Visit for more details about the restaurant, including how to help the restaurant at this time. If I close my restaurant permanently, my wife, Sunny, and I have to return to Korea within 90 days.” I have been happy living the American dream. 1 Photo 12 Reviews Location & Hours 700 El Camino Real Ste 170 Menlo Park, CA 94025 Get directions Edit business info You Might Also Consider Sponsored Benihana 1770 J R. I have an E-2 visa, which is an investor visa. “My requests were denied because I am not a citizen or a permanent resident. “I applied for an EIDL (Economic Injury Disaster Loan) and a SBA (Small Business Administration) loan,” he said. Right now, Seo is struggling to pay the restaurant’s rent. So, I’ve donated money to Namaste Direct, an organization that helps poor ladies living in Guatemala with their career goals.” “I have donated money from the restaurant to the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, the local Red Cross serving Santa Clara County for the Japanese Tsunami Relief Fund, and to children’s hospitals,” Seo said. Seo purchased this restaurant in January 2005. The first owner ran this restaurant for two years and the second owner, for 10 years. He has also set up two small tables for outdoor dining.Īccording to Seo, the restaurant originally opened in 1993. Recently, Seo signed up to work with DoorDash. Each order, cooked or uncooked, comes with two servings.” “I am also offering an uncooked meal package so customers can prepare their meal at home. “If the customer wants a customized meal, we can offer that and charge $2 extra for their meal,” Seo continued. Our pre-mixed sauces come in mild, medium spicy, spicy and extra spicy.” We have seven different choices for protein - a meat combination, beef, pork, chicken, lamb, vegetarian and shrimp. “Then the State of California announced that we couldn’t offer dine-in service for now,” Seo said. He also cleaned and organized spaces that customers and employees might come in contact with. In May, Seo built dividers between the tables to prepare for indoor dining. “Right now, we only get about 10 to 15 percent of these customers since the pandemic hit.” It would be nice to have some ice-cream machine to refresh yourself after noodles.“Usually, on a weekday we have about 150 to 200 customers, and on a weekend - Friday, Saturday or Sunday - we have about 300 to 400 customers per day,” Seo said. The only thing that disappointed us a bit besides tricky working hours and quite big price ($33 for two including taxes and tips) is absolute absence of any sweets. The atmosphere doesn't have any Asian outlook, but it has thousands of pictures on the walls and ceiling with happy customers eating there. Besides having ready-to-be-cooked food, this restaurant also offers "all you can eat" options of cooked spring rolls, steamed rice and fried chicken. In addition, even that two bowls that you fill with ingredients might look small, ammount of cooked food on your plate will be very big later.
The owners are a nice couple, always friendly to customers. And we doubt that it is possible to select some combination, which will not taste great. El Camino Mongolian BBQ to shut down permanently December 15th, 2021. The helpful advices of the staff members made us to select the right combination of sauses to make our noodles with vegerables and meat as tasty as possible. After picking all needed ingredients, we gave it to the chefs, who drop all our food in the gigantic pan and started frying it. It is not an easy task because they have not only big variety of vegetables but also meat such as chicken, lamb, pork and beef. In order to get your food cooked, you need to get two bowls and fill one of them with vegetables and noodles and the other one with meat.
In short, it is a buffee place with "all you can eat" rule except for the fact that almost all ingredients are fresh and need to be cooked. At first, very polite staff members explained to us how not to get lost because of the unusual type of the service in this restaurant. Even that we (a couple) needed to spend 2 hours driving around, our disappointment disappeared as soon as we finally entered this place.
The fact that this place is closed in the middle of a day made us make circles around restaurant till it's opening hours.
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