update: kevin and tina are closing the restaurant (explanation in a video on her channel). very sad that the place is closing so soon but understand that it was a very hard decision for them to make and will always be grateful that we had the opportunity to dine there :)
I’m surprised she made a restaurant focused on fine dining when her whole online persona is about comfort food. No wonder the food was, dare I say it… Seoul-less 😂
She has lots of videos about her creating the restaurant. If you haven’t seen them, it would make sense you don’t understand. I am a Dooby fan but I also don’t think bashing people online over something you don’t understand is cool so I am salty
the interior design does not watch the music, which doesn't match the food, which doesn't match the interior design 😭😭😭 it's no wonder this place closed down
From what i know, is that her boyfriends background is in fine dining, that's why this restaurant is probably catered like that. Since they opened up the restaurant together.
this, as well as the fact that in her videos dooby has also shown the homely aspects of both the layout of the restaurant and the processes they've used in achieving the menu. i appreciate honest reviews but i also tend to believe this was purely for the views and if you're going in there searching for reasons to hate on someone's hard work, i think she should've gone somewhere else
@@jessicad57she literally said it was her dream to come to this restaurant and she would come again to try another season's menu or to check if it was an off day. she also said in the video that she was trying so hard to find things she liked about the food because she wanted to visit so badly. I really don't think she did a bad review on purpose, sometimes people make bad food.
This comment is a little late, but no idea why people came for you in the comments (prob dooby fans) when dooby herself is so incredibly tone deaf and not a good person based on how she treated the guy she was leasing the building from (tried to take him to court when she was absolutely in the wrong). Thanks for an honest review! The menu had no merit.
i always thought her restaurant would be more homely and personal because of the food/culture she makes and shares on social media. but every time i watch a review of her restaurant, it makes me feel so disconnected?? but maybe thats just me for not really having an interest in "hard to reserve," high scale, small portion places lol
totally agree. there’s definitely a gap between the food she makes in videos vs. at mija, which is unfortunate since the food she shares online is really what entices most people to try the restaurant
I’ve seen a handful of her videos from the restaurant, so I didnt expect it to be like her vlogs since I knew that it wasn’t a restaurant that embodied her vlogs but one she created to be something different from that. It looks connecting to me cause I have seen her videos working hard to create it and I don’t find multiple course restaurants to be uptight since they are for a higher culinary experience more than they are for fancy and uptight people
Same I am her for most of the part a regular viewer, I won't say I am a fan or anything beacuse I just don't belive in that culture? It's just often disappointing to watch the reviews and too also feel a gap, the way her vibe is on social media her food feels off, off in a way like I know high end fancy restaurant exist and it's good that you want it but it too does not feel proper in that genre as most of the time people say it's not fulfilling or tasted good, espically given the high price
I really thought that she will have this homey food to share but it seems like they focused on edgy food. The disconnect between her food vids and restaurant food set up her customers and viewers leaving wanting.
It seems more like a multiple course restaurant than edgy. It’s only edgy if you are edgy, it could be very laid back if the person going there was laid back. They didn’t advertise it falsely, the videos they show of the restaurant are exactly they same level of culinary craft I saw here. I’ve seen a handful of her videos from the restaurant, so I didnt expect it to be like her vlogs since I knew that it wasn’t a restaurant that embodied her vlogs but one she created to be something different from that.
This is my two cents: my partner and I dined at Mija Seoul in December 2024. We actually loved it! Not every dish was to our taste, but we expected that going in since it was a multi course tasting menu. The atmosphere was really warm and welcoming, and the staff was fantastic. I always find it interesting how people can have very different experiences of the same food! (Most of our dishes were different to yours, but, in general, I think it’s fair to say people have different tastes.) Anyway, I enjoyed the video and hearing about your experience! 😊
I think this review is fair. Apologize that I can't remember, but there is this other very famous Michelin restaurant that sort of has a disclaimer saying they will make food you probably won't like. It's just because they want to do something so different that not everyone will enjoy it. I get the feeling of wanting to like something you just don't. I really enjoy Dooby's videos, but even though we will visit Korea soon her restaurant is 1) too far away from where will be 2) not exactly the experience I'm looking for. I think what they're doing is super awesome. Great review.
"disclaimer saying they will make food you probably won't like." That's so pretentious lol, don't bother dining here peasant because your tastebuds probably aren't refined enough.
Honestly all i see is dooby’s boyfriend’s influence from Mija’s reviews so far and it strays from her original content which was what drew me to her originally
I was just about to say this, it feels more like her bf’s restaurant with her image slapped on top. Personally I would rather have her kimchi then what they ate.
Although she has closed down the restaurant now but literally from the beginning i thought the menu will include all the recipes she show us in the shorts and i was so excited bcz i have been following her channel since the beginning but i was kinda disappointed or sad whatever like why wouldn't she included those food items is something wrong with her? The restaurant would be a hit if the menu include those recipes instead of this 9 course meal very disappointed
So dooby attracted people to her channel because of comfort food and generous portions of delicious-looking dishes and she starts a restaurant serving these instead?? 😂 Yeah, it’s no wonder this business failed..
