The nearly 30-year-old traditional wooden chairs and tables are enough of a reason to visit this dimly-lit strip mall space.Though crowds show up mainly for the superior bossam, a Korean specialty featuring pork belly slices and accompaniments, it’s worth trying basically everything on the menu, including the hulking seafood pajeon and kimchi stew in a stone pot.
The company has greatly expanded its footprint in the neighborhood over the past few months with Korean barbecue restaurants Quarters and Origin in Chapman Plaza, donkatsu spot Lasung, night club Terra Cotta, and more.
Located in the heart of Koreatown, Soot Bull Jip may seem, at first glance, like an average Korean barbecue restaurant, complete with sizzling cuts of meat on tabletop grills, gusts of smoke-filled air, and the familiar clinks of soju glasses.
