Restaurants in Gangneung, Gangwon - 66 Picks

Roasting actually happens inside this valley building, and the two-story open interior still feels like a working coffe…

When the main shop is full, you either wait in the lounge on its second floor or get sent to the second branch, a 30-se…

The set meal covers the table like a Korean buffet: stir-fried pork, grilled dried pollack, grilled flounder, fried tof…

Pines surround the cafe, and Sunpo Beach is just across the road for a walk on the sand after coffee. On rainy days the…

Come for the bread rather than the coffee. Regional bakes like gamja-ppang (potato bread) and sweet potato bread stand…

The yusangyun-ppang, a bread made with lactic-acid culture, is baked each day and sold only that day. Coffee centers on…

From outside, the weedy gray cement warehouse looks almost abandoned, but inside, two floors are set up like a library,…

The sundubu gelato stretches slightly on the spoon and leaves a clean finish closer to soft tofu than to soy milk. The…

Only flatfish goes into the gwangeo mulhoe, a chilled raw-fish dish in a sweet-tangy broth, and the slices are generous…

When the wait is long, guests sit in the cafe out front until a KakaoTalk message calls them in. The dining room is lar…

The sign is so small that first-timers often circle this old house in a Jumunjin residential lane twice before finding…

Right on Namhangjin Beach, the dining room looks straight out to sea. The dongchimi comes in its own jar with a hint of…

Kkukjeogu, a small freshwater fish from the Yeongok stream area, is ground fine and simmered with gochujang into a stew…

Among the independent cafes on Anmok Beach's coffee street, many priced for tourists, this branch shows the same sea at…

A mother and son have run this cockle restaurant since around 2003, with no other branches, using cockles from Beolgyo.…

The outside of the building is redressed each season with garlands and decorations, and in winter two large Christmas t…

The sign is small enough that first-timers often walk right past. Inside, the frame of the old brewery building is stil…

The Sealong All-in-One joins the four signature burgers end to end, and it fills four people. The hanwoo patties are th…

This house in Chodang has made tofu every morning since 1979, and early in the day the smell of cooking soybeans carrie…

The mul makguksu broth is soy-based rather than dongchimi (radish water kimchi), with a light sheen of fat and savory d…

Meongge jeonbok mulhoe pours an icy chili-vinegar broth over sea squirt and abalone, and a single spoonful brings the b…

Someori gukbap (beef-head soup with rice) is the only dish, and the one decision is regular or large. It comes with dad…

This is said to be where kkomak-muchim bibimbap was first made and sold. Half of the wide tray is cockles already mixed…

Doors open at noon and customers are let in a few groups at a time; on weekends an hour-plus wait is common, and the po…