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Cafés, restaurants and places in Busan, written by bloggers who went there.

Jung-gu, BusanRestaurants

Nampo-dong sushi restaurant with a 16-piece dinner set: Moshi Moshi

Moshi Moshi Sushi Lotte Department Store Gwangbok is a Japanese restaurant on the 10th floor of the Lotte Department Store Gwangbok main building in Nampo-dong, Jung-gu, Busan. Booked for 5:30 p.m. on a Sunday, the writer and her mother shared set no. 2 — 16 pieces of sushi plus char siu and yaki udon for 58,900 won — with clean, bite-sized sushi that had no fishy smell and yaki udon loaded with squid, scallop, shrimp and meat. A 1-minute walk from Nampo Station, Moshi Moshi Sushi is an easy family dinner spot after shopping.

Written Aug 31, 2026Sponsored
Dongnae, BusanRestaurants

Abalone sashimi platter and ramen in Dongnae, Busan: Moshi Moshi

Moshi Moshi Sushi, Lotte Department Store Dongnae Branch is a sushi and sashimi restaurant on the 8th floor of Lotte Department Store in Dongnae-gu, Busan. Two diners ordered the sashimi platter of tuna, salmon, flounder and abalone, a rich-broth ramen and shrimp tempura, and the sashimi was thick-cut with no fishy smell and plenty for two. With Dongnae and Myeongnyun stations both nearby and department store parking, Moshi Moshi Sushi works well for dinner on a shopping or movie day.

Written Aug 28, 2026Sponsored
Haeundae, BusanCafés

Busan café for brown sugar hojicha and ganache monaka: Suwolgyeonghwa

Suwolgyeonghwa is a traditional Korean-style tea and dessert café on the 4th floor of a building right by Songjeong Beach in Haeundae, Busan. From a window seat overlooking the beach and the Haeundae Beach Train, the order was hyeonwolhojicha (brown sugar hojicha), a Miguksik-gabae iced americano and a 13,000 won Dalbodre box, tasted clockwise from the injeolmi (chewy rice cake) skewer to the ganache monaka. For ocean views, tea and Korean desserts in one stop, Suwolgyeonghwa is a great pick.

Written Sep 15, 2026Sponsored
Haeundae, BusanRestaurants

Haeundae restaurant with tablet ordering, ₩49,500 for three: Bueokgan

Bueokgan Haeundae Branch is a pasta and wood-fired pizza restaurant on Dalmaji-gil in Haeundae, Busan. On a weekend visit with his wife and younger daughter, the writer ordered from the table tablet — carbonara ₩19,000, jambon pizza ₩24,000 and grapefruit ade ₩6,500 — for a total of ₩49,500 for three. Between the window-side round sofa seats and a tablet that shows every photo and price, Bueokgan made a family meal out with a child easy.

Written Sep 15, 2026Sponsored
Gijang, BusanRestaurants

No-break-time weekday lunch at Gijang outlet restaurant: Bueokgan

Bueokgan Restaurant, Shinsegae Simon Busan Premium Outlets is a Western restaurant on the 1st floor NORTH section of the outlet mall in Jangan-eup, Gijang, Busan. On a quiet weekday visit with her father after his hospital discharge, the writer ordered shrimp anchovy oil pasta, abalone cream risotto and basil margherita pizza, and all three plates satisfied. Because Bueokgan has no break time, it is an easy place to sit down for a meal at any hour of your shopping trip.

Written Sep 15, 2026Sponsored
Haeundae, BusanRestaurants

5pm window seat at a Marine City Chinese restaurant in Busan: Bueokgan

Bueokgan Chinese Marine City Branch is a 100-pyeong Chinese restaurant in Marine City, Haeundae, Busan, with wide-open ocean views. Arriving at 5pm, right as break time ended, meant an ocean-view window seat and a table of gochu ganjajang at 10,000 won, beef brisket jjamppong at 12,000 won and a small black vinegar tangsuyuk at 28,000 won, plus free dumplings from the review event. The cooked dishes at Bueokgan Chinese run pricey, but the noodle and rice mains are cheap enough to keep bringing you back.

