Jacob G

Just as every review says, this place is awesome! I love Korean BBQ and it’s all you can eat, Need I say more! You do cook the food yourself which is just a fun experience with everyone. The short ribs and the kimchi pancakes were probably my favorite thing we got. We also got the garlic pork belly, shrimp, brisket, sirloin.. pretty much everything on the menu. Everything was fantastic. The service was amazing as well. We never felt like we were missing food or was waiting for more. They also come around change out your burner top so it’s always clean. If you really need convincing and your not just sure. Just walk in front of the building and you’ll be convinced by the amazing aroma of Korean BBQ food!

Daniel Li

All you can eat for $32. Short ribs are the best. Their banchan is also excellent. Staff are friendly and attentive, we never had to wait to order more meat. The only areas of improvement would be brighter lighting (when it gets dark), providing wet wipes or more napkins from the start (grilling is a messy process), and cleaner restrooms. But the service and the food was great, so I'm still giving a 5 star review.

Anthoney Hines

This place is the quintessential Korean BBQ joint. Definitely not to be enjoyed alone. One other person will do but the more the merrier. The spicy pork is out of this world, the cucumber salad sauce amplifies everything. The staff is very friendly and attentive and you get what you pay for. Not cheap but absolutely an experience. Great place for a celebration or if you just like playing with your food 😄

+2

Maggie Zhen

Great food! Good service! Highly recommend for you to make a reservation first on Yelp so you don't have to wait 20-30 minutes for your seat. Fresh food, worth the price!

+2

Tanya was the best server ever!!! She was so sweet amd kind! Loved her service she made the night so much better!!! Will def have to come back and visit her

Tanya was the best server ever!!! She was so sweet amd kind! Loved her service she made the night so much better!!! Will def have to come back and visit her

Headline: Best K-BBQ I've had outside of Seoul!\n"I've tried a lot of Korean spots, but this place is the real deal. The Galbi was incredibly tender and had that perfect smoky, sweet glaze. You can t…

Amazing service and good. Make sure yall sit in Raymond and Person spot, they were amazing host. Food was also spot on!

Amazing service and good. Make sure yall sit in Raymond and Person spot, they were amazing host. food was also spot on!

my favorite restaurant in oakland good service wonderful food and love the vibe wit the TV's & music

Delicious and nice for its price. It's better than most of other Korean bbqs in the Bay Area. So, recommend!

The ambiance of the whole restaurant was lowkey and very neat! Tyler was such an incredible host! He accommodated for everything we had asked for (and the rest of the staff that had been working 12…

I love this korean barbecue place. Really good service not really long wait times it's also good to try to call ahead to get on the waitlist. Very chill friendly vibes.

Gogi time is probably the best KBBQ in the Bay Area. Reasonably price, the sides and appetizers are amazing. Parking could get a bit tough during prime hours, but definitely worth it!

Emeka O

The food here is amazing! The kimchi is awesome and the kimchi pancakes are even better! Light and crispy with crunchy bell peppers. The potstickers are another favorite, can’t go wrong with that. The meats too are spot on; brisket, ribs and pork belly

Service was great. All the servers were on top of everything. \n\nThe meats were great, good flavors. The kimchi pancake was great. The banchan was weird. Dry. Or like. Not marinated long enough? Lik…

The food was mediocre as the meat was mostly chewy and not worth the price for the all you could eat. The meat didn't seem to have any flavor. But the appetizers like the garlic fries were …

The food was mediocre as the meat was mostly chewy and not worth the price for the all you could eat. The meat didn't seem to have any flavor. But the appetizers like the garlic fries were really a…

The food was mediocre as the meat was mostly chewy and not worth the price for the all you could eat. The meat didn't seem to have any flavor. But the appetizers like the garlic fries were really…

The food was mediocre as the meat was mostly chewy and not worth the price for the all you could eat. The meat didn't seem to have any flavor. But the appetizers like the garlic fries were really a…

Food was not fresh. The family of 3 got sick few hours later after eating here. Service was ok, but we had to pay an expensive surcharge fee when check out. It is unfortunate, we will not be coming…

The meat is pretty good and the price point is decent for the area! Those are the positives. \n\nThe service is lacking - we ordered one bowl of rice five separate times and received...no rice. The…

We went on a Saturday afternoon and got seated pretty fast. The food was good and they have a lot of appetizers and sides to choose from! It wasn't super busy when we went and the service was great…

Great Service. If you are into roasting your own meat, this is a good relaxed place. kid friendly.

kimberly tan

service was great, servers were really sweet and nice. unfortunately the food was meh. meat was a bit bland and tough, radish banchan sliced quite thick, multigrain rice soggy. $43 plus tax and mandatory 18% tip for ayce dinner. i prefer ohgane for ayce (they also have cold beef noodle, which gogi time did not).

