"The Woo, spearheaded by Julie Choi, whose family also runs Bann in Midtown, is a new iteration of a restaurant her mother used to run on Mercer Street, which shuttered after a 12-year run in 2011. Then called Woo Lae Oak, the restaurant was credited with expanding Korean fare outside the confines of Koreatown, long before the sizzling, grill-it-yourself experience became mainstream." - Carla Vianna
