I personally enjoy this place. It is not top notch but it has variety and interesting choice of sushi, snack food, and traditional dishes. I would recommend it for casual meal or hanging out with friends.. Interior is revamped and wait staff is friendly.. Some older servers from somoonnajip.. 🙂 Check out their late night special from 9:30 PM (friend chicken, jokbal, sashimi – all for $40)… ENJOY!
Palisades used to be called Dokdo Sarang but reopened under "Palisades". It is essentially the same restaurant with the same prices, and less food.
My friend recommended this place to us, she had shown us photo's of her meal for 4 ($100) and it looked pretty fabulous, lobster and all. So what's the problem? Let me explain ~
Our group of 7 ordered the $150 Live Seafood Combo. The waiter pushed us to order the $200 one saying it wouldn't be enough food. It was enough food. When I say enough food, let me clarify by saying that it came out so slow that even with a small portion of food, one would be full.
The Food: Side Dishes: Octopus Side Salad (3 bites), 5 slices of teriyaki style pork, 1/4 cup of grilled corn, 2 baby steamed buns with chinese style chives, 4 king prawn, 5 raw oysters (FISHY), 6 slices of korean pancake [* by now were were all just politely refusing food because there was NOT ENOUGH *], grilled eel, 3 fish tempura 3 shrimp tempura, 2 bowls of spicy clam soup [* this was real good but not so sure about the no bowl and just hope to god the tiny spoon of soup makes the 2-3 ft trip in your flat spoon to you mouth ok thing *], 4 large grilled shrimp.
This may seem like a long list… but for 7 people… it's like a snack, considering not everyone got a piece of each dish. How sad it it that everyone gets half a shrimp.
Main Dishes: This looked impressive as the waiter brought it over but we were disappointed to see about 3 lbs of daikon radish noodles placed in front of us. On top of the mound was about 1-2mm sliced fluke. I actually dislike fluke, I prefer tuna or salmon. The presentation was terrible. White fish over 3 lbs of radish? Even the waiter said "this, not too colorful". Best guess here: 22 pieces of regular sized sashimi – for 7 people. I ate a LOT of radish… I probably shouldn't have since it was kind of brown and probably recycled… There was also 2 shells of Abalone – didn't taste like it. And 2 small rows of sea cucumber, slimy and fishy. This was followed by 2 bowls of spicy fish soup. This was pretty darn good, but again, I don't know about the no bowl and just hope to god the tiny spoon of soup makes the 2-3 ft trip in your flat spoon to you mouth ok thing.
So why this HUGE review for such a mediocre place? Because I was just THAT disappointed with this place. I wanted to give it 1 star but the soups saved them.
I personally enjoy this place. It is not top notch but it has variety and interesting choice of sushi, snack food, and traditional dishes. I would recommend it for casual meal or hanging out with friends.. Interior is revamped and wait staff is friendly.. Some older servers from somoonnajip.. 🙂 Check out their late night special from 9:30 PM (friend chicken, jokbal, sashimi – all for $40)… ENJOY!
Palisades used to be called Dokdo Sarang but reopened under "Palisades". It is essentially the same restaurant with the same prices, and less food.
My friend recommended this place to us, she had shown us photo's of her meal for 4 ($100) and it looked pretty fabulous, lobster and all. So what's the problem? Let me explain ~
Our group of 7 ordered the $150 Live Seafood Combo. The waiter pushed us to order the $200 one saying it wouldn't be enough food. It was enough food. When I say enough food, let me clarify by saying that it came out so slow that even with a small portion of food, one would be full.
The Food:
Side Dishes: Octopus Side Salad (3 bites), 5 slices of teriyaki style pork, 1/4 cup of grilled corn, 2 baby steamed buns with chinese style chives, 4 king prawn, 5 raw oysters (FISHY), 6 slices of korean pancake [* by now were were all just politely refusing food because there was NOT ENOUGH *], grilled eel, 3 fish tempura 3 shrimp tempura, 2 bowls of spicy clam soup [* this was real good but not so sure about the no bowl and just hope to god the tiny spoon of soup makes the 2-3 ft trip in your flat spoon to you mouth ok thing *], 4 large grilled shrimp.
This may seem like a long list… but for 7 people… it's like a snack, considering not everyone got a piece of each dish. How sad it it that everyone gets half a shrimp.
Main Dishes:
This looked impressive as the waiter brought it over but we were disappointed to see about 3 lbs of daikon radish noodles placed in front of us. On top of the mound was about 1-2mm sliced fluke. I actually dislike fluke, I prefer tuna or salmon. The presentation was terrible. White fish over 3 lbs of radish? Even the waiter said "this, not too colorful". Best guess here: 22 pieces of regular sized sashimi – for 7 people. I ate a LOT of radish… I probably shouldn't have since it was kind of brown and probably recycled… There was also 2 shells of Abalone – didn't taste like it. And 2
small rows of sea cucumber, slimy and fishy.
This was followed by 2 bowls of spicy fish soup. This was pretty darn good, but again, I don't know about the no bowl and just hope to god the tiny spoon of soup makes the 2-3 ft trip in your flat spoon to you mouth ok thing.
So why this HUGE review for such a mediocre place? Because I was just THAT disappointed with this place. I wanted to give it 1 star but the soups saved them.
THE END