Angel’s Share and Craft One, Yeonnam-dong
After leaving Jinjin we headed to Angel’s Share. Quite a few of us carried on to round two, and luckily that day we all managed to get in. It is such a tiny place that if a group of four or more wants to…
After leaving Jinjin we headed to Angel’s Share. Quite a few of us carried on to round two, and luckily that day we all managed to get in. It is such a tiny place that if a group of four or more wants to…
By now I have been to Jinjin far too many times. This was partly a New Year’s party, and we gathered mainly people who had not yet been to Jinjin, but I have been going so often lately that it feels a bi…
I heard a rumour that The Old Croissant Factory in Hongdae had started doing scones, so I decided to go back for the first time in a while. Their bread never disappoints. The front entrance It was real…
When I lived in Japan, Japanese-style desserts were so commonplace that I hardly remember ever going out of my way to buy them. Even the neighborhood cafes and convenience stores turn out decent desserts, afte…
I have never really been interested in fusion Korean food. Not for any particular reason, it just does not taste good. Ingredients decide a dish, so changing the cooking method does not really change the flavo…
As a dessert lover, I pretty much know all the decent dessert cafes in Korea. There is plenty of information on food blogs, but a book like Dessert in Seoul also lays it out nicely. A while ago I visited Desse…
The naengmyeon places I used to go to had raised their prices so much that I was feeling discouraged, when I heard that Jeongin Myeonok in Gwangmyeong was supposed to be good and went to check it out. Naengmye…
The weekend after my visit to Jinjin, I ended up going back without a reservation. I was dying to eat there again, and I happened to have some free time. I showed up right at the 5 o’clock opening and wa…
These days, whenever a halfway decent restaurant opens in Seoul, the foodies descend on it en masse and post about it. So a good restaurant rarely slips through the net. Luckily I was able to go while it had o…
I was meeting a friend I hadn’t seen in a while for a weekday lunch, and when I thought about where to go around Sinsa-dong, the only place that came to mind was Trattoria Molto. It has to be fine dining…
I had a casual New Year get-together at Polpo with friends who are regular folks, not foodies. I have known them for more than ten years, but this was the first time we met at a proper Italian restaurant rathe…
Miro Sikdang, a Korean-style pub in Hongdae, is a popular place with a permanently long line. Normally you can only get in if someone grabs a table first and calls you over, but for some reason a tweet popped …