Manna AYCE Korean BBQ

Manna Korean BBQ
3377 W Olympic Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90019
323.733.8516

What do people do after spending a long day in LA? EAT! and that is exactly what we did a few weeks ago. After spending the day with good friend and seeing Little Tokyo and Chinatown we had to pay Koreatown a visit. Can't leave Korea out or they might complain. So with Arnoldo leading the way to food we ended up at Manna. It's a good thing we arrived before the rush of people who came about a hour after us. The place was completely packed by the time we were half way in with out food. 

Domo was  ready to dive into all the side dishes.

They waitress said that all the grills were not working that night, but I know the real reason. All the meat orders were just taken and cooked in the kitchen instead of on the table grill. That took the fun out of grilling our own meat, but then it let us probably eat more. With all those people on a Sat. night they probably didn't want to wash all those grills. Well they don't wash it, but the lone Mexican man in a little outdoor shack has to was them all by himself. Just him and his little radio playing Spanish music as he washed dishes in the cold. I felt bad for a few seconds.

SIZZLE I SAY!

For such a large place the selection was very few. 16.99 got you AYCE and choices from eight different types of meats. Our group liked the brisket and short rib the most. That and we didn't really get a menu so those two were what we remembered the waitress saying they served. No seafood!? I wanted to watch some little octopuses dance on the grill for me, but sadly there was no delicious dance of the sea. Our group of six destroyed six or seven servings of meat, maybe more but it's all hazy because of the food coma that came after.

David attacking the egg dish behind the curtain of flavor steam.

After inhaling all that food were were pretty much stuffed till the brink of popping. Fighting our way out through the crowd that was trying to get in we made it back outside into the nipple popping cold LA night air. The parking lot was now completely packed with people trying to find a place to park to eat at Manna. Asians all driving near each other made me nervous, but luckily there were no car explosions this time. The food was good for the price, but the company made it so much better!