Restaurants in Gangnam, Seoul - 168 Picks | Page 5

Thick pork belly arrives already grilled in the kitchen and neatly plated. Nobody at the table has to cook, and clothes…

Staff grill teukyang, thick beef tripe, and daechang, beef large intestine, over charcoal and cut them at the table in…

Three hours, about 30 draft beers plus wine and highballs, all unlimited: that drinks course defines this Gangnam pub.…

Staff grill the 1++ grade hanu sirloin and tenderloin from the first piece to the last, after trimming away even the fi…

Coarse, irregular breadcrumbs give the tonkatsu a light crunch around thick pork that stays moist, with a toasted-nut a…

The pork spine bones are grilled over charcoal first and only then tossed in a sweet, fiery sauce, which keeps the red…

Everything from the bread to dessert is made in house; the meal opens with warm, soft bread dipped in olive oil thick w…

Through the tall ground-floor windows you see a small bamboo garden in front of the red-brick building, and from the se…

Nearly half of this small Cheongdam restaurant is open kitchen, and the counter seats look straight into it. Muoki Egg,…

The chueotang has almost no muddy or fishy taste: loaches are ground fine and simmered with plenty of dried radish gree…

Sit down and a stainless-steel tray of bugeo-jjim baekban, braised dried pollack with rice, lands in under three minute…

Chef Nakamura Kouji, also known for his YouTube channel, runs this sushi omakase counter on the 3rd floor of SB Tower A…

The lunch special arrives as a full tray: sushi, a bowl of buckwheat soba, tempura and dessert, enough that people stop…

A meal runs in three stages: meat and vegetables poached in a spicy mushroom broth, then knife-cut noodles cooked in th…

True to the name, the financiers are baked in the shape of small bricks, about the size of an ordinary financier. The s…

Photos of BTS and TXT cover every wall and the ceiling, a record of the two groups eating here since their trainee days…

On the thick rosu katsu, the crust stays crisp through the last bite instead of going soggy on one side. Rosu is loin w…

Since 1974 this small Nonhyeon-dong shop has served only samgyetang, whole chicken soup, and ban-gyetang, the half-bird…

In the gochu tangsuyuk, the crunch comes from crisp fried nurungji (scorched rice) rather than batter, sharing the plat…

An open kitchen greets diners at the entrance of this two-Michelin-star room on the second floor of Sinsa Square. Soign…

Pot lids signed by celebrities line one wall, and kimchi jjigae comes in single-serving aluminum pots, each diner picki…

Nothing sits waiting under a lamp: each batch is fried after ordering, in a thin, seasoned, tempura-style batter that n…

Roasted pistachio gelato finishes with a toasted-grain note close to misutgaru, a Korean roasted-grain powder, while ga…

From the street, this Blue Bottle between Gangnam and Yeoksam stations barely shows itself, with a small sign and a roo…