Dan P.
Yelp
A revisit to Bi Won, more or less on the border of Recoleta and Congreso areas, a place I first reviewed on my blog about 30 seconds after I arrived in BA a decade ago. Absolutely nothing has changed. No, really, nothing. The ambiance is exactly as it has always been, perhaps, at best, mildly spruced up, but more just enough to not quite let it go to seed. I'm pretty sure the same waiters are working as have always been. The menu is identical other than pricing - okay, there's a change - dinner for two will now run you around 4-500 pesos with tip, still eminently reasonable for the food, which is as solid, authentic, and tasty as it was ten years ago - we obviously shared the ban chan dishes, and the waiter even brought more different ones when he saw how much we enjoyed; and then pork dumpling soup (manduguk), and a gobdol bibimbap in the piping hot stone bowl. It saves a trip to bajo Flores or Floresta to get a fix on Korean flavors - which does not negate that there are plenty of spots out there with more delicious and more authentic food. Bi Won gets a more touristy crowd, but on most of my visits, the tourists have been Korean, looking for a taste of something familiar amidst the plethora of parrillas in the city.