These days, whenever a halfway decent restaurant opens in Seoul, the foodies descend on it en masse and post about it. So a good restaurant rarely slips through the net. Luckily I was able to go while it had o…
Miro Sikdang, a Korean-style pub in Hongdae, is a popular place with a permanently long line. Normally you can only get in if someone grabs a table first and calls you over, but for some reason a tweet popped …
I had a craving for The Old Croissant Factory for the first time in ages, so I went. Honestly, I never expected this place to stay in business this long. The quality is very high, but the prices are just as hi…
Getting to Hongdae from Gangnam is such a trek that these days I hardly ever go. Yet lately most of the places worth trying seem to be opening in Hongdae or north of the river. Since I cannot go often, I picke…
After a long gourmet meetup, we headed to Mangwon Udon, a place I had only heard about by word of mouth, for one last hit of carbs. Tonkatsu smothered in sauce It is Korean-style tonkatsu, and it is re…
Right before the end of the Chuseok holiday I visited Miro Sikdang in Hongdae. It was another long day of eating, and Miro Sikdang was where it all started. Salad I did not do the ordering that day, my…
After a tasty first stop, we came over to imi for round two, just something light and sweet. Around here, imi is probably the only dessert place that can seat a party of seven or eight. Probably a pound cake …
Oddly enough, a lot of my drinking get-togethers were around this area. Thinking back, I suspect the idea was that once summer came, going out to meet up would become a hassle, so we should get our drinking in…
Word that there was a cafe in Hongdae serving great patbingsu reached me all the way from the States. Hongdae is quite a trek for me these days, but with the weather heating up I made a point of going. The en…
I heard a rumour that Tori Pub, a new place in Hongdae, was running a promotion. It was a chance to drink Suntory beer on the cheap, and I was curious what kind of place it was, so after our get-together at Ic…
One weekday, a spur-of-the-moment lamb dinner came together. The original plan was Unbong Sanjang, but there are not many places around there for a second round, so we settled on Ichiryu in Hongdae. These days…
For the first time since coming back to Korea, I held a get-together at 2chef in Hongdae. Living on the opposite side of Seoul, it was never an easy place for me to get to, and for a while I did not have the b…