Location: Ilsan
Cuisine: Indian
Price: $$
Reservations: Accepted
Suggested Items: Lamb Curry, Mixed Grill, Paneer, Samosas
The name scared me at first. It sounded like a TGI Friday version of Indian food. The restaurant itself was big, possibly the largest Indian dining room in Korea. But seriously, the food was great! [...]
Location: Apgujeong
Cuisine: Cafe
Price: $$
Reservations: No
Suggested Items: Ddeok Spring Rolls
Get ready y’all. This is the poster child of Apgujeong pretension. Actually, the interior is airy and comfortable if you just want a cup of coffee. But the menu either is a mad experiment from the kitchen, or [...]
Location: Soraemaul
Cuisine: American (Southern)
Price: $$
Reservations: Accepted
Suggested Items: Hmm… the sides?
Shy Bana is the classic example of taking a culture’s food and trashing it. They boast about serving American southern cuisine, but the execution is anything but. The gumbo is more like a meat spaghetti sauce with [...]
Location: Chain
Cuisine: Korean
Price: $$-$$$
Reservations: Accepted
Suggested Items: Beats me
Welcome to the T.G.I. Friday’s of Korean food! Let’s find a way to take all the fun and soul of Korean cuisine, suck the life out of it and serve it in a sterile corporate setting while raising the [...]
Location: Myeong.dong
Cuisine: Middle Eastern
Price: $$
Reservations: Yes
Suggested Items: Falafel, Emtabal, Grilled dishes, Lamb dishes
Seoul has a good handful of Middle Eastern restaurants, and this is a good one. The interior feels authentic, and the food is simply prepared with quality ingredients. The olive [...]
Location: Hongdae
Cuisine: Makkoli Bar
Price: $$
Reservations: Sure
Suggested Items: Try all the makkoli, Dubu Kimchi
Chin Chin is a makkoli bar that specializes in artisanal makes of this rice ale. The owner is passionate about this and loves introducing new makkoli to patrons, serving it in glass beer mugs. [...]
Location: Buam-dong (north Seoul)
Cuisine: Cafe
Price: $$
Reservations: No
Suggested Items: Straight up coffee
Korea’s become a coffee-obsessed society very quickly, and the connoisseurs rate this place at the top. Club Espresso in picturesque Buam-dong looks like a Canadian ski lodge at the foot of a mountain. Inside it smells [...]
Location: Itaewon
Cuisine: Thai
Price: $$
Reservations: Can do
Suggested Items: Thai salads
The original location of Thai Orchid was one of the first Thai restaurants in Seoul. It was good then, too. Then stuff happened, and it reopened across the street from its old location. People changed, and it seems [...]
Location: Itaewon
Cuisine: Korean fusion
Price: $$
Reservations: Accepted
Suggested Items: Lunch set menu, most anything
This is hopefully a sign of good things to come. O Kitchen 2 is one of those upscale trendy restaurants, but it gets it. Not only is the decor cool, shaped like a traditional hanok. [...]
