Jungsik, Cheongdam-dong
I have never really been interested in fusion Korean food. Not for any particular reason, it just does not taste good. Ingredients decide a dish, so changing the cooking method does not really change the flavo…
I have never really been interested in fusion Korean food. Not for any particular reason, it just does not taste good. Ingredients decide a dish, so changing the cooking method does not really change the flavo…
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…
Mi Piace is a restaurant that has been in business in Cheongdam-dong for a long time. In a neighborhood like Cheongdam-dong, where so many restaurants get popular and then vanish, the simple fact that it has s…
I do like single malts, but I am not really one for hard liquor, and yet somehow I ended up throwing a hard-liquor gathering. Mi Piace has hosted a Balvenie single malt tasting before, and this time too they p…
With White Day coming up.. buying candy, which isn’t exactly good for your teeth, felt a bit off.. so I was thinking of getting chocolate instead, and then I heard a rumor that Armani Dolci had opened in…
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…
The owner of Mi Piace brought back an assortment of cheeses from a trip to Japan, and since he threw together a meetup to eat them, I went along. I still know very little about cheese, but it turns out there i…
I dropped by Tuppul Deungsim, the place everyone is raving about these days. It is really a spot you should visit in the evening, but I went at lunchtime, partly just to find out where it is. Apparently it is …
There are plenty of places I want to go back to, but not many that I actually end up going back to. I had been meaning to try Bistro Yountville one of these days, and I am only now finally getting around to it…
One day I happened to have some business in Cheongdam-dong, so while I was there I dropped by L’atelier Monique, which had just opened nearby. They were advertising that a Japanese “king of bread&#…
I was lucky enough to get into a Glenfiddich dinner hosted by the owner of Mi Piace, an Italian restaurant in Cheongdam-dong, who has long been into single malts. I’ve been hooked on single malts lately …
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…