Irene Yoo
Irene Yoo is a meals author, recipe developer, chef and co-owner of Orion Bar in Brooklyn, and the writer of Soju Party: How to Drink (and Eat!) Like a Korean. Her recipes and essays have appeared on the Food Network, Food52, and Food & Wine, and she or he has been featured in the New York Times, The Korea Times, and Bon Appétit.
The greatest Korean eating places all through New York City are a mixture of previous and new: Korean-American mainstays which have been barbecuing meats or slinging bowls of soups for many years, in addition to imports of sizzling spots straight from Korea, plus fashionable eating places serving progressive riffs on traditional Korean fare. As a Korean American who grew up consuming my mother’s house cooking and visiting Seoul each summer season, I can’t go greater than every week with out getting my Korean meals repair in New York City, the place I now reside. Thankfully, with the rising recognition of Korean meals, tradition, and consuming, there’s an ever-growing listing of spots to take a look at. Confused on the place to start out? Let me be your information—I actually wrote the e-book on find out how to eat and drink like a Korean with my new cookbook, Soju Party, and run Orion Bar, a Korean American spot in Bushwick that’s equal components Okay-town boozer and American dive bar.
Whether you’re gathering in Manhattan’s Koreatown (a piece of thirty second Street, often known as Korea Way, and its surrounding neighborhood), making a pilgrimage to Flushing to hit up some old fashioned spots, or on the lookout for consolation meals in Brooklyn, these are my favourite Korean eating places in New York City.
Read our full New York City guide here, which incorporates:
Tal Bistro
32 W thirty second Street Floor 3, Manhattan
At this new addition to Korea Way, the chef and proprietor of Tal Bistro spent practically a decade honing his chops on the close by Jongro BBQ. Tal Bistro is extra of a Korean consuming pub, specializing in traditional pairings like makgeolli (a milky rice wine) with kimchi pancakes, beopju (a transparent rice liquor) with acorn jelly salads, and soju with spicy stir-fried pork and kimchi. The must-order right here is their candy potato makgeolli, an in-house specialty, in which the creamy earthiness of the Korean candy potato (often known as goguma) shines via the candy and tangy libation.
Gopchang Story
312 fifth Avenue 2nd Floor, Manhattan