Altaf A.
Yelp
Cranberry has an Asian BBQ - how cool is that! Visited on Day 2 after lunch hours and restaurant was mostly empty. The inside looks a bit like a chain of booths, which is I guess what you need. I would call it efficient.
They do both BBQ as well as plated dishes during lunch, which has an abbreviated menu. We picked some dishes off their lunch menu and got some BBQ too, to try both. We got Bibimbap off the lunch menu and shrimps, bulgogi, and chicken off the ala carte bbq.
They also have BBQ combos, which come with the side accompaniments/banchan. Ala carte doesn't come with banchan. The full experience is really had when you have a larger party and you do the combos, which seems to scale roughly $30pp.
We had a real attentive server. She explained how everything worked and started us out on grilling the meat and then we took over. Not sure what is going to be normal here: many other NYC BBQs have the servers do all the cooking.
Food was good, no issues. Chicken portion was huge. I also had a lychee sakura drink, which was fizzy and wonderful.
Opening days issues - we did have some. There was confusion about two variants of bibimbap (lunch vs dinner). We ordered one of each, one beef, one plain, but we got two identical dishes. The chef actually came out and apologized (and we maybe were charged less). Some confusion with the lychee drink (minor, didn't raise an issue). Our grill went out, but 2-3 people rushed when they saw me inspecting the switch. So, minor issues and they're on it in fixing them. They're doing great for Day 2!
Looking forward to being back. So happy to have these folks in Cranberry!