Restaurants in Seoul - 1768+ Picks | Page 33

Behind a green facade near Samgakji Station, an old pojangmacha street-bar frame now houses a Korean drinking-food kitc…

The pork spine bones are grilled over charcoal first and only then tossed in a sweet, fiery sauce, which keeps the red…

The gan-jjajang sauce is so thick it barely mixes into the noodles, and the sweetness is pulled back so the roasted chu…

On weekends each customer may buy up to 3 of any one kind and 8 bagels in total, though a group can pool its limits. Sa…

Tacos and burritos lead the menu at this Mexican kitchen on Hoenamu-ro, in the Itaewon area of Yongsan. Tacos come indi…

No background music plays, and the room carries only the low murmur of other guests. Staff ask visitors to keep their v…

Craft beer is poured under the tiled roof of a converted hanok in the alley behind the National Museum of Modern and Co…

Everything from the bread to dessert is made in house; the meal opens with warm, soft bread dipped in olive oil thick w…

Staff grill the Iberico pork from start to finish, using a blowtorch alongside the direct flame. Thick-cut kkot-moksal…

Instead of dried cabbage, a heap of fresh perilla leaves covers the gamjatang (pork bone and potato stew), and the brot…

Through the tall ground-floor windows you see a small bamboo garden in front of the red-brick building, and from the se…

Nearly half of this small Cheongdam restaurant is open kitchen, and the counter seats look straight into it. Muoki Egg,…

One person runs the whole bar near Sookmyung Women's University Station: the owner mixes the cocktails, fires the pizza…

Each corn dog is battered and fried only after you order, right in front of the counter at the outer edge of Gwangjang…

Sanghwang mushrooms turn the broth of this samgyetang yellow and thick, nothing like the clear version most ginseng chi…

Thick enough to recall Jiro-style ramen, the toko tonkotsu broth carries a strong hit of garlic. Four bases are offered…

Modeum mulhoe, the house cold raw-fish soup, fills a sweet-sour chilled broth with flatfish, abalone, octopus, sea cucu…

Charcoal grilling has gone on near Gaerong Station for more than 35 years, behind an old-fashioned facade that opens on…

Down a narrow lane beside Dul Dul Chicken, across from Nampo Myeonok, this puffer fish house has been grilling and simm…

The chueotang has almost no muddy or fishy taste: loaches are ground fine and simmered with plenty of dried radish gree…

Sit down and a stainless-steel tray of bugeo-jjim baekban, braised dried pollack with rice, lands in under three minute…

Funky disco DJ sets fill this Southeast Asian resort-styled rooftop, where people dance a little with a Corona or cockt…

Getting in means climbing a narrow staircase to the fourth floor and pushing open an iron door to find a large chandeli…

Chef Nakamura Kouji, also known for his YouTube channel, runs this sushi omakase counter on the 3rd floor of SB Tower A…