Seoil Sundaeguk near Boramae Park
After a really good sundae at Yeonnam Wangsundae, I suddenly got hooked on sundae. Around that time I was also watching the Japanese drama Kodoku no Gurume religiously, which got me interested in food you can …
After a really good sundae at Yeonnam Wangsundae, I suddenly got hooked on sundae. Around that time I was also watching the Japanese drama Kodoku no Gurume religiously, which got me interested in food you can …
Someone just back from Paris brought along some cheese, so we had a casual meetup at 2chef. Bread first We picked up a pain de campagne from Paul & Paulina and asked them to serve it for us. I think th…
These days it feels like all the hot new shops have gathered in Hongdae. I pick up information about good places from blogs and various channels, and there are just too many I want to try. So whenever a reason…
A little while ago I heard that a dessert specialty shop had opened near Dosan Park. The concept is that the owner herself makes the desserts live, right there at the counter, which is rather nice. I’ve …
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….