Gwangalli private window booth and ₩42,000 combo: Extra Mile, Busan

What kind of restaurant is Extra Mile in Gwangalli?

Extra Mile is a pizza and pasta restaurant on the 1st floor of 11 Suyeong-ro 554beon-ga-gil, Suyeong-gu, in Gwangalli, Busan. It's open 11:00 - 21:00 (last order 20:00), and since there's no dedicated parking lot, Boseong Public Parking Lot is the closest option.

• 📍Address: 11 Suyeong-ro 554beon-ga-gil, Suyeong-gu, Busan
• 🅿️Parking: no dedicated lot (Boseong Public Parking Lot is closest)
• 🕜Hours: 11:00 - 21:00 (last order 20:00)

If you asked me to name the best pizza-and-pasta Western restaurant I've eaten at recently, it's hands down Extra Mile !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyone who loves Seomyeon Pickles, gather round~~~~ I love Seomyeon Pickles' food too, but personally I think Extra Mile is even better (feels like the same owner~~~)

Extra Mile in Gwangalli is a restaurant made by renovating a house, and I was already obsessed before even walking in,,,,💘

Ugh,,,, so pretty,,,,💘

Inside Extra Mile: private high-backed seats by the big window

Inside Extra Mile there's a bar table, sofa seating on one side, and high-backed private seats next to a big window. We sat in the private seats by the window.

How's this,,,? So pretty,,,, there's a bar table like this too ~~~

On one side there are also comfortable tables with sofa seating

Next to the big window there are high-backed private seats — the sunlight was great and the greenery visible outside was pretty, so we picked this spot!

Extra Mile menu and prices

Extra Mile's menu is divided into pizza / pasta / salad / drinks. We ordered the Classic Combo (pizza + pasta) for ₩42,000, romesco & grilled vegetables for ₩12,000, and a soft drink for ₩2,500.

I love that the menu isn't huge,,, some places these days have menus thick as encyclopedias,,, it's divided cleanly into pizza / pasta / salad / drinks

What we ordered was

• 🍕Classic Combo (pizza + pasta) ₩42,000 — hot honey pepperoni pizza / potato pizza + bisque cream pasta
• 🥗Romesco & grilled vegetables ₩12,000
• 🍹Soft drink ₩2,500

Ah but please... I really wish everyone in the world could try what we ordered.. seriously every single thing was delicious.. I genuinely can't pick just one to recommend

Table setting and the coloring table paper at Extra Mile

Extra Mile's table setting comes with a small plate, a sabre knife, and crayons in a paper cup. The table paper is a coloring page, so you can color while waiting for the food.

Table setting ~ ~ ~ ~ pretty plates and sabre knives, mine had a yellow knife and my companion's had a green one, and in the paper cup on the right — crayons!

The table paper is a coloring page, so you can color prettily while you wait. Ah, so cute and clever!

The pickles felt homemade too... and they were seriously delicious,,,, everyone got a refill,,,,

The dishes were served almost a minute apart, so I managed to get them all in one shot~~~ Stunning visuals from the start,,

The plating is pretty and you can feel the care put into every single dish💓

Hot honey pepperoni pizza and potato pizza with 48-hour dough

The pizza in Extra Mile's Classic Combo was split half-and-half into hot honey pepperoni pizza and potato pizza. The dough is said to be cold-fermented for 48 hours, and it's crispy outside and chewy inside.

If you go to Extra Mile, you have to! Have to!!!!!!!!!!!!! order the pizza. Pickles' pizza is genuinely great too... but Extra Mile's pizza is just as delicious...

The dough, said to be cold-fermented for 48 hours, is crispy outside and chewy inside, and gets nuttier the more you chew, so you can enjoy it all the way to the crust edge

Potato pizza / hot honey pepperoni pizza — the potato pizza is topped with julienned and sliced potato, so it's light, but the bacon inside acts as the secret weapon, and the drizzle of truffle oil gives it great depth

The hot honey pepperoni pizza — you just have to order it, no question... this is the kind of flavor no one could dislike, spicy+sweet+salty, hot+honey+pepperoni, no more explanation needed. I'm usually anti-potato-pizza, but this time I'm crowning the hot honey pepperoni the winner

Bisque cream pasta: add the gamtae on the side, don't mix it in

The most delicious thing we ate at Extra Mile that day was the bisque cream pasta. The gamtae (dried seaweed flakes) is meant to be eaten alongside, not mixed into the pasta, and the shrimp on top didn't taste like ordinary cocktail shrimp.

Ah, if you love seafood, just order the bisque cream pasta without a second thought — it was the tastiest dish we had that day, and my husband and I basically competed over it

Don't mix the gamtae in, just eat it alongside, and the shrimp was no joke,,, not just cocktail shrimp.. looked to me like Argentine red shrimp.. anyway, this is seriously delicious

Please don't mix it with the gamtae

Just press the gamtae onto it like this and eat~~~ the moment you taste the bisque cream pasta, you're basically in Nice, France. If you love the savory richness of seafood and things like gejang (crab paste), you have to try this bisque cream pasta

Romesco & grilled vegetables, ₩12,000: the sauce is the star

Extra Mile's romesco & grilled vegetables, ₩12,000, is grilled eggplant, zucchini, carrot, and sweet pumpkin topped with nuts. The key to the flavor is the romesco sauce underneath.

And can vegetables really taste this good? Yes..

Grilling the eggplant, zucchini, carrot, and sweet pumpkin keeps it light, and the nut topping makes it genuinely nutty and rich. But grilled vegetables + nuts alone are light and nutty — they're not really 'delicious' on their own, right,,, so who's in charge of the deliciousness? The sauce underneath. It seems to be a romesco sauce(?), and with its spicy-salty kick plus the nuts mixed in, the umami is off the charts...

Cut it right up (it's grilled so tender it slices on its own when you touch a knife to it)

Mix the sauce and nuts underneath well and dip generously, and it's the kind of grilled vegetable dish you could live on for 365 days,,,, unless you're an eggplant hater,,, actually the eggplant was the best part... anyway, unless you truly hate eggplant, this is a dish worth trying at least once!

Verdict on Extra Mile: would the writer go back?

Would I go again? Yesssssssss

• A pizza-pasta spot where the vibe is great but the food is even better
• Every single dish has real detail, down to perfect plating
• All the pasta sauces are homemade, and the pizza dough gets tastier the more you chew

I'm definitely bringing my mom back here — she's obsessed with pizza and pasta~~~ Word's already gotten out that it's delicious, so you might have to wait a bit at peak times, but waiting..? Go for it.. you won't regret waiting to eat here~~~🥗🍕💘