The Mixed One in Hannam-dong
Edward Kwon has closed The Spice in Itaewon and opened a new restaurant in Hannam-dong. It’s a place called The Mixed One, and it turned out to be a fairly casual restaurant. Edward Kwon’s cooking …
Edward Kwon has closed The Spice in Itaewon and opened a new restaurant in Hannam-dong. It’s a place called The Mixed One, and it turned out to be a fairly casual restaurant. Edward Kwon’s cooking …
Yeongchunok in Jongno has a reputation as the place you go for tagwi — bone-in simmered beef — on a second round of drinks, so unless I happen to have a first round somewhere nearby it isn’t easy to get …
Grill Demiglace is a restaurant in Palpan-dong. Palpan-dong is the little neighborhood you reach when you head a bit further in from Samcheong-dong. There’s always a police officer posted at the mouth of…
Around Valentine’s I tried Läderach chocolates and liked them so much that, while I was over at Duomo, I stopped by Läderach’s shop-cum-café in the Seoul Finance Center. It turns out there’s …
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…