Kori Tribeca

The Salmon with avocado and brown rice was very good.

Fantastic dolsot bibimbap and infused soju.

Tasty, good quality food in a nicely decorated yet simple restaurant. I would probably go back, but I give this three stars because they gave me the wrong order.

Being my first time at the restaurant I thought, when I received my meal, maybe I had just read the menu wrong so I didn't notify anyone. But once I received the bill I saw it definitely wasn't the name of what I ordered even though I confirmed the dish with the waitress when she delivered it to my table.

On top of that, it was spicy and I specifically picked a menu item without spice because I'm sensitive to heat.

Overall, it still tasted delicious! Just disappointed in the service but that may've been a one time mistake.

This long established restaurant in Tribeca must be doing something right. In a city where restaurants come and go Kori outpost of American-Korean cuisine as been there for ~14 some years. The restaurant is a small narrow cozy restaurant with high tin ceilings, brick wall was had the perfect ambiance for romantic couples or party groups like ours. We had a large party this evening totaling a party of seven basically taking up 1/3rd of the restaurant.

The service was friendly, helpful and excellent. Water was always filled and good attention to the table. Back to the reason why I wrote American-Korean verses Korean-American. If you are expecting BanChan for the table. Don't. Expecting KimChi for the table. Don't. We aren't on 32nd Street Toto.

The table ordered the usually favorite with some new mix to try. The seafood & scallion pancake, ribeye & mushroom pancake plus the chicken KangJung to start. The pancake were thin, mild, dry and kind of crunchy. Almost pizza like. The chicken was pretty much chicken sesame.

Entrees as Eel Bap and Salmon Bap. Kimchi Tofu Pork Stew. Spicy Baby Octopus Pokoom. Kimchi Pork Belly to round out. The bap mixed at the table and spicyness can be adjusted to taste. Although, we are use to the red pepper but here it looked like some spicy mayo mixture. The Baps are basically a sushi roll deconstructed in a bowl. You got the eel. You got the rice. You got the avocado. Yup, you read it right. The Salmon Bap was the same. Even so the Eel Bap was good. I wasn't a fan of the slightly slimy seaweed with rice. The Kimchi Pork belly was also good even if there was a distinct lack of Kimchi. Of the dishes the spicy Baby Octopus was truly spicy on the hot scale. It was overcompensation for the Korean side for the finish line.

The one disappointment was the Ssam which everyone was eager to share and a favorite. Unfortunately, as western style dictates in only single portion, so pretty much unshareable.

Kori isn't your mom's Korean Kitchen but more of the Sandra Lee's Korean Kitchen. It is a bit inconsistent in its 'Koreaness.' It strives the balance between assimilation and its roots. It is an outpost catering to the Tribeca crowd where the menu offers enough Korean sounding dishes for the bourgeois to think they are eating on 32nd row.

Had dinner with my brothers and their significant others here. To start, it seemed like they were short handed because the two waitresses seemed to be running around. But even though it took us a bit to actually order our food, everything else was great. The food was delicious, drinks were reasonable, and the atmosphere was nice. It's a bit of a tiny place but fit the 6 of us comfortably.