Tbh didn't know about this place when living in Seoul. Don't think I missed out, was busy filling my belly on pork belly (and hangover soup in the morning...)
unfortunately, yes. right after we left, all I could think was truly “not everything meets the eye.” the food dooby shares on the internet looks beautiful and super flavorful, but the meal I had at mija looked great but lacked in pretty much every other regard of what makes great food. honestly, I really would only go again to give this spot a second chance (since they demonstrated creativity and showed exceptional hospitality). hopefully with more time and feedback, they’ll be able to refine their food and it’ll actually be worth the hype (and $60 haha)
Everyone has their own tastes. When I go to a restaurant, I don’t expect the food to be to my tastes. I would just eat my meal, enjoy the experience even if I didn’t like everything, and be respectful and civil. Thank the people for the food, leave, and don’t bash them later online.
their food seems overtly pretentious. fine dining has curated and intentional small portions so flavours really come through. their food just seems like small portions of average food, and that’s not the essence of fine dining at all. the disjunct between the homey atmosphere and “fine” dining food makes it even worse, the atmosphere is so wrong for supposed fine dining. i could easily imagine eating full plates of whatever they have like the vegetables, mushrooms, fish tacos, not considering the taste 😂 the interior also seems more a place for reunions than a 2.5h dinner.
They should have focused on highlighting the sustainable ingredients and mastered the dishes with few offerings rather than focus on fine dining and pairing with lots of dishes
Your review obviously foreshadowed the closing of Mija. 😢 Thanks for sharing your experience (and disappointment). I think I spared myself the same letdown after seeing their closing video. I hope they come back with a Korean comfort food theme if they try again. All of Dooby’s dishes look so appetizing to me.
To put into context. Gordon Ramsay's tasting menu is 200 USD. This YTer chef wannabe charges 150USD. Now you know why the place failed. The guy looks like he is either going to commit seppuku for spending that cash on bland food or drawing out a sword and do a banzai charge.
Omg you are Filipino like me! I want to visit the restaurant when I go to S. korea but I’ve been seeing not so good reviews about the place. Thanks for the review.
ever since the resto opened i've been checking out review vlogs every now and then because i have always been curious about the experience and seeing this (and a few others) just confirmed to me that maybe theres a specific food palette that their course meals (??) is suited for along with the variety of korean alcohol djdhdh this is really insightful though, thank you for this!
yes mija seems to be going for more of a fine dining experience where drink pairing is very important - but also not sure why drinks cost extra if it’s so important to the meal as a whole in the first place
I think my wording was confusing, but what I meant was that maybe the drinks shouldn't be optional since the dishes are sub par standalone@@carolineauch
I genuinely don’t understand people saying that dooby decided to open a fine dining restaurant just because her BF has experience in fine dining. Just because he’s worked in fine dining doesn’t mean he’s only capable of making fine dining food and the decision was ultimately made by her since I’m sure she’s the main one funding the restaurant. There’s TONS of chefs who go working into fine dining and end up working at a more casual place. Also Dooby herself as a creator is so contradicting and completely out of touch I cannot stand some of her tone deaf videos. Mija seoul’s dishes look so pedestrian and it feels like they just rushed the opening just to keep the hype alive with her die hard fans. This place only works because of the celebrity behind the restaurant.
@@KrisKk08 She herself is rich and well off due to her parents and has said in videos that her friends are lucky bc they're wealthy enough to have the choice to discover themselves when, lol, she was just like those friends she was complaining about.
i feel like they’re trying way too hard to highlight the seasonal ingredients in a “different” and “edgy” way to the point when the whole meal is just the 1 seasonal ingredient and sauce or whatever😭 which would be fine ig if it the price wasn’t so ridiculous for what you’re getting. in the end, the food just comes across as a bit pretentious
When it comes to Korean foods, it's all about the big amount and the various side dishes but like those foods.. i've never seen any foods like that before, quite unnecessarily experimental. they don't tingle my Korean taste buds
Im not sure if it'd be a good or bad experience for me, everything on the menu seems like food I like, so maybe I'll still try it. I heard its all right from their garden and they sell hard on their "taste the natural ingredients", I quite like milder flavours and herbs.
sounds like you should definitely give it a try! there’s also a new menu for each season, so if this one didn’t convince you maybe the next ones will :)
I visited them back in November with my family and we had a very different experience to you guys! Our dishes overall were super full of flavour- to the point we had to keep getting our glasses filled with water so we could try and cleanse our palette before the next course which came through within 10 minutes of us finishing our previous one. sad to see the food wasn’t as good as you anticipated🥲
They changed the menu, right? Maybe that's why. People who went last year had a better experience. Probably because they had just opened. Standards tend to drop afterwards. It's normal.
I mean, she has to do fine dining because her boyfriend is a chef. I bet if it weren't for him, she would have definitely put up a cafe or any casual dining instead.
