I was looking up chocolate shops for Valentine’s Day, and that was when I first heard the rumor that a handmade caramel specialist had opened in Hongdae. Apparently it actually opened around last summer….
Over the weekend I went to La Cucina at Seoul National University’s Engineer House. La Cucina is a restaurant famous for its Italian food in Itaewon, but at the SNU branch they do Italian and Chinese at …
There are two things I personally care about in a drinking place: good booze and the right food to go with it. In Korea you usually drink soju, so as long as the food is good there’s nothing more to ask …
I’m not really the type who likes going out on Valentine’s Day, but somehow I ended up out and about anyway. I had some business over by the Gangnam-gu Office, and by the time I’d finished wa…
There was a meetup at Buzza Pizza in Itaewon, a place I’d tried and failed to get into before. The meetup started at 7, so I spent a good while wandering around central Seoul trying to digest the two lun…
I heard a rumor that Hugo & Victor, a dessert shop that’s all the rage in France these days, was coming to Korea around Valentine’s Day as a promotion at The Shilla, so I decided to go and see …
These days I’m deep into Korean soups and stews. Living abroad you can manage to eat most things, but soups and stews are the one category where it’s impossible to find anywhere that does them as p…
I had an errand at Napoleon Bakery in Apgujeong, and on the way I dropped into the Hyundai Department Store for a moment. Nothing grand – I just wanted to pick up some yuzu ponzu. Läderach A Swiss cho…
I got lucky and ended up at a Balvenie tasting meetup held at Mi Piace. It must have been a wonderful chance for anyone who loves Balvenie, and I got to learn a lot about Balvenie myself. Hot toddy The whis…
I suddenly had a craving for jjajangmyeon, so I went around hunting for a place that makes it well. There are a few famous spots in Seoul, and of those I decided on Kaehwa, the easiest Chinese place to get to….
A junior colleague I’m fond of called an impromptu meetup, so off we went to Inoshishi, the izakaya everyone raves about. They built the course to fit a 50,000-won budget, and for the price the content w…
A few French restaurants have opened in the Gangnam area recently, and the best reviewed of them is La Saison. I had a lunch appointment and was wondering where to go, so we ended up here — and it was very sat…