Traditional Korean BBQ & Japanese classics are served with craft cocktails at this spacious venue.
About Us – Kalbi Ichiban
Kalbi Ichiban is Downtown Pensacola’s first Korean barbecue eatery. Located on Garden street, we offer over 5,000 square feet to accommodate large parties, …
Traci Pryhuber
Great atmosphere and our server was a delight! Food portions very generous and the food is delicious! We did the fried tempura shrimp plate, the pick 2 sushi rolls, and a stir fried chicken dish. People may say the prices a bit higher than other places, fir sushi, but the portions are big! I ended up bringing more than half of mine home. Will definitely go back!
… moreBilly Snyder
SO much fun finding a Korean BBQ place that has the grills in tabletop. This is the way we enjoyed the meals while living in Japan, refreshing to see a local restaurant doing it RIGHT!
Service was excellent as well as the rest of the food, with most of our party going for sushi plates.
Good time, good food, good service, very reasonably priced
… moreWes Funes
Beautiful modern decor and an amazing 1st Korean grill experience. Madison was our server and went above and beyond to make sure we knew what we were doing with our delicious choices for the grill. She made sure we would enjoy our meal to the max. Manager, Ashley also helped with guidance. Was our first time and we will be back. A great introduction to the Korean grill. Pork belly and ribeye were both big winners here. We also had giant sushi rolls. Everything was a great value and we were treated so well. Thank you!
… moreJackson Taylor
Phenomenal! Tastes just as good as the Korean BBQ I’ve had in Korea and just as good as the ones in Duluth, Georgia (USA’s best Koreatown). At first parking may seem scarce, but there is an entire huge parking lot behind the bldg.
… moreRVPeak
I dropped in on a Friday and the food was fantastic. It was the closest I have had to authentic Korean food since I was in Korea. Try the Yaki Soba, you will love it and the hot and sour soup is so good that you will want to make a meal of it. The restraint is comfortable and relaxing, with the nicities that make you feel like you are in an upscale restaurant. Finally, My server, Angelica, she was so polite and accommodating. No matter the request, she was on top of it. I really appreciated her. I will most definitely be back.
… moreAlex Chen
The food was really good! Underestimated how big the sushi rolls were when I ordered 3 of them. The grills weren’t the best because it’d often slightly singe the meat without fully cooking it. But our server was very friendly and descriptive about everything.
… moreNargis4468
We had our 29 year anniversary at Kalbi Ishiban on October 3rd. OMG! The best meal I’ve had in a long time. We had the tuna tartar and the French kiss as an appetizer and then the seafood Shabu shabu for dinner.
Ashley, the manager made the best dry martini and is so friendly, she told me about the seafood noodle soup and the wonderful dishes. we’ve been coming back often since then by the way . My favorite place for foid and for a drink in Pensacola. Thank you Ashley ❤️
On our anniversary Our server Bennie was amazing, very patient and discreet ( I don’t like when the water is on you all the time and she gave us privacy ❤️)
The food was absolutely amazing ! Soooo good! And the price was well worth the quality and service
… moreViktoriia Hordiik
We were there on Saturday and there were a lot of free places, which surprised us. Very spacious, cozy place with a modern design. Very tasty. Everything is very fresh. Beautiful presentation! Everything was wonderful.
… moreSierra Richards
I don’t think I can name everything good about this place, but the food was absolutely amazing! The pictures don’t do any just. Flavor out of this world! The chef definitely takes pride in cooking. Our server was “OG Logan” he check on us often, very helpful. Also this has to be one of the cleanest restaurants I’ve been in. If I could give a 10 i would!
… moreBrandon Beale
Everything was just okay. It wasn’t bad, it wasn’t good.
The sushi roll menu was long, but there were few things I’d seen anywhere else. Many/most rolls included Krab with a K, which I don’t eat. So while there were a lot of rolls, I found it to be pretty slim pickens for something that looked like sushi to me.
I got the bulgogi. Again, it wasn’t bad, and it passed as edible but there wasn’t anything special about it
Another person in our party got steak for the Korean BBQ. It was sliced thin like deli meat which means it instantly stuck to the bbq. Our waitress brought us some butter in hopes it would help, but that changed the flavor of the meat to burned butter. They gave up in frustration.
Lastly, our waitress was very kind, but seemed to be overwhelmed. We didn’t see her very often and she was always walking fast when we did. She would drop something off at our table, talk very fast and dash off somewhere else.
We were hoping for an experience (Korean BBQ) instead of just a meal, but that didn’t pan out. It’ll be a one and done for us.
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