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[sojourner1]

How does filet mignon chunks cooked medium rare in dark wine sauce with sauted red peppers and onions over a bed of fluffy rice sound? It includes a leafy salad with an orange flavored sauce on a rectangular shaped elegant plate. This classy restaurant is the Reflecting Pond Restaurant in front of the national museum at Ichon and it offers superior professional quality service you would only find in a 5 star business class hotel restaurant and the setting is like that too with the jazz music and sophisticated details. This has to be absulately the best meal I've ever had in Korea.

This is one awesome meal for only 13,000 won. The prices don't seem high for this quality. This would be a great place to take a date or your wife. It's good for the whole family too. While it's very classy, there is no dress code.

That Chakkraa Indian restaurant in Itaewon is also exceptional. There's great eating places in Seoul that just don't exist anywhere else in Korea. I'd say avoid all the chain places and try authentic foreign restaurants.

[Freakstar]

Both sound good. Where is Ichon?

[i]

Ichon Stn where line 1 & 4 meet. Follow the signs to the museum and you'll see advertisements for the restaurant.

[I_Am_The_Kiwi]

pass on the rice....eat enough of that on a day to day basis.

the German resturant in Hyehwa.....wicked eats there and good beer.

though doesnt have the mood lighting, jazz music and sophisticated details..

[wylies99]

Thanks for the restaurant tip, OP.

[Vancouver]

Min's club in Insadong.

[merkurix]

[merkurix]

I will vote these places as the best places to eat:

Myeongdong Gyoza: If the line is that long, it's gotta be good right? My wife and I waited for about 15 minutes and had their handmade mandu and kalkuksu. It was all very good IMHO. The line is constantly very long, but people get shuttled in rather quickly.

The Westin Chosun Hotel's Aria Buffet Restaurant: All-you-can-eat 4 star quality food. It's not cheap though; 45,000 a pop. But it is a great place to take a date. And the food is really good, it's not typical Korean buffet schlop you might find at someone's wedding hall wedding. Reservation are recommended (I tried the day before).

[sojusucks]

Parapanada Seafood Restaurant is two blocks from Suwon subway station in the KT&G building, second floor.

The buffet is 12,900 won per person and includes a full Korean buffet - chicken, beef, pork, and vegetarian dishes - a full sushi bar, and a Chinese buffet - including century eggs. Plus, it also has a large buffet-style Shabu Shabu selection available.

It may not satisfy an individual looking for Western-style food, but if you like Asian food, this place is great.

[bangbayed]

[waltjocketty]

Wooriga at Sinsa Stn. (if I remember correctly), but it's not cheap.

Also this place for truly Korean food. It's sublime:

http://www.jihwajafood.co.kr/

and here's another link to it:

http://kr.gugi.yahoo.com/bizhome/?cid=2603022678

For those of you who can read Korean, here's a great blog reviewing some excellent Korean restaurants: http://tong.nate.com/jhjin8/46008278

And yeah, Myeongdong Gyoza is excellent, but so is Shinchon Su Jae Bi as well as a myriad of other places specializing in noodle soups or dumplings around Seoul. I've had kalguksu that rivals Gyoza several times. Don't go out of your way for it.

As for Western food, I've been all over and the ONLY Western food I would recommend for someone else to try is the buffet at the Hannam-dong Hyatt, though I'm sure the Westin and Marriott are about the same.

[wylies99]

Western food? The buffet at Ashley in New Core.

[saw6436]

Uri Sik Dang in Suncheon, Chollanam-do. BEST meal in Korea. Rice, baked fish, taeng-jang chigae, pajang and 18-24 different side dishes (depends on the season). W6,000.

[waltjocketty]

[i]