YORI (Wimbledon) in Merton

Great Korean food with friendly service thanks to Natty. Will visit again for sure.

Went on the weekend for a birthday lunch. We were seated promptly but there wasn't anyone else yet in the restaurant and we were cold as we were sitting under the vent. After we took some time to decide what to eat, the waitress came to take our order and unfortunately we ordered the only thing that was not available, which they didn't tell us upfront. We then settled on the Yori platter, with pork bulgogi, cucumber kimchi and rice. The platter came with sides of bean sprouts, cucumber salad, as well as some garlic and chillies to grill. We also received a complimentary dish of sweetcorn in barbecue sauce and melted cheese. Although unexpected and free, this didn't really add anything to the overall meal and wasn't tasty enough for me to have eaten more than a spoon of it. Weirdly enough, it took them some time to serve us, as if they were waiting for us to give them the go-ahead to start the grill after we got the sweetcorn. Also, you'd think that since we're cooking the food ourselves, we wouldn't have to wait that long. Once we got the grill going, we had to ask for the rice and salad leaves to be served as it seemed they forgot them. It just seemed disorganised. The meat from the platter was tasty and we enjoyed the BBQ itself. The prawns in the platter could have been skipped all together, you could tell it was defrosted prawns and it was totally unseasoned. I saw on the menu that these can be ordered separately, which I wouldn't recommend at all. The rice was like congee it was so overcooked!! I didn't enjoy that. The amount of food we ordered for 3 was satisfying, and there were no leftovers. My biggest disappointment with this meal was the service. We went for a birthday meal, and the staff on that day was slow, their way of speaking curt, not very attentive or professional, and didn't give the impression like they wanted to be there at all. Although we enjoyed the food itself (mostly), I'll be looking for another Korean BBQ restaurant.

Delicious food at York Wimbledon today. Lovely staff, Jerald who is the manager gave us personal attention and made some great recommendations. Thank you.! We will visit again

Update- Try Ssam Ssam right around the corner. Family owned. Authentic and reasonably priced Criminally small portions! Disappointing service Attached - two photos comparing portion of pork belly from this restaurant vs Yori near Carnaby street. I feel cheated. I will preface this by saying I am very knowledgeable about Korean food and have visited several restaurants in and out of London. I love Yori as a franchise but the experience at this branch was so disappointing. Lets start with the good - its well located and very roomy. Not surprising for the location The bad- terrible service. I was actually so embarassed as I recommended we visit here to a friend who was visiting. I just moved here so was of course thrilled to try out my new local Yori. First we were asked to be moved after we had been sat for about 10 minutes. I respectfully declined because it was inconvenient and also the reason given was strange ("move to the front so we can serve you faster???"). I wish the waiters had been honest with us with the reasons they wanted us to move because it seems after refused we were almost being "punished" for that. Regularly left the door behind us open so we were freezing! The dishes were brought out of sequence. I finished grilling and I had no lettuce which we ordered all at the same time so we could not even start eating. I had to request that to be brought out. It got to the point where I had to ask what time they close because I was wondering maybe we came too late and they just wanted us to go The food - Add to it being served out of sequence which affected the overall experience, the portions were criminally small. Again I have visited over 5 yori franchises and their food portions have been pretty consistent. I took a picture of the 12 pound pork belly after grilling (attached). It was barely enough for even one person😂. Its heartbreaking to write such a low review given that I have been such a loyal customer of the Yori franchise. Very disappointing!

Great food, the lunch deal is very good value for money. Swift and polite service, great fan of our waiter Jeradd!

Food was fantastic, Tae Joo was wonderful, overall a lovely evening, thank you!

Yummy food, clean and cozy restaurant

Taejoo was very attentive, kind and provided a great service! Portion sizes could be better as they have gotten smaller since the last time visiting

The spicy chicken udon is superb, highly recommend it. Jerald the waiter was attentive and helpful with ordering!

my comfort food, really great, worth the money. Jerald was very helpful and friendly

Thanks for my food and thanks to the staff for treating us so well. Special shoutout to Rosalind, Natty and Rokeya.

