Where to eat in Gyeongbuk

The slushy, tangy broth comes separately, to pour as freely as you like over the raw fish, cucumber, pear and peanuts.…

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

The cream cheese bread has a springy, almost pretzel-like crust around a thick, salty filling, and two in a row get hea…

The slushy broth is made with plum extract, acacia honey and kelp extract, but it does not go in at the start. First th…

This is the family-run original branch in the Yonggung market lane, with several other branches nearby. Most tables car…

Navigation apps show a single pin, but the large lot holds several separate buildings, each with its own focus such as…

Gyeongju Coffee, the signature, is an iced-only Einspanner-style drink, sweet enough that next to a pastry everything j…

Far from the sea, in inland Naenam-myeon, one dish has filled every table for 43 years: hoedeopbap, raw fish over rice…

Hanwoo mulhoe pours a cold broth over raw Korean beef, and the broth tastes savory rather than leaning only on sweet ch…

Sanggam hanwoo-tang is limited to 200 bowls a day, and a line forms before opening because of it. Diners who buy chaekk…

The coffee and desserts are ordinary; the reason to come is Bomun Lake filling the tall windows downstairs. The entranc…

The beef is sliced thin and laid over fierce charcoal, and it cooks in moments, which keeps tables turning over quickly…

Warm kongguk, soybean soup, is ordered by number, and each number changes the toppings. No. 1 has black sesame, black b…

The mulhoe arrives already tossed in its sauce with no broth, and the slushy iced broth comes in a separate bowl. Eat t…

The three-story building sits on the Hwajin shore along Route 7. You enter on the second floor, and a door on the first…

Inside Yeongcheon Public Market, broth from large cauldrons goes into someori gomtang, ox head soup, ladled with plenty…

Bowls of clear beef-head soup (someori gomtang) near Jukdo Market carry so much tender head meat and lean beef that the…

Two ponies live in the back garden of this hanok-style cafe in Gyeongju, a short walk through the building from the cou…

Jjukkumi bokkeum, baby octopus stir-fried over an open flame, goes onto a bowl of rice along with bean sprouts and seas…

Coffee and pastries cost more here than at most places nearby, and much of that price is the second-floor glass. It tak…

Under the eaves of a hanok on Hwangnidan-gil, mukeunji deunggalbi-jjim, pork back ribs braised with aged kimchi, falls…

Charcoal-grilled pork belly ribs and Hanwoo beef tteokgalbi come out of the kitchen fully cooked and plated, with no gr…

Woodoo Galbi ribs and Woodoo Saenggogi, fresh-cut beef, share the menu with so-meori boyak gukbap and a spicy version,…

Each fish is filleted whole and cut into long slices that drape over the rice and well beyond it, which suits anyone wh…