Written Sep 14, 2026Sponsored
Busanjin, BusanRestaurants

Two combo katsu platters at a Jeonpo-dong tonkatsu spot: Hets, Busan

Hets Jeonpo Branch is a tonkatsu (pork cutlet) restaurant on the second floor of a building on Jeonpo-daero in Busanjin, Busan. On an evening visit the special loin katsu was sold out, so the order became the Jeju black pork combo katsu and the YBD combo katsu, with loin and tenderloin compared on one plate and eaten in turn with salt, wasabi and truffle oil. If choosing a single dish feels impossible, the combo katsu at Hets Jeonpo Branch is the answer.

Written Sep 15, 2026Sponsored
Haeundae, BusanRestaurants

Meeting then family revisit, Haeundae Chinese restaurant: Bueokgan

Bueokgan Chinese Haeundae Branch is a Chinese restaurant on Dalmaji-gil 117beon-na-gil in Haeundae, Busan. After a first stop there for a business meeting, the writer came back on the weekend with his wife and second child for chili jjajangmyeon (noodles in black bean sauce), beef brisket jjamppong and sweet and sour pork in one spread. Bueokgan Chinese handles a formal client lunch and a relaxed family meal equally well.

Written Sep 15, 2026Sponsored
Jung-gu, BusanRestaurants

Stroller-friendly sushi restaurant near Nampo Station: Moshi Moshi

Moshi Moshi Sushi Lotte Department Store Gwangbok is a Japanese sushi restaurant that has spent 7 years in the 10th-floor dining hall of the Lotte Department Store Gwangbok main building in Jung-gu, Busan. Visiting early on a weekday evening with a 9-month-old baby and a stroller, the writer ordered Set 4 (18 pieces of sushi + shrimp tempura + soba) and Assorted Sushi A (10 pieces), and found the vegetable and tofu salad dressings, the thick-cut sushi and the freshly fried shrimp tempura all satisfying. With department store parking and a nursing room on the same 10th floor, Moshi Moshi Sushi Lotte Department Store Gwangbok makes eating out with a baby easy.

Written Sep 1, 2026Sponsored
Dongnae, BusanRestaurants

Dongnae sushi restaurant three-dish combo order: Moshi Moshi Sushi

Moshi Moshi Sushi, Lotte Department Store Dongnae Branch is a Japanese sushi restaurant on the 8th-floor dining floor of Lotte Department Store Dongnae, a short walk from Myeongnyun Station in Busan. Remembering a good meal at the Busan National University branch, the writer returned and ordered three dishes at once — seafood yaki udon, a sashimi set meal, and the assorted sushi A set — tasting noodles, sashimi, sushi and tempura in one sitting, with partitioned booth seats, kids' sets and baby chairs on hand. Moshi Moshi Sushi is an easy pick when you want to combine several dishes in a single visit.

Written Aug 31, 2026Sponsored
Haeundae, BusanCafés

Songjeong café for makgeolli black rice sulbbang: Suwolgyeonghwa

Suwolgyeonghwa is an ocean-view tea café on the 3rd and 4th floors of a building on Songjeong Jungang-ro 6-beon-gil in Haeundae, Busan, decorated with traditional Korean interiors. At the counter you can smell the loose tea leaves before ordering, and the writer picked Jeju Breeze (8,500 won); of the five desserts in the Dalbodeurae box (13,000 won), the makgeolli-fermented black rice sulbbang (steamed rice cake) was the best. Every seat, including the floor-seating tables on the 3rd floor, faces the sea, making Suwolgyeonghwa worth one stop on a Busan trip.

Written Sep 15, 2026Sponsored
Haeundae, BusanRestaurants

Fizz-free grapefruit and spicy clay-pot pasta in Haeundae: Bueokgan

Bueokgan Haeundae Branch is a pasta and risotto restaurant on Dalmaji-gil in Haeundae, Busan. Skipping the couple's dish set, the writer ordered à la carte — sweet potato fries at 8,000 won, a fizz-free single grapefruit drink at 4,000 won, seafood tomato clay-pot pasta at 19,000 won and abalone cream risotto at 20,000 won — and the rice-flour-battered fries and the abalone risotto, with no fishy smell, were the standouts. The seafood tomato clay-pot pasta sauce at Bueokgan is genuinely spicy, so anyone sensitive to heat should order it with care.

Written Sep 15, 2026Sponsored