Han Bat

Fantastic little Korean restaurant. Great service, fun atmosphere, and generous portions. I stop in every time I’m in the Big Apple. The food is legit Korean and tastes fantastic. I recommend the Bi Bim Bop or the Gobdol Bi Bim Bop (served in a hot stone bowl).

This was the worst Korean restaurant I've ever eaten at. The ingredients were incredibly stale. The seafood army stew ($59) was mid-range in price, but the seafood inside was extremely unfresh. They probably found fish and shrimp that had been dead for ages and just threw them in the pot to cook. I had to go to the toilet before I even finished my rice. Only the vegetables were edible, and I still got diarrhea.

This place deserves more stars! The banchan was easily one of the best in K-town. We ordered the steamed pork with salted cabbage and it was so delicious and quality meat. The atmosphere is warm and homey and feels like you’re being transported to a little restaurant in Seoul run by local Korean aunties. Highly recommend a visit!

Nice selections of Korean comfort food, especially for a cold autumn day. All of our dishes came out fast and piping hot. The service was prompt and efficient. Finding the soybean curd (豆腐脑）soup pot here was a very special treat. We felt lucky that we didn’t try and wait next door for a long time.

Like many others before us, we came here because CDG was full - and though I don’t think the soondubu is as good (I got the seafood one and found both the seafood quality and taste to be lower than CDG / BCD ) overall it’s a very solid option with a big menu, good banchan (loved the potatoes), and similar homey atmosphere. It was a very comforting lunch for the freezing pre-storm temperature and we really appreciated the immediate seating, definitely something that CDG lacks!

Han Bat is a small Korean restaurant located outside of the main Koreatown area, but still close in proximity to other Korean restaurants. The place was quite crowded when we went in, but we were seated nearly instantly. The service was a bit slow at times, and paying was a bit confusing since we had to go up to the register to the pay rather than the waitstaff collecting the check from you. The banchan was pretty standard, but they did include one that was like a sweet mashed potato. Other than that, it was pretty much average/what you'd expect at other restaurants. We got an assortment of bibimbaps and a kimchi bokkum. The bibimbap was quite standard with other Korean restaurants, it was satisfying as a meal but we didn't think it stood out from other place's bibimbaps. The kimchi bokkum was a bit spicy, but not overwhelmingly and it came with stuff such as rice cakes and pork mixed in.

The food was good and the portions were generous. However, the service wasn’t great — the staff felt a bit cold and impatient. The restaurant’s décor is quite average, and overall it’s not a place I’ll particularly remember or recommend.