Reviews of Koreander (Restaurant)

Beatriz Gutierrez

Loved this place , delicious food , great service

TheNaye16

First time here and was great. Food was amazing but the customer service was even better.

Andrew Aldridge

Excellent food, good (thick and very sweet) bubble tea, and very friendly staff!

parnrocks

Amazing food and service recommend making reservations

Jho De Guzman

Been here twice so far. I'm a Korean food lover. They have the best soondubu! Very tasty! Plus the waiter/chef are very nice and polite. Found my restaurant in the area. I work 5 mins. away from here, this will definitely be my lunch place now.

Ricardo Echeona

Excellent food something different

Joe L

Very comfortable, affordable, and pleasant atmosphere. Food is excellent. Staff very upbeat and willing to help or explain anything on menu. I had the Kimchi Jjigae, only wish these were more glass noodles in it, but the brother and elements all complimented each other. Reminded me of the first time I experienced this dish of spicy soul warming goodness. This is the first five star review I've ever given. I will definitely drive the hour to go to this place again.

Shaf Kamal

Best korean food I've had in years

i Print

Place is Delicious!!!!!

Eri mena

I love this restaurant. It was our first restaurant when we were discovering new Jersey! The food is awesome and the attention wonderful! Thanks for the experience! Regards from Bolivia!

Drew Patel

This place is worth a try. They serve large portions for affordable rates. Regularly well organized and with good mood. I highly recommend this place.

Harneet Singh Pasricha

Delicious Korean food, try the sweet & spicy wings!

Jim Jones

Koreander has amazing food. It is authentic cuisine and the menu had good choices.

Matthew Mason

Nice small place. Possibly my first time eating Korean BBQ but it was very tasty. I got the bibimbap...as did the other two people with me.

William Meier

I ordered the Bibimbap in a stone bowl. The meal was delicious!

Scott Cullari

Friendly service and good food

Miguel Galarza

One word.... WOW!!!!

Alison Tribus

Love the dumplings and bimbimbap. The bulgogi is delicious too. My son devours the kids ramen soup. The food is always hot and fresh.

Alexis A

Great food, great service. cant wait to go back!

Sreekanth Balibani

Great food

David Shelton

New owners. Very warm and welcoming hope they do well

Katherine Wong

Best.bibimbap.ever...seriously! Meat is so tender and flavorful and everything so fresh!

James Cimmino

Gone many times, the owner knows us personally now and always cranks up the hot level when we ask. Great guy.

Sei Peele

The bibimbop was great but the bilbolgi was to die for!!!! Wish I could restrained myself from diving into the bilbolgi long enough to take a picture. Being located on the trendy but quiet Watchung Ave side of Montclair, this restaurant deserves lines stretched down to the train station for the dishes they offer. The staff and owners are salt of the earth folks with warm personalities and a welcoming smile. If your talking it to go, call ahead! They get pretty busy, of your staying to eat, don't be afraid to ask for suggestions.

Victor Jung

Friendly and attentive staff. Family owned and operated and it shows on the food. Traditional home style flavors sort of remind you of visits to a Korean grand mother's house when she cooks a feast. Well priced meal for a party of 4. Worth adding this location to your rotation of local neighborhood culinary delights. It's good enough for Montclair as it lacks some less westernized Asian restaurants. But it ain't a home run like places in Fort Lee or K Town where the competition is more fierce and food is never a miss.

samantha Eckerling

I love this place!! The service is incredible EVERY TIME, along with their delicious food, and the intimate setting makes this a place that I keep going back to!!

Sharon Angela Naidoo

Really good restaurant, there was a line outside and after waiting 15min, I was not disappointed. The food was fantastic and fresh! The staff were friendly and attentive. Food came out quickly, hot and delicious. The owner also walked around and chatted to people:) I will definitely go again! ( and again)

Shweta Mehta

Decent food

Erik D'Amato

Friendly, fast and tasty!

John DeSclafani

Best Bibimbop I have ever had!

anj pascual

If you are used to the korean restaurants in edison and ridgefield area, this is not the place for you.

Deniz Parlar

Delicious Korean food and fantastic service! The food was served in mere minutes after ordering.

Domenic V. DiStefano

The food is excellent I have never had Korean food before and I am not one to try new things. Besides that my fiance took me here and this food is amazing!

Emily Huang

In a word: delicious. The generously portioned, reasonably priced food was served bubbling hot and full of flavor by the staff, who were helpful and friendly. One word of advice to vegetarians, the "vegetarian" portion of the menu is more strictly speaking for pescatarians. A little something was lost in translation, as all of the spicy dishes listed in the vegetarian section of the menu (including the kimchi) contain a seafood element. The servers were more than exceptional in guiding around my questions and the meal was beyond exemplary. Easily the best Korean meal I've had since moving to New Jersey.

