Eats
Korilla BBQ: Healthy and satisfying Korean
BY GABE HERMAN
In recent years, Korilla BBQ has
been a welcome addition to the
growing list of fast-casual restaurants
that let you build your own order
from quality, freshly made dishes.
Korilla’s angle is Korean barbeque,
and it offers it in the form of burritos,
rice bowls and salads.
A protein for your dish is chosen
from roasted chicken, pork shoulder,
ribeye or organic tofu.
Rice options include sticky rice, bacon
kimchi fried rice, purple rice and
broccoli rice.
Seasonal vegetables and house-made
kimchi options include red kimchi,
cucumber kimchi, kale, roasted corn,
pico de gallo, sweet black beans, blue
potato salad, squash and beets.
And, fi nally, sauce options include a
mild and smokey Korilla sauce, Korean
hot sauce, and Green Crack, which is
cilantro lime aioli.
All dish options are in the $10 range.
And drinks offered include Kafe, a
Korean coffee; Korchata, their housemade
horchata (grain beverage); and
various sodas.
I recently
had a bowl with
chicken, purple rice, black beans, corn
and pico de gallo, covered with Green
Crack. All the ingredients tasted fresh
and it was a very fi lling lunch, with lots
of bright colors in the dish to look at
as I ate.
Korilla BBQ started as a food truck,
run by Queens native Eddie Song. Its
popularity eventually led in 2014 to
Korilla’s fi rst brick-and-mortar location,
in the East Village at Third Ave.
and St. Mark’s Place.
That location closed last year, but
Korilla is still going strong in the city. It
has two stores in Midtown East, one in
the Urbanspace Vanderbilt food court
PHOTO BY KORILLABBQ/INSTAGRAM
You get three sides with your Korilla
bowl, including blue potato
salad, sweet black beans, beets
and squash, among others.
at Park Ave. and E. 45th St., and another
at Lexington Ave. and E. 56th St.
There is also a Brooklyn location at 2
Metrotech, at Jay St. and Myrtle Promenade.
And the food truck is still running,
as well. Every day it’s at a different
spot, which can be found at korillabbq.
com/locations and on Korilla BBQ’s
Twitter page.
PHOTO BY GABE HERMAN
A chicken bowl, with purple rice, Green Crack sauce and corn, black
beans and pico de gallo.
28 April 11, 2019 TVG Schneps Media