5smaken - Poelestraat 39-41

Quality and service are on the lower side. As for the Korean bbq they make you use a baking paper to grill on which defies the whole purpose of a bbq. Sushi isn't good and dumplings either. For the same prices: If you want an all can eat sushi then Yasumi is a better option. And Yammy or Konbu jiro for a better Korean bbq experience. The ordering app is full of bugs too.

Good ambience and cozy restaurant to try some Korean food. They serve Al Carte and buffet menu.

Best service and the friendliest waitresses (most are students from U of Groningen) and best Japanese, Korean, and Chinese food in town and the Netherlands. My personal all time favorites are Shanghai Kau (Xiaolongbao, #74) , Soeung AB (#93 Peking duck), Sashimi(#28 or 29). I ate here everyday when I am in town since I discovered this place 4 yrs ago. John W Los Angeles, USA

We had the all you can eat which was very good, especially the Korean bbq. Love how they've changed the food from sushi to more Asian styles. Beat option for all you can eat.

We ordered a Korean rice table for 2 persons, for takeout. It was delicious, all of it. Korean cuisine remains something special! Would highly recommend. Oh and the restaurants' interior looks nice and cosy too!

Food is a good taste including dessert. And not include drinks. About 32 €/person. But we need to wait next order at least 15-20min which is too long for me to eat buffet. I think that you should to try improve about time management since we sent an order card in each round. Thank you.

It was all fine but nothing great. I wasn't really full from the poke bowl. The duck was good but the sauce we didn't particularly like. And for the squid we'd have preferred a bit of salt and pepper over whatever was on them.

Last saturday we went out to eat here, expecting great things, especially because of the many good reviews. Unfortunately though, our experience was horrible. In short, food took forever to arrive (or didn't arrive at all), didn't taste very good, staff was not trained (or very badly trained), and the acoustics inside were very bad. Long version :) We unfortunately were 10 minutes later than our reserved time. After we stood in the reception area for 5 minutes, a waitress came up and asked if we had made a reservation, which we did. She said to wait for her and she'd come pick us up. And boy did we wait! She walked by a few times during this waiting time, without any communication on how our table was looking, or maybe an explanation or something for the long wait? Eventually she tells us to follow her to the table and takes our orders for drinks and which menu we'd like. We chose the all you can eat one. The menu looks great! So does the website, and it's all very functional and easy to use. There are many different dishes, drinks, sides, etc to choose from. From what I could tell, the main three food cuisines/sections are Korean/BBQ, Japanese/sushi, and Chinese/dimsum. From what I remember, the drinks available were standard apart from the bubble tea or boba, and a bunch of cocktails. We ordered our first round of dishes (3 per person per round) and it arrived around 15+/- minutes later around the same time as the drinks. My partner's cocktail was priced at €9, which may be a metaphor for the 90% ice. The 5 sips he did have tasted good though. Though the dimsum was very nice, the meat for the K-BBQ was not fantastic. The seasoning was quite bland and the beef was tough, whichever way we cooked it. The second round I ordered sushi, my partner ordered more meat and dimsum. His dishes took about 20 mins to arrive, in which time we thought it a good idea to order the next round so the waiting time would be less. I waited 40 mins for my sushi before I was able to speak to a waitress. She said she'd look for it, but never returned. The second waitress I asked repeated my order manually, but alas, no sushi. However, people around us were getting their sushi, some even got dishes without ordering them. (No, the lost dishes were not ours, unfortunately.) During all of this waiting we tried to have a conversation. This was nice in theory, but the acoustics of the place made it impossible to understand eachother unless we were leaning over the table and hot grill. Around this time I noticed how the waitresses were serving the guests, including us. They would stand in illogical places when serving drinks or dishes. The group next to us was getting their drinks handed to them but the waitress was half leaning over people but somehow not in reach of the ones she needed to reach. On our side, empty platters and glasses were stacking up on the "empty" side of the table, while the few new dishes had barely any place left to stand. When a waitress would bring a dish, she would not take anything back with her. On it's own these things wouldn't bother me, but when many things go wrong these things start to really annoy you. Because the waiting time kept increasing and we were only on our 4th round at two hours in, we decided to leave, since we hadn't any hope left for the arrival of our dishes after I waited almost 80 minutes for my sushi. When we went to pay our bill, we told the waitress that we had been waiting really very long and had barely eaten because of it, not at all mentioning anything else. She didn't seem to care. All in all, we ended up paying €90 ish for some poorly seasoned raw meat, 6 dumplings, two small bowls of rice, one cocktail and three sodas. Womp womp. :/