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[Coffeeprincess]

Anyone eaten there before? How's the food?

[maeil]

I went there last week for my anniversary.... LOVED it. The owner of the restaurant is the same woman who owns the Brixx bars throughout Seoul. She came over and talked to us and told us that she went to Bulgaria and interviewed over 30 chefs, sampling their food, before choosing her current chef. The chef there does all of the shopping for ingredients and will sometimes come over to your table and schmooze.

We ordered spinach cheese roll-ups and stuffed roasted red peppers as an appetizer, and the owner suggested a bottle of Soave wine, which I'd never had before but was a great compliment to what we ordered. The spinach roll-ups were a sort of spinach flat bread spread with a very creamy cheese (I wouldn't quite call it cream cheese) seasoned with fresh dill and pepper, rolled and then dressed with a balsamic vinaigrette. Fantastic. The red peppers had some nice crispy glaze on them and I can't tell you the exact stuffing, but they were in a yogurt sauce and were also delicious.

For my meal I had the spinach chicken - two breasts of grilled chicken stuffed with spinach and smoked cheese on steamed vegetables. I loved them. My husband had the special, which was 20-hour roasted lamb, and he said it was some of the most tender lamb he'd ever had.

Basically, throughout the whole meal we were making small sounds of delight, passing forks back and forth and just loving it. Neither of us could finish our meal and we had great leftovers the next day. I've been told by several people that the ice cream there is fantastic, but we were too stuffed to try it. If you can't tell, I'd recommend it highly.

[Ya-ta Boy]

Prices and directions, please

[maeil]

Let's see.. for our meal including wine I think we paid around 110,000 won. Zelen is in the alley behind the main street of Itaewon, the same alley with Buddha's Belly, the two Brixx, etc. When you turn right at KFC and then left down the alley, it is at the end of the alley on your right. There is a set of stairs to go up, and it is on your right.

[spliff]

Me and my wife never spend more than 18,000 when we go out for dinner and that's w/ two bottles of Soju.

[Stevie_B]

[maeil]

Spliff, did you just spliff my restaurant review? I guess nowhere on these boards is safe.

[nicholas_chiasson]

Wives...poor dears. After they get married the men start skimping on dinner. "Go in the kitchen if you want to eat." A happy home in the making. Isn't your wife Thai Spliff? I can't eat spicy food anyway, so I'd get tired of that stuff.

[Ya-ta Boy]

[Bingo]

If it's the one near Three Alleys it's terrific. I had a fabulous meal there. Different atmosphere. Enjoyed it.

[Css]

I took my girlfriend there a while back...Had a beef dish...It was great...massive portion, like half a cow or something...Tasted great..

Girlfriend had some seafood thing which i didnt think much of...

but overall it was very good...I will go again.

[blackjack]

http://club.cyworld.com/club/main/club_main.asp?club_id=52121168

they don't seem to have a web site but here is their cyworld page

[Juregen]

[R-Seoul]

[angel of bob]

It's actually pretty good. The interior is kind of kitschy, not phenomenal, but the food was delicious. The ice cream was really good. It was a homemade vanilla ice cream and it had some kind of cherry, toffee, nougat thing in it. It was really delicious.

After dinner, the waiter anointed me with Bulgarian rose oil.

Also, we received a coupon for eggplant or Bulgarian yoghurt afterwad. Huzzah!