Cuisine: Filipino
Price: $
Reservations: No
Suggested Items: Set Lunch, Halo-halo
From early Sunday morning to that evening, the Filipino market in Hyewha-dong opens for business. Yes, it’s not a restaurant, but it is a place to find some good eats. Some hard-to-find items, such as corned beef hash and okra are sold [...]
Cuisine: Korean
Price: $
Reservations: No
Suggested Items: Galmaegisal, Dwaeji Galbi
This Mapo hole-in-the-wall is actually an upgrade from its smaller hole-in-the-wall location. Mapo Jeong Depo is a no frills blue collar grill joint that does what it does well. The floor is concrete. The tables are small, and it gets noisy in [...]
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: 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: Middle Eastern
Price: $
Reservations: No
Suggested Items: Sultan Lamb, Miza, The Hubbly Bubbly, Turkish Coffee
One of the oldest restaurants in Itaewon and still going strong, Petra gives you a good value for your money. This Middle Eastern style restaurant serves some great home cooked meals. Well… the Jordanian general I [...]
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, Seafood
Price: $
Reservations: No
Suggested Items: Ggongchi Gwi 꽁치구이 (Grilled Pacific Saury), Samchi Yangnyeom Gwi 삼치양념구이 (Yangnyeom-style Grilled Japanese Spanish Mackerel)
Gumteo is a grilled fish restaurant chain. They specialize in good quality grilled fish at good prices. It’s Korean-style grilled fish, so they are highly seasoned. A good basic [...]
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 [...]