Lol wtf just because he’s a chef doesn’t mean she “had” to go into fine dining. She could’ve just went into something that she’s more familiar with but instead created a bland and flat fine dining restaurant that’s only working out because she’s the face behind it. Just because Kevin has worked in fine dining before doesn’t mean he’s too good to cook non fine dining cuisine and there’s TONS of chefs who’ve done the same. This decision to go into fine dining wasn’t because of Kevin.
knew it wasn't gonna last having the kitchen by the front door.. she needs to play sims 😅 I just can't imagine a home-cooked meal in a bar setting kitchen (unless maybe a bigger location, where customers could watch). and damn its noisy... I bet the chefs could hear everyones dissatisfaction so closely
In short it is more of her boyfriend's restaurant, she is just marketing. Nothing wrong with that per see, but the disconnect and USD $60 price is what throws people off.
I really love dooby but some of vids she talks about how she loves home meals over fancy gourmet 9 course meals. Her portions were very tiny and for $90... thats crazy expensive considering she says she grows most of the stuffs herself. In my currency it sums up to rm418 per person... for comparison, cheapest coldplay concert ticket was 228... Dooby is contradicting herself lately 😭🥲😅 Edit: thank you for the honest review!
Lol taste aside- farm to table should cost more, it takes more time to do your own organic produce, SF restaurants that do farm to table are incredible
I mean...yeah she makes homely food on vlog, but her whole vibe is privileged rich girl pretending (badly) to be an underdog, so not surprised the food ended up pretentious.
Ohh Filipino ka HAHAHA magtatagalog na siguro ako and will give my straight opinion based on watching her countless vids. Siguro kaya rin nagsara yung restau niya dahil super busy ni Kevin and ewan ko feel ko masyado siyang busy sa pagv-vlog niya. Yung experience din ni Kevin is sanay talaga siya sa restau/food work kumpara kay Tina na let's say walang work experience. I think expected din yung pagsara nung restau kaya ayun. Tinagalog ko na baka atakihin ako nung mga diehard fans hahaha, well fan din naman ako pero this is my unbiased opinion.
I haven't seen much of doobydobap's content recently but since seeing her stuff back in 2020/2021, I imagine she's got even more popular. Though it's a shame her restaurant isn't good, people will still go because of her name and who she is
Pleasantly surprised at the price, $60 for fine dining + $30 for drinks is on the lower end (although still rlly expensive for my cheap ass lmao). I’ve see one of her vids going through each course and that one seemed appetizing to me so hopefully this experience is just a fluke cause of the new menu lols. Anyways, what I’m most curious about is if this kind of meal leaves you full or not 👀
hope you guys have a nice time in korea! i wanted to go bc i like dooby but personally, the food doesn’t look that special and i won’t be going anymore, thanks for the review :)
Even if this setup is for fine dining because of her boyfriend, it still falls short of "fine dining", like that's the saddest looking food and plating i've ever seen😅
I’m no fine dining connoisseur but the best fine dining Asian restaurants in the world don’t just focus on one type of Asian cuisine. They sell the best dishes (that complement each other) from every Asian country, satisfying the palette in every way.
Mija serves more traditional Korean style dishes with a “modern twist”, so it won’t be as flavorful or taste like western food. It’s more like natural flavors. With that being said, some of the dishes look very small. It’s probably not unique or amazing but it is a dooby experience.
yes this is a good point - many korean dishes tend to be milder than western food so we were mostly comparing to the other meals we had in seoul (which were amazing!). so final take is that mija falls short in comparison to the food you can get throughout the city (other fine dining included) and also has such a high price tag for a pretty mediocre food experience
I believe your review was honest and very well manner. The focus was on the food, presentation, service and ambience. Did you do any research prior on the type of food they were serving or was this based on blind faith, since you were a fan of her channel? Just some background about you and your guest, have you guys ever dine at Thomas Keller French Laundry in CA? And what's you and your guest affiliation in culinary?Just curious. Thanks.
Great review. I appreciate that you tried to be fair, even charitable with some dishes. I know for me, everything boils down to: do I enjoy this as much or more than a homemade sinigang baboy and leche flan? If not, it feels like a waste of money. 😂
I like doobydoobap's videos and her charm, but I'm gonna say that the courses of this meal really do not look appealing at all 😅 which I was quite shocked about... Thank you for sharing your experience and the very honest thoughts on it with us!! Your video is wonderful and I love the vibe and pace🥰
I agree that food is so-so. Tina is just cashing in on her social media popularity and also creating a job for her boyfriend. Seems like it is just experimental cooking, but unfortunately the flavors are extreme; either tasteless or overly sour. It went out of business???
It's unbelievable that you said you'd go back when it was obvious you didn't enjoy the food and the wait time was horrible. I would bet my bottom dollar if this wasn't dooby's restaurant you'd have written a scathing review.
I mean she’s not a chef her boy friends not a chef . You are paying for over hyped noob cooks who haven’t even been in a legit restaurant and paying $60 because a TH-camr has ad money lol
Her boyfriend is a trained chef who has worked in many restaurants and a Michelin star restaurant. This has been mentioned in her previous videos. That is why he is the mastermind behind the food/menu.
