Italian in South Korea - 105 Restaurant Picks | Page 3

Fresh tajarin, aged and cut in-house, stays springy long after it lands, and the white ragu over it is dense with savor…

A wide hall stretches under the high ceiling of a warehouse-style building, and an elephant sculpture at the entrance s…

Thin Neapolitan dough gets a generous layer of tomato sauce before the wood-fired oven, and that sauce is juicy and tar…

Frameless glass on the 2nd floor turns the dining room into a wide window on the Han River. On the 3rd floor, a cabin-l…

Emiliana lasagna layers crisp-edged pasta over ragu and eats lighter than the heavy baked versions most people picture.…

The building has red-brick walls and arched windows, and its top-floor rooftop terrace looks out toward Heyri Art Villa…

A mint-green facade makes the restaurant easy to spot, and its wood-fired pizzas and pastas have tasted the same for ye…

Only about 20 to 25 ragu lasagnas are made each day, so late arrivals end up tasting the same ragu through the classic…

The house pasta is the ppane cream pasta, a hollowed-out bread bowl filled with thick cream sauce and noodles. Bul-jjam…

Warm garlic bread arrives as soon as the order goes in. The tomato haejang pasta, named after haejangguk, a style of Ko…

Wood-fired dough here is chewy without turning tough, and the crust stays springy even after it cools. The restaurant o…

Striploin and the seafood sirloin arrive on a hot stone plate that holds its heat far longer than you expect, so move t…

Italian tasting courses are served inside a traditional hanok run by Hyundai Gallery. The menu moves from starters to a…

The gnocchi here comes topped with grilled beef. Formaggio risotto is deeply cheesy, and the sweet grilled cabbage stea…

Down in a basement near Samseong Station and COEX, the dining room is dimly lit with generous space between tables, and…

Cheese goes generously into everything from the salads to the pizza, and its funky aroma is hard to miss. The carbonara…

Since 1998 this Daehangno pizzeria has carried the name of Antica Pizzeria Di Matteo, which began making Neapolitan piz…

The restaurant fills the second floor of Tadao Ando's Glass House, and Seongsan Ilchulbong and the sea stay in view thr…

Pizzas bake in an Italian volcanic-stone oven fired with oak, at a pizzeria certified by the APN, the Neapolitan pizza…

Certified by the Associazione Pizzaiuoli Napoletani, the kitchen uses Neapolitan mozzarella, tomato sauce and even flou…

Christmas garlands and a tree stay up all year among the fireplace, chandeliers and antique furniture. Oven-baked rose…

It sits on the 42nd floor of Acro Tower B in Pyeongchon, high enough that clear days reach all the way to Lotte World T…

Most dishes come in portions for two or more, which leaves a couple with few options; Set No. 1 gets around that by bun…

The window seats look straight out at Mangsang Beach, but the kitchen does not hurry. Some days food takes over half an…