Lauren Berlingeri

Great food

Lorene Squires

Mmmmmmmmm! Can be spicy!

Tone Deo

Stopped by for the first time tonight for some take out. So HAPPY I did! Food was delicious. Spicy chicken was outstanding. VERY Friendly staff is also a big + Will be back soon.

Julie Kemps-Rowley

Great

Chaeyeon Rita Kim

just normal price for korean food in US, But it tastes really good and it's high quality too. I can tell as a native Korean!

Ryan Kulp

New owners are amazing. We get incredible service every time we go. Love this place!

Tyler Durden

Amazing, friendly service. The food tastes amazing. The chef ran after us when I forgot my take home meal. 100/10, will definitely returns and tell my friends about it.

Susan Bruno

First time trying Korean food, and I LOVED it! I LOVE this restaurant too. Everything about it was really wonderful. From the delicious food to the friendly and helpful staff.

donovan d sanchez

This place is a must try. The food is delicious and the staff is friendly and attentive.

Frans Moncayo

I went to Koreander for the first time recently because I wanted to pick up some Korean food. I’d read the reviews and it’s only about 15 minutes away so I thought I’d try it out. I was immediately greeted by several of the workers since it was not busy at the time. They were all very friendly and accommodating and gave me several suggestions and asked me about myself. I purchased the seafood dumplings and beef bibimbap (rice bowl) and was also given kimchi and soup in addition. It was a huge quantity of food for roughly $20 so that was fine with me. I enjoyed the taste of all of the food when I got home and highly recommend this place because I’m definitely going back!

Derek Wright

Great food, friendly staff, get the #9.

Kajalp arvind

my 1st tym to this restaurant...totally in love with everything the food the staff the ambience

Ariane Benefit

Excellent food. Both the Korean and the Japanese. Favorites are the Flower Tuna app which for me is an entree, Kalbi, Bulgogi, and the Tuna Rolls. Everything I've had there is super fresh and delish.

Jen Rodland

delicious food is a tiny but nice restaurant with a polite, friendly staff. they're enthusiastic about the food and will kindly explain Korean cuisine to the novice.

Lilly Mollica

Absolutely amazing, the food is so beyond exceptional, and the service is amazing every time. I go here at least once a month and its never let me down :)

Ray Leonard

This site is my favorite place. Of all restaurants I know I favor it most. I always suggests to my friends to go to visit this restaurant. everytime I want to go to a fair meal, this place comes straight to my head. best and all sorts of food and a rich cuisine.generous staff, and pleasant spirit. Also important, the tariff is reasonable. I suggest this restaurant with pleasure.

Stan Watts

Great food! Go there several times a month!

Ashly Armstrong

A-mazing!!!

Štěpán Štaffen

Simple, spicy, tasty, very cozy environment for a quick eat.

Developer Dreams

Amazing service and food!

Ji Hyun Lee

Ben who is the manager thus shop, he was such a nice person. And servers were very nice, food was also delicious. You won't be disapointed.

Beverly Byers

Great place for lunch and dinner! Quiet and cute staff is wonderful

Daniel Lousa

I was really happy with my trip to Koreander. Their pork belly was perfectly cooked. Chewy but not too chewy. Soft but not too soft. And absolutely smothered in onions. I am definitely coming back

Jesse Roberson

Very friendly environment and great outing for a group or for a romantic setting be it midday or night. Always have a blast here. Kalbi barbecue is ace as well as the spicy tuna sushi to name a few. First time tasting bubble tea and it was tasty. Stop in and try, your taste buds will thank you.

Chris M

It had the best Korean food such a great taste cooked to perfection and the atmosphere was awesome and the owner of the restaurant would greet you and keep coming around really made you feel welcomed. I will definitely go back to this restaurant and I recommend it

Romin N

Good traditional Korean food and very warm staff. I do like a little kimchi from time to time! I ordered the bulgogi and the manager (I think it was he) showed me how to mix up the rice with the meat and japchae noodles and advised me that having it in a stone bowl is much better than any other kind! I like ethnic restaurants that have the right staff who know their own cuisine and traditions and can help newcomers explore it. We talked a little about midtown Manhattan's Koreatown and the merits of Korean miso soup vs. Japanese miso. I had a very good first experience here and will surely be back to explore other traditional Korean options.

Militza Diaz

Hidden gem in Montclair/ Bloomfield border. Soups were in point. New favorite.

daniel gonzalez

Food ... amazing Site ... amazing Service ... amazing All around ... amazing.

Patricia pinto

Omg this was the best place to eat and great service I've been there 3 times and everything g is fabulous. Please check this out and what great service..

Eric Vitale

Koreander has become a staple of mine since moving in the area, so good!