@@AnNguyen-qs3jj yet the food is substandard and has no reputation. I don’t see any signature dishes or awards. He’s a noob and they used TH-cam audiences to boost the restaurant for sub par food. You think Gordon Ramsay would be a top dog if his food sucked. He not only trained and won many awards for his chef but also opened his own restaurants before going and winning Michelins. He also didn’t charge $60-100$ for subpar service.
@@hoesuck2649 literally doesn’t make any sense what you wrote. Gordon’s has chain restaurants and then he has his main restaurants in major cities like London. His main restaurants all have Michelin stars and the chefs that come out of those restaurants own or run major fine dining restaurants that have Michelin stars and awards. So what are you talking about? Please learn how Michelin stars are awarded and kept. Also please get a job so you can experience an actual fine dining environment and then pay for sub par food. $60 for a sub par tasting menu is horrendous.
update: kevin and tina are closing the restaurant (explanation in a video on her channel). very sad that the place is closing so soon but understand that it was a very hard decision for them to make and will always be grateful that we had the opportunity to dine there :)
Wonder if her fans are “salty”
@@sevenhundred77 I’ll let someone else explain
@@sevenhundred77 Don't mind that person, I've seen this person commenting in other people's youtube videos😅
@@elysahbacnutan4673 Maybe if this person watched those other videos and read the comments from others, then this person would understand.
@@sevenhundred77 Can’t help if this person is DENSE
I’m surprised she made a restaurant focused on fine dining when her whole online persona is about comfort food. No wonder the food was, dare I say it… Seoul-less 😂
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Well her boyfriend is a fine dine chef so it makes sense
@@Dandelionn728 he clearly sucks at his job though
She has lots of videos about her creating the restaurant. If you haven’t seen them, it would make sense you don’t understand. I am a Dooby fan but I also don’t think bashing people online over something you don’t understand is cool so I am salty
It looks like it's actually her boyfriend's restaurant she is just for advertising I guess
the interior design does not watch the music, which doesn't match the food, which doesn't match the interior design 😭😭😭 it's no wonder this place closed down
guy looks like he is struggling throughout the whole meal LMAO
😂
From what i know, is that her boyfriends background is in fine dining, that's why this restaurant is probably catered like that. Since they opened up the restaurant together.
this, as well as the fact that in her videos dooby has also shown the homely aspects of both the layout of the restaurant and the processes they've used in achieving the menu.
i appreciate honest reviews but i also tend to believe this was purely for the views and if you're going in there searching for reasons to hate on someone's hard work, i think she should've gone somewhere else
@@jessicad57she literally said it was her dream to come to this restaurant and she would come again to try another season's menu or to check if it was an off day. she also said in the video that she was trying so hard to find things she liked about the food because she wanted to visit so badly. I really don't think she did a bad review on purpose, sometimes people make bad food.
@@jessicad57 damn understand the meaning of hate first of all 💀 then use it.
This comment is a little late, but no idea why people came for you in the comments (prob dooby fans) when dooby herself is so incredibly tone deaf and not a good person based on how she treated the guy she was leasing the building from (tried to take him to court when she was absolutely in the wrong). Thanks for an honest review! The menu had no merit.
Ooh drama. What happened? This my first time hearing abt this cos I don’t really keep up with dooby anymore cos I find her kinda annoying.
i always thought her restaurant would be more homely and personal because of the food/culture she makes and shares on social media. but every time i watch a review of her restaurant, it makes me feel so disconnected?? but maybe thats just me for not really having an interest in "hard to reserve," high scale, small portion places lol
totally agree. there’s definitely a gap between the food she makes in videos vs. at mija, which is unfortunate since the food she shares online is really what entices most people to try the restaurant
im pretty sure it is due to her boyfriend who studied fine dining/culinary arts, but i agree completely with you
I’ve seen a handful of her videos from the restaurant, so I didnt expect it to be like her vlogs since I knew that it wasn’t a restaurant that embodied her vlogs but one she created to be something different from that. It looks connecting to me cause I have seen her videos working hard to create it and I don’t find multiple course restaurants to be uptight since they are for a higher culinary experience more than they are for fancy and uptight people
Same I am her for most of the part a regular viewer, I won't say I am a fan or anything beacuse I just don't belive in that culture? It's just often disappointing to watch the reviews and too also feel a gap, the way her vibe is on social media her food feels off, off in a way like I know high end fancy restaurant exist and it's good that you want it but it too does not feel proper in that genre as most of the time people say it's not fulfilling or tasted good, espically given the high price
Dude give it a rest. We know you are a fan of hers but no need to be defending her like she is paying you under veery comment. @@sevenhundred77
I really thought that she will have this homey food to share but it seems like they focused on edgy food. The disconnect between her food vids and restaurant food set up her customers and viewers leaving wanting.
