{"id":130848,"date":"2026-01-12T23:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T23:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/130848\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T23:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T23:53:08","slug":"k-team-bbq-review-every-night-is-a-pork-belly-party-at-this-lively-korean-barbecue-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/130848\/","title":{"rendered":"K-Team BBQ Review: Every Night Is A Pork Belly Party at This Lively Korean Barbecue Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Naengdong samgyeopsal, or thinly sliced frozen pork belly, is all the rage in South Korea \u2014 and now Angelenos can recreate the same dining experience at <a href=\"https:\/\/la.eater.com\/venue\/105301\/kteam-bbq-los-angeles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">K-Team BBQ<\/a>. The casual, no-reservation <a href=\"https:\/\/la.eater.com\/maps\/best-korean-barbecue-restaurants-los-angeles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Koreatown barbecue restaurant<\/a> is a venture from the owner and director of operations behind the iconic Park\u2019s BBQ, located across the street. While K-Team uses similarly high-quality banchan and serves several types of beef, the house specialty remains the naengdong samgyeopsal, shortened to \u201cnaeng-sam\u201d on the menu. Orange-and-white tiled tables and a bumping K-pop soundtrack add to the upbeat ambience where groups of friends and colleagues clink glasses of beer, soju and hard liquor around rectangular cast-iron grills. You can also score Park\u2019s Korean-style beef tartare without the pomp and circumstance of K-Team\u2019s older, more refined sibling. Talk about the best of both worlds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Unlike Park\u2019s, K-Team isn\u2019t conducive to large parties. Most tables are big enough for six guests at best; parties larger than that have to split up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">The valet parking lot usually fills up on weekend evenings, so plan ahead with extra time if you\u2019re coming at a peak dinner hour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1 masaseg\">The Park\u2019s BBQ crew has opened a place that reflects the latest Korean barbecue sensibilities with a strip mall spot right across the street. Dubbed K-TEAM, the restaurant is a rowdy late-night destination where soju, beer, and pork belly abound. There are no combos here. Nothing except a few banchan is included with meat orders. But those keen on the details will experience Korean barbecue as it\u2019s often experienced in Seoul: various cuts of un-marinated pork like jowl, thinly-cut frozen pork belly that homesick Korean Americans find nostalgic, and a fantastic griddled kimchi rice to end meals. K-TEAM doesn\u2019t hold back with its realistic Korean barbecue experience, and fans of the tabletop medium will relish this new grillhouse. \u2014 Matthew Kang, lead editor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Naengdong samgyeopsal, or thinly sliced frozen pork belly, is all the rage in South Korea \u2014 and now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28829,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-130848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-dining-reports","9":"tag-la","10":"tag-la-headlines","11":"tag-la-news","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","14":"tag-los-angeles-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}