54981 Fri Jul 11 12:28:19 -0700 2003 9 2 Los Angeles Area 0 284205 So I need to choose for a dinner between Sa Rit Gol or Soot Bull Jeep in Koreatown? Any recommendations? Fri Jul 11 12:28:19 -0700 2003 0 Lewis 1 284224 Sa Rit Gol has better food and marginally cleaner. Fri Jul 11 13:58:25 -0700 2003 284205 0 Sonia 2 284229 Agreed. Sa Rit Gol. One of my favorite places. Fri Jul 11 14:12:21 -0700 2003 284224 0 Sandra W. 1 284228 I went a few months ago. My Soot Bull Jeep Korean BBQ experience in two words. Fire! Fire! I'll go back in about six months...The place is that good. The bad stuff is the place has earned a C from the health peeps and I'm surprised the fire peeps haven't closed it down. The place is filled, filled with smoke. Each table contains a bucket sized grill filled with large chunks of hardwood coal. You know how in a movie when there's a fight on top of an old steam train and the train goes into a tunnel. Well you enter Soot Bull Jeep like you just came out of that tunnel. I like fire, and you canstantly have to dodge firey embers flying through the air. In other words you're competing with the beef sizzling away on the grill in front of you for medium well. The Korean yam vodka was yummy , I sampled enough to terrify my neighbors with my homecoming that night. But if they had seen the squid thay'd of had worse nightmares. Man that thing was a sight. We found the beef to be the best tasting. No one complained about the smoke once we were done waiting for a table, 20 min? I made revs but they didn't seem to care. The C must come from them dumping raw meat on the grill, directly on top of the meat you've carefully turned to perfection. Oh well, just drink more vodka right. Actually the C came from rodents. But I had a great time and didn't get sick, so... Fri Jul 11 14:12:11 -0700 2003 284205 0 Hershey Bomar 2 284236 Just for the record, Soot Bull Jeep has got its health rating back up to a low B (83) as of 5/30/2003; Sa Rit Gol's last rating was 95 (6/3/2003). Link: http://lapublichealth.org/rating/ Fri Jul 11 14:30:48 -0700 2003 284228 0 PayOrPlay 3 284648 Also for the record, as of April 2004, they're up to an A. 92 I think it was. Hurray! Fri Apr 16 19:05:52 -0700 2004 284236 0 SusanB 1 284310 dunno why everyone seems to like soot bool jeep so much. that place is gross and nasty. reminds me of the people who stand in line to eat a "house of nanking" up in SF...another gross place. soot bool jeep is very unsanitary. the walls are covered with a thick layer of smoke and grease that hasn't been washed in 10 years. there are bugs in all of the little crevices of the restaurant that never get picked up. the beef tastes ok because it's cooked over soot bool (wood charcoal chips) but you leave the place smelling like korean bbq for hours. personally? i would just go to chosun kalbi. nice, clean place with good tasting kalbi cooked over a flame (not wood). RVD. Fri Jul 11 19:41:50 -0700 2003 284205 0 RVD 1 284323 Sa Rit Gol is very good! Fri Jul 11 20:49:21 -0700 2003 284205 0 Ernie 1 284329 i went to soot bull jeep a few months back and was very disappointed. as others have noted, the place is dirty. unfortunately the food is just ok compared to some other bbq houses i've been to. so not really worth a trip back. cooking over an open fire is interesting but i'm much happier with better quality meat and gas grills found at other locations. i should also mention that i burned my leg from the fire pit. why this place keeps appearing at the top of main stream media korean bbq lists i have no idea. (of note, i did not see any korean customers during my visit.) everyone i know raves about chosun kalbi- it is cleaner and has the best cuts of meat. more expensive but well worth the added cost. Fri Jul 11 22:16:50 -0700 2003 284205 0 michael 2 284334 Go to Surubal on Western, north of Wilshire. It's clean and they have charcoal too. It's more pricey than Soot Bull, more akin to Cho Sun... Fri Jul 11 22:41:52 -0700 2003 284329 0 tissue