Vip Restaurant

Note: I have only had Korean food one other time, so I am not an expert by any means. That said, my husband and I were both disappointed with our recent dinner at VIP. We had heard good things about it and were looking forward to trying something new, but VIP just did not live up to our expectations.
The ambience was cozy and I definitely have to give props to the only waitress that was there taking orders, bussing tables, delivering food, and closing out tabs, but she was too busy to really provide good service to any one table. Our food came out in a timely manner, but there where definitely missed opportunities when it came to providing helpful suggestions, refilling drinks, and closing out our bill…
On to the food. My husband had the Kalbi short ribs and I had a spicy chicken dish. His entrée was quite small and not very flavorful, and mine was just average (although the portion size was generous). The sides were hit and miss: some were quite tasty, but others were fairly bland and lacking in texture. The rice that came with our meals had the texture of Minute Rice– nothing special.
As much as I wanted to enjoy our meal at a «new» place (to us anyway), it was nothing to write home about. Maybe it was just an off night, but I don’t think we’ll be back to find out.

Excellent food and service. My boyfriend’s favorite Korean restaurant in Anchorage. Favorite dish is Torzo Bibimbop and Kalbi. Try it. You don’t be disappointed.

Good authentic Korean food! So delicious and reminds me of South Korea. beef bulgogi is shredded thin and marinated and charred to perfection.

Ordered Kalbi for take out… not many korean places as good as VIP. One of my favorite places. Recommend to anyone… now if only they delivered…

I visited my son and his family in Anchorage. My DIL (daughter in law) asked where I wanted to have lunch. I remembered VIP from my last visit and I wanted to visit again. Here is the real deal.
A server…
Greets you.
Instructs you where to sit.
Takes your drink & meal order.
Brings 12 different small side dishes
Serves your order & drinks
You eat your delicious made to order food and pay your check.
The server thanks you. My amazing DIL explained there is only 1 waitress and 1 cook. It’s a family owned business.
If you prefer a restaurant that has a server that will check on you and make chit chat, go someplace else. If you want to eat the Best Korean food in Anchorage Alaska, VIP is the place y’all gotta checkout.

I’ve been eating here for over 20 years, it is the best Korean food in anchorage and I consider it to be a top 5 restaurant in anchorage.
Some times it could be warmer, some times the waitress is busy, but overall I have never felt neglected or poorly treated. The food is a bargain and always consistently delicious!

The food is good, but there is only one waitress everytime I dine in. Its terrible. I would only go back for the food and suffer at the same time.

Excellent service and delicious food, prices are reasonable considering the amount of food. Bring your appetite!

Have to give this joint 2 stars. Food is good not great, and the portions are waaaay small for the price. And to top it off, service is just down right terrible unfortunately. If you hate your job that much, get a new one! Learn to smile as well, smh! Don’t think we’re ever going back!

The best Korean food we’ve had in a long time. On par with places we visited in Seoul. The banchan were varied, flavorful and generous in number and amount. The japchae was light, chewy and fresh. The galbi was slightly sweet and cooked to a perfect tenderness. Tremendous! You must visit!

The food is incredibly good, but the wait time and the service can almost be non existent sometimes. I feel so bad for the lone server when the restaurant gets busy. They have no busser and Jose the owner and chef won’t hire one to help the LONE server. If the food wasn’t so good, they would be getting a 2 star review, but I’ve never had anything bad there and everything tastes very authentic and tasty. Hire a busser, Jose! One server shouldn’t be responsible for serving and bussing 15 tables on a busy night.

One of my favorite Korean food places. But the services is brutally bad half the time.
Even the bad ones are friendly to their Korean friends but when someone they don’t recognize walk in, it’s almost as they are bummed they have to serve you.
Last time I walked in. Got seated, 20 minutes later and them serving three groups who walked in after me, I left.
Cannot recommend despite having some of the better Korean food around. Too bad. Good food still tastes crappy when some old lady acts like she doesn’t want you there. I can only post reviews and vote with my dollars.
I’ll try again in a couple of months. Maybe…

I find myself CONSTANTLY craving this place after the first time I had ever eaten here. VIP does Korean and they do it exceptionally well. If we’re being honest, I’ve never tried anything besides the Kalbi and Hot Stone Bibimbap, but once you have had the best — why try to change? I’ve eaten at every Tofu House in Anchorage and while they’re all pretty similar in terms of flavor, VIP just has something about it that I cannot help but be attracted to. Go there tonight!

