Western in South Korea - 32 Restaurant Picks

Several cats wander in and out of the dining room. The kitchen of this small place in a lane near the Hado shore cooks…

Lobster rose pasta comes with generous lobster meat and al dente noodles that hold the tomato-cream sauce well. The sou…

Charcoal and firewood burn together in the hearth of this converted old house on Hangang-daero 7-gil, leaving grill mar…

Vuur means fire, and the room is designed around that idea, with a fully open kitchen where diners watch the chefs work…

Late-afternoon visitors often miss the roll lasagna, the dish featured on Black and White Chef season 2, because only 8…

From the top floor of the L'Escape Hotel, the windows look over the Namdaemun skyline while an eight- to nine-course ta…

From the 58th floor of the 63 Building, the windows look out toward Noryangjin, and courses are served in private rooms…

Juicy grilled chicken thigh, scented with garlic and herbs, shares the menu with casarecce in butter, taleggio and crea…

From the 59th floor of the 63 Building, the windows take in the Han River, Nodeul Island and the Yeouido skyline. At a…

With a single chef cooking every dish in this small room on Seosulla-gil, the lane beside the Jongmyo Shrine wall, food…

Facing the west stone wall of Jongmyo Shrine, the building puts an open kitchen on the ground floor and a dining room p…

Hot courses arrive on warmed plates, and each dish comes with a note on its ingredients and how to eat it. Chefs Kim He…

Dishes come off the menu as their ingredients run out, so arrive late and the seafood jjamppong pasta or the carbonara…

A thin omelet folded into a spiral crowns the hoeori omurice, with sauce poured around it; cut in and the soft center s…

The menu is split three ways, for Wednesday and Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and Sunday, and beef barbecue appears on…

Pizzas go into a 700-degree oven for just 90 seconds, leaving a thin crust that still chews, and the rim is for dipping…

The shrimp cheese chili omelet comes with chili sauce poured over one half and cream sauce over the other, so you alter…

Hanwoo beef tartare opens the meal and steak closes it at this grill on the 7th floor of JW Marriott Seoul. The four-co…

The flat-iron steak (buchaesal) is pressed thin on the surface so the outside crackles, and it arrives with basil butte…

The beef tenderloin steak arrives at about medium-well without anyone asking how you want it, with a house-made sauce a…

Funky disco DJ sets fill this Southeast Asian resort-styled rooftop, where people dance a little with a Corona or cockt…

Getting in means climbing a narrow staircase to the fourth floor and pushing open an iron door to find a large chandeli…

Mini gumbo and étouffée, Louisiana Creole dishes rarely found in Korea, come out of a ground-floor shop in a Jeongja-do…

Oats and barley give the cream risotto a chewy bite, and the sauce stays light enough to finish the plate without fatig…