Weekend Bakery Tour, Hongdae
I heard a rumour that The Old Croissant Factory in Hongdae had started doing scones, so I decided to go back for the first time in a while. Their bread never disappoints. The front entrance It was real…
I heard a rumour that The Old Croissant Factory in Hongdae had started doing scones, so I decided to go back for the first time in a while. Their bread never disappoints. The front entrance It was real…
When I lived in Japan, Japanese-style desserts were so commonplace that I hardly remember ever going out of my way to buy them. Even the neighborhood cafes and convenience stores turn out decent desserts, afte…
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…
As a dessert lover, I pretty much know all the decent dessert cafes in Korea. There is plenty of information on food blogs, but a book like Dessert in Seoul also lays it out nicely. A while ago I visited Desse…
The naengmyeon places I used to go to had raised their prices so much that I was feeling discouraged, when I heard that Jeongin Myeonok in Gwangmyeong was supposed to be good and went to check it out. Naengmye…
The weekend after my visit to Jinjin, I ended up going back without a reservation. I was dying to eat there again, and I happened to have some free time. I showed up right at the 5 o’clock opening and wa…
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…
I was meeting a friend I hadn’t seen in a while for a weekday lunch, and when I thought about where to go around Sinsa-dong, the only place that came to mind was Trattoria Molto. It has to be fine dining…
I had a casual New Year get-together at Polpo with friends who are regular folks, not foodies. I have known them for more than ten years, but this was the first time we met at a proper Italian restaurant rathe…
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 went to Gangnam Station to see a movie – thanks to CGV throwing its weight around with distribution, Megabox was the only option – and since it was cutting close to showtime, I ordered a burger a…
These days, whenever I have a get-together on the Gangnam side, the second stop is always Polpo. Sometimes it is the first stop too. As long as they are still open, there is really no other option. It is a res…