Where to eat in Gangwon

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

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…

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

Close to 50 years of practice sit behind the marinade, which stays mild and low in salt so the soft chicken in the iron…

When the main shop is full, you either wait in the lounge on its second floor or get sent to the second branch, a 30-se…

A one-kilometer stretch north of Hajodae Beach is kept for surfing. Getting onto the beach costs nothing, but showers,…

A portion is about two boneless pieces, which is on the small side. You grill it yourself over charcoal: salt is clean-…

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…

The set meal covers the table like a Korean buffet: stir-fried pork, grilled dried pollack, grilled flounder, fried tof…

This is the big building visible from the Yeongdong Expressway; buy beef at the butcher counter by the entrance and gri…

Nothing can be added after the first order, not noodles and not pork, so settle quantities at the start. What the menu…

Shaped exactly like a potato fresh out of the ground, the gamja-ppang (potato bread) has a chewy shell closer to glutin…

Pines surround the cafe, and Sunpo Beach is just across the road for a walk on the sand after coffee. On rainy days the…

High on the slope of Gubongsan, the windows look down over Chuncheon and the Naver data center, and the sun sets straig…

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

With a high share of buckwheat, the memil guksu noodles are coarse and snap easily, and the onion-based sauce tastes pl…

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

Pollock roe and milt go into a big pot with sea squirts, mussels and squid, and a heap of crown daisy is piled on top.…

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…

The udon goes into the pan with the dakgalbi (spicy stir-fried chicken) from the very start, and by the time it is cook…

Come for the bread rather than the coffee. Regional bakes like gamja-ppang (potato bread) and sweet potato bread stand…

Next to the 1++ sirloin and tenderloin sits a case of dry-aged hanwoo, lower-grade beef aged so you eat it for its conc…

Dried pollack and bean sprouts simmer with the rice for a long time, so the hwangtae gukbap comes out thick, close to p…