The first anniversary gathering at Bistro Polpo was back in May last year. It has been almost a year already. I have been here so many times that there is not much left to explain, so this is just for the reco…
I was at COEX, and when I am on my own there is only one place that comes to mind. It is a bit pricey, but Hadongkwan’s gomtang really is something special. Kimchi Eat a fair bit of the gomtang f…
Not exactly the freshest news, which is a bit of a shame. I visited Meringue Meringue, the second brand of DesserTree, not long after it opened in the basement food hall of the Hyundai Department Store Trade C…
Behind Eulji Hospital in Apgujeong sits Pyongyang Myeonok, probably the most famous naengmyeon place in Gangnam. It is a bit pricey for lunch, but luckily I got to visit with people from work. Whenever I have …
Sandong Gyojagwan in Apgujeong is a restaurant that uses good ingredients, cooks with care, and charges a reasonable (which is to say, not cheap) price for it. Even if it is a bit pricey, it is nowhere near ho…
For personal reasons I left this blog untouched for almost a year, and now I am picking it back up. As you get older, there just are not enough hours in the day. The one silver lining, if you can call it that,…
Inaniwa Yosuke is a well-known inaniwa udon house from Japan. In Korea, a soba or udon shop brings to mind a noodle specialist, but in Japan a lot of them are actually izakaya. You have drinks with a variety o…
A friend who lives in New York came to Seoul this spring to get married. A few of us from the same school decided to have dinner together, so we went to a hanjeongsik (Korean course meal) restaurant near Gangn…
A while back I visited Louis Cinq in Apgujeong Rodeo soon after it opened and was blown away by chef Kim Moa’s cooking. I heard she had left Louis Cinq to go study in France, and before I knew it she was…
Lately a lot of good restaurants have opened up in Haebangchon. This is a place I had only heard the name of before, and I finally made it there after it got famous. Olde Knives is a bar with the concept of se…
Pyeonuibang is a Chinese restaurant in Yeonnam-dong famous for its mandu. The place looks shabby, but it had a good reputation among bloggers, and then one day it suddenly got on TV and became really hard to g…
Yeomyeong in Dohwa-dong is a place that became famous thanks to Rainy’s blog. It has been around for quite a while, but it had escaped bloggers’ notice until it moved near Oebaek, and since then it…