Hongdae Pocha Korean BBQ

I was a little hesitant about going here due to the reviews, but I found my experience at Hongdae to be positive. My girlfriend and I weren't too hungry but were craving something late at night and Hongdae seemed to be calling our names. The servers were nice and quick even without using the service bell. We ordered 2 orders of the pork belly (their most popular menu item, check out my pics attached to this review) and the waiter kept asking if that is all we wanted to order. There was a feeling of pushing to order more even though we thought that ordering 2 full food items for 2 people was sufficient so we stood our ground. The servers cooked the meat for us so we did not have to do much besides enjoy!
I do want to take a half star off for the constant nudging we received to order more but also a half star for no rice coming with our orders. We had to purchase a side of rice on top of the ~$70 we spent on the 2 orders of pork belly.
Overall, I would recommend checking this place out if you are looking for a late night Korean BBQ run!

Came here one evening after dinner to keep the night going and it was so fun. Despite the lower ratings for this store, I had a great time. We were seating immediately in the loud and lively restaurant and service throughout the whole time was very quick.

My friend and I just wanted to order drinks, so it was a bit of a disappointment that they also made us order food (it was a requirement), especially because we had just eaten dinner. Maybe it was because we had just eaten, but the food was alright. The side dishes in my opinion were downright bad, but the Korean Army Stew that we got wasn't awful, but not the best. I just wish it was fine to order a small snack with drinks or something rather than be forced to do an entree.

Good is good, actually pretty good. Fried chicken is very juicy and flavour is amazing. Other dishes were pretty authentic as well. Servers were pretty fast.

The reason for four star is due to the fact that there were one bowl of kimchi served for table of three. It's the only Korean restaurant I been to that doesn't serve kimchi. Maybe it's a Vancouver thing, back in Toronto, always at least 4-8 dish of kimchi served

This is more of a drinking joint than an eating place. The dishes like grilled pork belly and fried chicken are more for sharing than a single serve. Food is pretty average.

$20 for the seafood pancake with barely any batter and all just green onions? No thanks. And the pancake was not good at all. Never coming back. If you want a Korean bar, go somewhere else. Literally across the street. With reasonable prices and service.

The food is fine but SERVICE is terrible. Staffs was so unkind and rude to customers.m Especially the lady server. I will not come back here again

Their food was pretty good.

But most of the clerks are unfriendly, and also their expressions were not good. I'm offended about it. Unfortunately, some of the tablewares are dirty...

I had major Korean cravings and I remember that Hongdae Pocha Cafe had 50% for students, so what better place to go than here? The food was pretty good, I think some of the dishes just had too much sauce. It's quite dark inside with loud music.

My friends and I ordered three dishes, the chicken with rice (bibimbap style), ddeokbokki, and the spicy noodle (jajangmyeon style). My personal favourite had to be the noodle dish because it was just so addicting. The sauce coated the noodles perfectly. I had to get ddeokbokki because it is one of my all time favourite dishes. The time around, it's not as spicy as most places I've had, but it still tastes great. Lastly, the chicken with rice, it was alright.

I personally am not the biggest fan of how loud the music is, but it's not horrible.

I'd definitely come back. The 50% is a deal too hard to pass. Even without the 50% off, the price of each dish is very reasonable.

Food was fine .. Ive tried chicken runner, fried chicken, soondae, and chive pancake. Chive pancake was too oily. Other foods were fine.. I want to write about service. There has two female servers and one male server. It seems he works everything. Other two female servers were acting like they are working and they were talking very long time. I was waiting for order 40 mins. I visit counter, but she kept saying we will be there. Also, they threw foods away on table. I understand its heavy and they are tired. It seems not right. Hope this place should educate their servers well, and they shouldnt order newbie server like slave.

I had a craving for Korean streetfood/ homemade cooking. Fulfilled my cravings at the Korean plaza located at the west end of Robson st. I found Hongdae pocha cafe. Its related to Sura restaurant. Specifically, I wanted to have sujebi - dough flakes in soup. Hongdae had them and even allowed me to custom add it to their tofu jigae (soup). It was good! Sujebi is simple home food, so it's difficult to find in Korean restaurants. But they had it here! I have to come again. The soju and alcohol prices are a little high, but food is reasonable (not cheap). Pretty busy and happening place, especially on weekend nights.