Jerald served us and was very friendly and approachable. The food was tasty and there was a heater placed near us so it wasn't cold although it was snowing.

I've been here a few times now and the food was delicious and arrived quickly. It was also a great experience cooking using the KBBQ table - the meat was marinated well and tasted amazing. Gerald was our server and was very professional, kind and polite! Worth a visit.

Great food and customer service

My daughter tried her first Korean BBQ here today. It was a very exciting experience. Good place to come if you want to have a small special occasion with someone :) Jerald is a great host!

Delayed review from July: we went here to get bbq, they allowed us to sit and eat without giving us any warning that the shop was closing for their break in 30mins. Around 20 minutes after we had been given our food, one of the workers came and started touching our food, putting it on the bbq so it would cook quicker - bare in mind she didn't even ask us. I was so deeply offended considering how pricey this place was, if you want me to be quicker just let us know, you don't have to start cooking my food for me or touching it! I can not believe I had to pay so much for this. This was so bad that even the other worker(with short hair) felt embarrassed and simply said 'sorry' as we were walking out.

Good place for a date, i recomend the Bong Bong drink! (if you taking the cooking by yourself thing you better be patient)

Really nice food and atmosphere. The staff was really nice as well

I just dined at Yori Wimbledon and was thoroughly impressed. Our host, Lavlyn, provided amazing service from start to finish. The food was absolutely delightful, and the hospitality was top-notch. We were well taken care of throughout our meal. I will definitely be returning and would highly recommend this place to anyone looking for a fantastic dining experience.

The service from Rosalind, Natty, and Rex was attentive even for a very large group, and the dishes were a delicious mix of refreshing and warming.

I recently celebrated my birthday at Yori and had a lovely experience. The food was excellent—flavorful and memorable—and the service was efficient. The waiters, Natty and Rex, went out of their way to make the evening special. They prepared a dessert with a candle, offered us a beer, and even came to the table singing "Happy Birthday," which was a thoughtful touch. It was a great evening, and I would definitely recommend Yori for its delicious food and kind, attentive staff :)

Props to Rosalind, Natty, and most of all, Rex. Absolutely lovely service and atmosphere of the place

They handled a group of 17 hungry, loud climbers. Absolute champs! Delicious food, too!

dined for 5 at the Yori Wimbledon last night for my daughters birthday (not acknowledged by restaurant) although was on the online reservation. All was fine apart from 3 things one that half way through our meal we seemed to be the only people dining although a lot to do with it being a Wednesday night, two we ordered the selection of beef barbecue which apart from one piece of what looked like rump and about five thin small pieces of beef the rest was made up of not so nice pieces and tiny scragg end pieces of I'm not sure what apparently korean barbecue dont use the best cuts of meat and thirdly the price we paid £218 for 5 people who ate adequately but seemed over priced when comparing with other nights out in Wimbledon. All in all a decent night out for a not so decent price. Thanks to the team of 3 at the Yori Wimbledon who helped make the experience work while. Fernando Nieto dining in Wimbledon living nearby

We had the best experience. Thanks to Tae Joo and Jerald who were so helpful and nice!

Amazing! Order the kimchi! Is the best one in town. The service is amazing as well!

Great service from Jerald and TaeJoo also great food

Very good service from Jerald and Tae Joo

Jerald and Taejoo were amazing and helpful

Great food! Jerald was very attentive and informative when we asked questions about how to handle the BBQ. Service was also very quick.

Everything is first class and the girls are GORGEOUS 🌶

Just bought a seafood soup fro Here to take away … I can heart on heart say it was the worst soup I have ever tasted .. there was no prawn snd rubber squid . The veg looked like they had been floating in water for days and were old .. No spice , no flavour .. utterly disgusting . The only thing that was edible was the tofu .. never again . I actually want to vomit writing about this . L Herriot . Resident of wimbledon

This was the first time I tried Korean barbecue and it was fantastic!! Rex and Jerald were very helpful in talking my friend and I through the whole process. They provided great customer service. I really enjoyed the food and would strongly recommend, especially on a quiet weekday when the waiters have the time to explain the process and provide recommendations.

