Date Night Restaurants in Korea

Staff at this Haeundae eel house explain how to eat the hitsumabushi, glazed grilled eel over rice, before you start. E…

Instead of joining the counter line, grab a table first and order by QR code; KakaoTalk then sends your order number an…

Live snow crab waits in tanks by the ground-floor entrance, in front of the Ananti hotel, and the one you choose goes s…

Sharing a lot with a gas station, this lakeside cafe looks out over Cheongpung Lake and the hills around it. Orders are…

Buy a pack of ramyeon, collect a pot, a burner and a windscreen, and cook it yourself on the outdoor deck above Chungju…

Weekdays start from the base san-jeongsik. Deul-jeongsik adds abalone stuffed with shiitake, hae-jeongsik adds borigulb…

Cakes, turtle bread, stone-oven loaves and rice cakes each have their own building, scattered like a small village, and…

Geobugi-ppang, the turtle bread, is close to a coffee bun but less greasy, and it sits in a warmer so it can be eaten h…

Through a middle gate past the main hanok, styled like a yangban household, the seating carries on into an annex in the…

Salmon nigiri is ordered by telling staff how many pieces to torch, so raw and seared salmon share the plate. The fish…

Courses change with the seasons, applying French technique to Korean produce, and the bread arrives with house-made tru…

The broth of the ongsimi kalguksu (potato dumpling noodle soup) comes already seasoned and tastes best eaten as is, wit…

Green tea stands on the table in a kettle in place of water, and when the meal is over a tea of plum and cinnamon with…

The strawberry cake feels heavy from the moment the box is handed over. Fresh strawberries fill every gap between layer…

People come less for the food than for half a day overlooking Daecheong Lake. Indoor and outdoor tables all face the wa…

Roasting actually happens inside this valley building, and the two-story open interior still feels like a working coffe…

The sign is small enough that first-timers often walk right past. Inside, the frame of the old brewery building is stil…

On the second floor an outdoor awning blocks the view; to see the sea over the pine grove, go up to the third or fourth…

Pick bread on the ground floor, then carry it upstairs to the second-floor hall, the rooftop, the terrace or a gallery-…

The garlic galbi does more than smell strongly of garlic; the flavor sinks into the pork and keeps it from feeling grea…

Sushi comes in two sets, assorted and special, and sashimi without rice comes as a mixed-fish platter or a tuna platter…

Goma soba comes as a brothless noodle bowl heaped with perilla-leaf pesto and ground sesame. Sweetness arrives before t…

The wrapper is thin enough to see through, and inside sits a red-bean filling made with Gyeongju beans that reaches alm…

Staff cut and grill the meat at your table. The beef is Australian wagyu, served as an 800 g plate, and the yangnyeom g…