Shinara Grill & Lounge

Reviews

• Daniel H.

  star star star star star_border 5 June 2026

  For $32 per person all you can eat Korean BBQ, it is hard to go wrong. The food is fresh, selection numerous and the staff attentive. Will surely go back.

• Hwal L.

  star star star star star_border 4 June 2026

  I've never been here for their BBQ, but came here a handful of times for $10 lunch buffet when I lived in Sydney. I guess I never felt compelled to come here for a full on BBQ because for that, I had Se Jong and Yass. In saying that, Shinara's lunch buffet is pretty impressive -please feel free to let me know if  they still have it!-.
  
  The deal is simple. You enter and head straight upstairs, where the big boss is at the register. They only accept cash, by the way, and the lunch buffet is on during certain hours. As you make the payment, they will hand you a plate and a bowl. You can grab some tissues at the register if you need napkins, because there would be none on the tables.
  
  The selections are, again, pretty impressive and varied, and they have everything from steamed rice, fixings to make your own bibim rice, bulgogi, basic but tasty side dishes including kimchi, kimbab -Korean sushi-, sweet & sour pork, fried chicken, and fruits and other desserts.
  
  As you can see from my pictures, I tend to stick to my few favourites, namely rice, basic side dishes, some meats, and korean sushi with spicy rice cake. I'm a sucker for AYCE and self service, and Shinara's lunch buffet worked for me because what they did have on offer, they did well, often as good as you'd expect if you were at a Korean restaurant or a snack shop and ordered individual dishes for full regular prices.
  
  All in all, I would recommend their $10 lunch buffet meal.

• Carrie B.

  star star star star star_border 3 June 2026

  We arrived at 440 pm and the hostess/ cashier said we can stay until 6 pm for the lunch price ($13).   You can get a big bowl of soup on the burner at your table if there are more than 2 in your party.   The fried chicken is to die for and so was the bulgogi.   Overall the variety was plentiful and each dish tasty and perfect for the price.  Drinks are extra charge.  I would definitely come back.

• Mela S.

  star star star star star 30 May 2026

  I've been going to their unlimited Korean dinner BBQ since I moved to Sydney  nearly 3 years ago. Food is CHEAP and PLENTIFUL! It used to be $18 a person for the eat all you can... now $21 a person. A 3 dollar price increase over the past 3 years? Ah well... it's still a nice, good buffet.
  
  There is a LOT of food on offer for grillin' - different slices of beef and pork, chicken, even gizzard and octopus. Besides the meats, they also have other dishes on offer -- potato wedges, plain and fried rice, mussels, fried chicken, noodles, soup, fruit, etc... and the food is pretty good! With a lot of buffet places, most of the non-grillable food is so/so... but this one is actually good.
  
  Definitely a place to go to if you're ravenous. Drinks are extra and cost $3 for a can of soda. (Water is free.) Funnily enough, they control the plates you can use. We were a group of 3 and given 5 plates and 3 bowls, if we wanted more plates, we had to pay a dollar extra... so make sure to plan how to use your plates!
  
  They have signs up against wastage and that meals are timed for 1.5 hours, though the owner has said they only implement it if they're busy. If they're not busy, you can eat as long as you want. And the wastage is for people who pile oodles of food on their plate and leave it behind... if you have the odd pile of food left it's no problem.
  
  Beware though, as with most Korean BBQ places your clothes can get pretty smelly from the smoke. But if you love the smell of meat, I guess this isn't necessarily a bad thing...

• Kevin K.

  star star star star star_border 22 May 2026

  Cheap all you can eat buffet Korean bbq is not something you usually go to and usually cheap places with buffet or all you can eat have lower quality ingredients for you to cook from.  
  
  This place is quite ok considering its cheap price. The price is cheap being $21 for dinner and being able to eat as much as you can but with a time limit of how long you can stay (during busy periods). I have been here a few times in the last couple of years and recently a few weeks ago. When I go here I think it's usually packed even on a Monday night.  
  
  The food they have here are good enough and good for the price you pay. And of course it will depend on how you cook it as this is a bbq place. I find the quality of the meat and seafood quite good but you would get better quality at other bbq restaurant. The grapes they have are good as I ate a lot of grapes after having enough meat and seafood.  
  
  You would come here if you want to eat a lot and to pay cheap price for bbq. If you want better quality ingredients to cook from, you would go to other non-buffet places or to more expensive all you can eat bbq places.