Shozen BBQ,

9906 Mira Mesa Blvd, San Diego, CA 92131, United States

"This is a Korean restaurant serving traditional Korean food, BBQ and Japanese food. This place serve the variety of food, but the one I tried was sushi bento whose price is almost $20 dollars for lunch. You will expect that paying that money should bring more quality and quantity of sushi. But in the bento you can choose only either tuna or salmon, and the amount of sushi was incredibly small. I would not recommend sushi bento at all as you can see the picture of the meal. Also they tried to compensate the small amount of fish and one type of fish with big salad and an extra side dish which was served originally. Also there was not ginger on the plate. It is my usual side that I eat with sushi and usually served at every sushi restaurant."

"Restaurant looks clean. Although Sunday night looks busy with customers at 6pm, we got a table to sit down right away. However, we waited for 15 mins for the server to come over and take our order. This is a family business. Everyone works here is a family member. They were really understaffed during busy hours. We did the all-u-can-eat BBQ for $32. Decent sides and meats. They do give big portions of meat with each order so that we can be left alone for a while. Good to have another choice for AUCE BBQ instead of a major chain restaurant in the area."

"Upsized to a “full” portion of galbi for takeout, from the “half” portion. For $38 this is what we received, with about 1/3 of the pieces burnt and not edible. Do not get takeout here."

"Update: I can’t say how much I love here. It feels like in South Korea as the decorations, atmosphere and the owners are all very authentic Korean! The foods here are very delicious. I highly recommend my favorites which are the seafood pancake and cold noodles. Tonight we ordered a new fish to try, the spicy monkfish, it was very yummy. It’s not that spicy but flavor is good. My only wish is I hope here has budae jjigae, which I miss very much. Previous: I love this place!!!! Can't believe why it's only 3.5 stars on Yelp. Probably because it's too authentic for local Americans? Just kidding. But I want to say I love here, I'll definitely come back to try other authentic items. I had Korean spicy cold noodles, it made me think of the noodles I ate growing up in my hometown where is very close to South Korea. My husband had kimchi jjigae. It tastes awesome too. If you love Korean food, you should come here. 5 star from me for sure!!!"