Iron Age restaurant geared to carnivores
The new all-you-can-eat Iron Age Korean Steakhouse in Annandale should delight carnivores.
It offers a DIY experience, as diners pay a set price, $25 per person for dinner, and choose among a list of meat and a few seafood selections that are cooked at the table.
The most popular items are brisket, soy beefsteak, and beef bulgogi, says manager Sung Kang. There’s a selection of side dishes included the price.
Kang has seen some patrons at other Iron Age restaurants take full advantage of the all-you-can-eat menu, spending three hours ordering dish after dish.
There’s also an all-you-can eat lunch menu Monday-Thursday with fewer items for $18 per person. For vegetarians, Kang suggests ordering the all-you-can-eat side dish option for $12.
Iron Age is located in the former Il Mee Buffet space at 7031-A5, Little River Turnpike.
This is the eighth Iron Age restaurant; the others are in Centreville, Maryland, Georgia, and Chicago.
For those who have tried both, which is better, Iron Age or Kogiya?
I prefer the wider variety of meat selection at iron age (both Centreville and Annandale) but the sides are better at Kogiya.
What about meat quality? I heard Kogiya's meat quality is better?
Meokja Meokja in Fairfax blows Kogiya out of the water, and leaves Yechon so far in the dust it cannot be seen. Wish it wasn't so, because Meokja is much further from me, and Kogiya is five minutes. Also, really tired of sitting on low stools at Kogiya. Give me a chair with a back, is that so much to ask for?
It's probably to deter from folks sitting there too long and eating all day, taking up tables and eating more meat. As Iron Age stated above, some patrons take too much of advantage of AYCE, try sitting 3 hours and eating without a back on your chair!
It looks really cool inside. Thank goodness for these Korean entrepreneurs. They are keeping the Annandale area one cuckoos nest from the dumpster. This looks like a must try.