Restaurants in Seoul - 1768+ Picks | Page 10

Hot stones placed under the main dish keep the deungsim bulgogi, thin-sliced marinated sirloin, steaming until the plat…

Starch slurry poured around the shrimp gunmandu sets into a thin, lacy skirt, and breaking through that crisp edge rele…

A small bowl of barley rice with bean sprouts and radish salad arrives first, to mix with chili paste. The perilla kalg…

Dongsuh Foods' Maxim brand fills an entire standalone building on Itaewon-ro with a cafe, from the basement to the thir…

Follow the smell of grilling pork from exit 6 of Jongno 3-ga Station and you reach a crowded street-side barbecue, lit…

Incandescent bulbs light a quiet room serving Korean-style Western pork cutlet, opened in 2019 near Seokchon Lake. The…

Semi-dried cuttlefish grilled over charcoal right at the shop front lands on nearly every table at this fish house on T…

Pi-sundae, blood sausage made in house, is packed so tightly with seonji (congealed blood) and minced fillings that it…

Even the lean parts of the plain jokbal (braised pig's trotters) come out soft enough to recall steamed egg custard. Th…

Ten kinds of grain and ginseng go into the broth, which makes this samgyetang (whole young chicken soup) nuttier and th…

From a third-floor dining room on Myeongdong 9-gil, the windows look down toward the shopping streets. Pu pad pong curr…

Cheongyeop, the signature, is pork jowl laced with layers of fat; on the coals its edges crisp while the center stays s…

For 50 years this shop near Gyeongdong Market has served only spicy naengmyeon, and the single-dish menu keeps turnover…

Bread is picked from the ground-floor cases and paid for in line, then carried up to a broad second-floor cafe that loo…

Since 1968 this back-alley spot in Chungmuro has served baeksuk baekban: half a boiled chicken, a rich chicken gomtang…

Signs in the Jangchung-dong jokbal alley look much alike, so match the name with the street number, 174-6 Jangchungdan-…

Chapsal sundae (sticky-rice blood sausage), pork intestine and head meat share one earthenware bowl, whereas the Yeouid…

The sign says naengmyeon, yet many diners come for galbi-jjim, braised short ribs on big bones in a sweetish house sauc…

Noodles are cut by machine the moment an order comes in, then rinsed in cold water, giving medium-thick strands that ar…

Some window seats look out toward N Seoul Tower, and the low lighting keeps the room quiet and calm. The wood-fired Mar…

Three large pork neck bones and a whole potato fill each earthenware bowl, and the name Ttukgam is short for ttukbaegi…

Solo diners fit in easily at the row of single seats facing the kitchen in this narrow Sinchon noodle shop, with a few…

Behind the front window of this hanok in an Insa-dong alley, staff fold large Gaeseong-style dumplings by hand, a craft…

Set in the open arcade on the second floor of D Tower, this Tex-Mex spot has no walls of its own, so corridor noise and…