GK Mongolian BBQ

Excellent healthy option and unique dining experience! If you're curious about this place at all but have been hesitant to try it out (like me for several months), stop putting it off and go try them out. Now. If you're unsure what to do as a newbie, the cooks are friendly and more than willing to help you figure out how to get started.

The food is good here. They are usually out of bok choy and last time they were out of garlic chips which are on my favorite ingredients list. If you dont put enough sauce they add more and I don’t like it when the end result is like soup.
You just never know how it will turn out depending on who is cooking.
The service is always good, helpful and polite.
The tables are usually clean, but the condiments are not.
The woman’s bathroom has a terrible glade product that is way to overpowering so I cant tolerate the bathroom.
Sometimes the music is way to loud for such a small dining room.
There aren’t any signs that state the price of anything!! Signs would also be useful for when lunch is served,dinner buffet, extra items you can buy like sides, what comes with the meal etc
With all that said I am very happy to see this here in Sonora and I hope it stays!

When, and I mean when, all the ingredients are not empty, the food is pretty good. The restaurant, well the seating area, is usually clean, and the waitress friendly and attentive. The buffet bar though, almost always needs attention when I'm in, which is during lunch time, and it's not usually terribly busy. Sometimes there's only 1 cook, who only cooks one person's bowl at a time, and while they usually do a good job, I've noticed a few times where someone didn't use enough sauces, and he has to ask which they used so he can add more, while every single other Mongolian BBQ place I've been to just uses a splash of water. That leads me to my next comment, which is I'm not sure if it's company policy, or just this location, but the cook has told me they aren't allowed to use water on the flattop, both cooking or cleaning. They will cook a few bowls, then have to stop the entire process to clean the flattop, by just scraping, and it can take anywhere from 5 minutes to 10+, which is crazy when you have a line waiting for their food to be cooked! It can be cleaned, safely and a whole lot faster (and actually cleaner) if they just used water to deglaze the flattop, then scrape it off, add and spread around a little cooking oil, and boom, ready to go, takes less than 2 minutes. I absolutely love Mongolian BBQ, and I've been to other GK locations. This is the only one I don't give 5 stars to, and it's all because of simple things: clean the flattop properly, and pay better attention to the ingredient bar, make sure the items are stocked and the bar clean. Do these things, and I'll happily revise my review!

Noodle bowls are delicious ! As a first timer the seating was a little confusing. No one told us we had to sit at the table with food already on it (the bowl comes with rice, soup and won tons which were set at the table waiting for us )
So it would be nice if they showed you your seating because we went and sat down somewhere and the gal came to get us and said “no your table is over here” . All though it is very generous - The sides that come with the bowl are not the best the rice is cold, mushy and taste days old. Soup is bland and won tons are cold. They really should just focus on the noodle bowls and not the “free sides “ because bowls are amazing. Cooks and staff are very friendly. Service was good after being seated . Will be back !

Went for Lunch with the wife on a Sunday. Food was delicious, cooked to order in front of your eyes. The staff were very friendly and helpful. Place was busy right at opening, if the food stays this good, the place will continue to get busy, but 100% worth it!