Patrick Smith

Miso soup had no tofu. I wasnt impressed with the bulgogi due to very small pieces of meat and no marinade flavor. Also had mushrooms which was different but they were tasty. Didn't really care too much for the side dishes. Never got asked if I needed a refill which I definitely did, luckily my friend didn't plan on drinking their water.

Duncan Wright

I love Koreander. A warm, family-owned place, with outstanding food, prepared with love and care. Absolutely delicious and always welcoming.

Mehul Patel

Great place for Korean food :)

Diego Mendoza

The food is amazing and great the price is a bit high but its all worth it

Jason Derosa

Great people. Great food

Felipe Espinal

(Translated by Google) Excellent place to eat the original Korean food. (Original) Excelente lugar para comer la original comida Koreana.

Howard Kaufman

Very good hybrid of Korean Fusion Food...

frankie phillips

The real deal!!!

Jessy Amane

Really great Ramen!! Awesome service! The chef even came out and asked how the food was, which was super delicious by the way!

Taliyah Golden

Kimchi chigae is my favorite dish here

Aaloong Lau

(Translated by Google) Korean restaurant (Original) 韩餐店

Barbara Epsaro

Awsome unique food at great prives freindly staff

John Brojock

Good food. Will try again

Gregory A

Good food. Cool staff. Hot and spicy deliciousness.

donna amato salvacion

Best miss ever

Cheni Khonje

Friendly, delicious hankuk umshik. Yum

Will Mooney

Loved it. Great lunch. Thank you.

Aisha Ladson

Delish

Valjean Grant

Food was ok, first experience was much better.

Nicha Sukittiyanon

The service was very nice to begin with. The server was very attentive, friendly, & polite. However, food was plain and a bit pricy. The tofu soup (soondubu chigae) was supposed to be mainly sour and spicy, but it was so salty. I ordered seafood in it, but it came with only 1 clams and a bunch of imitation crab meat. This soup costed me about $15ish. The noodle dish was obviously prepared which made the noodle crispy and chewy and it is not the way of this food was supposed to be. I’m kind of disappointed honestly.

Louis Cyphere

Great place if you want to try authentic Korean food. Owner is very friendly, and will offer you recommendations of you have never tried Korean food. Portions are quite large, freshly prepared while you wait. Accepts cash (of course) and major credit cards. Friendly request I have noticed on the wall- if total is below $20, please pay In cash. No separate parking, but street parking is available - side street 2 hrs - enough to enjoy your meal.

Sea Biscuit

Good food, good service...go for the great food

Aileen Pena

The food was delicious!!! I could hold back from eating the entire portion. Highly recommend it.

vffwyp s

The food is always fresh and delicious, employees gives great service. I like how neat it is and atmosphere. Will come visit again.

B K

Love it!

Nico Sguera

Delicious!

Jeffry Cesario

Good food and service.

Anwesha Ghosh

Good tasty korean food and their homemade gochujang is excellent!

CareerNet

Tasty. Owner managed. Authentic. Full, even on a Wednesday night. Fresh fresh fresh ingredients. And since it is authentic recognize it's spicy, but in a great way - not heat for heat's sake.

Matt Penrose

Great food and wonderful service

Alberto Williams

I was pleasantly surprised the food was very good and the service was excellent as well

Arvind Meenakshi Sundaram

Lovely place with lovely food and great staffs. Will definitely come back.

Marlon Smith

Really good

Leonard Kramer

One of my favorite spots to grab some food. awesome location, always clean, and awesome service. A must try!

SJ J

My boyfriend and I went here because we both love Korean food, especially the chicken wings -- what a disappointment. We have NO idea why this place has such a high rating. The wings weren't crispy, they had almost a breading to them which isn't how traditional Korean wings are made. Literally no one working in the restaurant was Korean when we were there, which is just strange for a place with reviews about how authentic they are. The sauces didn't quite taste right. I'm used to BonChon, Drunken Chicken, or Pelicana style Korean wings/fast food and this just didn't live up to the hype. Clearly the reviews are not from people who have experience with Korean food, or even Korean from K-town in NYC. Will never go back.

Betty L

good food! I would come back again. the server was nice. they were accommodating for our group of 6. parking is street parking.

a Sugee!

My local go to for Korean, good Korean dishes & sides. Ramen is so-so,but hey it's not a ramen place. Some vegetarian options.

Sarah Leibowitz

My mom is Korean and I grew up in flushing new york, so I've had a lot of Korean food in my life. This place stands up to the best; it's authentic tasting with large portions and cute ambiance. I came in only for the lunch special and had the bibimbap (in a hot stone) and friend dumplings and came away happy, nostalgic, and satisfied.

Tj Mac

It was our first time trying korean food. It was so good, we enjoyed the food and great customer service as well.

Sherita Smith

Nice, small restaurant with good food. BYOB and there is a liquor store on the same street. Great place to have a meal with a loved one or small group.