Amazing service from Rex and Jerald, the sweet & spicy fried chicken was quality !

Food was lovely. Atmosphere was great. Chae Lim was a great as our waitress Would go back again.

This is all glass noodle i had from this 14.50 Gal Bi Tang. I wasn't expecting a lot but this is crazy. Removev glass noodle from discrbtion already.

Attentive waitress, quick service, nice ambiance and food tasty .

Ray and Rex at Yori Wimbledon were great and very happy to help with fitting us all in. Good quality food which was really tasty! Rex was very attentive as well with making sure our grills were on and working. It is a really fun experience cooking your own food and it makes it quite a different sort of dining event. I recommend going in smaller groups to get the full experience!

Rex and Ray were absolutely brilliant staff, made us feel so welcome, very attentive - amazing food, atmosphere, so delicious will definitely come again!

Unfortunately this is our 3rd poor experience tonight so collectively as a group we won't be visiting again. We used to enjoy going but last few trips the experience and service has disappeared. Waited 1 hour for food and tap water, they'd simply forgotten. Needed to try and remind the waitor for everything from even asking to order food through to paying the bill. No service and unfortunately food quality or value doesn't compensate for the lack of service. Waitor even forgot to give us the bill and held the door open for us to leave, until we corrected him and pushed to pay out of honesty. Just no focus on service, a real shame but we've tried a few times.

Excellent service from Taejoo. Very quick and efficient. Happy with food.

I gave this place 3 stars based on the following: FOOD: We ordered 4 meat dishes and the vegetable fried rice, we only got 3 meat dishes and the rice (explained under service point below), out of the 3 meat dishes, the garlic chicken and LA Galbi beef were great, the bulgogi beef was OK. The big disappointment was the rice, especially when you consider the crazy £8 price tag! I was expecting something full of veg and flavour and it was a very plain and gloopy, had to add salt to it also. SERVICE: Friendly but unfortunately they missed an item from our order, the item wasn’t available but they didn’t tell us, only found out when we were asking for our final course! Also, the table wasn’t cleared promptly even after we asked for the bill. VENUE: Unfortunately very run down and tired, certainly the from room where we were seated. Very dirty, stained and chipped walls, all very exposed and a rice cooker right in front of the toilet in the main corridor. I’m believe this is H&S issue probably. I think I’m being generous with the 3 stars, but trying to stay balanced and objective. I’d describe it as a nice, casual, fast, canteen, some good food if you know what to order. For £35 per head I would have expected a bit more.

Really good Korean BBQ. Ray was especially helpful. Big up Ray

I came here with my lovely Arezoo, who is expert in Korean BBQ AND I ABSOLUTELY loved it, recommend it %100. Also thank to lovely staff Taejoo

Amazing food, amazing service, amazing atmosphere 1000/5 amazing

My second time with my family here, the food was good as always especially Dak Kang Jung. Our waitress, Natty was friendly and made us felt welcome - I highly recommend and I am definitely coming back to see her again :)

Very good service from taeju, and the restaurant was cozy. All around a very nice experience

Food was amazing and well priced. Very good servings. Taejoo was a fantastic waiter.

Amazing food and Taeju was very welcoming Thank you

Great food and friendly staff - Taejoo

The food was amazing, (get the ddeokbokki!!) Natty was so lovely, we went for a birthday and the service was so great! 100% would recommend❤️

I had a waitress called natty and she was so nice and sweet. She treated us so well and made us feel at home. Definitely coming back.

Natty was our server and was very polite, open and kind to our group.

Natty - Very nice and friendly - Bubbly behavior - Treated well and felt welcome

Our server Natty was so lovely and welcoming. She made the experience exceptional. I would recommend to everyone.

Natty was amazing serving us. She was so kind and helpful. The food was a 10/10 and the K-Pop was such a vibe.

Rlly nice!! I had a birthday here and they even surprised me with matcha ice cream.

