The Full Monty
Pro Astounding value for the portions and quality in a set menu.
Con Hard to find one...dessert's on the basic side.
Pay
€
Per Person €9.95 for three dishes, plus dessert and drink.
Find
Website http://nuncacocinassinhambre.eltenedor.rest/en_GB/
Access Step free entry. Toilets downstairs.
In Short
Hopes. Now for something completely different.
Reality. Maybe the best value lunch at this end of San Bernardo.
First Impressions. Eclectic artiness and climbing wall chic.
USP? Korean in Noviciado? Welcome to the modern world, abuela!
The offer in three words. The big one.
Service! A warm and friendly family style service.
Friend friendly? Sauces may need checking, but there's lots of tofu on the menu.
Rating for dating. Lots to try and talk about.
Tip? 5%
Change one thing? A touch of detail to dessert.
Revisitability. Very high.
Compare & Contrast
Tuk Tuk Manuela Malasaña and Konnichiwa on Fuencarral are ploughing similar courses.
We've previously tried out the a la carte here.
In Pictures
On Google Images
What's the story?
Simply, Nunca Cocinas Sin Hambre (we've looked, not found out, but wonder if it's a Korean proverb) offers a great set lunch on all the metrics that matter. Food, service, setting, portion size, drinks. It's all up to or above expectation. For one thing, you're getting three dishes plus dessert...
First thing: if you're new to it, Korean food's got similarities to other foods around the region, but excitingly, it does its own thing in spectacular style. Stand by for surprises...
And from the getgo, here's a new flavour combination to get your head around. Prawns and orange? With tomato? A spectacularly fresh and acid summery salad, when the thermometer's nudging 40C this is a joy. Delicious with a great dressing too that adds a touch of yoghurty creamyness to things. Unlike any salad I'd ever had before, in the best possible way.
And now let's take two chicken dishes. Roasted chicken with oyster sauce and Chicken Gongbao below. We're running out of adjectives, here. Gongbao especially comes with as tasty a sauce as we've eaten anywhere. Rich, fully-spiced but not excessively hot or spicy, it doesn't pale or lose potency. Great cooking. Again, for a set lunch, stand by to eye-opening portion sizes. There's no holding back here. These two are more than enough for two to share. If a friend turned up you could pretty much feed them for free. Although obviously you wouldn't.
Add a full portion of delicious rice pasta with yet another fantastic sauce. This would make a perfect vegetarian main, but here it's a side dish, that along with a full bowl of noodles, and two of you will be struggling before you eventually admit defeat and come to a reluctant stop. Yep, you've essentially had two main courses after the starters. After all that generosity, it's not surprising that dessert's a simple choice of a couple of ice-cream flavours, which is par for the course so we've no complaints on that score.
Service is friendly and quick, with a warm welcome and just enough checking for feedback. Korean and local beers are on offer, properly chilled and arriving in seconds. Decor upstairs is eclectic, downstairs almost hallucinatory. The bathroom needs to be seen to be appreciated. It really is a bathroom.
Simply a fantastic value lunch on every level, we're adding this offer to the Recommended list without hesitation.
Get hungry, let them get cooking for you. Go!
Pro Astounding value for the portions and quality in a set menu.
Con Hard to find one...dessert's on the basic side.
Pay
€
Per Person €9.95 for three dishes, plus dessert and drink.
Find
Website http://nuncacocinassinhambre.eltenedor.rest/en_GB/
Access Step free entry. Toilets downstairs.
In Short
Hopes. Now for something completely different.
Reality. Maybe the best value lunch at this end of San Bernardo.
First Impressions. Eclectic artiness and climbing wall chic.
USP? Korean in Noviciado? Welcome to the modern world, abuela!
The offer in three words. The big one.
Service! A warm and friendly family style service.
Friend friendly? Sauces may need checking, but there's lots of tofu on the menu.
Rating for dating. Lots to try and talk about.
Tip? 5%
Change one thing? A touch of detail to dessert.
Revisitability. Very high.
Compare & Contrast
Tuk Tuk Manuela Malasaña and Konnichiwa on Fuencarral are ploughing similar courses.
We've previously tried out the a la carte here.
In Pictures
On Google Images
What's the story?
Simply, Nunca Cocinas Sin Hambre (we've looked, not found out, but wonder if it's a Korean proverb) offers a great set lunch on all the metrics that matter. Food, service, setting, portion size, drinks. It's all up to or above expectation. For one thing, you're getting three dishes plus dessert...
First thing: if you're new to it, Korean food's got similarities to other foods around the region, but excitingly, it does its own thing in spectacular style. Stand by for surprises...
And from the getgo, here's a new flavour combination to get your head around. Prawns and orange? With tomato? A spectacularly fresh and acid summery salad, when the thermometer's nudging 40C this is a joy. Delicious with a great dressing too that adds a touch of yoghurty creamyness to things. Unlike any salad I'd ever had before, in the best possible way.
Add a full portion of delicious rice pasta with yet another fantastic sauce. This would make a perfect vegetarian main, but here it's a side dish, that along with a full bowl of noodles, and two of you will be struggling before you eventually admit defeat and come to a reluctant stop. Yep, you've essentially had two main courses after the starters. After all that generosity, it's not surprising that dessert's a simple choice of a couple of ice-cream flavours, which is par for the course so we've no complaints on that score.
Service is friendly and quick, with a warm welcome and just enough checking for feedback. Korean and local beers are on offer, properly chilled and arriving in seconds. Decor upstairs is eclectic, downstairs almost hallucinatory. The bathroom needs to be seen to be appreciated. It really is a bathroom.
Simply a fantastic value lunch on every level, we're adding this offer to the Recommended list without hesitation.
Get hungry, let them get cooking for you. Go!