Restaurant in Jeju City: Yeondong Kitchen Gla & More - 13 Local Picks

The bread that starts the meal is not baguette but something sticky and chewy that recalls Jeju's omegi rice cake, an e…

Momguk simmers gulfweed, a Jeju seaweed, in pork broth, and the bowl carries the nuttiness of seaweed soup, a slippery…

Order the Hallasan fried rice and a staff member piles it into a mountain on the griddle while running through the stor…

One chef cooks and serves everything here, so only guests with a reservation are seated, in a small room in the quiet v…

Mackerel, hairtail or red tilefish anchors each grilled fish set, and every one also brings stir-fried Jeju black pork…

The dolmuneo oil pasta arrives with a whole Jeju rock octopus laid over the noodles. The octopus is neither tough nor f…

There is steak on the menu, but the dish people bring up first is the hanchi-saeu arancini, made with squid and shrimp.…

Shrimp stock, tomato and basil make the broth for the shrimp tomato udon, which tastes closer to an Italian soup than t…

Tucked into an old house deep in Sinchon-ri village, the place is easy to miss, yet from the tables the sea sits right…

For a place called Mayonnaise, the signature mayonnaise pilaf barely tastes of mayo at all; it is a spicy, salty fried…

Seonggye deopbap is warm rice with sea urchin on top and nothing else. If raw urchin does not appeal, there is also a s…

The Yam Yam cheese tonkatsu, stuffed with plenty of cheese, is the first thing to sell out, and when ingredients run lo…

The assorted tonkatsu brings loin, tenderloin and cheese katsu together on one tray, and of the three, the cheese katsu…