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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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 Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 4:38 pm Post subject: Not over priced no ketchup Italian restaurant Hyehwa |
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This place opened a few months ago. Never had a chance to check it out until this weekend. It's in Hyehwa, across the street from the Starbucks.
1) No ketchup is used
2) Moderate prices ($12-15) for a linen table cloth restaurant
3) Actually good tasting pasta
All 'n' all a good date restaurant. |
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nateium
Joined: 21 Aug 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 4:55 pm Post subject: |
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A few months ago? It's been there at least a year, and it's definately worth it for the smell of brick oven bread alone. The pizza is the real deal.
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Thunndarr
Joined: 30 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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Always good to have another Italian restaurant on the menu. I walked past that place every day for weeks without trying it out since I figured it was going to be more of the usual fusion bullshit.
The real question is, is it better than Dimatteos? (sp?) |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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| nateium wrote: |
| A few months ago? It's been there at least a year, and it's definately worth it for the smell of brick oven bread alone. The pizza is the real deal. |
Really? A year goes by like the space of a few months here. Oish. Yeah the bread side isn't bad either. |
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robertmanicni
Joined: 16 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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| It'd be nice to find an "Italian" restaurant in Seoul that actually serve Italian food, not just pasta and pizza. |
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jindodog
Joined: 31 May 2007
Location: not seoul
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| Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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| whatever, no one wants authentic cuisine....people want 'amercanized', 'canadianised' or 'britishised' ethnic cuisine. i'm sure most people have never had pasta fagioli (real pasta fagioli) or a spedini in their lives. |
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jindodog
Joined: 31 May 2007
Location: not seoul
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| Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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| that's weird, my italian word for bean got beeped out. f/a/g/i/o/l/i |
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Binch Lover
Joined: 25 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 10:35 pm Post subject: |
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| It'd be nice to find an "Italian" restaurant in Seoul that actually serve Italian food, not just pasta and pizza. |
Try Popolarita in 서래마을, the "French district" near Seocho station (Line 2). It's really tasty and has meat dishes as well as excellent pasta (I didn't taste the pizza). My friend who lived in Italy for a year says it's the best Italian in Seoul. |
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robertmanicni
Joined: 16 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 10:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks a lot for that! I'll definitely try it out. |
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robertmanicni
Joined: 16 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 10:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Hey! Why did the link to the restaurant's website just disappear for the post above?? Could you PM it to me or let me have some directions? Thanks. |
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Binch Lover
Joined: 25 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 10:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Cos I tried it and it didn't work, so I removed it! I guess you can try again. It was www.popolarita.co.kr |
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robertmanicni
Joined: 16 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 10:43 pm Post subject: |
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Right, it doesn't work. Haha! Thanks anyway!
Any chance of some directions? |
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newton kabiddles
Joined: 31 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 10:58 pm Post subject: |
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| jindodog wrote: |
| whatever, no one wants authentic cuisine.. |
yes we do |
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jindodog
Joined: 31 May 2007
Location: not seoul
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| Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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| newton kabiddles wrote: |
| jindodog wrote: |
| whatever, no one wants authentic cuisine.. |
yes we do |
yeah, i know. some people do. but i do believe that people don't have to be so hard on koreans for 'fusing' cuisine with what the korean palate wants....it happens in every country. so sometimes when people say they don't want korean (insert ethnic food here) they want real (insert) that they actually want american/british/whatever (insert ethnic food) |
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robertmanicni
Joined: 16 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 11:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Has anyone been to Popolarita in Seocho? Could you give us some directions? |
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