Korean beef short ribs on a glowing tabletop grill, surrounded by banchan and lettuce in warm evening light.

Ember & Ink / Korean barbecue

KBBQ.
KOREAN BARBECUE.
The whole table.

KBBQ is Korean barbecue: grilled meats and seafood served with banchan, leaves, sauces and sweets. Explore 80 recipes for the whole table.

불 / The fire is just the beginning.Explore the six chapters
FIRE·FERMENT·FRESHNESS·TOGETHER

The collection / Six chapters

EVERY PART OF the table.

Explore all 80 recipes

The signature / Diaspora

THE CUT.
THE CHAR.
The classic.

LA-style galbi. Thin-cut ribs, a deeply savory marinade, and a place at the center of the Korean-American table.

Make LA-Style Galbi
Browned flanken-cut beef ribs with round bone cross-sections and scallion.
01 / Meat & fireThe Korean-American grill classic

More around the grill

MAKE IT an occasion.

All 20 meat recipes
Layered napa-cabbage kimchi with red seasoning and pale radish strands.BAECHU KIMCHI / 배추김치

Beyond the flame

The small dishes
make the meal.

The bright, the crisp, the cool, the fermented. A Korean barbecue table comes alive in the spaces between the mains.

Chapter 02 / From the sea

A DIFFERENT KIND of sizzle.

All 15 seafood recipes
Four adults gather around an inset grill; red-handled tongs rest on a separate tray of raw marbled beef while stainless tongs handle browned beef beside lettuce, perilla, rice, and banchan.

A meal, not just a main

GOOD FOOD.
Better company.

Something for the grill. A few small dishes. Leaves, a dip, and room for one more. Find the pieces for your kind of Korean barbecue.

Build your table

Chapter 06 / The sweet finish

One last
good thing.

Golden hotteok, a bowl of patbingsu, or a closing cup of sikhye. Give the end of the meal its own moment.

Explore the sweet chapter
Three golden pan-fried hotteok on a speckled plate, one split to show a brown-sugar and mixed-seed filling; tea and seeds nearby.HOTTEOK / BROWN-SUGAR SEED PANCAKES

KBBQ, answered

COMMON questions.

What is KBBQ?

KBBQ is Korean barbecue: meat or seafood grilled for the table and eaten with banchan, lettuce leaves, dipping sauces and other shared dishes.

How do you build a Korean barbecue table?

Choose a grilled centerpiece, add fermented and fresh banchan, set out lettuce and dipping sauces, then finish with something sweet. The table builder walks through all four parts.

Find your place at the table

WHAT’S cooking?

80 recipes. Six ways into the collection.

MeatSeafoodBanchanFreshSaucesSweets