Hortus NYC - New York

Finding a peaceful and cozy spot in K-town can be a challenge, but this restaurant is a delightful exception. The crispy rice stands out with its balanced and rich flavor, while the shrimp ceviche, though a bit too acidic for my taste, carries an authentic Korean flavor. The truffle donabe is a highlight, offering the original tastes of beef and truffle without overwhelming seasoning. The sea urchin rice is somewhat ordinary. Overall, I really enjoy this place!

Highly Recommended!!! I love this place. I went to Hortus with my husband and 3 years old son and had a great time! We had been here 3 times and we ordered truffle donabe which is my favorite, king crab noodles, steaks, yuzu bacon pasta, crispy rice and desserts. All of them was just so good. I want to take my mom here I think she will love it too. Staffs were super nice and my son loved the Ice cream I highly recommend this place!

The food is delicious, but I feel the service is average. My female server only took my order and handled the bill. I hope there can be an improvement in service quality.

This is an amazing vibe. The crispy rice and the rose bacon pasta was absolutely amazing and topped it off with a truffle short rib dunnabe

Sad to say that we were disappointed by hortus. Had a reservation at 9.15pm for dinner received a text reminder informing us of need to be prompt in our arrival and ordering as it was the last booking slot. We were again reminded of this by the host on arrival. All of this is fine and understandable, however we felt extremely rushed bordering on uncomfortably unwelcome the whole time. no time allowed to read menu before being asked for food order despite fiddly and unintuitive online menu format food arrived considerably before drinks had to order dessert, if we wanted it, before we had even finished our appetisers! Isn’t it possible for kitchen to stay open for dessert for existing customers? I know this is the case at other venues worst of all, the mains arrived before we had even finished the appetisers or had had our plates cleared away! So there was no room for the food on the table and the server looked very confused when we asked if it were possible for us to have the food sent back until we had finished appetisers and had our plates cleared. They eventually did this but did not seem to understand our frustration. Overall disappointed by service. The food was yummy, although the fluke was extremely acidic and the vegetables with the short rib were a bit bland, so on the whole it did not compensate for poor service. I do completely sympathise with the desire of servers to keep the late seatings short, but if it is at such significant detriment to the customer experience, then you simply shouldn’t accept bookings that late!