Italian in South Korea - 105 Restaurant Picks | Page 2

Pasta portions run about one and a half times what most places serve. The clams in the vongole and the seafood oil past…

Behind Yongsan Post Office on Yongridan-gil, this bistro fits five or six tables around an open kitchen. A smooth sweet…

Meat here is cooked in a gama, a traditional Korean cooking vessel, and the T-bone steak anchors most tables. The 850-g…

From outside it looks like any building in the alley, but inside, wine bottles cover the walls without a speck of dust,…

Oak-fired Neapolitan pizza comes out with a puffed rim and a thin center. Polpo alla griglia is grilled octopus with a…

A wood-burning oven greets you at the door of this osteria on Songridan-gil. Pizzas are Neapolitan, with a chewy crust…

Three hours, about 30 draft beers plus wine and highballs, all unlimited: that drinks course defines this Gangnam pub.…

Everything from the bread to dessert is made in house; the meal opens with warm, soft bread dipped in olive oil thick w…

Hallasan gosari pasta arrives with stir-fried Jeju bracken fern and shrimp piled on the noodles, and the owners tell yo…

A seasonal Italian course opens with a bright, acidic starter and moves through pasta and a main to dessert and tea, an…

Dough is stretched by hand in the open kitchen and turned inside the wood-fired oven, giving a thin, soft center and a…

A soup of freshly grated potato comes first, and its gentle seasoning sets the tone for everything after. Matsu donkats…

Order a single pasta and bread with salted butter still comes first; at lunch, coffee or tea follows with creme brulee…

The whole pork belly steak is set alight in front of you before the 300g slab is sliced, a moment children in particula…

Tucked into a residential lane in Hyehwa-dong, away from the busy center of Daehangno, the restaurant feels like a neig…

Inside The Hyundai Seoul, seasonal ingredients shape the lunch and dinner courses, which run through to dessert. Among…

Repeat visitors keep ordering two dishes, the mushroom salad and the potato gnocchi. The mushrooms in the salad chew wi…

The signature plate is hanwoo tenderloin steak, eaten with a pinch of Maldon salt and a swipe through carrot puree, but…

Only two main dishes are on the board on this Sinchon student street: ragu pasta and lasagna. The pasta mixes meat sauc…

Fresh pasta made in-house is chewier and denser than standard dried pasta. It is a two-minute walk from Beotigogae Stat…

Built on the grounds of a riding club, Parc Prive adds a bakery cafe and restaurant beside a wide lawn, where pony ride…

Dough baked in the wood-fired oven comes out chewy and springy, and the margherita leans on chunks of tomato whose acid…

Inside a hanok in an Ikseon-dong alley, soft lighting sets the room for pasta and wood-fired pizza. The Gio Crema pasta…

Coffee is free once the meal is over, which lets a stop near the Lotte Outlet in Paju cover lunch and coffee in one pla…