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Korean Cuisine Special

[2024] The Best Place to Enjoy Korean Cuisine in Kyoto! Featuring 14 of the hottest and most popular restaurants in Kyoto!

Over the past five years, the number of Korean restaurants in Kyoto has increased dramatically. Some offer authentic Korean flavors, others offer healthy home-style Korean cuisine, and still others are neon-lit restaurants that are a must-see on SNS.

今回は、ランチやディナーに行きたい今アツイ京都の韓国料理店14店を大特集!あなたにぴったりのお店がきっと見つかるはず。最後までチェックしてみて。

11. Pinyo Shokudo's Sundubu in Sanjo, where the light and spicy soup soaks up the flavor.

Two minutes north of the Oike Bridge. Pinyo Shokudo (Sakyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture) is located in a quiet area with excellent access from the city center. The restaurant offers Korean soup set menus at the counter, which is unusual for a Korean restaurant because it was designed to be "easy for a woman to enter even by herself. The best item on the menu is the Sundubu set meal. The soup is light and spicy with pork and clam broth. The soup is light, spicy, and spicy, and you should finish it while breaking up the soft tofu!

Pinyo Restaurant Set Meals

The sundubu set meal comes with three side dishes and rice for 1,150 yen. The set meal with wrapped vegetables is 1,300 yen. The cereal rice procured from Shiga Prefecture is shiny and fluffy. Eating it together enhances the flavor of the soup.

Exterior view of Pinyo Restaurant

The warm exterior of the restaurant is decorated with a traditional Korean "pojagi" curtain. During the daytime on weekdays, there is often a line of customers waiting to enter the restaurant.

Pinyo Restaurant

  • Pinoy diet
  • 18-3 Magohashi-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto
  • 3 minutes walk from Exit 12 of "Sanjo" subway station
  • Tel. 075-746-2444
  • 11:30~14:30 (LO/14:00)
    17:30-22:00 (LO/21:30)
  • Closed on Thursdays and 3rd Wednesdays of the month

12. Enjoy the garlic flavor of kosari yuwkkejang at Kawaramachi [hahaha].

Located five minutes south of Shijo Teramachi is [hahaha] (Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture). In the restaurant where pleasant folk songs play on vinyl records, you can enjoy set menus and slightly maniacal side dishes that are perfect as accompaniments to drinks from daytime to night. Recommended is kosari yukkejang, a local dish from the southern Korean island of Jeju. It is a simple yet powerful soup made of finely chopped royal ferns and pork, and is flavored with garlic.

Ha ha ha yukhae jang

The Kosari Yukkejang set meal comes with three side dishes and rice for 1,500 yen. Bean sprouts are placed under the rice and served with namul or kimchi as a side dish.

Ha ha ha appearance

The "하하하" sign, which is lit slightly, fits the atmosphere of the store in a renovated Kyoto machiya (traditional townhouse).

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  • Kyoto Prefecture, Kyoto City, Shimogyo Ward, Takatsujitsujicho Nishiiriru Ebisunomachi 516-1
  • 5 minutes walk from Hankyu "Kyoto Kawaramachi Station" Exit 10
  • Tel.075-204-2202
  • 11:30-22:00 (LO/21:00)
  • Closed on Thursdays and 3rd Wednesdays of the month

13. Organic Vegetable Kimbap and Natural Wine at MUL in Kawaramachi

MUL (Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto) is located 3 minutes north of Shijo Dori on Magashiyacho Dori. Here you can enjoy kimpah made with organic vegetables and other one-of-a-kind Korean dishes along with natural wines. Chef Ayano Otsuka, a.k.a. Chan, has been a fan of her vegetable kimpa since before the restaurant's founding, using eight different ingredients rolled in a Japanese broth to create a gentle taste that Japanese people love.

MUL's Kimbap

Chang's vegetable kim-pa is 600 yen for four slices. In addition to vegetables such as cucumbers, carrots, and spinach, it is filled with Korean oden (fish paste) soaked in broth and sweet and spicy gobo (burdock root), and is brightly colored!

Appearance of MUL

MUL, which has no signboard, is marked by a large driftwood tree on the first floor, and tables on the second floor, where you can enjoy a relaxing meal.

MUL

  • mull
  • 475-1 Umeyacho, Takoyakushi-sagaru, Mawashiyacho-dori, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto
  • 4 minutes walk from Hankyu "Kyoto Kawaramachi Station" Exit 11
  • Tel.070-9050-1212
  • 15:00-22:00 (LO/21:30)
    Saturday, Sunday, Holidays 11:30-14:00 (LO/13:30), 17:00-22:00 (LO/21:30)
  • Closed on Wednesdays and irregular holidays

15. Spicy oden prepared by a Korean-born owner at Ippuku on Senbon Street.

A Korean restaurant [Ippuku] (Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture) has appeared on Senbon Street. The specialty is oden, a dish familiar from local food stalls, and the restaurant offers an original mix of Japanese and Korean flavors. The spiciness is moderate to suit the Japanese palate, but can be adjusted with additional spices. In addition to the standard Japanese ingredients, there are also authentic ingredients such as Korean oden, which is made by skewering fish paste on jabara (baby sardines), and tteok (rice cakes), allowing customers to enjoy the taste of both Japan and Korea.

Ippuku's Korean-style oden

Korean-style oden (omakase) 5 kinds for 1100 yen. On this day, there were Korean-style oden, spare ribs, egg, daikon radish, and thick fried bean curd. The soup is based on a broth made from bonito and kelp, so the taste is very familiar to Japanese people.

Appearance of Ippuku

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  • Villa Polaire 1F, 375 Fukushima-cho, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto
  • A short walk from bus stop "Senbon desuimizu
    20 min. walk from "Kitano Shiraume-cho" station on Randen
  • Tel. 075-406-1144
  • 17:00-22:30 (LO/22:00)
  • Closed on Wednesdays and Sundays
The information is subject to change. Please contact each store or facility directly for the latest information.
All prices include tax.
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