Just like the new Korean Restaurants popping up all over London Koba employs the modern, dark, sombre and minimalist thought in their interior design. Walking in you immediately notice the clean and distinctive lines in their main restaurant. The main restaurant seats approximately 45 people (plus a further 10 at the bar) so its also a rather intimate atmosphere.

As it always seems with Korean restaurants when coming to our food selection we were almost overwhelmed by the options on the menu. However, aided by our friendly waiters and waitresses and also by suggestions from the editors of Top Table, we soon came up with what seemed like a fairly balanced meal.

We started with Pajun, a Korean pancake with spring onions and seafood, and Samsaek Milssam, wrapped pancakes with meat & vegetables stuffing. Both were extremely delicious and probably just right as a starter. This was then followed by the classic Korean meal of BBQ. We were hungry so we went for the Koba Modeum which was basically a giant platter of meat and seafood. Mmmmm … although Sandra did get a bit freaked out by the baby octopus squirming around on the hot plate. As with Arang our BBQ was cooked by our waitress though this time I felt we had a bit more time to manage the BBQ ourselves. We also went for a noodle dish Yaki Myeon (beef noodles) which was very tasty.

I thoroughly enjoyed my meal at Koba though at nearly £30 each for our meal without alcohol (but including service) it is a touch on the expensive side. We did have a lot of meat and seafood though so it was reasonable value for money. Also there is of course the novelty factor of having the food cooked right in front of you. A fun meal.