
Hell Cafe Spiritus
헬카페 스피리터스
The house Hell Latte arrives unfinished: a barista pours it at your seat, and the rule is to take the first sip right a…
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헬카페 스피리터스
The house Hell Latte arrives unfinished: a barista pours it at your seat, and the rule is to take the first sip right a…

찜우동
Rice and wheat flour go into the long tteokbokki cakes, giving them a chew with a slight stretch. Regulars top the swee…

라구식당
Only two main dishes are on the board on this Sinchon student street: ragu pasta and lasagna. The pasta mixes meat sauc…

제주고깃집
Only fresh Jeju pork, never frozen, goes on the charcoal. The ogyeopsal (five-layer pork belly) shows clean bands of fa…

봉평 옹심이 메밀칼국수
Grated potato and potato starch are rolled into the smooth, chewy dumplings at the center of this Eunpyeong noodle shop…
African
Yongsan
Happy Home Restaurant
Fufu, a soft dough-like staple, gets pinched off by hand and dipped into soup at this second-floor Nigerian dining room…
Cafe
Gwanak
고로커피로스터스
Up a winding alley near Seoul National University Station, this small roaster has few seats and often fills, so expect…

신안밥상
Mackerel braised under a heap of aged kimchi, wrapped in gim seaweed with a dab of salted hairtail innards (galchi sokj…
Korean BBQ
Gangnam
돼지통
A short walk from Yeoksam Station, this Teheran-ro side-street spot grills aged Korean pork over hardwood charcoal. Wee…

비스트로 가마
Meat here is cooked in a gama, a traditional Korean cooking vessel, and the T-bone steak anchors most tables. The 850-g…
Traditional Tea
Jongno
차차티클럽 창신한옥
Tea gets explained at the table here, which helps with names like vanilla-bean tonka matcha or lemon myrtle matcha soda…

키친우라와
Down a flight of stairs to basement level 1 on Nangye-ro, a small room decorated with Japanese ornaments, warm lights a…
Cafe
Mapo
후엘고
Fuego sits at the top of a steep hill in Yeomni-dong, and Mapo Bus No. 10 spares you the climb. The signature mandarin…
Cafe
Yongsan
Cafe TRVR
LIFE NEEDS COFFEE is painted across the big front window of this small cafe on a hill below Namsan. Its Heavy and Chunk…
Coffee
Jongno
북촌 원카페
Run by Nostalgia Hanok Stay, this Bukchon-ro 11-gil cafe seats guests in the rooms and courtyard of a traditional house…
Cafe
Yongsan
로지커피
Tucked into a residential alley off Baekbeom-ro in Yongsan, a small main room faces a separate annex across the way, an…

낙성곱창
Tripe and potatoes come out of the kitchen already cooked, leaving only the raw onion underneath to soften and the gopc…

오복순대국
The Abai sundae made in-house is thicker and denser than glass-noodle sausage, so each slice is a real mouthful. Abai s…
Korean
Seodaemun
한옥그레이스
Mother-of-pearl cabinets and panels, lamps with traditional patterns and a modern take on a tiled hanok roof and corrid…

클랩피자 청담점
Near Dosan Park, a roomy dining room styled after an East Coast American pizza bar plays easygoing music. Half-and-half…
Vegan
Yongsan
베제투스
No meat, dairy, eggs or honey appear anywhere on the menu at Vegetus in Yongsan; grains, beans, vegetables and nuts do…

부첼리하우스
Hanwoo, Korea's native beef, is cut into chateaubriand, inner sirloin, rib cap, striploin, tenderloin, ribeye, tongue a…

마루스시
Thick slices of fish sit on each piece, and the toppings are aged by the owner every morning. This small counter in San…

살팀보카
Oak-fired Neapolitan pizza comes out with a puffed rim and a thin center. Polpo alla griglia is grilled octopus with a…