Trix Contreras

This place is pretty good. Food is priced pretty well and the ambiance is pretty cute. I really like the pictures attached to the walls. They do take out, and they give sides with the take outs as well. If you like spicy food let them know and they could hook you up with the good stuff.

Roy Jay

Too LIT!

Ton Reyes

Delicious. Friendly staff. Great service.

Sarah Beth Stovesand

Absolutely delicious.

Dakota Monster

this place is soooooooo good

Randall Schneider

The heated stone bowls make the food even better.

Shantanu Bansal

To start with, the miso soup was delicious. The food came out super quickly and it was absolutely awesome. Full marks to the staff for making me feel welcome.

B

overall the food was excellent and delicious. the miso soup was not good though. it had a strange taste to it... one person in our group thought it was like a Ritz cracker and another just couldn't quite figure out what it was but it didn't taste like miso. it was terrible but it probably a bad powder/packet-made soup. the Korean food - the ramen and the stone pot rice dish on the other hand was very good. the appetizers were not as nice as other Korean restaurants though and there weren't very many of them (3 compared to 6 or 7 in some other places).

Carol Betzy

Taste is ok for fast food. Not authentic.

Tyran Mincey

Awsomey

Gagandeep Sharma

Best korean food in New Jersey

Jacob Steinke

Amazing Service and even better food! This is one of my favorite places to eat not only because the food is delicious but also because the people are so nice! Definitely come here!!!!

Gregory Bryant

Love the food here. Great service too.

Josh Rosenberg

I LOVE this place! The food is fantastic and unique, even for Montclair. Everyone is nice and accommodating. One time I forgot my leftovers, and the owner came running down the street after me to hand them to me. My dad takes me here to cheer me up whenever something bad happens in my life. Cannot recommend it enough!

yang liu

Delicious and clean, the service is good

Junior Torres

Muy buena atención la mejor para mi !

RpiesSPIES

Absolutely recommend to anyone and everyone o/ Stopped by this place due to layover on my trip back from overseas. Brought here by a friend, with two other friends in tow. I got their spicy beef rice bowl (in the stone bowl ofc). Only got a 1, though, not knowing the levels associated with their scaling (apparently 1-3 are normal spiciness, while 4 and 5 are crazy enough to make you sweat, and you can go 2.5, etc.) Also tried their dumplings. Dumplings were delicious. My rice bowl came in, absolutely sizzling. The fumes from the food were pouring into my face. The portion was HUGE. Larger than I expected. LOTS of onions. Lots of meat. Lots of rice underneath. I did not expect the onions though. I dislike onions... HOWEVER. I was invited here by a friendo. He vouched very well for it, so I thought 'what the heck, lets give it a shot.' I loved it. The onions in the bowl were nothing like any onions I've ever eaten. Any complains I ever have about 'em were irrelevant in this situation. The beef was perfect, the sweet potato noodles were delicious. When I finished, the bowl was near spotless, the only remnants being stuff I couldn't manage to scrape off the insides of the bowl, which wasn't very much even then. We were checked up on several times by the guy that seated us, as well as whom I presume was the owner/head chef. Super nice people. But you definitely do need to be vocal about wanting a new drink or what have you, because I was too timid to call for another sparkling water (that, and I was too busy eating the delicious food). Next time I stop by, I'll hold my deal with them and try out a 2.5 spiciness. I'll definitely also ask for extra meat :D (which you CAN do) Eating here seriously makes me want to visit NJ more often xD Oh, I also had fish ice cream. Pretty much an ice cream sandwich, except instead of the sandwich, the stuff holding the ice cream is in the shape of a fish and made up of wafer-tasting-stuff. Good way to finish off ^^

Arianni Rosario

I loved it !

Cameron Hughley

Amazing food, everything was great. I love this place! It has great food, great customer service, AND complimentary stuff! Amazing.

Tashi Sherpa

Best Korean food .

Max Fierst

Wow the new owner/chef of Koreander has changed the menu to include traditional Korean classic dishes done with more quality and authentic flavor than most Korean places I've gone to in New York City (and I've tried many of them from 32nd st to The depths of Queens). He cooks with really developed flavors that match the best Korean soups and BBQ I've found. The new owners (the chef and his wife) got rid of the fusion items like kimchi hamburger that weren't any good and have made this a real gem for delicious true Korean home cooking style! If you appreciate what it takes to make great broth for soup and like Korean then this place is worth a special trip. The Kalbi is amazing also!

Bryan Waagner

Fabulous spot for Korean specialities. The house made kimchi and pickled radish are excellent. Portions are just right, spicy sauces and flavorful dishes are a crowd pleaser

Junior Campos

Great service

Melissa Lopez

There's a nice casual atmosphere with very friendly service. The beef bulgogi I got was deliciously peppered.