The Factory, a Bar in Hongdae
After a good amount of wine at 2chef, we move on to The Factory. Is this déjà vu, perhaps? Whisky glasses They serve it with a round ball of ice. When you drink whisky on the rocks, a round ice ball melts e…
After a good amount of wine at 2chef, we move on to The Factory. Is this déjà vu, perhaps? Whisky glasses They serve it with a round ball of ice. When you drink whisky on the rocks, a round ice ball melts e…
Not long after getting back from Boracay, we had a wine gathering at 2chef in Hongdae. I’m heading to Japan soon, so it doubled as a farewell party. This was finally my first chance to try the new menu a…
The place we went for a last dinner together with my Japanese friends was Miro Sikdang, a tasty Korean gastropub in Hongdae. They don’t take reservations, so we set out early, and maybe we were lucky – a…
This is already a two-month-old story, but 2chef went through a major renovation back in May. I was curious about what had changed, so I dropped by not long after the work was finished. Glasses Bread Gazp…
I heard a churros specialty shop had opened in Hongdae, so I went to take a look. I’m not really the type who loves the overpriced churros you get at amusement parks or movie theaters, but when I heard t…
A friend told me a good jingisukan place had opened in Hongdae, and one thing led to another, so I ended up going several times -_-. Apparently it was a famous place in Ilsan, and business went so well that th…
A donut shop that’s famous in Japan has opened in Korea. There seem to be several branches, and a big one has appeared in Hongdae, where I often hang out, right in front of the playground. The storefront Hm…
I was about to head home, but someone brought up the rule that drinks come first and noodles after, so we wandered all over Hongdae looking for a ramen place that was still open. Every one of them closes befor…
Those who want to call it a night after round two head home… and for round three we go to 2chef. The course menu at 2chef is excellent, but it is also an easy place to drop by late at night for a glass o…
After a barbecue that went off beautifully, a few of us got together for a second round. D’ange is a cafe in Hapjeong-dong, and apparently it’s the flagship store of Histoire d’Ange in Hongda…
There are countless places in Seoul selling cake by the slice, but places where you can buy a whole cake without ordering ahead turn out to be fewer than you’d think. I put together a short list of optio…
These days, whenever I wander around Hongdae, I keep running into restaurants done up like cafés. The mood is stylish, but they sell Korean food and bunsik too. Gomnejip is one of those — a place with a café-s…