Restaurants in Seoul - 1768+ Picks | Page 32

Two floors below street level near Seoul Station, this dining room turns seasonal Korean ingredients into a French-styl…

Upstairs in the Tongin building, a shop that has stood on Insadong-gil since 1924, Taegeukdang's breads, cookies and dr…

Bangkok night-market decor, big windows and warm lighting set the scene on Yongridan-gil near Samgakji, and a Thai chef…

Tuna gimbap gets its mayonnaise on top, added after the roll of tuna, cucumber, imitation crab and carrot is sliced. Be…

About 350 m from Myeong-dong Station, in a Toegye-ro alley, the owner makes vegan donuts in an open kitchen with roughl…

A flame under each curry dish keeps it hot through the meal. The restaurant sits on the third floor of a building on Sh…

Batch-brewed coffee pours straight from a tap and reaches the table quickly, with fruit-like acidity and sweetness that…

A brush-written sign on the wall reads 'drink first, noodles later', and the meal follows it: jeyuk (sliced pork) with…

Real firewood feeds a large oven in a small Hannam-dong room, and the crust comes out chewy. Buja Classica piles fresh…

An owner-chef with over thirty years in the kitchen still runs this Bangbae-dong Chinese restaurant, where the retro bu…

Coarse, irregular breadcrumbs give the tonkatsu a light crunch around thick pork that stays moist, with a toasted-nut a…

Sculptures, flowers and trees fill the garden around this restaurant on a wooded slope beside Heonilleung, the royal to…

Walk the counter and build the meal step by step, Chipotle-style: burrito, burrito bowl or tacos first, then rice, prot…

Finely shaved milk ice is topped with house-cooked red beans, and more beans and roasted soybean powder are layered thr…

Thick pork cutlets in house-made breadcrumbs split into dishes by how the sauce meets the crust. Brown tonkatsu is drow…

Wagyu steak tacos come heavily loaded with beef, and the shrimp tacos use plump whole shrimp rather than small cocktail…

Hidden down a residential lane in Hapjeong-dong, out of sight from the main road, a converted single-family house holds…

Cooks toss each order in a Chinese wok over high flame in the open kitchen, so the squid-and-pork-belly ojingeo samgyeo…

On the ground floor, a few sofas ring a triangular table and fill fast, but a larger basement room waits below an entra…

A crisp pork cutlet goes into hot, tangy, mildly spicy kimchi broth in the kimchi nabe tonkatsu, and the pot stays hot…

Live jazz plays on the second floor of 63 Wausan-ro in Hongdae, and the audience listens over beer and other drinks. Pe…

A converted house at the far edge of Yeonnam-dong holds an American-style brunch kitchen, with seating split across a b…

Yebisu and Sapporo pour into thin, chilled glasses here, and the bar treats line maintenance, glass rinsing and pouring…

Norwegian-style smoked salmon is sold two ways, hot-smoked and cold-smoked, and the cases hold smoked mackerel, cheese,…