The best restaurants Seoul 서울

This address is a real institution in Seoul. This great restaurant, which spans several traditional houses, specializes in chicken dishes - including an exceptional ginseng chicken, samgyetang (삼계탕), probably one of the best in the whole city but certainly in all of Korea. The prices are very reasonable, and it is recommended by the city of Seoul. Always full to bursting point with an endless queue, it is known to all Seoulites. For a truly unforgettable 100% Korean experience.

This restaurant is a must for lovers of healthy, creative and ethical cuisine. Chef Kim Min-Joo sources almost all her ingredients from farms that are certified organic, respectful of the environment and animal welfare, pesticide-free and practice biodynamic agriculture. We appreciate the setting, with its wooden tables, pretty crockery and relaxing decor. Vegan options available.

This restaurant offers vegan temple food in a charmingly renovated old house. The chef, who speaks excellent English, is originally an academic with a passion for Buddhist culture, and knows a lot about the traditions that have shaped this cuisine. Today, she reinterprets it in her own way, much to our delight. We recommend choosing the set, which allows you to sample a multitude of delicious small dishes based on fresh, local ingredients, as well as delicacies fermented with patience and love on site.

In a refined and charming setting, talented chef Mimi Lee invites you to discover a sensitive cuisine that can only be described as artistic. The dishes on offer are crafted from local and seasonal ingredients of exceptional quality, fused with flavors from elsewhere, to the delight of our taste buds. A poetic culinary experience, complemented by a fine selection of wines and flawless service! It's good, it's beautiful, it's original: you can't go wrong. Advance reservations are recommended.

Chef Yim Jungsik, owner of a restaurant in Seoul and New York, revisits traditional Korean cuisine with inventiveness and creativity. He masterfully transforms and sublimates the greatest Korean culinary classics: kimbap, bibibap..... They then become, under the chef's fairy fingers, real edible works of art. Auréolé of two Michelin stars, the restaurant invites you to dream with very elegant dishes. A moment of discovery, grace and delight. Given the quality of the dishes, the prices are reasonable.

It is not true India but it remains correct. The frame is impersonal, which makes it a restaurant for lunch or a quick dinner before making a canvas.

This is one of the places not to be missed to eat an original, user-friendly and tasty dish: a rice-filled duck and dozens of types of seeds and roots, cooked to suffocation in a furnace heated to bread épines. The result is delicious and a duck (50 000 won) will be enough for three people. Especially with one of the traditional alcohols proposed by the house (about 6 000 won). You must reserve, otherwise the waiting for the cuissson will be 30 min.

Restaurant specializing in barbecue and smoked meat (chicken, pork, duck, pheasant, etc.) and teriyaki. Offers some very correct wines. Cheap. A broche can be reserved 2 days in advance. The boss is very nice.

Typical and well-known Korean barbecue. Excellent pork recipes.

This bakery propse coffee, sandwiches and oak. 

An excellent boudin address.

This restaurant has since its opening managed to make a name for itself in the area. It offers traditional Korean cuisine with a modern twist, in that everyone will have their own side dishes (banchan). Indeed you order your menu (bossam, bibimbap, fried rice with shrimps...) and we bring you all this, banchan included, in a small wooden tray. It's quite rare to find this type of service in a Korean restaurant, but if you don't like to eat in the same dish as the others then you have to come here.

This small restaurant doesn't look like much, yet the dishes served are executed with mastery. You can't expect endless menus with dozens of dishes. Here only one choice is possible: rice with a pork-based soup/ragoût, kimchi (doejigkimchijjigae) and a fragrant omelette. We really like this authentic side, without fuss and focusing on the essentials. To taste a traditional Korean meal in simplicity, but above all in flavor. An establishment not to be missed.

This restaurant is representative of the Korean-style snack food. On the menu are ramyeon, mandu but especially kimbap (they are to fall backwards). In addition to being very generous, they are prepared with uncommon tastes. We recommend the bacon one or/and the curry powder one. Real delights that can be eaten without hunger. It's not expensive at all, it's exquisite and the establishment opens very early, which is ideal if you want to have breakfast in an original way. Small prices and delicacies are on the agenda.

There are good restaurants on the top floor, in Korean, Japanese, but also more western styles. You can also eat very well and not too expensive in the basement, on the supermarket floor: there are many catering stands with small tables or counters so that you can set up properly. (The smells there will make you succumb). You will find a choice of classic noodle dishes, fried chicken, but sushi (초밥/chobap) is particularly interesting. Perfect for eating well and for not too much money.

At the end of a small alley, it is the most famous restaurant in Insa-dong, at least the most touristic. It is run by a Buddhist monk who offers in an authentic setting entirely vegetarian menus prepared with mountain herbs (said the legend...). The owner has also published several cookery books. If the place remains popular among foreigners who want to discover Korean cuisine in a charming setting, it is often full of tourists for dinner, businessmen coming for lunch.

In a refined but very elegant setting, inspired by the royal palaces, you can taste here the dishes that were served to the Korean royal family in the past centuries. For several generations, the Hwang family has been perpetuating what they learned from Han Hui-Sun, former court lady of the Gojong and Sunjon kings. Refined and sophisticated, this cuisine is also very healthy, representing the essence of the country's culinary culture. We advise you to choose from the fixed menus, which all include a succession of dishes. A royal experience!

Make sure your stomach is empty before you come. This is the most extensive and varied buffet restaurant there is! Here is a non-exhaustive list of what you can find: soups, seafood, sautéed meat dishes, rice dishes (fried, in risottos), Asian noodles, spaghetti (with a wide range of different sauces), fried foods, raw or cooked vegetables, pies and tarts, sushi, a cheese fountain, cakes, fruit, ice cream... You're really getting your money's worth!

If you are travelling with friends or family, it is sometimes important to choose a restaurant that satisfies everyone. One will prefer Chinese food, another Japanese or Vietnamese... In cases like this, the Dotz will save you and get everyone to agree! Very classy and elegant, it offers Asian dishes from all horizons. It's really a great concept and the dishes are to be overwhelming because they are so fragrant, tasty and tasty! We highly recommend this place!

It's fair to say that the Koreans have made the adage "everything's good in pigs" their own, and this restaurant is the proof. We put aside our possible disgust and try dishes based on pig intestines, feet and snouts. On paper, these are not very sexy foods, but this restaurant cooks them really well. We particularly recommend the sulguk (술국), which is a soup/stew with pork intestines, intended especially for a difficult morning. Believe us, it's truly surprising and delicious.