Restaurants in Cheonan, Chungnam - 22 Picks

Cakes, turtle bread, stone-oven loaves and rice cakes each have their own building, scattered like a small village, and…

The pisundae here is heavy on seonji, pork blood, and a piece from the mixed platter breaks apart in the mouth like sof…

Window tables look straight out onto Seongseong Lake Park in Cheonan. Eojuk is a thick red porridge of broken-down fres…

Geobugi-ppang, the turtle bread, is close to a coffee bun but less greasy, and it sits in a warmer so it can be eaten h…

The broth arrives completely unseasoned, and you salt it yourself with salt and salted shrimp. Save the chili paste for…

Cabbage, vegetables and mushrooms stand upright in the mandu jeongol, a dumpling hot pot, much like a millefeuille nabe…

Near the end of the hot pot, the leftover broth gets a scoop of kongbiji (ground soybean pulp) and ssamjang, then boils…

Dim sum is on the ground floor, while the second floor serves Chinese dishes such as gochu-japchae and jjajangmyeon. A…

Order two or more bowls of jjamppong and a thin gorgonzola pizza comes along with them. The crust is so thin that peopl…

Pork ribs go onto a Genghis Khan-style charcoal grill, domed in the middle with a moat of soy broth around the rim; onc…

Pork ribs scented with pine needles come off an oak-charcoal fire in the kitchen and reach the table already cooked. Th…

Private rooms come in several sizes and host a steady run of engagement meetings, 100-day celebrations and elders' birt…

The Siyu einspanner tops cold brew with cream salted with Himalayan pink salt, and each sip passes through that salty l…

Diners take off their shoes at the door of an old family house and sit at low tables in what were once the living room…

Small freshwater shrimp, shells and all, go into a spicy broth with radish and hand-torn sujebi dough, and plenty of th…

Fine scoring across the kkot-moksal, a pork neck cut, keeps meat that usually dries out as tender as beef. Staff season…

Each autumn the outdoor garden turns pink with muhly grass and pampas, with photo spots scattered between the plantings…

Anyone expecting the fiery, heavy jjamppong common today may find this one mild. The ethnic Chinese restaurant has been…

A plain neighborhood place in the Ssangyong-dong residential area, it simmers beef leg bones and assorted bones for hou…

Ground perilla seeds go heavily into the sauce for deulgireum milmyeon, wheat noodles pulled to order and dressed with…

Each diner gets a small earthenware pot of ureong ssamjang, soybean paste with mud snails and nuts, mild enough to spoo…

Kongbiji, a thick soybean-pulp stew, sits at a self-serve station free of charge, so refills are up to you. The tofu se…