Restaurants in Seoul - 1768+ Picks | Page 21

Four broths anchor the meal: clear mushroom keeps the taste transparent, while crab doenjang brings crab sweetness and…

Solo diners set the order and doneness of each piece on a grill of their own at every seat, with no shared hot plate. S…

About 5 minutes on foot from Exit 1 of Sinyongsan Station, on the Yongnidan-gil strip, special pork cuts go over natura…

Past an arcade and a door that feels hidden, the bar spreads over the third to fifth floors, looking out across the til…

Every table sits in a soundproofed private room, three minutes on foot from Seonjeongneung Station, and families book i…

Onions in the gan-jjajang barely touch the wok and stay crunchy and sharp, close to raw, against the black-bean sauce s…

The shrimp tempura in the tempura udon is not meant to stay crisp: its thick batter soaks up the anchovy broth. Noodles…

Live jazz plays on the second floor of a building on Itaewon-ro while cocktails, wine, whisky and beer go around the ro…

A slice of grilled pork belly on a kale leaf, touched with salted hairtail sauce or anchovy sauce, brings fat, firm gre…

Follow the Deoksugung stone-wall road up Jeongdong-gil and this long-running cafe and brunch spot appears. The espresso…

Hydrangeas and potted plants run from the entrance through the dining room, and one corner sells fresh flowers, dried b…

Pork ribs arrive already par-grilled and finish over charcoal at the table in this alley spot on Cheonho Old Road in Se…

Sujebi here is torn by hand in the kitchen, so the dough pieces vary in thickness and each one chews a little different…

The ground-floor bar pours beer only, while pepperoni pizza and other food get ordered in the basement across the alley…

Eggplant and house-made ricotta are layered into the Darling 1991 Ragu Lasagna, baked crisp on top and soft inside. Car…

Korean hanwoo beef, butchered in-house, is chosen by cut and weight and grilled over charcoal, with the meat order and…

Coffee is roasted on the ground floor of this dark-green two-story building on the lane from Nakwon Arcade into Insa-do…

Window tables look over Olympic Park and its lake, though after dark the view all but disappears. Shrimp and pork dim s…

Each sushi set at this neighborhood spot near Gangbyeon Station comes with salad, a choice of hot udon or cold buckwhea…

Instead of thin croffle batter, these waffles use a thick base that holds up under cream and ice cream without turning…

Smoked pastrami is stacked thick in the Pastrami Queens sandwich, where sweet onion jam and tart basil-cabbage pickles…

A deliberately dark entrance on the eighth floor gives way to Mexican decor and music once you step inside. The Doritos…

Spicy bibim naengmyeon here starts mild for the first few bites, then the heat builds until it suddenly hits hard. Mixi…

Ox tongue in the special seolleongtang is tender enough to melt, and the chunks of beef are so big that a separate suyu…