100% accurate to how we felt afterwards
i think its because of her boyfriend hes a fine dining chef
It seems more like a multiple course restaurant than edgy. It’s only edgy if you are edgy, it could be very laid back if the person going there was laid back. They didn’t advertise it falsely, the videos they show of the restaurant are exactly they same level of culinary craft I saw here. I’ve seen a handful of her videos from the restaurant, so I didnt expect it to be like her vlogs since I knew that it wasn’t a restaurant that embodied her vlogs but one she created to be something different from that.
@@drea2280 yeah this seems like mainly her boyfriend/husband’s restaurant
Her bf is also a part of the team and hes a fine dining chef
This is my two cents: my partner and I dined at Mija Seoul in December 2024. We actually loved it! Not every dish was to our taste, but we expected that going in since it was a multi course tasting menu. The atmosphere was really warm and welcoming, and the staff was fantastic. I always find it interesting how people can have very different experiences of the same food! (Most of our dishes were different to yours, but, in general, I think it’s fair to say people have different tastes.) Anyway, I enjoyed the video and hearing about your experience! 😊
for sure! glad to hear you both had a different experience :)
My friend and I also went in December and loved our experience, goes to show how subjective food is
December 2024?
2023* 😊
I think this review is fair. Apologize that I can't remember, but there is this other very famous Michelin restaurant that sort of has a disclaimer saying they will make food you probably won't like. It's just because they want to do something so different that not everyone will enjoy it. I get the feeling of wanting to like something you just don't. I really enjoy Dooby's videos, but even though we will visit Korea soon her restaurant is 1) too far away from where will be 2) not exactly the experience I'm looking for.
I think what they're doing is super awesome. Great review.
"disclaimer saying they will make food you probably won't like." That's so pretentious lol, don't bother dining here peasant because your tastebuds probably aren't refined enough.
That water broth with that slice of onions is ridiculous. Nothing fancy about that.
yeah when that came out, we got a bit nervous about what else was coming
I think the customer will get a more complex flavor if they steep my socks and a whole onion in hot water.
Thanks for being honest its pretty rare when it comes to influencer stuff
thank you! trying to do our part in keeping it real haha
Honestly all i see is dooby’s boyfriend’s influence from Mija’s reviews so far and it strays from her original content which was what drew me to her originally
I was just about to say this, it feels more like her bf’s restaurant with her image slapped on top. Personally I would rather have her kimchi then what they ate.
Thought the same she should launch her own thing with a more homely feel this was bound to fail
Pretty sure dooby tried the menu items before the launch so… she wanted to feed y’all that overpriced food 💀
Although she has closed down the restaurant now but literally from the beginning i thought the menu will include all the recipes she show us in the shorts and i was so excited bcz i have been following her channel since the beginning but i was kinda disappointed or sad whatever like why wouldn't she included those food items is something wrong with her? The restaurant would be a hit if the menu include those recipes instead of this 9 course meal very disappointed
The portions are so tiny it’s sad just watching it
i aint even need audio. already knew y'all were hella annoyed HAHAHHA
caught
So dooby attracted people to her channel because of comfort food and generous portions of delicious-looking dishes and she starts a restaurant serving these instead?? 😂 Yeah, it’s no wonder this business failed..
As a non-Korean, seeing your reactions while eating the food, I probably would be more excited eating at S.Korea's 7/11. 😂
Tbh didn't know about this place when living in Seoul. Don't think I missed out, was busy filling my belly on pork belly (and hangover soup in the morning...)
7/11 is now a japanese company so i bet its good.
Its the onion with some juice that would’ve pissed me off 😂
that was a red flag
That's not a course it's starvation.
And it’s cold soup also 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
exactly, like what was that?
So, really not worth the hype
unfortunately, yes. right after we left, all I could think was truly “not everything meets the eye.” the food dooby shares on the internet looks beautiful and super flavorful, but the meal I had at mija looked great but lacked in pretty much every other regard of what makes great food.
honestly, I really would only go again to give this spot a second chance (since they demonstrated creativity and showed exceptional hospitality). hopefully with more time and feedback, they’ll be able to refine their food and it’ll actually be worth the hype (and $60 haha)
stop trying to justify it. If its poop, its poop. @@wifimeagan
60 all together or p.P.?@@wifimeagan
@@mrkaigus8778 wtff bro
Everyone has their own tastes. When I go to a restaurant, I don’t expect the food to be to my tastes. I would just eat my meal, enjoy the experience even if I didn’t like everything, and be respectful and civil. Thank the people for the food, leave, and don’t bash them later online.
idk why but i got so nervous when your boyfriend ate the food.. he seems like a more honest critic HAHA but thank you for the review!
LOL favorite comment
I never felt so unimpressed in a food video before haha
Lmfaoo the faces both of ya’ll make every time a new dish arrives 🤣🤣
also went there not too long ago a bit disappointed:( but I could see why other people might like it!
whoopsies
their food seems overtly pretentious. fine dining has curated and intentional small portions so flavours really come through. their food just seems like small portions of average food, and that’s not the essence of fine dining at all. the disjunct between the homey atmosphere and “fine” dining food makes it even worse, the atmosphere is so wrong for supposed fine dining. i could easily imagine eating full plates of whatever they have like the vegetables, mushrooms, fish tacos, not considering the taste 😂 the interior also seems more a place for reunions than a 2.5h dinner.
