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Period. Jongsei's menu featured little else. Our superb waiter, Tim, accommodated my limitations and then some! New York is STILL the greatest restaurant city in the world, and Jongsei is among the reasons why! A great, great evening of culinary delights!

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There is no word in the world to say how they are perfect and amazing!! A restaurant that you must visit before you die.. The luxurious five side dishes have already captivated me in the first and they gave me taste that I had never experience before.In the first meal, the combination of the caviar and lobster was fantastic and the second meal that scallop was like freshly caught right before.Third was octopus that was really my absolute favorite.. the skin of octopus was so crunchy but inside was so soft such as jelly. The texture was like you visited in heaven. Sea urchin bibimbap and kimbap were amazing as well. The texture was crunchy and fun to eat. And the dessert, baby banana tasted really good and creamy. Also all the staffs are impeccable and friendlywe already are planning to visit here once again!

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Had theeee most amazing dinner celebrating my boyfriend's 30th. Service was absolutely exceptional the entire night, our waiter was so attentive and fun, she really made sure we enjoyed ourselves. The cocktails were delicious, I definitely recommend the Seoul mule and the Busanhaeng. Every dish was fantastic, we also added the baby banana and the sea urchin. I honestly can't even think of what dishes were the best because everything truly tasted delicious. I don't like beets much and even the beets with scallops were amazing. The fried octopus was definitely up there, first time I've ever had it friend before. All in all a great dining experience and we both left with our stomachs full and hearts happy :)

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..it was amazing! There's a lot I can say but here were the things that impressed me most:1. The service. Everything is like a well oiled machine/well rehearsed choreography. The coordination that the servers put and the expertise with which they know the food, pretty impressed.2. My standout dishes were the octopus, banchan, and the kimbap. The banchan were so exciting and bursting with diverse and interesting flavor combinations. I loved the crispiness and slight heat that the octopus brought. The kimbap was so good, so crunchy and fun to eat, great balance of flavors.3. The baby banana!!!! Ok I did not realize it wasn't a real banana so when they brought the fruit basket I grabbed the banana too fast and broke it. Oops! It tasted really good, like a smooth banana cream. 4. Overall, the experience was really enjoyable and I got to dine in a way that I've never been able to. Would recommend if you have $300 to spend and want to eat some extremely fresh food.

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This was absolutely the most expensive meal I've ever had the privilege to eat in my entire life. We did the 7 course tasting menu with extra dishes. I can't eat any fish, but they accommodated me by replacing all my fish dishes with meat. The food didn't totally fill me up, but everything was made with such thoughtfulness and precision. My favorite was the octopus dish. I don't know if I will ever be wealthy enough to say a meal this pricey is "worth it," but that was some darn good food. Our head server was Susan, who was excellent. All the staff are impeccable and service was top notch. Also, the bathroom toilet has a cool mechanism where it can spray hot water to clean you.

