Seafood in South Korea - 157 Restaurant Picks

At lunch, a two-person special pairs stir-fried jjukkumi with clam kalguksu, the griddle stir-fry and the noodle soup s…

At this stall inside Noryangjin Fish Market there is no set meal; you pick the fish and decide how much to buy for your…

Close to Sokcho Central Market, the shop packs sashimi to carry back to your lodging as readily as it serves it at its…

Hinoki steamers of hanwoo beef, seafood and vegetables are the centerpiece. The set for two brings one tray of beef and…

Perilla leaves and sheets of seaweed come stacked beside a spread of mixed raw fish, so every bite becomes a small wrap…

Six parties a day, by reservation only. Hyang-eo, a freshwater carp, is cooked the way three generations of the family…

The shellfish grill is all-you-can-eat, but the grill plates are small, and there is a fair amount of sitting idle whil…

Before the prawns go on the grill, staff bring them over to show they are still moving. The all-you-can-eat shellfish i…

Soy-marinated crab here leans on a traditional salty soy brine rather than a sweet one, and the shells open onto crab m…

Seasonal clams, other seafood and vegetables ring a tray divided like flower petals, and you drop them one by one into…

Octopus wound around a skewer, grilled and brushed with a sweet-spicy glaze, nakji horongi anchors the menu at this Yeo…

Each table has two burners, so shellfish can grill on one while another dish sits on the other. Seasoned onion, cheese,…

Snow crab and king crab are picked live from the tanks, priced by weight, steamed whole and cut onto a large platter. L…

The owner cooks everything alone, so plates come out one at a time, timed to how fast your table is eating. Order the a…

When an order comes in, the elderly couple who run the place pull a live abalone from the tank and only then start cook…

Choose mackerel, Spanish mackerel or hairtail, and it comes with freshly cooked pot rice and banchan. The oven runs at…

The abalone, shrimp and rockfish braise has a thin, sweet sauce that soaks deep into the radish, tofu and siraegi green…

The all-you-can-eat platter mixes several kinds of shellfish, and tteokbokki and meat come out first to pick at while i…

Bring a small child and the kitchen sends out one free toddler meal per table, and sometimes a banana carved into a dol…

Galchi-jorim here is braised with thick-cut radish and potato in a spicy sauce that does not lean on sugar. For galchi-…

Lobster appears grilled, steamed and in soup as it moves through a single seafood course. Each dish carries a story tie…

Scallops, cockles and mussels arrive stacked in a three-tier tower, with both cheddar and mozzarella to melt over them…

Cheese goes on top of each scallop and clam before it hits the grill, and the tables look straight out over the Wolmido…

The Yeongdo sashimi course is for two or more, and its fish shift with the season and the day's catch, with large yello…