Gyuzakaya Moto in Yeonhui-dong
We had a get-together over the Lunar New Year holiday, and finding a place that wasn’t closed turned out to be really hard. I heard Gyuzakaya Moto was open, so we headed over to Yeonhui-dong. It’s …
We had a get-together over the Lunar New Year holiday, and finding a place that wasn’t closed turned out to be really hard. I heard Gyuzakaya Moto was open, so we headed over to Yeonhui-dong. It’s …
I’d heard that a good Vietnamese restaurant had opened in Yeonnam-dong, but nobody would tell me where it was. Fair enough, really: the place is tiny, so if a crowd showed up there would be no way to han…
I liked Trattoria Ciao so much that I went back. Pasta I can’t think of another place in Hapjeong that cooks at this level. Yeonhui-dong seems to have a few standout spots, though. Ossobuc…
Every department store is waging a dessert war these days. Hyundai was on a serious roll for a while, and now Lotte has pulled off something big too: they’ve brought in BAKE, hugely popular in Japan, and…
Jinga is a Chinese restaurant opened in Yeonnam-dong by chef Jin Saeng-yong, who I gather became popular on a food show called Junghwa Daebanjeom. I don’t really watch food shows (or rather, I barely wat…
Hongdae is just easy to get to – or more precisely, it overlaps with my usual routes – so I end up going there a lot. For the same reason I keep wanting to visit Seochon but never manage to. I hear…
Winter calls for Pyongyang naengmyeon. I carved some time out of a busy schedule and made it to Pyongyang Naengmyeon in Oryu-dong before winter was over. The entrance It looks like a converted house. &…
Whenever a new French restaurant opens in Apgujeong, the bloggers are naturally the first ones there posting reviews. That’s usually how I decide whether to go, and Exquis wasn’t a place that parti…
We had a college reunion get-together at Gangnam Station. The organizers picked Hanam Pig House, a chain whose branches seem to be popping up everywhere. It was my first time there, and the line was seriously …
As everyone knows, Yeonnam-dong has plenty of good places, and which one you end up at seems to come down to taste. Sicily is delicious, but with nobody to go drink soju with, I only ever walk past without goi…
Whenever I have some time I’ve been ticking items off my mental bucket list one by one, and one of them was Banryongsan. I’d heard the gukbap was that good, and that it’s a nice spot for soju…
When I have time I like to head somewhere far for a change of scenery, but when I’m busy it’s hard enough just finding good places in my own neighbourhood. In that sense Bongyo is a really handy sp…