Restaurants in Sokcho, Gangwon - 69 Picks

Even with seating spread over the 2nd to 4th floors, waits are common, and diners take a numbered ticket. Cheongchoho L…

Sundubu baekban is the only dish, so you sit down, say how many you are, and the table is set almost at once. The tofu…

On a street crowded with chodang sundubu restaurants, waiting and parking are a battle almost everywhere, but this one…

The entrance looks like a shipyard that shut down, enough to make first-timers wonder if it is open, but inside is a ca…

This dakgangjeong (sweet glazed fried chicken) is moist and soft rather than crisp, and it does not harden even after a…

The tangy pollock hoe-muchim among the side dishes pulls you toward the rice as hard as the soup does. A taste of ferme…

For food served inside a brewery, the plates are substantial. The dry-aged T-bone comes thick and barely seasoned, and…

In Sokcho, mussels are called seop, and this restaurant turns them into porridge and hangover soup. The taste depends h…

Winter adds cod milt and liver to the pot of saengdaegu-tang, fresh cod soup, and the milt turns rich and soft, almost…

Order the day before and turn up at your assigned pickup time, and the box is handed over without a wait. The Portugues…

There is no slushy ice in this mulhoe. It is simply cold, and the broth leans sour rather than sweet, so the thin-cut s…

Small hanok-style buildings are scattered around a wide courtyard, and each group ends up in what feels like its own gu…

The mulhoe comes without any broth, looking more like a rice bowl: flounder sekkosi, thin slices with the soft bones in…

Tofu is made every morning from Korean soybeans, and the doors open early. The chodang sundubu set brings lightly seaso…

Close to Sokcho Central Market, the shop packs sashimi to carry back to your lodging as readily as it serves it at its…

Gamja ongsimi arrives in a crock-shaped bowl that stays hot until you reach the bottom. The potato dumplings are grated…

The single-origin iced americano, made from beans roasted in-house, tastes plainly of the bean. The fig cake stacks lay…

Each pizza named after a local landmark gets its own toppings. Seoraksan pairs white sauce with potato crunch and shrim…

Anne of Green Gables props, posters and figurines fill both floors, right beside Cheongchoho Lake in Sokcho, and the up…

Squid ink is on the gelato list here. It belongs to the Seorak Line, flavors made from Gangwon ingredients such as Sokc…

Ground perilla seed is stirred in so generously that the deulkkae makguksu smells strongly nutty from the first bite, w…

Beer brewed on the ground floor is poured one floor up in a modest pub. Several IPAs lean toward tropical fruit, and th…

The white sundubu is seasoned enough to eat without soy sauce, and soybean pulp made from the same beans comes on the s…

Hinoki steamers of hanwoo beef, seafood and vegetables are the centerpiece. The set for two brings one tray of beef and…