Restaurants in Jongno, Seoul - 251 Picks

Ground nuts and grains thicken the broth into something closer to a potage than the clear samgyetang most places serve,…

Despite three floors of tables in Dongdaemun's dakhanmari alley, queues form even on weekday evenings. Japanese tourist…

Chewy, clean-tasting dough carries the pizzas at this Daehakro original, and the lightly topped Margherita Bufala shows…

A former Korean set-meal restaurant in a traditional hanok now houses this bakery café, keeping a wide courtyard and a…

Torn by hand and served in a small crock, the sujebi (hand-pulled dough soup) has pieces of every thickness, some soft…

Two bamboo trays arrive holding four bundles of glossy cold buckwheat noodles (naengmemil), with the dipping broth serv…

Beef bones give the sagol kalguksu, knife-cut noodles in bone broth, a weight close to galbitang, and the wang mandu se…

Persian ornaments and colors set the dining room apart from the student eateries between Hyehwa Station and Sungkyunkwa…

Sundae steak takes boiled Korean blood sausage and sears it again on a hot iron plate, leaving a thin crisp skin around…

Quiet and clean by Jongno barbecue standards, this second-floor room near Insadong suits a first Korean meal with visit…

Orders and payment go through a kiosk at each seat, and diners sit shoulder to shoulder at a narrow counter. The beef s…

Staff do the grilling here, cooking LA galbi (thin cross-cut beef short ribs) at the table and cutting the meat away fr…

Seolnong, in the name, preserves an older spelling of seolleongtang, and Imun recalls Imungol, the old name for this ne…

Raw-beef stalls line this alley of Gwangjang Market, and Buchon sits two minutes on foot from Exit 8 of Jongno 5-ga Sta…

Mashed potato fills the potato cheese bagel, and the cheese flavor comes through strongly. Salt butter bagel gets its s…

Thin panko shatters into small crumbs on the katsu at the Daehangno original, and the thick pork inside stays faintly p…

Chewy knee cartilage with bits of lean meat still attached gives the doganitang here more than one texture per spoonful…

Aged bone-in pork belly brings together springy rib-side meat and a nutty layer of fat, and staff grill it from start t…

Stepping stones over a pool and a stretch of bamboo lead into this hanok bakery cafe in Ikseon-dong, where the innermos…

Perilla oil replaces chili paste in the perilla oil and aged kimchi yukhoe bibimbap, letting raw beef, chopped sour kim…

Orders are taken on the first floor and drinks are handed out one level up, a split that briefly confuses first-time vi…

Set in the ground-floor lobby of K-Twin Tower B, the cafe has high ceilings and enough tables that ordering and finding…

Earthenware pots bubble in a row over gas burners by the entrance of this old stew shop near Tapgol Park. The menu is j…

Black pepper runs through the milky chicken broth, giving it a resemblance to a rich samgyetang, Korean chicken soup. T…