Bonchon

How is the chicken? Some of the best you will ever have! Bonchon has the best wings in the Chicago area. The hot wings, depending on which cook prepares them, will be both very spicy and fabulously delicious. They are perfectly crispy and go perfectly with the pickled radishes. If you’re looking for something different and several steps better than BWW - give Bonchon a try.

This was my first time eating chicken from a Korean restaurant and the chicken was pretty good! I’m not a fan of sticky chicken but, I had to try these since I hadn’t before. Of course I checked the reviews first...they were pretty good for a dine-in experience and figured they should be good to try. The host was super friendly and the restaurant is well kept. They were good along with the house-made coleslaw! I got both the soy garlic and spicy chicken. If you’re not a fan of spice, stick to the soy garlic chicken, which is good alone. I only like GOOD house-made coleslaw, not the juicy packed kind they give you at every chicken shack in Chicago (rolls eyes). I’ll be eating here again, dining-in next time.

A bit too pricey for chicken wings and drums. 2 flavors of sauce, one is a mild sweet delicious flavor and a great texture bite. The other flavor is hard to say because the spiciness was so intense that all I felt was my mouth, tongue, lips, esophagus...and I'm pretty sure the plate also, melting away. I'm not sure if the hot wings are always that hot, or if someone messed up with that batch of sauce and pretty much only put intense pepper juice all over it. I eat hot wings all the time...as well as spicy Tai, Vietnamese, Indian, Mexican, and other hot foods. This was up there for contending with the top 5 hottest foods I've ever eaten. I've had ghost pepper wings that were definitley hotter than this...but not by much lol. 15 bucks for 5 drums isn't worth the price honestly too for me, but they have some decent standard katsu and other menu options from bothe Japan and Korea. This place actually has a nice bar. They should add a sign that says "restaurant and bar". It would make for a nice stop on a bar crawl going from City Works to Kumas Corner, to Bonchon, to Miller's Ale ...without crossing golf road. Another note is that the Cinnaholic Cinnabon store is next door, which is amazing, and is absolutely has to be your dessert stop after this place. All and all I think the service and food are solid. I knocked 1 star down for being overpriced...I can chalk up the intense wing sauce to my own inadequacy. Lol

Bonchon is one of my all-time favorite chains, and I've experienced them all over the world. This experience was just OK -- The service was a tad slow, the food came out in an odd order (appetizers came out last), and it just didn't taste as fresh as it has at other locations. Still delicious, I think I just have incredibly high expectations for Bonchon.