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Spicy Grill
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In the heart of Golders Green, Spicy Grill is a restaurant for meat-lovers over anyone else. We first came to this Korean BBQ spot during our student days, to split platters of tender rib-eye and moreish spicy pork belly, wipe brows from the punchy ddukbokki, and agree to return the same week. Not a tonne has changed since then, and that’s a good thing.
photo credit: Aleksandra Boruch
photo credit: Aleksandra Boruch
photo credit: Aleksandra Boruch
Use Spicy Grill as it’s set up to be: as a comfortable, carnivores’ hangout that won’t break the bank. The generic, wood-heavy room can fit groups big and bigger and is often filled with every generation. It’s one of those living room-like restaurants where manners are fluid and many hands rule. Eager chopsticks snap at banchan, backseat MasterChefs advise on the grill, and matriarchal types wield meat-cutting scissors like an extension of their own hands. Service isn’t always as attentive as it could be, so this kind of attitude goes a long way.
photo credit: Aleksandra Boruch
photo credit: Aleksandra Boruch
photo credit: Aleksandra Boruch
photo credit: Aleksandra Boruch
photo credit: Aleksandra Boruch
Spicy Grill’s menu is almost as big as the groups it attracts. There are 50-something items, and the KFC—crisp, tender, and on the bone—is a cut above the rest. Other classics, like a thick seafood pancake or japchae, are just fine. Instead focus on the BBQ. The LA galbi is tender and the marinade savoury. Packed into a lettuce leaf with a smear of ssamjang, it makes for a dreamy, crunching mouthful while you let someone else take the reins on conversation.
Food Rundown
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Banchan
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Seafood Pancake
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