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U-City Grill
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6696 Enright Ave. University City, MO 63130

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6696 Enright Ave. University City MO 63130

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  • Diner, Korean
    Mon 9am-7:30pm, Tue-Fri 8am-7:30pm, Sat 8am-3:30pm
    $ $
  • cash
    Casual attire
    Takeout
  • Breakfast
    Accepted, Recommended
    Lot Available, Street
Description

Who's up for corned beef and bibimbap? When you just can't decide whether you want bacon and eggs or steamed veggies and rice, satisfy both cravings at what just might be the world's only combination Korean restaurant/greasy spoon. Mr. and Mrs. Sim, the elderly couple who own the joint, stick to a bare-bones menu: Breakfast is eggs, potatoes and meat (bacon, sausage, ham or corned beef); lunch is grilled cheese or a BLT; and the Korean fare includes the aforementioned bibimbap (veggies and rice) or bulgoki (marinated beef over veggies and rice). But it's all hot, satisfying, damn cheap and made right in front of you, so just shut up and eat.








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  • 2010 | Best Lunch Counter

    Generic name, back-alley entrance -- check, check. Menu board, speedy straight-to-the-point service -- check, check. Pocket change, full belly -- check, check. U-City Grill in the Loop has all the hallmarks of your perfect greasy spoon, except that the basic fill-'er-up is bibimbap with bulgogi beef: Korean comfort food. Grab a vinyl-seated stool at the counter, and with little more than a nod from you, Yong Sup Sim or his wife So La Sim will soon be sizzling your marinated... More »

  • 2010 | Best Lunch Counter

    Generic name, back-alley entrance -- check, check. Menu board, speedy straight-to-the-point service -- check, check. Pocket change, full belly -- check, check. U-City Grill in the Loop has all the hallmarks of your perfect greasy spoon, except that the basic fill-'er-up is bibimbap with bulgogi beef: Korean comfort food. Grab a vinyl-seated stool at the counter, and with little more than a nod from you, Yong Sup Sim or his wife So La Sim will soon be sizzling your marinated... More »

  • 2007 | Best Bibimbap

    Bibimbap -- "mixed rice," in Korean, and spelled a zillion different transliterated ways -- has to be one of the world's best comfort foods. At the hands of Yong Sup Sim and his wife So La Sim, owners of the nineteen-year-old U-City Grill, the dish does take you back to the blithe old days. Back to that time when food on the table constituted a fact, not a responsibility that required some amount of sweat and the ability to balance a checkbook. The Sims' bibimbap, you see, is so... More »

  • 2005 | Best Lunch Counter

    Accolades don't get any more literal than naming U-City Grill "Best Lunch Counter." Besides a pair of two-tops crowded along one wall, a lunch counter is literally all there is. From behind the elbow-shape counter, which seats fewer than a dozen diners, owners Mr. and Mrs. Sim -- who will smile but rarely talk, not even to one another -- crank out the following greasy-spoon staples: eggs, potatoes, bacon, sausage, ham, corned beef, toast, coffee, grilled cheese, BLTs. You can have a soda,... More »

  • 2001 | Best Korean Lunch

    To all the world, it's not much more than a classic round-stooled greasy spoon, featuring eggs and burgers and working folks' diner fare. But if you know the secret password -- bibimbap -- all of a sudden the U-City Grill (behind Cicero's) is a gateway to the (Far) East, with a big bowl of rice, grilled chicken, freshly sliced vegetables and a fried egg -- ready to be all mixed up with a deep-red hot sauce -- introducing you to the joys of Korean cooking. More »

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