Duomo, Home-Style Italian in Hyoja-dong
I heard a rumor that fresh olive oil had come in at Duomo in Hyoja-dong, so I made the time to go back before winter was over. The table Simple, isn’t it. Menabrea An Italian beer I’d had once before at B…
I heard a rumor that fresh olive oil had come in at Duomo in Hyoja-dong, so I made the time to go back before winter was over. The table Simple, isn’t it. Menabrea An Italian beer I’d had once before at B…
Gangnam is full of bars, so it also has plenty of hangover-soup places. There are several famous seolleongtang restaurants, including Usin and Yeongdong Seolleongtang in Sinsa-dong, but I heard the one with th…
Kim Jinhwan Bakery, famous for its milk bread, sits along the road from Sinchon to Hongdae. Distance-wise it’s actually closer to Sinchon, but the area around the bakery was originally known as the stret…
I was looking up chocolate shops for Valentine’s Day, and that was when I first heard the rumor that a handmade caramel specialist had opened in Hongdae. Apparently it actually opened around last summer….
Over the weekend I went to La Cucina at Seoul National University’s Engineer House. La Cucina is a restaurant famous for its Italian food in Itaewon, but at the SNU branch they do Italian and Chinese at …
There are two things I personally care about in a drinking place: good booze and the right food to go with it. In Korea you usually drink soju, so as long as the food is good there’s nothing more to ask …
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…
There was a meetup at Buzza Pizza in Itaewon, a place I’d tried and failed to get into before. The meetup started at 7, so I spent a good while wandering around central Seoul trying to digest the two lun…
I heard a rumor that Hugo & Victor, a dessert shop that’s all the rage in France these days, was coming to Korea around Valentine’s Day as a promotion at The Shilla, so I decided to go and see …
These days I’m deep into Korean soups and stews. Living abroad you can manage to eat most things, but soups and stews are the one category where it’s impossible to find anywhere that does them as p…
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…
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…