Jongno Indian restaurant couples set: Namaste Dongmyo

A mountain-lodge-style Indian curry restaurant in Dongmyo

Today, let me introduce Namaste Dongmyo Branch, a cozy hideout-style Indian curry restaurant that makes you feel like you have traveled to India 🤌💕

Doesn't it feel so much like a mountain lodge and so cozy? It gave me such a good feeling. The atmosphere is seriously lovely, making this a fantastic Dongmyo Station curry hot spot for a date 🎵

It feels like stepping into a private hideout. All the staff are locals too, so somehow it really does feel like being on a trip...!!!

I'd heard it is a Dongmyo Blue Ribbon restaurant that receives the honor every year, and its presence was on another level from the moment I walked in.

What comes in the couples set—and how generous it is

⋰ What we ordered ⋱

• Couples set ₩50,000
• Chili prawns, samosa, tandoori chicken, chicken makhani, vegetable curry, garlic naan, and plain lassi

What a generous couples set! Is this really for two people? 🫪💕 You get to try so many things, and the portions are huge—it's the best.

Look at how nicely crisp the naan is. We ordered butter naan and garlic naan 💗

How were the chicken makhani and vegetable curry?

Which curry do you all love most? I absolutely love chicken makhani. Even after trying other curries a few times, I always come back to that classic, foundational flavor: Namaste Dongmyo Branch's chicken makhani. True to its status as a Dongmyo Blue Ribbon restaurant, it was sooo delicious ㅠㅠ

The chicken went down so easily and tenderly—I wanted to eat only this all week. Tear off a big piece of naan fresh from the tandoor and dunk it deeply into the chicken makhani, you know?

Scoop up the vegetable curry, filled with corn, broccoli, zucchini, and all sorts of vegetables, then wrap it in naan? Ahhㅠ I just ate it, but I want it again already.

Prawn chili, tandoori chicken, and lassi

Next up was the sweet-spicy, plump prawn chili... this was seriously delicious... exactly what perfect chili shrimp should be ㅠ Why is Indian food so good? Even all the vegetables were delicious. It makes no sense.

The tandoori chicken was juicy with none of that dry texture. And it was boneless too!!!!!! Their taste is unreal, right? Namaste Dongmyo Branch is officially a curry mecca near Dongmyo Station—clap clap ^ /// ^)

There was so much food that I was so sad to leave without eating the samosa included in the set ㅠㅠㅠㅠ The ultimate Dongmyo Indian curry spot... I have to go back and definitely try it. A samosa is an Indian-style dumpling made by wrapping mashed potatoes and curry-mixed salad in dough and deep-frying it, and it is such a specialty—please make sure you try it, everyone.

I've gone out for Indian curry quite a lot, but ironically had never tried lassi before? One sip of the plain yogurt lassi and I went, “Ah, so this is what lassi tastes like!” It had that rich, tangy flavor of real yogurt without artificial sweetness. It was just perfect for finishing the meal with afterward.

For real, every single dish was delicious, so I ate like crazy right there without even realizing how full I was. When I got home, I found waistband marks on my stomach; haha

Dongmyo curry that even spice beginners can enjoy

Attention, anyone who wants authentic local flavors in a cozy mountain-lodge atmosphere where you cannot go wrong, no matter who you come with. I'm usually a little sensitive to spices, so I don't often try new foods! But the vegetable curry, prawn chili, and lassi—all things I tried for the first time—were all so, so delicious. Namaste Dongmyo Branch is a Dongmyo curry specialist with an approachable flavor that wins over even spice beginners. I enjoyed it so much 🧡