Restaurants in Mapo, Seoul - 259 Picks

As soon as you sit down, a cup of warm broth arrives, smelling of buckwheat and beef. Ordering the Pyongyang naengmyeon…

Each diner orders at least one whole eel, and staff move the pieces around a domed grill over hot charcoal so nothing s…

Fritz Dohwa occupies an old detached house whose mother-of-pearl cabinets and antique vanity make the room feel like a…

Chicken bones simmered until the stock emulsifies give a milky broth almost as heavy as tonkotsu, though noticeably les…

Thin slices of pork in a fiery marinade cook in moments on the grill, and staff swap out scorched plates quickly. Yeolt…

A wood-fired oven brought over from Italy stands in the middle of the room on Hongik-ro, run by an owner from Naples. T…

Staff cook the jjukkumi bokkeum, stir-fried baby octopus, on the table griddle from start to finish, so diners never ha…

Machine-made noodles in a peppery broth topped with crown daisy (ssukgat) give this Mangwon-dong udon the taste of an o…

Instead of the usual lettuce wraps, the trotters come with a large plate of salad and a bowl of kimchi kalguksu, knife-…

Staff work the grills table by table, cooking thick samgyeopsal (pork belly) and moksal (pork neck) so diners never han…

Korean regulars eat alongside Chinese, Japanese and Southeast Asian tourists in a large dining room on World Cup buk-ro…

Instead of starting raw chicken at the table, the kitchen does most of the cooking and transfers the dakgalbi to a hot…

Booking ahead gets a table already set with side dishes, while evening walk-ins face long waits. The charcoal-scented p…

The broth sits between clear and milky, with thin slices of brisket and a few strands of somyeon noodles. Salt, scallio…

Each order of yangnyeom dwaeji galbi (marinated pork ribs) mixes rib meat and pork neck on one plate, giving the grill…

Beef gopchang, daechang and vegetables share a round griddle in a small room near Hongik University Station. As the gop…

Halfway through the bowl, ask for broth and the seafood rice turns into a savory, ochazuke-style finish. Jeitakudon let…

Served only at lunch, heukheuk bulgogi mixes Jeju black-pork shoulder with skin-on pork belly and grills it over coal b…

Pale pork-bone broth and a heap of thin-sliced pork fill the bowl of don-tangban, the house pork-and-rice soup. Eolkeun…

Soy-marinated crab here leans on a traditional salty soy brine rather than a sweet one, and the shells open onto crab m…

Every floor from the basement up to the fourth recreates a different corner of Hogwarts. Early weekday hours are the qu…

Oversized salmon nigiri, the daewang yeoneo chobap, carries thick slices of fresh salmon on a larger mound of rice than…

Yangji-tang, beef brisket soup, arrives completely unseasoned, and salt and pepper on the table let each diner adjust i…

Almond flakes coat the crust of the chestnut loaf, which bakes up surprisingly crisp for a sandwich bread, with sweet c…