• The New York Times Top pick
  "Excluding the cheapest plates — shumai with belly-punches of wasabi and steamed edamame slick with lime-basil oil and sea salt — they're not that diminutive." - Dana Bowen
  
  
• New York Magazine 9/15/2003 Critics' pick
  "Kuma Inn takes the tapas concept someplace new, with big flavors and even bigger ideas about how to combine them. Only the plates are small." - Rob Patronite and Robin Raisfeld
  
  
• New York Post 8/6/2003
  "The lively second-floor hideaway on the throbbing Lower East Side overflows with good cheer." - Cynthia Kilian
  
  
• Citysearch
  "The flavors tend toward vividness rather than subtlety." - Paul Adams
  
  
• Gothamist 2/5/2004
  "What better than some Southeast Asian tapas, sake and Tsingtao, and a mellow environment on a dreary night?" (includes photos)
  
  
• Below 14th 8/6/2003
  "the food, oh, the food!...Prices are reasonable." - Lockhart Steele
  
  
• Strong Buzz 11/21/2004
  "I love Kuma Inn and that King, well, he can cook, and he is a fierce DJ." - Andrea Strong

Source: savorynewyork.com