They should have focused on highlighting the sustainable ingredients and mastered the dishes with few offerings rather than focus on fine dining and pairing with lots of dishes
ngl that onion dish really pissed me off for a place like that
Your review obviously foreshadowed the closing of Mija. 😢 Thanks for sharing your experience (and disappointment). I think I spared myself the same letdown after seeing their closing video.
I hope they come back with a Korean comfort food theme if they try again. All of Dooby’s dishes look so appetizing to me.
To put into context. Gordon Ramsay's tasting menu is 200 USD. This YTer chef wannabe charges 150USD. Now you know why the place failed. The guy looks like he is either going to commit seppuku for spending that cash on bland food or drawing out a sword and do a banzai charge.
It only cost like 60-70 usd what are you on about.
@@chromberries7329 They were adding food and drinks per person.
It's nice to see a new channel - and I appreciate that y'all were honest about the review
thank you!
Omg you are Filipino like me! I want to visit the restaurant when I go to S. korea but I’ve been seeing not so good reviews about the place. Thanks for the review.
omg! yes hindi masarap 😂
@@wifimeagan Lol'd at this! I guess speaking Tagalog brings out the honesty. 😆
Your skin looks so healthy and pretty!!
omg thank you!! 🥺
Every time a new item came out I felt like screaming at how ridiculous it was
poor dude he looked tortured 😭
ever since the resto opened i've been checking out review vlogs every now and then because i have always been curious about the experience and seeing this (and a few others) just confirmed to me that maybe theres a specific food palette that their course meals (??) is suited for along with the variety of korean alcohol djdhdh this is really insightful though, thank you for this!
yes mija seems to be going for more of a fine dining experience where drink pairing is very important - but also not sure why drinks cost extra if it’s so important to the meal as a whole in the first place
@@wifimeagan cuz they want money
Of course they will want money. It's a business, not a soup kitchen
Of course drinks cost extra LOL what. That is standard in most fine dining places and can cost up to two thirds of the chef's degustation
I think my wording was confusing, but what I meant was that maybe the drinks shouldn't be optional since the dishes are sub par standalone@@carolineauch
I genuinely don’t understand people saying that dooby decided to open a fine dining restaurant just because her BF has experience in fine dining. Just because he’s worked in fine dining doesn’t mean he’s only capable of making fine dining food and the decision was ultimately made by her since I’m sure she’s the main one funding the restaurant. There’s TONS of chefs who go working into fine dining and end up working at a more casual place. Also Dooby herself as a creator is so contradicting and completely out of touch I cannot stand some of her tone deaf videos. Mija seoul’s dishes look so pedestrian and it feels like they just rushed the opening just to keep the hype alive with her die hard fans. This place only works because of the celebrity behind the restaurant.
How are her videos tone deaf?
@@KrisKk08 She herself is rich and well off due to her parents and has said in videos that her friends are lucky bc they're wealthy enough to have the choice to discover themselves when, lol, she was just like those friends she was complaining about.
i feel like they’re trying way too hard to highlight the seasonal ingredients in a “different” and “edgy” way to the point when the whole meal is just the 1 seasonal ingredient and sauce or whatever😭 which would be fine ig if it the price wasn’t so ridiculous for what you’re getting. in the end, the food just comes across as a bit pretentious
totally agree with you :(
She serves gourmet food, but she cooks regular food we eat. that doesn't match at all. all this food is chosen by her, but not made by her.
When it comes to Korean foods, it's all about the big amount and the various side dishes but like those foods.. i've never seen any foods like that before, quite unnecessarily experimental. they don't tingle my Korean taste buds
totally agree with you. eating there was unfortunately the most underwhelming food experience i had in seoul 😢
Im not sure if it'd be a good or bad experience for me, everything on the menu seems like food I like, so maybe I'll still try it. I heard its all right from their garden and they sell hard on their "taste the natural ingredients", I quite like milder flavours and herbs.
sounds like you should definitely give it a try! there’s also a new menu for each season, so if this one didn’t convince you maybe the next ones will :)
The music doesn't go with the food
yes, this is true. the music was conflicting and had us a bit confused
i can hear tiktok music i swear ...
You have to wait long and portion size is small? How much does the whole meal cost? Looks like fine dinning.
I visited them back in November with my family and we had a very different experience to you guys!
Our dishes overall were super full of flavour- to the point we had to keep getting our glasses filled with water so we could try and cleanse our palette before the next course which came through within 10 minutes of us finishing our previous one.
sad to see the food wasn’t as good as you anticipated🥲
ah maybe we came on an off day. it's good to hear that you had a better experience :)
They changed the menu, right?
Maybe that's why.
People who went last year had a better experience. Probably because they had just opened. Standards tend to drop afterwards. It's normal.
