Restaurants in Gwangjin, Seoul - 31 Picks

Pan-baked, thick-crusted and buried under cheese and toppings, the pizza feels closer to a nineties restaurant pie than…

A tall parking tower stands beside this Jayang-dong drivers' diner, which fills an entire building near Konkuk Universi…

Numbered tickets pulled at the door set the pace at this small cold-noodle shop, open in Guui-dong since 1968. The Pyon…

Sundubu, the soft curd, arrives as one large warm mound: creamy and lightly sweet rather than intensely nutty, almost l…

Dosakmyeon are thick, chewy noodles, somewhere between kalguksu and torn dough, served in a spicy broth heaped with cil…

Fish tacos here wrap tender fish in a thin, crisp batter and top it with salsa. The beef quesadilla holds sirloin and M…

A hanok building inside the Walkerhill complex looks down on the Han River, and the hanwoo sirloin and marinated galbi…

Thin sheets of meat go onto a wire grill for the seokswoe bulgogi, which comes out smoky yet still juicy. Hoe-naengmyeo…

A recent remodel gave this cafe white walls hung with framed prints, a basement with floor seating where shoes come off…

Each sushi set at this neighborhood spot near Gangbyeon Station comes with salad, a choice of hot udon or cold buckwhea…

The broth, simmered from pork bones, is clear and mild in the style of seolleongtang, a difference best tasted with a s…

Salmon, flounder, scallop and shrimp are piled thick on the rice for the yaki donburi, then torched only on top, leavin…

The Tortilla and Rice Paper Jjoldak Set brings chewy dakgalbi (spicy stir-grilled chicken) with fresh vegetables, five…

An indoor walkway runs from Exit 3 of Guui Station on Line 2 straight into the NC Eastpol building, and this fusion Kor…

Steamed meat baozi hold a lot of hot juice, so it pays to open the wrapper a little and let the steam out before biting…

Inside the cypress steamer, glass-noodle sundae and blood sundae sit side by side, so the two sausage styles are easy t…

Push through an oversized door off a Konkuk University alley and the rooms turn European, each floor decorated differen…

True to the name, which means plump and thick, the aged pork belly and neck are cut deep, and staff grill them from the…

Vintage furniture, a long counter and classical or jazz from a vacuum-tube audio system give the room the feel of a jaz…

The original lamb skewers are fatty, rich and tender, while the aged ones come pre-coated with ziran, a cumin-based spi…

Charcoal-grilled lamb skewers come off the coals tender and free of gaminess on Jayang-dong's lamb-skewer street, 300m…

Cumin galbi sauce, reminiscent of lamb-skewer seasoning, meets pickled jalapenos in the jalapeno cumin burger, spicy en…

Every table has a small mortar for grinding sesame seeds into the katsu sauce. Deungsim-gaseu, the rosu katsu, is fried…

Ground perilla seed thickens the broth so heavily that, in the deul-kkae duck soup, the soup matters more than the duck…