Restaurants in Jongno, Seoul - 251 Picks | Page 7

Set back from the road, the room stays quiet, and wide gaps between tables give it the calm of a hotel lounge. Most out…

With roughly five tables, the shop fills fast, and the queue starts as soon as it opens. The honey ricotta open sandwic…

A thin, crisp coating that never turns soggy lets each cut of pork show its own texture. Sang-rosu-katsu, premium loin…

Jalapeno pickles come on the side, an unexpected match for the katsu donburi, where sweet-salty tsuyu meets sliced pork…

Garlic-heavy broth, thin and plentiful like a fish stew, sets this chicken dish apart from the thick, reduced dakbokkeu…

Customers carry a tray past the cases and fill it themselves, and between scones that are crisp outside and soft inside…

Past a small front yard off an Insadong alley, the dining room opens onto a working kitchen and warm wooden seating, wi…

Beef is grilled in the kitchen and brought to the table already cooked, in a converted old house down an Insa-dong alle…

The butter scone looks noticeably bigger than those at most dessert cafes, with a crisp shell and a soft crumb, and clo…

Behind a tiled roof and wooden gate, a courtyard opens onto a hanok that keeps its original pillars and roof framing, w…

Inside, the cafe looks like a Nordic attic or a storybook room, with small props placed in every corner. Several kinds…

Private rooms on the mezzanine of Gwanghwamun's Twin Tree building host a hanwoo omakase, a chef's-choice course of Kor…

Near Jonggak Station, the coffee order in this tall-ceilinged, Bean Brothers-run room begins with picking the beans, an…

A few steps off the crowded main street of Bukchon, a compact hanok holds this cafe, about 150m from Anguk Station in a…

Herbs and edible flowers grown on the restaurant's own veranda end up on the plates, and vegetables come from natural-f…

When the original Gwangjang Market branch fills up, staff wave flags to steer diners to this larger two-floor dining ro…

Inside an alley lined with dak-hanmari whole-chicken shops near Dongdaemun, this place grills fish instead. The saengse…

One Insadong hanok holds a tearoom, a tea-leaf shop, and a free exhibition of teaware. The shop stocks over 110 teas fr…

Japanese owners and staff run this small home-style kitchen on Changuimun-ro in Buam-dong. Weekend waits often run past…

Self-serve taps let drinkers pour small measures of different craft beers themselves, and a sampler flight does the sam…

Thin, translucent wrappers around shrimp and mushroom define most of the dim sum served in Bukchon, a short walk from t…

Everything is plant-based at this Seochon kitchen, and the whole-wheat bun for the grain burger is baked on site, chewy…

A small renovated hanok-style space off a Bukchon alley turns out French pastries and French cakes, with low bar seatin…

Big windows pour daylight into this Italian dining room inside the Four Seasons Hotel Seoul, 150m from Gwanghwamun Stat…