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  • Details: Full Bar, Dinner, Lunch
  • Hours:
    Open Monday-Saturday for lunch 12:00pm-2:30pm
    dinner 6pm-10pm. Closed Sunday.

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Jian Korean BBQ

323-655-6556
8256 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA  90048
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(3 ratings)
Cuisine: Barbecue, Korean
Price Range: Appetizers $6-18; Entrees $20-26

Times Description

Opened by two Korean sisters, Ji Ryu and Mi Ahn (who combined their first and last names to create the word “Jian”), the restaurant is sleek and clean. A crying Buddha in a pond of drifting dry ice sulks beside the entrance, the bar is backed by stacked Japanese pinball screens called pachinko and big “Iron Man 28” robots guard the dining room. The grills are high-tech gas numbers, which suck smoke down and away before it has a chance to sully the air.

The menu at Jian is pricey, but the meats offered are of high quality. Sliced beef rib-eye steak ($22) is thick and flavorful, tuna belly ($25) is soft and buttery and the spicy pork ($20) is sliced thin and coated with a smoky, piquant sauce. Each plate of meat comes with a thick chunk of white onion, a spear of asparagus and a stemless mushroom cap that, when grilled upside down, fills with sweet juice. The accompanying panchan (small bowls of appetizers) include vinegary and satisfying radish kimchi, sweet cucumber kimchi, cooked bean sprouts, broccoli, chewy dried anchovies and thin strips of cooked potato.

Traditional starters include range from warm edamame tossed in sesame oil and chili; jjookumi bokum, a mix of baby octopus, noodles, carrots, onion and zucchini; crab du bu (tofu); and denjang chigae, a thick miso and soybean paste soup crowded with vegetables, boiled pork and tofu. It’s an intriguing dish that smells unnervingly like dirty socks but tastes like a Korean version of French onion soup.

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Reviews from Yelp_large (3)

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    Posted by Christopher Y. on Yelp_small
     

    Amazing food, great ambiance.. This is where you take someone to eat Korean BBQ if you don't wanna make the drive through Korea-town, eat in a ghetto...

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    Posted by Echo P. on Yelp_small
     

    Of the 15 or so different Korean BBQ places I've been to in LA, this place is superb. The meat quality is incredible. And the side dishes are great. (In...

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    Posted by Nico M. on Yelp_small
     

    If you enjoy Korean BBQ then you'll absolutely LoVe Jian ! The food is amazing and so are the drinks =) AND there is no need to worry about leaving the...

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