Great Place especially Jerald🤩🤩

Yori offers a fantastic Korean dining experience with flavorful dishes and a warm atmosphere. Jerald provided excellent service, making great recommendations and ensuring a pleasant meal. Highly recommended.

First time visiting Yori. Excellent service by Jerald and Ray. Loved their BBQ, especially beef bulgogi and spicy chicken. Will definitely visit again to try out the rest of the bbq menu

We had a great time at the restaurant. The food was amazing with the barbecue being really flavourful. We tried the Beef bulgogi and Spicy chicken which was good. The manager Mr Jerald was really friendly and catered to us very well.Cheers to Rae as well for good service. Overall a nice experience.

Have been a regular customer of this restaurant for many years. Dine in and take away. Have always appreciated the food and service historically has been very good. But there seems to be some predatory business practises and misinformation going on which makes me not want to return. Deciding to leave it here as a review because I didn’t want to make a scene or argue with a server over £20. It’s not in my nature to be rude. Ate at the restaurant last week and paid the bill. £160+. At that time the server came over to give me my receipt and told me of their promotion. Every £30 I’d spent this evening would get a £5 voucher to be used within a month on a following visit. He wrote £25 and signed the receipt. He reconfirmed the £25 had to be spent within a month. So I went back a few days later, ordered and then went to pay the bill. At that time the new server told me I can only take £5 off the bill. Apparently the £25 voucher I was given, despite being written and explained to me as 1 x £25, is actually 5 x £5 to be used within a month. Right. So I made a visit to the restaurant based on having this voucher, and now I just make 4 more visits within the next 3.5 weeks to redeem the vouchers! Which is ridiculous. As much as I enjoy this chain, I feel as through they’ve conned me into visiting again so soon by misinforming me of of their promotion. Or maybe this was their tactic all along. Best case scenario poor staff training, worst case scenario is just lying to get you in through the door because it’s quiet at the minute. Again, long term loyal customer here, but this has annoyed me a lot. And will now probably not be returning on principle rather than due to poor food. The £20 you saved on not giving me the credit towards my bill as explained I was due to get when it was given to me will mean £0 additional money from me again.

Nice place. The chicken wings were great. You get quite a lot and the short ribs were really nice and cook quite quickly. We also had the pork dumplings which were the nicest pork dumplings I’ve had outside of my local Chinese place. The kimchi fried rice was nice! Different but nice. In terms of drinks, the cocktails were on offer and we bought two each. They were okay, I had the Crystal Clear (lychee flavour) and Strawberry Kiss. They each had little to no alcohol in them but for £4ish, I guess you’re paying for that. I would go again.

just not a good experience overall. we had two bbq meat dishes, rice, lettuce, kimchi and drinks that ended up being 70£ for two people. I'd be happy to pay that price, if the portions weren't so abysmally small. for the 13£ portion of pork belly you get two slices, while for the LA galbi it's about 5 (2 of which were basically just bone). we left the restaurant still hungry. the service was good at the start (we came in when at 5 when they just opened), but at the point we were leaving (one hour later) the crew seemed to be very stressed out and not happy to be there. a suggestion to the owners, rather than focusing all your attention on cutting down the price for the items on the menu maybe try to make sure your staff and customers are happy.

It was a mediocre experience. The atmosphere wasn't very upbeat. Other members on our table mentioned the food quality has decreased over the years.

Food was yummy and our server Ray was great!

Food was stupendously tasty. Excellent service from Ray

Ray was a really good server I really enjoyed his presence!!

Great service from Ray! Thank you.

Ray was an amazing server, and made us feel very welcome. Food was amazing also

Great place with great people and delicious food. Came in twice while staying in Merton. Thanks to Natty, Rae, Taejoo and Gig for making our last night in London memorable.

If you're in the Wimbledon Area, you MUST stop by Yori. I eat a lot of korean food, but I had the best kimchijigae here. Natty, Ray, and Taejoo provided such a warm and welcoming service. The manager let us in even though they were nearly closing, so we truly appreciated the flexible service. The food is truly amazing. Thank you Yori team!

