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Swampfox10mm
Joined: 24 Mar 2011
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 Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 6:41 pm Post subject: Goodbye Itaewon Outback |
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| Sorry to see it gone. Bummer. |
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joeteacher
Joined: 11 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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Really? Sad to see it go? I'm not a picky eater by any means but I think Outback (especially Korean Outback) is the biggest piece of s%^& restaurant. It's beyond ridiculous what they charge for that garbage. With all of the options in Itaewon, and Seoul in general, for steak...Outback is my last choice. Did I mention I hate Outback?
Just my opinion of course.  |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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| joeteacher wrote: |
Really? Sad to see it go? I'm not a picky eater by any means but I think Outback (especially Korean Outback) is the biggest piece of s%^& restaurant. It's beyond ridiculous what they charge for that garbage. With all of the options in Itaewon, and Seoul in general, for steak...Outback is my last choice. Did I mention I hate Outback?
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Hope it takes Coldstone with it. |
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RangerMcGreggor
Joined: 12 Jan 2011
Location: Somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 8:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Just go get Brazillian BBQ instead |
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Swampfox10mm
Joined: 24 Mar 2011
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| Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Coldstone has been gone for like 6 months. Replaced by Olive & Young. |
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augustine
Joined: 08 Sep 2012
Location: México
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| Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Nashville is also no longer more. Can't say I'm really surprised since that place was almost always dead, but it had a nice atmosphere. |
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Weigookin74
Joined: 26 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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As long as the real authentic restaurants aren't replaced with imitation crap. Imagine meat pie being replaced by mandu or kebab's being stuffed with kimchi, corn, and honey mustard. Imagine no more real burritos, but instead some rice, corn, and kimchi crap. That's when we all pack up and move to another country. But outback? Meh! .....
I see a future in Itaewon of not Indian curry restaurants but instead Korean curry restaurants with the name Indo above it. Bleck!!!
At least Japan had the sense to bring in foriegn chefs to make Italian food, curry, pizza and the like. I never saw any corn on pizza over there. |
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furtakk
Joined: 02 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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Not sure if OP is being sarcastic or not, but good riddance.
There are dozens of excellent restaurants in the vicinity. |
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fezmond
Joined: 27 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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| augustine wrote: |
| Nashville is also no longer more. Can't say I'm really surprised since that place was almost always dead, but it had a nice atmosphere. |
Apparently the owners of JR Pub have taken it over. I hear that Troy wants to put up a proper barbecue on the roof |
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Swampfox10mm
Joined: 24 Mar 2011
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| Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 9:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Was tooling around in the area with an ajoshi friend who is a builder. He said the law is that any remodeling or development now requires parking. If not parking on the grounds, then within a certain distance. |
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byrddogs
Joined: 19 Jun 2009
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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I get a little choked up when I read that some of the staples from my days in Itaewon have bitten the dust. I went to that Outback on more than one occasion back in the mid-late 2000s. It wasn't bad then and the restaurant choices weren't what they are now apparently, so it served a purpose. As far as Nashville goes, that was a good Sunday drinking place to play some pool simply because it wasn't desirable for many.
You newbies enjoy your new 'twon. |
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dairyairy
Joined: 17 May 2012
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 12:40 am Post subject: |
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| I'm not bashing Outback, (other than the prices), but why would anyone go all the way to Itaewon just to eat at Outback? The one redeeming quality about Itaewon is the variety of foreign restaurants, and even Subway and Taco Bell. You can eat at Outback just about anywhere in the metro Seoul vicinity. But then, again, that Itaewon McDonalds is always packed so who knows? |
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byrddogs
Joined: 19 Jun 2009
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 1:16 am Post subject: |
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| dairyairy wrote: |
| I'm not bashing Outback, (other than the prices), but why would anyone go all the way to Itaewon just to eat at Outback? The one redeeming quality about Itaewon is the variety of foreign restaurants, and even Subway and Taco Bell. You can eat at Outback just about anywhere in the metro Seoul vicinity. But then, again, that Itaewon McDonalds is always packed so who knows? |
Back then it wasn't a matter of I'm going to Itaewon to eat at Outback. It was the other way around actually; Im going to Itaewon anyway tonight and there is an Outback there, haha.
Just like all things, in the beginning it was actually pretty good grub. As time went on it deteriorated into overpriced less-than-good. |
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peachKitten713
Joined: 13 May 2013
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| Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 1:53 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't think I'd been to the Outback in Itaewon, but yeah some of those restaurants are so overpriced for food that isn't THAT crazy delicious. But I guess people are willing to pay a hefty price for that taste of home (or for the locals, for a taste of the fancy foreign/American life). ^_^ |
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detonate
Joined: 16 Dec 2011
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| Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Consider the 20% tip back in NA and prices aren't that bad... if it's your kind of food. |
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