Restaurants in Seoul - 1768+ Picks | Page 51

Shaped like roof tiles, the Sinan salt rice financiers use rice flour for a dense, chewy crumb. The Icheon rice chestnu…

Wooden shelves in this Insadong teahouse hold Jidaebang Ilgi, a run of yearly guestbooks, and old handwritten notes sti…

There is no cocktail menu at this small bar in a hanok alley of Seochon, near Gyeongbokgung Palace. Guests describe a f…

Ask for the five pungent vegetables (scallion, garlic, chives and their kin) to be left out, and the kitchen will make…

With room for a 30-person program and still space left to prepare, this cafe works more as a rentable community venue t…

Each kimchi son-mandu is small enough to fit on a spoon with a mouthful of milky beef-bone broth. Solo diners get a cou…

Big, thick pork intestines (gopchang) stay chewy in a fiery broth, with little of the funk this cut can carry. The pork…

Orders go through a QR code at the table, where details like chili paste and perilla powder are set before the food com…

Bamboo shoots go into the loach soup served as Sadang juksun chueotang, one bowl per person. The same pairing turns up…

The owner, featured on the TV show Master of Living, makes the dumplings and dim sum by hand, and ordering steamed alon…

Made on site from 100% buckwheat, the noodles snap off in short lengths and lead with buckwheat aroma. Deulgireum makgu…

A squid patty in a black squid-ink bun with wasabi tartar sauce makes the Kraken Burger the oddest thing on the board a…

Three generations of an ethnic Chinese family in Korea run this place, and the dining room is more modern and tidy than…

West-facing windows frame Yeouido, the Han River and Mapo Bridge, so sunsets land straight in view. As the sun goes dow…

Finely minced water dropwort piles over a clear broth and thin slices of beef in the brass bowls of minari gomtang serv…

A small bowl of barley rice comes out before the noodles, to be mixed with yeolmu (young radish) kimchi, gochujang and…

Rice-flour sheets for the shrimp cheong fun are thin and slippery, and the crispy cheong fun hides a crunchy layer insi…

Long-simmered beef and tomato ragout, eggplant and basil go onto thin, crisp dough for the ragout tarte flambee, cut li…

Once you order, the beef topping is seared with a torch, and that smoky edge carries into the broth. Instead of pork bo…

A wall packed with teacups sets the tone in this small roastery, which has only a handful of seats and stays calm despi…

Across from the Seoul Museum in Buam-dong, a wood-furnished room with a staircase and sofas, styled like a book cafe, t…

Customers pick a packet of ramen from the shelves, pay at a kiosk, then build the bowl in a special container and boil…

Across from Dongguk University, courses built on French and Italian technique use Korean ingredients and change with th…

Wide halls and group tables near National Assembly Station take company dinners of ten or more. The Hanmari Set puts th…