To cut to the chase; the KBBQ is alright, nothing special whatsoever. I'll keep this review nice and short. The restaurant itself is interesting. Does not have your typical KBBQ ambiance. Walked in…

S B

it was tough to enjoy the food when every single one of the grills we got had soap residue on it :( everything had a slightly soapy flavor . we even mentioned it to the server but all the grills were still like this

Minh Thai

When we sit down, I noticed the grill plate already had oil residue from no being wash carefully. No big deal, we used paper napkin to clean up the top. The waiter turned on the fire when the meats came. As the grill plate started to heat up, we started to putt meat on top of the grill plate. As we were putting meat in the “hot” grill plate, I noticed black/brown dirty soapy bubbles come out at the edge of the grill plate openings. See pictures of the grill plate and picture of the paper napkin after we tried to wipe off the black bubble. We told the waiter and he changed to another one. But the second one also spit out black soapy bubbles as it was heat up. Then the third one was also the same. I find out the reason is the grill plate is made of two stainless steel sheets one on top of another so it is almost impossible to wash away anything in between. So we end up using their outdoor solid grill plate and stove instead. I am sure all other tables in this restaurant would have similar problem. If you just put meat on top of the grill plate before it is heat up, you will not see the dirty black/brown soapy bubbles. This is not the first time we ran into dirty grill plate at Korean BBQ restaurants. So pay attention to the grill plate when you eat at any Korean BBQ place. I told the restaurant they shouldn’t use this kind of grill plate. I hope they listen. The restaurant give us 15% off for the incident without asking. However I still feel I should inform every one about this because I saw they continue to serve other tables using the same style grill plates even after I informed them about the problem. And the tables next to us just put meats on their grill plates and didn’t notice anything and just eat… I give two stars because the food is not bad and the manager let us used the outdoor solid plate with portable stove instead

+2

Edwin Park

I heard that Gogi Time was a good Korean BBQ place from a close friend, so I gave it a try and I was honestly so disappointed. The food and service were both lackluster and brought down the overall mood of my friend group. Here is why. Lets start with the food. The food came in small portions (for a group of 5) and the quality of the meat was poor with fatty cuts. We had to cut out all the fat because it became too much in the end. We also ordered steamed egg as an appetizer and was absolutely disgusted when we scooped down to discover that the egg was barely cooked. When we showed this to our server, he merely brushed it off and said he would just add a new order of steamed egg to our next order. Our steamed egg failed to come and we had to ask again for the egg to come in at all. When the steamed egg did come in and was fully cooked, we tried it only to discover that it was too salty to even eat. We also ordered the soju cocktails and we could tell instantly that the soju wasn't the best quality because it was so hard to force down. Good soju is supposed to be smooth going down and have a crisp aftertaste but the cocktails here had a strange metallic taste to them. I believe in rating a restaurant based on the sole quality and taste of the food and this place gets a major disapproval from me. Next is the service which doesn't affect my ratings but definitely impacts my experience and my mood towards this restaurant. Our server was barely present and rarely checked up on our table. We would eat and cook for 10 minutes and wait for 30 minutes just for the next set of meat to come in or to even get the server to take our order. When the server did get our order, he would constantly forget certain parts of our order and we would have to repeat it multiple times. Near the end we got fed up and just asked for the check because we were no longer in the mood to repeat ourselves or continue eating. Overall Gogi Time fails to live up to the expectations that I have for Korean BBQ. For 30+ dollars and an additional 18% gratuity charge for any groups 5 or more, I feel that there are better options and the prices of the drinks here are overpriced considering the size and the quality of the drinks you receive.

Probably one of the worst meals I've had in Oakland. Got it delivered and the beef bulgogi had no seasoning or sauce on it. Straight up boiled beef. Out of 3 of us no one would eat it so we pitched…

The 20% per person fee they add to every bill might be printed on the menu, but that doesn't make it reasonable. For a casual meal, it's just not realistic, especially when the service doesn't matc…

I hope the owners see this review and take it to heart in the spirit it's meant to convey...\n\nI moved to the Bay Area 10 years ago, and Gogi Tome was my first hotpot / korean bbq experience. I lo…

This was the worst korean bbq place I have been: the bulgogi and short rib was so thick and so hard. They kept forgetting our orders and didn't even give us Banchan. The waiters were not attentive …

Nathan Kim

This has to be the worst “Korean BBQ” spot I’ve ever been to. My buddies and I ordered all-you-can-eat, while a couple of them ordered individual dishes, and the experience was bad across the board. The food was completely unauthentic. The kimchi stew was filled with red food dye and tasted like ketchup rather than real kimchi jjigae. Even the white rice was wrong. It wasn’t the short-grain white rice traditional Korean restaurants use, but cheap-tasting jasmine rice. It was brought out in large bowls one at a time, forcing everyone to scoop their own rice, which made it get cold far quicker than it should have. The service was just as disappointing. We ordered a kimchi pancake, which normally takes at most 10 minutes to cook, yet it took almost 25 minutes to come out even after asking multiple times. Most of the workers were white guys who rarely stayed in the restaurant and kept disappearing into a back room, while all the people actually cooking the food were Hispanic. There was very little presence or communication on the floor. To top it all off, when we received our check, we were charged a non-negotiable, built-in 25% tip. Twenty-five percent!?!?! Each persons bill rung up for $65 when the all you can eat was priced at $42.99, which is still far more expensive than any restaurant in the area. This was never made clear upfront and felt completely unjustified given the quality of the food and service. There are plenty of other places in the Bay Area, especially in Oakland, that offer far better food, service, and transparency with pricing. This restaurant gives a completely wrong perception of what Korean food tastes like and does not reflect how our culture works at all. Don’t give this place any more business.

Wendy lat

Worst korean BBQ ever!!!  $111 for me and my partner, they charged us 18% service charge for serving two people? NOT WORTH IT!! we came here for some good food but got disappointed instead. Waitress here was awful!! Saw her making faces after she turned around after giving us our food, looks like she’s not in the right line of work. Food quality is poor, this is a good restaurant years ago, the food they serve didn’t match their price. Meat quality was terrible with absolutely no flavor. rice was overcooked mushy and sticky. radish wrapper had MOLD!! Grill had soap residue on it!! WE ARE DEFINITELY NOT GOING BACK AGAIN.