Jeonpo pasta & pizza spot, an anchovy lover's best puttanesca: Pickles

A Brooklyn-style Seomyeon pizza spot with red brick walls and stylish lighting

What is the atmosphere like at Pickles in Jeonpo?

Pickles (PICKLES) is a casual New York Brooklyn-style restaurant within easy walking distance of Jeonpo Station. I had plans in the Jeonpo-dong area not long ago and stumbled on a casual restaurant in Seomyeon with a genuinely Brooklyn feel!!

(It's a popular place, haha, so there may be a wait at peak times!) I visited Pickles (PICKLES), which is perfectly placed for a walk from Jeonpo Station, haha.

The moment you step inside you get house music, warm cozy lighting and European-style interior, all together giving you that stylish, trendy Jeonpo vibe, haha. Eating somewhere with a great mood just feels good, right? Haha. It's a really good date spot too!

Clean, atmospheric casual dining

How to check the wait at Pickles before you go

Pickles in Jeonpo can have a wait at mealtimes or on weekends. If you check on Catch Table (a Korean reservation and waitlist app) before you go, it's much easier to enjoy!

Once you sit down, they bring you the menu. The warm mood makes it a good Seomyeon date course, and it's a casual dining space that's perfect for chatting with friends over good food, haha.

A generous spread of half-and-half pizza and pasta

What comes in the Pickles 39,000 won half-and-half pizza and pasta set?

I ordered the set menu (half-and-half pizza + pasta / ₩39,000), a good-value way to try Pickles' signature dishes!! For the pasta I picked the umami-bomb puttanesca, and for the half-and-half pizza I went with Pickles' two most popular, the jambon-beurre pizza and the potato pizza, haha.

Puttanesca pasta with a spicy, salty sauce and plenty of black olives

How does the Pickles puttanesca taste? The best pick for anchovy lovers

The first dish out at Pickles was the puttanesca pasta!! It was thick and rich with really concentrated flavor, and I was marveling the whole time I ate it!

I normally really love pasta with anchovies, and Pickles' puttanesca was especially good, with that anchovy umami blending beautifully with olives, capers and tomato (crying). The slightly sharp, spicy-salty sauce clings to the noodles, and if you take a bite between slices of pizza it cuts the richness completely... my best dish...!!

Half-and-half pizza topped with jambon, savory butter and crispy wedge potatoes

Jambon-beurre and potato half-and-half pizza, with salt for dipping the crust

Next came the gorgeous half-and-half pizza, just look at it...!! Haha. The flavor that filled my mouth from the very first bite was so good! And you don't just eat the crust plain: you dip it in the salt that the restaurant provides by default, and it gets slightly salty and the bread's own nuttiness doubles, so it was so much tastier (crying).

The jambon-beurre side has salty, tender jambon (Korean-style ham) topped with pieces of rich butter and arugula, so each bite fills your mouth with a soft, savory flavor,,!!

And the potato pizza has fluffy, thick wedge potatoes topped with white cream sauce and bacon, the textbook sweet-and-salty combo, a hit that anyone of any age would like, just what you'd expect from a top Seomyeon pizza place!!

[Housemade pickles are available at the self-bar] Everything I ordered, pasta or pizza, was done really well, so

It's a Jeonpo gem, no question, haha

Is Pickles in Jeonpo worth a return visit?

If you want the pizza and pasta of your life near Jeonpo and Seomyeon in Busan, I strongly recommend this as a Seomyeon pizza place! Pickles (PICKLES), a Brooklyn-mood casual dining spot, has a great atmosphere and fun music, and everything I ordered was a success, so I'd 200% come back and wholeheartedly recommend it as a Jeonpo hot spot~~!! Haha. Top marks for both mood and food, haha.