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Chicago Restaurants Review: Korean BBQ Pro Samgyupsal (프로 삼겹살) Review

Bryant Jimin Son
4 min readNov 28, 2019

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Among my Chicago Korean acquaintances, I often have heard about this place called Pro Samgyupsal (프로 삼겹살) located at the Northbrook, Illinois area. Even compared to other Korean BBQ places at Chicago, IL, Koreans at Chicago often talked about this place being better in terms of the meats quality, though the price is on a rather expensive side. Being a foodie I am, I convinced my coworkers to visit this place to try the Korean barbecues.

Location

Pro Samgyupsal is located at the following address:

3420 Milwaukee Ave, Northbrook, IL 60062

Pro Samgyupsal is close to Glenview, which is a place where many Koreans live

The area is nearby Gleview, IL, which is one of the Chicago areas with many Koreans living in there. My coworkers and I arrived there on a Tuesday evening, and the place was half-packed. I saw about the half of customers being Koreans while the other half being non-Koreans.

Inside the restaurant

Foods

We ordered a number of different Korean barbecues to try. We tried two different versions of beefs and two different versions of porks. The pork we tried is called “samgyupsal” (삼겹살), which is equivalent to the…

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Bryant Jimin Son
Bryant Jimin Son

Written by Bryant Jimin Son

A cloud practitioner talking about technology, travels & career tips. But I will sometimes cover financial advises and some random stuffs.

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