BARolo, a Wine Bar in Yeonnam-dong
BARolo might just be the bar I go to most often these days. The fact that it is so easy to get to is probably the biggest reason. The front entrance This time around they seem to be doing well and keeping the…
BARolo might just be the bar I go to most often these days. The fact that it is so easy to get to is probably the biggest reason. The front entrance This time around they seem to be doing well and keeping the…
It feels like Yeonhui-dong has gained a lot of interesting places too. A dessert shop It is a shop I have been walking past for ages, but these days the problem is that even if you buy dessert there is nowher…
Tigré Seoul, the shop that made a name for itself baking delicious tigrés over in Eunpyeong-gu, has come to Yeonnam-dong. Like this.. The entrance is in a spot that’s easy to miss. So at first I headed …
A while back I went to LE PAIN on Songnidan-gil and found out that the Mammoth is only sold in Myeongdong, so I came back for another go at it. The Junior Mammoth I got there early, but they told me the Mammo…
Im Byeong-ju Sandong Kalguksu is famous around the neighborhood as one of those places people line up for. The place This is the entrance. Inside It sits on the second floor, in a pretty roomy space. Kimchi …
It was spring, so I thought I’d have some cockles, but I could never find the time and it kept getting pushed back. I only made it to Yeonan Pier once the season was almost over. There was an Onnuri gift…
When I go back to one of those “-ridan-gil” streets after a while, there are always new places I’ve never seen before. That’s what makes them fun to wander when you’ve got time to…
Mungtigi is basically raw beef, and I had always figured that raw beef is raw beef, much the same wherever you go. Yukhoe or sashimi at best, right? But that day something just clicked and I wanted to try mung…
There are a lot of Russian grocery stores in Dongdaemun, and I went to one of them. The targets were carrot kimchi and herring salad. I went because Dr. Kim Si-deok said on YouTube that the herring salad is de…
In English it is “russian cake,” but in Korean it comes out as “Russia Cake.” There are a lot of Russia-related shops around Dongdaemun, and this one is popular even among those. A plac…
Not that I got slapped in Yongsan or anything.. I took care of some business in Yongsan and then headed over toward Namsan. Maybe because this neighborhood is so hot right now, something has changed every time…
I heard a rumour that a churro shop flown in from Barcelona had opened a pop-up in Yongsan, so I went to have a look. On the way there I think this was probably Yongmun Market — a place like this right in the…