Ice Cream in South Korea - 14 Restaurant Picks

Barley, cinnamon, nutmeg and chewy bits of orange peel go into Mangwon-dong, a gelato flavor made only at this branch.…

Very little air is churned in, so each scoop is dense and chewy and melts slowly without the flavor going blurry. Fruit…

A set that pairs gelato with a glass of wine or whiskey turns this shop at the mouth of the Gongdeok food alley into a…

Squid ink is on the gelato list here. It belongs to the Seorak Line, flavors made from Gangwon ingredients such as Sokc…

Dim and minimal, with only a few seats, the room near Sookmyung Women's University Station looks more like a wine bar t…

Echire milk gelato tastes of soft butter and cream, while the Valrhona cacao chocolate is dense and chewy without heavy…

The flavors rotate daily: oriental melon, fig, black sesame or strawberry tomato might be in the case on any given day.…

Honey replaces sugar and eggs replace emulsifiers in the small-batch gelato, made on a Seochon lane that climbs toward…

Dense, chewy gelato goes into a thin cone baked in-house, and the shop sits right on the Gyeongui Line Forest Park path…

The orchard starts right outside the big windows, and the brother and sister who grow its Naksan pears turn them into s…

Roasted pistachio gelato finishes with a toasted-grain note close to misutgaru, a Korean roasted-grain powder, while ga…

Each cup or cone holds two flavors, and two small tasting spoons of other flavors come on top. Rice gelato with chewy r…

Black pepper on the potato gelato turns a dense, mildly sweet scoop into something closer to chilled mashed potato than…

The sundubu gelato stretches slightly on the spoon and leaves a clean finish closer to soft tofu than to soy milk. The…