I mean, she has to do fine dining because her boyfriend is a chef. I bet if it weren't for him, she would have definitely put up a cafe or any casual dining instead.
Lol wtf just because he’s a chef doesn’t mean she “had” to go into fine dining. She could’ve just went into something that she’s more familiar with but instead created a bland and flat fine dining restaurant that’s only working out because she’s the face behind it. Just because Kevin has worked in fine dining before doesn’t mean he’s too good to cook non fine dining cuisine and there’s TONS of chefs who’ve done the same. This decision to go into fine dining wasn’t because of Kevin.
knew it wasn't gonna last having the kitchen by the front door.. she needs to play sims 😅
I just can't imagine a home-cooked meal in a bar setting kitchen (unless maybe a bigger location, where customers could watch).
and damn its noisy... I bet the chefs could hear everyones dissatisfaction so closely
that's rough, i would really think if she sticked with comfort food she'd do better than fine dining...
In short it is more of her boyfriend's restaurant, she is just marketing. Nothing wrong with that per see, but the disconnect and USD $60 price is what throws people off.
I really appreciate the honest review! Id honestly love to see more content like this! Your vibes 10/10
thank you so much! more to come :)
I really love dooby but some of vids she talks about how she loves home meals over fancy gourmet 9 course meals. Her portions were very tiny and for $90... thats crazy expensive considering she says she grows most of the stuffs herself. In my currency it sums up to rm418 per person... for comparison, cheapest coldplay concert ticket was 228... Dooby is contradicting herself lately 😭🥲😅
Edit: thank you for the honest review!
Lol taste aside- farm to table should cost more, it takes more time to do your own organic produce, SF restaurants that do farm to table are incredible
@@buttercream-r1w ohh.. i thought it would be cheaper.. if really so, than i retract my statement. However it is still overpriced.
The onion and cider is weird
I mean...yeah she makes homely food on vlog, but her whole vibe is privileged rich girl pretending (badly) to be an underdog, so not surprised the food ended up pretentious.
Went there in November, 2023. Me and my sister loved it!
Ohh Filipino ka HAHAHA magtatagalog na siguro ako and will give my straight opinion based on watching her countless vids. Siguro kaya rin nagsara yung restau niya dahil super busy ni Kevin and ewan ko feel ko masyado siyang busy sa pagv-vlog niya. Yung experience din ni Kevin is sanay talaga siya sa restau/food work kumpara kay Tina na let's say walang work experience.
I think expected din yung pagsara nung restau kaya ayun. Tinagalog ko na baka atakihin ako nung mga diehard fans hahaha, well fan din naman ako pero this is my unbiased opinion.
Fine dining price and that many servings, I think $60 is cheap. I do think if they should focus on food tasting versus trying to be creative and edgy.
I mean considering it’s in S.K., it’s probably not that cheap when you compare to won
I haven't seen much of doobydobap's content recently but since seeing her stuff back in 2020/2021, I imagine she's got even more popular. Though it's a shame her restaurant isn't good, people will still go because of her name and who she is
The restaurant closed down.
It’s not surprising that the restaurant isn’t sustainable. This just doesn’t make sense
I’ve been curious abt mija seoul if its worth it or just the hype. Thank you for this!
of course! glad the video was helpful :)
Pleasantly surprised at the price, $60 for fine dining + $30 for drinks is on the lower end (although still rlly expensive for my cheap ass lmao). I’ve see one of her vids going through each course and that one seemed appetizing to me so hopefully this experience is just a fluke cause of the new menu lols. Anyways, what I’m most curious about is if this kind of meal leaves you full or not 👀
Looks like that menu and restaurant isn't really HER. It's him and it didn't work.
Hope you blow up, loving your channel so far. I wanted to see a review thank you for being honest. ❤
thank you so much! your comment means everything ❤
hope you guys have a nice time in korea! i wanted to go bc i like dooby but personally, the food doesn’t look that special and i won’t be going anymore, thanks for the review :)
thank you! happy to hear that the review helped :)
I love the honesty
This is the style of a lot of Danish restaurants, small dishes and even if it’s not very fancy it feels elevated. They just have copied that style
bruh id rather eat at a hot plate or shabu shabu restaurant
Honestly the only thing that gave me doobydobap vibes was the interior & alcohol. It looks good but wasn’t what I expected from her.
Even if this setup is for fine dining because of her boyfriend, it still falls short of "fine dining", like that's the saddest looking food and plating i've ever seen😅
I'm going there next week!! Still so so excited ahhhh thanks for the review:)
I’m no fine dining connoisseur but the best fine dining Asian restaurants in the world don’t just focus on one type of Asian cuisine. They sell the best dishes (that complement each other) from every Asian country, satisfying the palette in every way.
What onion was that omg!