Gerald was amazing and made sure we had everything we needed. I have serve allergies and was taken care of! Food was so good！

Gerald and Jerald were both fantastic hosts. Great food. Great night!

Ray was really friendly and informative Thanks for the great service

Ray was so hospitable and caring towards our needs, we had great service! Food was great too :)

Really lovely staff and food. Feona was amazing!

Absolutely fabulous experience, came for dinner with my family and despite the team constantly battling delivery drivers and other guests, we were well looked after and nothing was too much trouble. Food was amazing and atmosphere authentic (as far as I could tell). :)

Jerald s being very good amazing food and service We will definitely come back if Jerald is the Manager

Have visited the restaurant last week and had a great experience. The food was really delicious and great atmosphere. Got a chance to meet assistant manager Jerald, who is very kind and knows how to deal the customers.

Amazing Korean bbq place! Ray was so attentive and provided such an excellent service :)

Food was lovely and Feona was so nice and helpful

Great food and a unique experience

The food was great and the bathroom was clean, so overall I am satisfied. The amount of rice was really large^^ There were a lot of delivery orders, so I think I'll order delivery next time. I'm glad to hear that the Chaelim staff is Korean, and thank you for responding so kindly.^^

The overall service was excellent. I enjoyed the table barbecue a lot. This is my first time experiencing a table barbecue. It's worth the penny. The people serving was polite all the time especially one guy named Jerald if I'm not wrong. He was very good at his services and attitude towards the customers, worth appreciating. Loved it 🫰

Booked for a lunch. The food was amazing! The service was equally great friendly staff ,Excellant customer service from jeralrd made the day memorable

Really great experience at YORI, great service from Thaw and everything was quickly served! Drinks are really great, the cocktails especially. Our favorite was Strawberry Kiss and the Milkis one. Must try!

Always great to be in this Yori location in Wimbledon. Natty, Annabelle and Hannah were very friendly and service is the top.

Feona was amazing ! , she helped me order and made sure that I was looked after. Thank you again Feona for the amazing experience ! - from table 42

They give very little stew or soup, but only a lot of rice. There isn't enough soup, so if you don't order a side, you'll end up eating only plain rice. This is the first Korean restaurant that I felt was a waste of money. Drinks are charged four times the market price. I received a voucher as a gift, but the voucher period was only 2 months and the period was not visible. There are many delicious Korean restaurants in New Malden, so go there.

Try the Korean barbeque experience!

Food was delicious and we were served by Feona, very nice and helpful!

Food came out really fast and was nice. The server taught my annoying friend some Korean too so thanks Taejoo 🫰🏼

the food was excellent, a really good selection of cocktails and food, I'm definitely looking forward to my next visit!

We visited last Saturday and, unfortunately, the experience wasn't as great as before. The food quality has noticeably declined. The Yuk Gae Jang had very little soup, though it was still tasty. However, the Soft Tofu Jigae was a major disappointment—it looked and smelled appealing but tasted like water, completely flavorless. Service was also below par. We waited far too long for our food, and despite requesting tap water multiple times, 3 different waiters ignored us. Thankfully, a waitress—her name might have been Nat or Natty—finally brought us water and some extra side dishes, which we really appreciated. She helped calm us down, and we are grateful for her attentiveness. However, the other waiters seriously need to improve their customer service skills. Besides asking how the food was after we finished eating, there was little attention to our needs.

So much fun cooking on the hot plate. Thank you Sunny & Natty for taking care of us with excellent service.

Always my favorite place for authentic Korean food 😍 Thanks Sunny and Natty for great service 😎

Good quality food, arrived quickly. Thanks for being friendly Natty & Sunny and for the birthday cake!

Love yori it’s our fave restaurant in Wimbledon!

Staff are lovely but the food was very disappointing. The yori fried chicken platter was poor, with quite basic flavours and the chicken balls didn't help with their texture. The bibimbap and yuk gae jang were similarly weak unfortunately. So many ingredients but such little flavour. I imagine the BBQ experience is the highlight but sadly we didn't order any.