Traditional Tea in South Korea - 16 Restaurant Picks

The room stays quiet enough to hear the wind chimes because guests are let in exactly at their booked time and numbers…

A remodeled hanok rises three floors: tea and gift products on the ground floor, a cafe on the second, and from late af…

From the hanok windows in Bukchon you look out at the mountains while drinking omija tea made with house-made five-flav…

Guests brew their own leaf tea here, refilling the pot as often as they like in a Gyedong-gil hanok split into main, gu…

You brew the hwangcha yourself, pouring hot water from a thermos over the same leaves again and again. Half-fermented,…

Inside this hanok off Insadong-gil, guests take off their shoes and sit on a heated ondol floor beside a small garden,…

Tea gets explained at the table here, which helps with names like vanilla-bean tonka matcha or lemon myrtle matcha soda…

At 250 meters up the slope of Hallasan, a family turned their tangerine orchard into an organic tea farm, and the admis…

High hanok ceilings keep the small Ikseon-dong tea house from feeling cramped, and the heated ondol floor makes it a wa…

Through the eighth-floor windows of the Gueup ferry terminal building, the sea off Yeongjong and its islands fill the v…

Perilla runs thick through the broth of the perilla sujebi (hand-torn dough soup), perilla kalguksu and perilla porridg…

Jeongeup grows much of Korea's rehmannia root, and the ssanghwa-cha here, simmered from 20 medicinal ingredients includ…

Sweet red bean porridge (danpatjuk) dusted with cinnamon hides large glutinous rice dumplings, chestnuts, kidney beans…

Dark wooden beams under a tiled roof, antique furniture, vintage odds and ends and a wood-burning fireplace give this I…

Bamboo, a pond and a century-old hanok estate surround the tables, and sitting still you hear the birdsong and running…

Writer Lee Tae-jun wrote much of his fiction in this hanok, now a designated Seoul folk heritage house that his grandda…