I’ve been there three times and very much appreciate the place. This is for Korean or Chinese food. They don’t serve Thai tea and they only have white rice. Just so you know.
They have luncheon specials for about $ 13. which is reasonable given the variety and the twelve little plates of taste treats that come with most offerings. On these I identified cabbage kim chee, radish kim chee, flavored potatoes, green beans, bean curd, and bean sprouts. My meal was the squid which I found fresh and flavorful. Service was brisk and efficient. As people left, the tables were cleared and thoroughly wiped down.

Best Korean food in town! Some thing must be right if they’ve been around for so long. I can overlook the service for the food.

Ok I must admit I’ve been on kindof a Korean kick lately. I went to the Central Market to pick up a few things and was starving so ran next door to VIP. It was about 2:!5 on a Saturday. I came in alone and was seated immediately by the waitress. She gave me a menu and some tea and left me to decide what I wanted. I always want Bibimbap, and so that is what I ordered when she quickly came back. I just got the simple one, no hot pot, and I like my rice on the side, as its mostly the vegetables and sauce I prefer, not a ton of rice.
My food came quickly, and she gave me 7 different types of banchan. They have this one there that I have had before and just love. It’s a dried radish root that is seasoned kindof sweet and spicy! I LOVE IT! I also got some kimchee, some kind of potatoes, some picked daikon radish, some like salty, pickled seaweed stuff, tofu squares, and crispy cucumbers. All of it very fresh looking! I didn’t love all of it, but thats ok, it was just a taste preference thing and not because it was yucky or anything. It was all really good, I just liked some more then others.
My bibimbap was really good! Many places make it with lots of vegetables but are very stingy on the marinated beef they put in it. VIP gave a very generous amount of seasoned beef along with the vegetables, and a fried over easy egg on top. I added a bit of rice, stirred in the spicy sauce, and went to town on my lunch. It was delicious. and definitely the best I’ve had in Anchorage.
The waitress was not overly friendly, but she was polite, and not rude so I suppose that is all one can ask right? She did come back to see how I was doing, and when I asked her what the «dried radish» was she politely told me and said «Thank you» when I said it was Soo good! Overall my experience here was good, and I didn’t find them to be slow at all. In fact my food came within like 5 minutes of my ordering it. I was done and out of there by 2:45. 30 minutes to get your food and eat is pretty good I think. I still think they are the best in town, but my observation is that weekends are better and mid day seems to be best. It’s not really busy in there at that time and the one waitress is better able to get around and do her job.

Good food but the lady that work there (I think she co — own the place) she was so mean n rude. She didn’t even serve us our drink till we ask her. N when she did gave us our drink, she gave us a attitude about it. After we got done eating. We didn’t even want to tip her but she demand a 10 dollar tip. Worse customers service ever. Hate this place to the bone. I wouldn’t recommend it to anybody. I wouldn’t go there unless they fire that lady. that rude lady need to go.

Came here due to reviews…
and I was not disappointed.
My server was polite and expedient. The prices are higher than I pay at home, but this is Anchorage, and it was well worth the extra $$.
I had Bibim Naeng Myung, and it was as good as any I have had in Las Vegas or back in Osan /​Suwan.
Highly recommend

I went to Vip all the time as kid with my mom and sister, so it was a must to visit one of my favorite childhood restaurants on my recent visit back to Anchorage. But… I really want to give Vip ONE star based off my disappointing reunion.
Once we walked in the place was exactly how I remembered it, but the service was just awful, and I say this with a very sad face, cause I do love the place but maybe they were just having an off day. Our host/​server just acted like they did not want us there, and didn’t even ask us what we wanted to drink-​WE had to ask for water. It should not be like that. The food was out in a timely matter, and was great, but my kalbee had too much fat on it, which is just gross.
I really wanna give Vip the benefit of the doubt that it just wasn’t a good day for a happy reunion, but I’m still bitter over the horrible service (Good food though. if you get the kalbee just ask for no fat).

Took forever for the waitress to come, but it was okay, wasn’t too hungry, just thirsty, wish I could have gotten my water faster. I got this hot beef bibimbap, it tasted very bland to me, too much rice, a little meat, usually I’m not a meat person and don’t notice the little meat effect,.
It was also very expensive for it.$ 18 I think? That was so not worth it, I mean I know I’m in Anchorage, everything is a little overpriced, but for $ 18.I can definitely get something much better with that dollar amount!
Service wasn’t that good, I think they only had one server whom was just busy running around. Well, hire another one!
Overpriced and bland taste, I wouldn’t go back again.