier than expected. Food: Solid, but not mind-blowing for the $30–50/person range. It satisfies the craving. Service: the free soda-for-review promo felt backwards—they wanted the review/verification before serving the drink. It’d be smoother to serve first and comp it at checkout. Hard to review what you haven’t tasted. Overall: a dependable late-night KBBQ option with great vibes in the room, but the service could be warmer and more straightforward — especially at this price point.

Evee Razm

Great variety of food to choose from! Nice and fast service! Only thing I didn’t like was sitting next to the burning grills and restroom. Smell got bad !

We ordered all you can eat bundle for ribs, wings, shrimp, fountain. Friday night is a busy night, so they miss you order sometimes. I wait my ribs for 30 mins. More employees are required in busy hour, otherwise customer will lost patience.

Servers and hostess were great. Appetizers were good, drinks were good, but the food is not the same anymore. Every time I order pasta with chicken it's under cooked, I started getting ribs and they are always burnt I get extra BBQ to see if it helps with the burnt flavor but no. I don't know what's been going on lately but it's not what it used to be.

First time at a Applebee's with Wife and kids. We were greeted by a lady asking how many. I said five. She put us down and looked at the restaurant for five seconds and told us "Give us about ten minutes.". We sat down and I looked into the restaurant. I observed many waitresses walking around. They have a bar island in the middle of the restaurant. It was a Sunday so it was busy. We got called and were sat at our table with menus ready. We waited for 12 minutes before a server acknowledge us, to let us know they would be with us, yet many servers were talking near the entrance. (Hmm...it was Sunday and busy...) When our server came she asked us for our drink orders and when we did she asked if we needed more time to order. (Uh really?!?) "We're actually ready!" We placed our order. Kids got their dish. Wife and I were not impressed. I had really small portions and my wife's meal tasted like a frozen meal heated on a skillet(or microwave). Maybe because it was Sunday, and it was busy we hardly got any attention (yet the servers and waitresses hanged out in the front talking). Maybe I was expecting to much. We probably could have done better at Wendy's then here. Coming back? No thanks. Tried it, disappointed. I had to try it. I did. They did not leave a good impression. Thanks but no thanks.

Context: Store closes at midnight and I came with my 9months pregnant wife right around 11pm. We just wanted to get one of the desserts. They gave us the option to sit down at the bar so I asked them if we could sit on the padded seat booths instead of high rise chairs since my wife was pregnant and also the fact that the couple right in front of us was seated at the booths and there were other people sitting there as well as seen in the pictures. Anyways, we ended up sitting at the bar area and ordered the dessert which was good. But the customer service made me give this rating.

The servers are always the best but the chefs (probably) are always messing up my stuff, I ordered medium well and they gave me well done, which is okay but the steak was so burnt I chipped my tooth, it was a small chip but it still sucks 😭. My husband ordered well done but got a bloody steak instead, the server said they would try to remove one of the items from the bill for the inconvenience but left it the same. I understand it was Valentine’s Day and it was super busy but it kind of ruined our dinner.

The food was expect when coming to any Applebees but they had mentioned that the food was cook homemade at the restaurant. Not only that I had flagged the manger "Ellie" the closing manger about the food not tasting right and wasn't good and said what should I do with ? And continues to say we get it frozen , package and put in a fryer, Looked at me in confusion and not trying to understand the issue. Like you guys don't know how to use a fryer or what ? , So I said I would like a refund and said alright then. And rolls her eyes in front in me. As a manger myself and to be treated with no respect and with no empathy about how I was feeling as a consumer. Not only that she was repeatedly rude to her own workers/employees while closing with her fellow team. Joseph was fabulous. Thank you Joseph you need a raise. And not only the manger didn't say sorry at all and never came to check in with me. Manager should never show their temper or frustration when working in a social environment and setting . It’s an embarrassment and disgusting to see Applebees is hiring non ethic managers such as “Ellie “ to fulfill a role that is provided in any manger job description and still can’t do the bare minimum. Thank you but no thank you.

I think Applebee's is an okay chain. A tad better than Chili's, but not much. It was national cheeseburger day, so we headed out to Applebee's for a burger. A nice special too! Parking is difficult here, but we found a place to park and walked in. We were seated by a nice young woman. We looked over the menu and said yup, cheeseburger! Our waitress came by - Not friendly at all and it felt like she didn't want to be there. She took our order and barely said a word. The drinks arrived and she put them down and left - no conversation and I don't think she even said a word! Next, the food came. Plates dropped off in silence, then off she went. The food was very salty - I don't like it when they oversalt food. My drink went pretty quickly and I was looking to call our waitress, but she disappeared. I finally grabbed a busboy and he refilled my drink. We finished our meal and our waitress was nowhere to be seen. I asked a gal walking by if she could get our waitress for us. Our waitress came by, refilled our glassed and left. Not a word! We paid our bill and left - VERY DISAPPOINTED! We will not go back to this Applebee's. We know what to expect and this was a huge disappointment.