The Starbucks in Apgujeong Rodeo
I saw on the news that Starbucks had brought in the legendary Clover coffee machine. Looking into it, it turned out it wasn’t at every store, just a handful of well-known ones. I was curious what it woul…
I saw on the news that Starbucks had brought in the legendary Clover coffee machine. Looking into it, it turned out it wasn’t at every store, just a handful of well-known ones. I was curious what it woul…
Celeb de Tomato is a restaurant on Garosu-gil where every dish comes with tomatoes in it. I stopped by that day because I wanted a quiet lunch with someone I know. Inside The interior is clean and tidy. The…
Someone in my circle keeps calling spontaneous get-togethers at Yonghwa Banjeom, so I got to go back again. There aren’t many Chinese restaurants in Korea that are this good, so it seems fine to make it …
I had a reason to eat near Nonhyeon-dong, so I stepped into a haejangguk place nearby. It looked like a chain, but the food was decent enough. Front entrance A quick search told me it was originally a well-…
I heard a rumor that there was a great bakery on Sai-gil in Bangbae-dong, so off I went. I’d had their bread before as a gift and thought it was wonderful, but going there in person was another thing alt…
I’m not really a barley-rice person, but one way or another I ended up in a situation where I had to have a spring bowl of boribap, so off I went to Gangnam Station. There are plenty of famous boribap pl…
One weekend morning I got a craving for the galettes at Maison de Zoé, so I hopped on my bike and set off. I rode along the Han River for about an hour, but took a wrong turn and ended up somewhere near Samseo…
These days I mostly haunt the Sinsa-dong area, so I end up eating on Garosu-gil a lot. The street has ballooned so fast that there aren’t many time-tested restaurants left on it. I had a lunch date and a…
With the weather warming up, I went back to Pyeongyang Myeonok in Nonhyeon-dong for the first time in a while. Pyeongyang naengmyeon The taste hasn’t changed at all. The price, though, has gone up to …
On the last day of March, right as cherry blossom season kicked in, I went to Jinju Jip, the hugely famous kongguksu place in Yeouido that everyone in the know knows about. Cherry blossom season came earlier t…
I stopped by Molto for a weekend lunch get-together. It was already two months ago, and it’s a place I’ve been to plenty of times, so I’ll keep this short. Spumante We started with some li…
I dropped by Salon de Mon Chouchou in Garosu-gil for a light dessert. The atmosphere was a bit chaotic last time, but I remembered the food being really delicious. Strawberry parfait Hmm… but the tast…