Gangneung
Hop off the bus to Anmok Beach and you're at this small place by the sea that serves up some seriously scrumptious burgers. The menu is skimpy, but each…
Must-see restaurants in Gangwon-do
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Chuncheon
Housed in a 40-year-old building, this atmospheric restaurant serves up delicious makguksu, a Gangwon-do speciality. The buckwheat noodles are served cold…
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Gangwon-do
This small but inviting chain restaurant specialises in sweet and savoury porridge (juk) that can be eaten day or night. There's a well-presented English…
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Gangneung
In Chodang, this rustic eatery serves up simmering sundubu inside a quaint wooden house with traditional floor seating. Look for the white vertical sign…
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Gangwon-do
Steaming pho is served up swiftly in colourful ceramic bowls in a spacious environment of green wood and yellow brickwork. Emoi does a brisk trade and it…
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Gangneung
This small, ramshackle place with a little garden and simple blue plastic furniture serves delicious and generous helpings of jang kalguksu – buckwheat…
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Gangneung
With a sofa in the corner, bare brick walls and wooden floor, this polished, good-looking and friendly cafe roasts and brews about 20 varieties of coffee,…
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Gangneung
On a quiet road off Songjeong Beach, popular Pino goes for the concrete bunker/distressed industrial vibe with considerable aplomb, but beyond its…
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Chuncheon
This small place where you can either sit on the floor or take a table to eat platters of dakgalbi with big, chicken flavour. The owner will stir it all…
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Gangwon-do
This place in Jungang Market has a take out stall (No A06) and a sit-down restaurant opposite. Grab a Vietnamese banh mi baguette, a stuffed and fully…
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Chuncheon
Oodles of space and mismatched-furniture chic make this concrete-floor and breeze-block wall restaurant a stylishly contemporary date spot for locals, yet…
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Gangwon-do
This friendly eatery specialises in hearty gamjatang (meaty bones and potato soup) served in a jeongol (hotpot) or ttukbaegi (뚝배기; earthenware dish). You…
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Gangneung
This popular spot offers good, simple fare such as kimchi jjigae (kimchi stew) or doenjang jjigae (soybean-paste stew); if you like squid or octopus, try…
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Sokcho
On a corner on the waterfront, 88 does delicious fish barbecue at your table, but doesn't serve solo diners and staff don't speak much English. Plonk down…
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Sokcho
A fine place to try squid sundae (sausage) in Abai, a collection of vintage seafood restaurants between the canal and the sea. To get there, take the old…
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Sokcho
The basement of this fish market has plentiful indoor casual restaurants with tanks of (soon to be) seafood. Most places are perched away from the…
