Second Wine Meetup at 2chef in Hongdae
On this trip to Korea I had two wine meetups. The first was about trying some pretty geeky wines, and the second was themed around wines that anyone, wine beginners included, would agree are delicious. In Drop…
On this trip to Korea I had two wine meetups. The first was about trying some pretty geeky wines, and the second was themed around wines that anyone, wine beginners included, would agree are delicious. In Drop…
I dropped by elbon the table on Garosu-gil in Sinsa-dong over lunch, a place that’s hugely famous right now because a certain charismatic chef runs it. I’m not really into the star-chef thing ̵…
After a good meal at Pyeongnaeok, I asked one of the members where we should go for round two, and they led us to Caffe Themselves nearby. As the organizer I had barely prepared anything, and I’m really …
Pyeongnaeok is so famous for its chogyetang that it hardly needs an introduction. A few years ago, before I moved to Japan, I ate here once and fell for it, and I kept looking for a chance to go back, but what…
Even if the meal itself was a simple hanjeongsik (Korean set meal), a true doenjang-nam (a guy who puts on Western airs) has to finish with French-style dessert, right? It’s not a bakery I particularly l…
I had an appointment in Cheongdam-dong, so I booked a decent restaurant nearby. Since I absolutely have to eat Korean food -_-, it goes without saying it had to be a Korean restaurant. The place recommended to…
This holds for any – geeky – field: keep digging into one thing long enough and stuff that’s generally considered good stops being much fun, and you drift toward the odd and the obscure. I felt that clea…
I’m back in Korea after quite a while. On my first day I had some errands to run in Sinchon, and when I was wondering where to go for dinner afterwards, this place, Yuil Gopchang, was recommended to me. …
A friend called me out, so I went to Kobe for the first time in a while. It was a day trip, the friend who invited me isn’t exactly a foodie, and it was pouring rain, so it wasn’t the most fulfilli…
Right before heading home at the end of a business trip to Tokyo, I dropped by, with some friends, a place I’d been dying to visit! It’s the café run by a bakery called VIRON in Shibuya, which serv…
As luck would have it, there was a festival going on in Shirokane. I’d been planning to have lunch, but decided to just graze on some street snacks instead. An amateur orchestra playing I can’t …
While wandering around Ebisu I stopped for lunch at an Italian restaurant tucked away in a hidden spot. The location is so obscure that even with a map it was really hard to find. The front entrance Who wou…