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 Traveller's Tales: Restaurants and eating places in Seoul, South Korea
Look for the best places to eat in Seoul, South Korea. You may read about recommended restaurants and food. Find out about local food and local dining customs. Also, you might want to read our
Jeju city guide,
and Seoul city guide.
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| K Day |
07 April 2004 |
Stayed at Hamilton Hotel - Seoul, South Korea.
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We took the Seoul City Bus Tour. It picks you up right opposite the Hamilton. It's cheap and takes you all over Seoul. There are about 20 places you can get on and off.
We checked out a new restaurant/bar which was very very nice. It's called Gekko, and is just down the street from Hamilton. It's behind the hotel and shouldn't be confused with the other Gekko bar which is on the opposite side of the road. This bar had a great wine list and was in it's own garden. A beautiful wooden style structure - not cheap but worth the extra.
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| P Uhl |
02 April 2004 |
Stayed at Seoul Prince Hotel - Seoul, South Korea.
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The hotel is next to Myong-dong, a down-town are bustling with shops and restaurants, which really comes alive after dark. Definitely worth a stroll! Namdaemun Market, Lotte Hotel/Dept Store and the Namsangol Traditional Village are in walking distance. A very nice small coffee and breakfast place (also with internet access) called Olia around the corner and close to the underpass to the Sejong Hotel can be highly recommended (open from 8am).
If you have the time, do make a daytrip to Panmunjeom and the DMZ, the border to North Korea. This can be booked with several different organisers (info available in the hotel lobby) and is quite a sobering experience.
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| I Justo |
07 March 2004 |
Stayed at Koreana Hotel - Seoul, South Korea.
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Traditional korean food is the thing not to miss in Seoul: from walking distance from the hotel, there are plenty of good restaurants, one of them called SamDeGang located in a small road just behind the Seoul Plaza Hotel on the City Hall Plaza, that serves "black chicken" soup with assorted kimchi. Another great one is just in front of the Koreana Hotel in the lower 1st floor of the Seoul Financial Center building. It proposes high class korean food: a little expensive (about 30US$/person) but wonderful experience.
For shopping lovers, the place to go is Namdaemun market (a lot of choices; but do not hesitate to bargain to get up to 30% discount). For those who prefer department stores, Lotte Dept. Store is a great place with fantastic choices (but no discount there).
On a more touristy point of view, the 3 palaces scattered in Seoul (from walking distance from Koreana Hotel or easy access by subways) are worth the visit (all of them have internal museums inside - do not miss them). With 15 cm. snow on palaces and gardens, it was really a rare landscape.
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| G Heng |
09 January 2004 |
Stayed at Crown Itaewon, Hotel - Seoul, South Korea.
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Try the Galbi ( BBQ marinated beef ribs ) at Itaewon Restaurant. The eating place is just beside Hamilton Hotel, opposite the subway station. The waitress are attentive and able to converse in English.
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| P Jeffs |
14 November 2003 |
Stayed at Crown Itaewon, Hotel - Seoul, South Korea.
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Kimchi. You'll see it and smell it all over Seoul. It is such a part of everyday Korean life that Koreans rate a restaurant on the standard of the Kimchi they serve. It is served as a side dish at breakfast, lunch and dinner and, for the western palate, it is best approached with caution. A fermented stew of cabbage, chillis and garlic; pungent is not the word. I tried it on Monday, and I was still tasting the after effects on Thursday morning. So for all you die hard food fans out there, try Kimchi. You'll never forget it.
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| W Yoong |
29 October 2003 |
Stayed at Seoul Prince Hotel - Seoul, South Korea.
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Wonderful grilled fish eateries near the hotel. Economical but delicious. walk out of hotel, turn left. Continue walking towards the intersection and near lunchtime (1130am), you will smell the strong fish fragrance from a little lane. Two wonderful little eateries selling korean food. Be there by 12 noon cos it will be packed by locals.
Also in Namdeamum at night. A saxophone player hawker is there selling his fried fishsticks with either shrimp, chilli, crab. He played a wonderful tune for us on his sax.. and each fishstick is only W700! Bring lots of money to shop and eat!
I'll be back!
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| R Azran |
23 September 2003 |
Stayed at Crown Insadong, Hotel - Seoul, South Korea.
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Do not miss the 1 hour excursion out of Seoul to the Hoam Art Museum, the gardens are the most beautiful in Asia. A good idea for first timers in Seoul is to hop on the City Tour bus, for $US 10, you see all of Seoul and then can decide where to spend time. For me, just seeing Itaewon from a bus window was enough - who needs all those Western restaurants anyway.
Check out a new veggie resto at the entrance to Insadong, just near the police station and tourist info booth - Sin Sim - great ambiance and food.
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| F Beerens |
19 September 2003 |
Stayed at Renaissance Seoul Hotel - Seoul, South Korea.
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Seoul is still not the place for a foreigner to venture outside of the hotels. But the food (western) has improved a lot. "Vine" is my favorite place in the Lotte (Lobby level) with an outstanding wine-menu "by the glass".
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| P Kim |
19 August 2003 |
Stayed at Ellui Hotel - Seoul, South Korea.
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Taxi is inexpensive (make sure you take the non-black, non-deluxe cabs which start from 1600won vs. 4000won.) The ride from Incheon to Coex only costed 12000won (10 us dollars). Nice restaurant is a Japanese restaurant called Chin Chin, near Galleria Department store in Ap-Gu-Jong-Dong. I also visited a mountainous area near the opera house. Nice to visit when you get tired of the hustle-bustle of the city. If you get a chance you also have to visit some mountainside restaurants. The one I went to was in Na-Man-San. We picked out our chickens and had them prepared fresh. An outstanding treat...
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| L Birchley |
29 June 2003 |
Stayed at Hamilton Hotel - Seoul, South Korea.
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The best restaurant and place to go for a drink for foreigners in Seoul is the Three Alley Pub. It's located only a few hundred yards away.
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