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…
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…
Round two is, as always, Bistro Polpo. I cannot tell you how convenient it is in city life to have at least one regular restaurant where reliably good food comes out. Other bloggers seem to have a favorite lik…
Epicure (http://club.cyworld.com/clubV1/Home.cy/54111558), the Cyworld gourmet club and the only one I am active in, held a long-overdue meetup at Bistro Polpo. Quite some time had passed since the opening-cel…
I had not really planned on going to Polpo that day, but suddenly we had enough people for whisky, so round two was Polpo without a second thought. Among the places in the Gangnam area where you can bring your…
Going back to the same place again and again has to mean the food is that satisfying. The people I bring change every time, but they all say they are happy with it, so I cannot stay away. Spanish beer …
After a big first round, round two took us to Polpo. Lately I feel a bit awkward carrying bottles around, so when there is something I want to drink I tend to head to Polpo. It is not so much a corkage issue a…
A member of our gourmet club who lives far away in LA came back to Korea for a short visit, timed for Chuseok. We arranged a lunch gathering at Polpo to fit the visit, and the food just keeps getting better an…
Late on a Sunday night, I dropped by Bistro Polpo for the first time in a while. Inside Polpo Maybe because it was Sunday night, things were pretty quiet. On Saturday there had been an event nearby and the …
I have been going to Polpo quite often lately, but even I did not expect to end up there back to back like this. Someone I know asked me to put together a meetup, and there are not many places around Gangnam y…
A small gourmet meetup with the usual crowd at Polpo. Calling it a gourmet meetup did not mean the menu itself changed much, but the bottles the participants brought along were something else. Corkage was not …
I saw a post on Bistro Polpo’s official Twitter saying they had started serving trippa, so I dashed over for lunch that weekend. I am quite fond of offal dishes, and there are not many places in Korea th…