I think it’s just a pearl onion but not 100% sure haha
Mija serves more traditional Korean style dishes with a “modern twist”, so it won’t be as flavorful or taste like western food. It’s more like natural flavors. With that being said, some of the dishes look very small. It’s probably not unique or amazing but it is a dooby experience.
yes this is a good point - many korean dishes tend to be milder than western food so we were mostly comparing to the other meals we had in seoul (which were amazing!). so final take is that mija falls short in comparison to the food you can get throughout the city (other fine dining included) and also has such a high price tag for a pretty mediocre food experience
Yes, everyone has their own tastes
Besides the point but you’re like really pretty. Something about your face. Like, you’ve just got a really good face 😭🩷
You guises reaction are so honest lol esp the guy hahaha
Baby.... im really sorry but your caption is not matching your face at all 😂 and i really think your rating is too nice compared to your face
Cool so her restaurant is pretty much like her content, pretentious
Pretentious? Settle down.
Ye always found her a bit preachy n unrelatable. Most seem to disagree with me tho n that's ok lol
Thanks for a very honest review!
of course, and thanks for the support! :)
thanks for being honest. this is a message for TINA! change the menu! lol
I believe your review was honest and very well manner. The focus was on the food, presentation, service and ambience. Did you do any research prior on the type of food they were serving or was this based on blind faith, since you were a fan of her channel?
Just some background about you and your guest, have you guys ever dine at Thomas Keller French Laundry in CA? And what's you and your guest affiliation in culinary?Just curious. Thanks.
Great review. I appreciate that you tried to be fair, even charitable with some dishes.
I know for me, everything boils down to: do I enjoy this as much or more than a homemade sinigang baboy and leche flan? If not, it feels like a waste of money. 😂
such high standards!! leche flan will always be my number 1 haha
She has a restaurant????🌚
❤love the straight honesty 👏🏽✨❤
for fine dining it seems too noisy
Was everything dry? It kind of looks like you're dry swallowing most things, especially in the beginning.
Fyi mija has closed permanently 😢
thank you for this review, its so interesting!
thank you for watching! and yes, I was definitely surprised
How much did it cost?
60 usd for the 9 courses + an optional 30 usd for the drink pairings
@@wifimeagan oooo okay thank you
Wow its cheap tho, i want to try it
@@haryoninditowicaksono147I think that’s per person
Fine dining is not for me. Give me normal restaurant food or Street food anytime
I know Kevin (chef / her bf) was away in Denmark so maybe that's also why?
he was actually there when we went! he even took a picture of us haha
I like doobydoobap's videos and her charm, but I'm gonna say that the courses of this meal really do not look appealing at all 😅 which I was quite shocked about...
Thank you for sharing your experience and the very honest thoughts on it with us!! Your video is wonderful and I love the vibe and pace🥰
thank you so much! :’) (and i was quite shocked too haha)
Yeah the plating was uninspiring tbh
It's too noisyyyy 😭
I agree that food is so-so. Tina is just cashing in on her social media popularity and also creating a job for her boyfriend. Seems like it is just experimental cooking, but unfortunately the flavors are extreme; either tasteless or overly sour. It went out of business???
sorry for the late reply, but tina and kevin made the decision to close the restaurant together 😢
Hey, thanks the helpful review. We will have to visit this restaurant, too!
wow!
I wish I lived in Seoul to be able to go to her restaurant. It would be my first stop if/when I visit South Korea.
enjoyed it.
Bro has the metabolism of a moth
100k!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉💪👏👏👏😌
It's unbelievable that you said you'd go back when it was obvious you didn't enjoy the food and the wait time was horrible. I would bet my bottom dollar if this wasn't dooby's restaurant you'd have written a scathing review.
I mean she’s not a chef her boy friends not a chef . You are paying for over hyped noob cooks who haven’t even been in a legit restaurant and paying $60 because a TH-camr has ad money lol
Her boyfriend is a trained chef who has worked in many restaurants and a Michelin star restaurant. This has been mentioned in her previous videos. That is why he is the mastermind behind the food/menu.
@@AnNguyen-qs3jj yet the food is substandard and has no reputation. I don’t see any signature dishes or awards. He’s a noob and they used TH-cam audiences to boost the restaurant for sub par food. You think Gordon Ramsay would be a top dog if his food sucked. He not only trained and won many awards for his chef but also opened his own restaurants before going and winning Michelins. He also didn’t charge $60-100$ for subpar service.
@@sikpig7302And Gordon Ramsey’s restaurants have poor reviews as well, and he has a trash frozen Walmart food line too, so what’s your point exactly?
@@hoesuck2649 literally doesn’t make any sense what you wrote. Gordon’s has chain restaurants and then he has his main restaurants in major cities like London. His main restaurants all have Michelin stars and the chefs that come out of those restaurants own or run major fine dining restaurants that have Michelin stars and awards. So what are you talking about? Please learn how Michelin stars are awarded and kept. Also please get a job so you can experience an actual fine dining environment and then pay for sub par food. $60 for a sub par tasting menu is horrendous.
@@hoesuck2649 please be a better person
omg this guy's body language says it all. still love doobydobop 4ever.
almost at 50k, lets gooo!!!
So cute!❤️
thank you! ❤️