Rolling Pin, a bakery in Apgujeong-dong
Bakeries seem to be the trend these days — new ones are popping up all over the place, and even when I hear about an opening there’s no way I can get to them all. (It’s not as if a bakery that beat…
Bakeries seem to be the trend these days — new ones are popping up all over the place, and even when I hear about an opening there’s no way I can get to them all. (It’s not as if a bakery that beat…
It was a blazing Friday night and a friend suddenly rang to say let’s go eat some meat. The place that popped into my head was Tuppul Deungsim. It’s famous these days and apparently hard to book, b…
A little while ago I heard that a dessert specialty shop had opened near Dosan Park. The concept is that the owner herself makes the desserts live, right there at the counter, which is rather nice. I’ve …
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…
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…
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…
As it happened I stopped by the Hyundai Department Store in Apgujeong to buy a Tory Burch bag -_- and while I was there I had Mealtop’s patbingsu as a snack. Patjuk for the winter solstice I never got…
I met up with some of my old university classmates on Garosu-gil. We’d thought about going somewhere else, but it felt like too much hassle, so we just came to good old reliable Gaehwaok. It isn’t …
This was a get-together back in the summer, so my memory’s a bit hazy. I haven’t been getting around to many proper restaurants lately, and there hasn’t been much worth posting either, but mo…
I’d arranged to have dinner with a friend. They said let’s go somewhere Western, so without much thought I booked Trattoria Molto. There was also a dessert shop nearby I’d been wanting to try…
One of the people in our group loves Louis Cinq, so we end up dropping by often. I really should check out some other places, but lazy as I am, I just go wherever I’m told. Cava Apparently it’s …
After cleansing our palates with naengmyeon, we headed here for dessert. I don’t think much explanation is needed. Soufflé It’s tasty, but I wonder why the soufflé comes out all on its own. Usua…