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Was hyped to come here after hearing about this place from literally everywhere. Unfortunately, the experience did not live up to the hype.Jungsik is a boutique, high-class restaurant situated in a quiet, cobblestone-clad road in Tribeca. The ambiance is quite dim, and the restaurant is rather quiet. There are 3 sections in the restaurant: 1) the bar and waiting area, 2) a main area with a middle service station and tables surrounding it, 3) another square room, but this time with only tables, along the outskirts, and a table in the middle.For the food, the amount of food is around average, not super stuffing. You start out with some bites from the kitchen, on their signature white mini-pedestals. These are decent, although they are quite compact, so it can be hard to pick out all the flavors in one bite.The next course was a lobster with some creamy sauce, osetra caviar-topped and some microgreens. It's good, and probably my favorite part of the meal. Caviar portion is medium, wish there was a bit more.Then, came some beets on top of raw scallop. I think the intention was for this dish to have delicate flavors, but I felt like the portion was so small, and the flavors so "subtle," that I didn't really get much out of this. Forgettable for me. The crown of Jungsik is their octopus dish, which I was excited to try. The octopus leg portion is quite sizeable, and the texture on it is very crispy. The meat inside is quite tender, and has some deep, long-lasting flavor to it. Sauce is a nice spicy touch to it. This was another strong dish -- wish more of the dishes treated me with such quantity and quality. If anything, the octopus was a bit salty, and I felt like that for the rest of the meal.The black cod came next, in a semi-sweet glaze, and rested on top of a foam. This was a decent dish as well. Loved the fatty cod fish meat. Then, the meal started to go a bit south...we got the tuna kimbap. I may be understating the complexity of the dish, but it's just kimbap with your typical ingredients in a tuna roll. The main issue for the dish for me was the overwhelming truffle flavor on it. I can only speculate, but the mustard sauce seemed to have truffle bits in it, but the worst part for me was that the seaweed wrapping the kimbap smelled and tasted like it was deep-fried in truffle oil. I love truffle, but THIS much truffle was even too much for me. There wasn't a whole lot of balance to this dish, and it felt like munching through a thick wall one-dimensional wall of crunchy truffle with truffle sauce and truffle-overpowered insides.Right after the tuna kimbap, came lamb...with a side of truffle slices on rice, kinda like a truffle nigiri. The lamb itself was pretty good. Tasted almost like ham, and was cooked very delicately and precisely. The truffle was...just too much, especially having an all-truffle dish in the tuna kimbap from before. Also, there were only 3 (or maybe 4) slices of truffle on the rice...just felt a bit stingy there.Then came a short dessert program, aka one dish, with some chocolates to follow. It's not bad, but not amazing and I wish this could be longer as well.Is this fine dining? Yes. But for me, I can't say the food was necessarily consistently good and impressive throughout the night, and besides the octopus, I never felt like I was really being treated. There was never really display of opulence, and for the price tag and reputation, you'd expect something of that level. The memes that poke at fine dining establishments giving out miniscule amounts of food was exemplified during my experience.As I alluded earlier, the truffle notes in the dishes were way too strong, and the dishes were on the saltier side. I understand that having a wine pairing would probably cut through some of the salt and truffle, but the beverage pairing is meant to elevate the flavors, not save them from being too heavy; the food by itself should be great. I don't think that wine should be an antidote for flavor imbalances.At the end, only my girlfriend was given a menu, and I wasn't. I understand that we were celebrating her birthday, but is it really that hard to give out an extra menu? (and isn't it standard to give out menus anyway at this level?)Overall, sickly overpowering truffle and unbalanced flavors (too salty), redundant themes, no feeling of opulence as certain portions were quite small, and inconsistent service made this experience hit well below expectations.

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There are not enough positive things to say about this restaurant. The presentation, creativity, service, and quality of food make for an unforgettable experience. One point I would like to shine a light on that I do not see addressed in other reviews is the meticulous attention to detail. The banchan included a fried shrimp ball reminiscent of those found as dim sum. After the cute appetizers, the waiter came to use a crumb scraper tool to clean off the table. They use a trained technique to change the tablecloth, tuck in the edges, then iron it! The service is also seamless. They have waitstaff constantly rounding all tables and do not miss a beat in stopping to provide service to any table they can.

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Terrible customer experience and terrible business practices. After paying almost $700 for a meal for two people, prepaid on Tock, while finishing the meal and preparing to leave, we were told that there were no additional charges since we didn't order any additional drinks or desserts, and that we were good to go. A day later, I see a charge for $20 on my credit card, and I email Jungsik to ask what this is, and they don't even bother replying to my email. They literally just sent a revised Tock email receipt with the $20 charge now on it, labeling it as "water". Several major issues here: (1) You can't just charge people after the fact, revise an already paid for receipt, and not notify customers of the charge? (2) Jungsik is seriously going to charge $20 for drinking water on top of an already fairly expensive meal in itself? Patrons seriously can't get complimentary water?? I've dined at Lazy Bear, Alinea, and French Laundry and have NEVER been charged for water. This ridiculous water issue aside, the meal was good, but nothing really stood out except for the banchan and scallop courses. Everything else was a bit lackluster. I would save your money for Lazy Bear and Alinea for an actually mindblowing meal with much better customer service and experience.

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Had the cheaper option for the tasting menu and enjoyed most courses. The fried rice makes sure you're full by the end.

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I have been wanting to come here for a while now and I am so happy that I got to experience their signature tasting menu and wine pairing. My favorites were the Little Bites in the beginning, Ostera Caviar, Tuna Kimbap and Baby Banana. The Tuna Tartare was the best I've had and the Baby Banana was so soft and fun to eat. I love how they mixed traditional korean ingredients in very delicate and creative ways. Everything from the presentation to each and every flavor was impeccable. The service was excellent and definitely worthy of it's two Michelin Stars. Although the prices at Jungsik are pricey, it is arguably justified. You are not only paying for high quality, delicious food but also a unforgettable and unique dining experience. I would love to come back and dine here again.

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My first ever michelin restaurant in korea, and I can say the standard is there! The food was creative and modern, all seasoned the confort.
Appetizers had a distintive flavour and an introduction to korean cuisine.
The service was superb.
My favorite dish was the uni seaweed roll followed by the royal bimbinbap.
Spend a lovelt birthday here
Easy to find location and confortable.

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