Buffet restaurant at The Classic 500 next to Konkuk University offers international style buffet. It serves decent Korean and American style breakfast. Price Range : More than 40,000 Won Parking : Free Parking Free for 3 hours Business Hours : Mon-Fri: 12:00 - 21:30 Sat: 11:30 - 21:30 Sun: 11:30 - 19:30 Break Time:    Mon-Fri: 14:30 - 18:00 Sat: 14:30 - 17:00 19:00 - 19:30 Sun: 14:30 - 17:00 ​

With an instant Stir-fried Rice Cake arousing your sensitivity, Beef Brisket full of smoked aroma or crispy well-fried King! Squid to be added. It would be a sniper shooting the young’s appetite with all sorts of sides suited according to one’s taste.                        

Korea Samgyetang serves up delicious samgyetang (chicken ginseng soup) made using only 4-year-old ginseng cultivated in Geumsan (a town famous for its ginseng) and chickens raised on local farms. Young chickens (no more than 49 days old) are butchered and delivered fresh daily, making for only the tenderest meat. The chicken is boiled with high-quality ginseng, dates, garlic, glutinous rice, and various medicinal herbs to make a flavorful and energizing soup.* Designated a “Best Korean Restaurant” by the Seoul Metropolitan Government

This bar-restaurant serves traditional Korean rice wines produced by the brewer Kooksoondang. Menu items include luxurious rice wine (or ale) and makgeolli cocktails, served with traditional Korean seasonal sides as well as a variety of fusion dishes. ​  

Gahwadang is a cosy tea house converted from a private home. Tea is served with refreshments. All around the interior, there are nice pictures to enjoy, making this a nice, peaceful place to have a cup of tea. ​

Located on the 33rd floor of Jongno Tower, this glass-walled restaurant provides a beautiful night view of Seoul, as well as tasty cuisine. Top Cloud offers three types of service: grill, buffet (for lunch and dinner), and cafe. Operated by Hotel Shilla, the grill provides elegant food, wine and service. Reservations are required for the grill and the buffet. Top Cloud also provides live musical performances from 7:30 pm to 11:20 pm (no performance on Mondays). TIP: Reserve a table by the window to enjoy the night view.  

Nwijo (뉘조) is a Korean restaurant specializing in wild vegetable cuisine. The name ‘Nwijo’ means ‘the god of the silkworm,’ and likens wild vegetables to silkworms in that both can be eaten in their entirety. The restaurant serves original full-course Korean meals that are prepared using hundreds of kinds of wild vegetables, including special seasonal vegetables. A typical full-course meal starts with delicious pumpkin porridge, followed by seasoned wild vegetables, root vegetable ssam (condiments wrapped in vegetable leaves), slices of boiled meat, and steamed lotus leaf-wrapped rice served with jjigae (Korean stew) and various side dishes. This kind of traditional feast is pleasing to both the eye and the palate and is topped off with sikhye (traditional sweet rice drink). Lunch specials are also available.  

A fusion café that serves traditional Korean desserts and snacks, including Patjuk (sweet red ben porridge) ‣ Patjuk, Korea’s major winter snack, and Patbingsu (ice flakes topped with sweet red bean), Korea’s major summer snack, are served along with a variety of rice cakes ‣ The café makes thick, finely strained red bean porridge every morning, and rice balls made with glutinous rice powder.  ⁍ Health benefits of red bean: Saponin in red bean has a diuretic effect and helps break down fat and lose weight.  ⁍ The Patjuk is topped with braised chestnuts and dried, shredded dates for flavor.  ⁍ Popular menu items: Four-season Bingsu (Bam-Daechu Patbingsu) and Sujeonggwa (Cinnamon Punch) ‣ All desserts are served in brassware, which has excellent heat conductivity and a sterilizing effect. ​

This bakery specializes in breads made with natural enzymes, but also popular are the handmade chocolates and cakes. The inaka, a Japanese raisin bread, is especially recommended.  

A locals' favourite along HBC's main strip, the dimly lit Damotori specialises in quality makgeolli (milky rice wine), handpicked from provinces around the country. The food is also excellent, especially the seafood pancakes. ​