San Maru Korean Restaurant

If you’re gonna rush your customers, don’t even bother to welcome us in or take the orders. We walked in and the server (or owner) handed us the menu from behind the bar and told us we can sit wherever. The second we sat down she came to us with two glasses of water and told us kitchen closed in five minutes so we were rushed to order. Food was served after 15 minutes except for dessert. I would give a four star on food if the steamed egg doesn’t have huge pieces of egg shells in it. We spent ten minutes eating before she came back to us to ask us to pay for the food, and also asked to serve us our dessert because “they want to go home and rest”. (So why would you take us and not inform us) Right after she brought dessert up, she started asking if we need to-go box while we didn’t even fin

San Maru is one of our absolute favorite restaurants in Champaign. We eat here almost every Wednesday, and the experience is consistently wonderful. The staff knows us by now—and even remembers what our kids like to eat, which makes us feel so welcome every single time. The food quality is excellent, the menu is thoughtfully curated, and whenever we have questions, everything is explained clearly and kindly. San Maru is incredibly family- and kid-friendly, warm, and attentive. Nothing is ever missing, and every visit feels easy and enjoyable. We truly love this place and highly recommend it.

We came during weekday lunchtime. The server was very friendly and attentive. I love their lunch special——many options at fair prices. I ordered the beef soup. Rice was included. The food tastes like homemade dishes and not too salty.

We’ve been here twice now, once about 8 months ago and again recently. Both times the food has tasted great; it’s the best Korean food around. However both times, for whatever reasons, our order has been forgotten. The first time 8 months ago we waited about 40 minutes before the host/server came to us to remind him our order and he said the order got lost. I’ve worked in restaurants, I get it, things happen. However today on our second time there we received part of our order and part of it (the pork / vegetable platter) was forgotten or there was some kind of mistake. They did apologize and the food tasted great. Fortunately we had our other food (fried chicken bowl for our kid and my wife’s cold noodle soup) so it wasn’t a major issue. Today they provided us a sweet Korean rice desser

+ JJamPPong was available although it was not shown in menu + Side dishes + Diverse menu items (but nothing stood out) - Servers were not attentive. They did not ask for refills of side dishes. - Pricey for the taste of foods