Cuisine: Burgers, Barbecue
Price: $
Reservations: No
Suggested Items: Cheeseburger
Craving a juicy mouth watering burger that you have to hold with two hands just to get it in your mouth? Then Corner Bistro in Itaewon has just what you need. The rib and burger joint overcomes a spare menu by offering up [...]
Cuisine: Fast Food
Price: $
Suggested Items: Pita Pizza, Pita Wraps (choose your own fillings)
As the name suggests Pita Tima is all about the Pita. The variety comes in beef, pork, and chicken with spins like the Caesar Pita. Pita Time also offers salads as well as Pita Pizzas with your [...]
Cuisine: Burgers, Pub Grub
Price: $$
Reservations: No
Suggested Items: Sloppy Joe
What Smokey Saloon has going for it is that the burgers taste good. I think they’re resting on that too much. They have a good variety of interesting burgers. I have seen a long line of Koreans waiting for burgers, so [...]
Cuisine: Modern Korean
Price: $$$
Reservations: Recommended
Suggested Items: It’s a rotating prix fixe menu. Just let the chef take care of you.
Jung Sik Dang is the pioneer of Korea’s “New Korean” cuisine, marked by new techniques and a playful attitude. The name of the restaurant itself is a joke on the [...]
Cuisine: Korean
Price: $
Reservations: No
Suggested Items: Boribap, Chicken Barbecue, Pajeon, Makkeoli
This was Anyang’s best kept secret until recently. Now it looks like people are flocking here. Fortunately, it hasn’t diminished the quality of its dishes, even with its recent expansion. San Ma-eul is a folksy traditional country restaurant at the [...]
Cuisine: Austrian
Price: $$
Reservations: Optional
Suggested Items: Wienerschnitzel, Chateaubriand, all the desserts
Chef Meili opened a few years ago, injecting energy into Teutonic cuisine in Seoul. Splitting duties between the main restaurant, the full-service butcher downstairs and catering, Chef Christian Meilinger is a busy man. The main restaurant serves classic Austrian dishes, [...]
Cuisine: Korean
Price: $
Reservations: No
Suggested Items: Samgyetang (it’s all they have)
This Anyang restaurant specializes in Samgyetang and nothing else. It serves nothing else. You just go in and tell them how many bowls, and they come out with bubbling bowls filled with whole small chickens stuffed with rice, jujubes and [...]
Cuisine: Cafe
Price: $
Reservations: No
Suggested Items: Waffle Plate
American Plate is a small cozy cafe in the Bisan area of Anyang. The service is slow, but they serve an adequate American style “brunch,” including blueberry pancakes, waffles and French toast. No one has told them that they should heat up their [...]
Cuisine: Korean
Price: $
Reservations: No
Suggested Items: Omogary Kimchi Jjigae, Hand-made Jjajangmyeon Noodles
This is a fastly growing chain of restaurants that have stores from Busan to Seoul. They specialize in “omogari” kimchi, which is heavily aged kimchi. The flavors are rich, sharp and hearty. The kimchi jjigae is the star of [...]
Cuisine: Asian, Modern
Price: $$
Reservations: Recommended
Suggested Items: The “Amazing” Fish, BulGalbi and Grilled Mushroom Salad, Million Won Samgyeopsal
Star chef is a chef-run bistro near Yangjae that specializes in updated Korean and pan-Asian cuisine. Chef-owner Hu-nam Kim prepares dishes with heavy Korean, Southeast Asian, Japanese, Chinese and European influences. Popular items [...]
