Restaurants in Jongno, Seoul - 251 Picks | Page 4

Dumplings are being folded by hand right by the entrance, and the kalguksu noodles are kneaded in-house too: broad, thi…

Diners at this Four Seasons Hotel Seoul buffet, 150m from Gwanghwamun Station, eat on a glass floor laid over Joseon-er…

Every set meal comes with a doenjang stew thick with shepherd's purse (naengi) and pieces of meat, plus side dishes. Th…

Past an arcade and a door that feels hidden, the bar spreads over the third to fifth floors, looking out across the til…

Coffee is roasted on the ground floor of this dark-green two-story building on the lane from Nakwon Arcade into Insa-do…

A deliberately dark entrance on the eighth floor gives way to Mexican decor and music once you step inside. The Doritos…

Glass walls on three sides of the second-floor dining room frame Inwangsan, on the road that climbs toward the Bugak Sk…

Down a narrow lane between Jongno 3-ga Station and Ikseon-dong, a worn sign and a small doorway open onto a long row of…

Sitting right beside Gugi Tunnel, this haejangguk house fills with hikers at Saturday lunch, and the overflow spills on…

French AOP butter drives the flavor of these salt rolls, baked in a hanok alley in Ikseon-dong; on a breezy day the sme…

Behind what looks like a white marble wall in the basement of the Four Seasons Hotel Seoul, a hidden door opens onto th…

From the hanok windows in Bukchon you look out at the mountains while drinking omija tea made with house-made five-flav…

Compared with its busy neighbors on Jongno's dakhanmari alley (whole chicken simmered in a pot), this shop has more spa…

Tucked one alley off Insadong's main street, a hanok has been fitted with white walls and spare furniture, with the cou…

Inside a renovated hanok more than a century old, the seats wrap around a courtyard left open to the sky. Rafters and w…

Since 1998 this Daehangno pizzeria has carried the name of Antica Pizzeria Di Matteo, which began making Neapolitan piz…

Thin, barely sweet cream sits over espresso and milk in the Tonti Baby, and the idea is to drink the layers together ra…

Myeongnan tteokbokki builds its sauce on a house-made broth with salty, savory pollock roe, so the rice cakes come out…

On the ground floor of the Arario Museum, a courtyard with a stone pagoda sits between an ivy-covered gallery, a glass…

Hand-torn dough pieces stay thin and chewy, and the sujebi (hand-pulled dough soup) never tastes heavy or floury. The b…

Chilled raw beef tossed evenly in seasoning makes the yukhoe springy and moist. A second plate of yukhoe tangtangi or s…

Noodles are hand-pulled in an open kitchen in the Lanzhou style, in eight thicknesses from fine to broad. Thin strands…

Thick-cut potatoes are fried with the chicken and land in the same basket as the whole bird. The thin, hard-crackling c…

Food YouTuber Hamzy opened this spot near Jongno 3-ga Station, with hanok-inspired decor built around makgeolli and anj…