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

Yongin, GyeonggiRestaurants

Easy parking kalguksu near Korean Folk Village: Yubok Kalguksu

Yubok Kalguksu Yongin Korean Folk Village Branch is a pufferfish-broth seafood kalguksu (knife-cut noodle soup) restaurant right beside the Korean Folk Village in Yongin, Gyeonggi. The writer drove over, parked in the spaces around the restaurant, and ordered the pufferfish seafood kalguksu set together with the baby octopus and chive seafood pancake. Between the house-made noodles, the clean pufferfish broth and a chive pancake packed with seafood, Yubok Kalguksu is an easy recommendation for the last meal of a Folk Village day out.

Written Sep 14, 2026Sponsored
Anyang, GyeonggiCafés

Anyang dessert café with fig dessert and almond cream latte: Eggroom

Eggroom is a brunch and dessert café on the Dongpyeon-maeul café street in Anyang, Gyeonggi. On a weekend visit there was no wait at all — a table right away — and one order covered shakshuka, an egg tart, a seasonal fig dessert and an almond cream latte. Eggroom suits a day when you want a meal and dessert in one sitting instead of moving to a second café.

Written Sep 14, 2026Sponsored
Gapyeong, GyeonggiRestaurants

Italian pasta restaurant at Gapyeong Market with jambon salad: Pinoli

Pinoli is an Italian home-style pasta restaurant on the first floor of Startup Economy Town inside Gapyeong Market in Gapyeong, Gyeonggi. Visiting for a late brunch with a friend, we ordered the Pinoli salad with jambon ham, the signature Pinoli pasta, and the homemade meatball garlic fried rice, and the homemade yeolmu (young summer radish) pickles and truffle butter were just as memorable. If you want something other than dakgalbi in Gapyeong, Pinoli is a great choice.

Written Sep 14, 2026Sponsored
Yongin, GyeonggiRestaurants

Suji noodle restaurant for perilla oil soba and rib mandu: Chilseong

Chilseong Jemyeonso Suji Main Branch is a noodle restaurant on Seongbok1-ro in Seongbok-dong, Suji-gu, Yongin, Gyeonggi, with 33 noodle dishes and set menus that pair a noodle dish with pork cutlet. On a weekend lunch a married couple shared the perilla oil buckwheat soba set and the Chilseong bibim jjolmyeon set, adding grilled short rib fried mandu, and rated the washbasin-sized jjolmyeon bowl and the mild, unaggressive perilla oil soba the highlights. With free parking in the building's lot, baby chairs and a self-serve bar, Chilseong Jemyeonso Suji Main Branch suits both a couples' date and a family meal.

Written Sep 14, 2026Sponsored
Gwacheon, GyeonggiRestaurants

Gwacheon shabu-shabu restaurant with no break time: Cheongnok Minari

Cheongnok Minari Restaurant Gwacheon is a minari (water celery) shabu-shabu restaurant on the 2nd floor of Gwacheon Hillstate Building A, by Exit 11 of Gwacheon Government Complex Station in Gyeonggi. On a Saturday visit at 3:30pm, half-and-half shabu-shabu for three (15,900 won per person) and meatball dumplings (2,000 won) came with unlimited vegetables from the self-serve bar, finished with congee in the clear broth and kalguksu noodles in the spicy one. With no break time and hours of 11:00-21:30 daily, Cheongnok Minari Restaurant Gwacheon works even when you miss the usual meal window.

Written Sep 14, 2026Sponsored
Yangju, GyeonggiRestaurants

Corkage-free dakgalbi restaurant in Yangju: Seorak Makguksu

Seorak Makguksu Chuncheon Dakgalbi Yangju Branch is a charcoal-grilled dakgalbi (spicy grilled chicken) and makguksu (cold buckwheat noodle) restaurant on Mansong-ro in Yangju, Gyeonggi. Arriving right after the afternoon break, the writer and a partner ordered charcoal dakgalbi for two (32,000 won), buckwheat jeonbyeong (9,000 won) and both water and bibim dessert makguksu (12,000 won), and the thigh-only chicken stayed tender with a gentle smoky note. Seorak Makguksu Chuncheon Dakgalbi is corkage-free, so the writer plans to return with a bottle of their own.

Written Sep 14, 2026Sponsored
Paju, GyeonggiRestaurants

Paju mandu restaurant, 51,000 won lunch for three: Bubyeokjeong

Bubyeokjeong Pyeongyang Mandu is a Pyeongyang-style mandu (dumpling) and makguksu (buckwheat noodle) restaurant on Jimok-ro in Paju, Gyeonggi. On a weekday visit at 1pm with parents, one Pyeongyang bibim makguksu, two Pyeongyang mandu soups and a half plate of arongsatae (beef shank) suyuk came to 51,000 won for three, and five flat mandu left everyone completely full. The seasoning at Bubyeokjeong Pyeongyang Mandu is mild rather than salty, making it an easy choice for a family meal out with parents.

Written Sep 14, 2026Sponsored
Seongnam, GyeonggiRestaurants

Seongnam Korean restaurant: bossam set for one with minari pancake

Bossam Ae Kalguksu Seongnam Sangdaewon Branch is a Korean restaurant serving gabrisal (pork jowl) bossam and kalguksu noodles on Geumsang-ro in Jungwon-gu, Seongnam. A couple visited early on a weekend evening and ordered the bossam set for one with a seafood minari (water dropwort) pancake and egg porridge, plus unlimited rice refills and a self-bar with salted shrimp and cheongyang peppers. The clean-tasting gabrisal and crisp seafood pancake at Bossam Ae Kalguksu were enough to guarantee a return visit.

Written Sep 14, 2026Sponsored
Goyang, GyeonggiHair & beauty salons

Goyang hair salon for brown-to-black tone-down dye: Hair Onsae

Hair Onsae is a hair salon in Pungdong, Goyang, Gyeonggi, a one-minute walk from Pungsan Station and open 10:00 to 20:00. Stylist Soyoung toned down grown-out brown hair to a natural black, with about 30 minutes of processing after the dye was applied, followed by a shampoo. One week later the color at Hair Onsae was still a calm black with no fading, making it a solid pick for long-lasting black dye.

Written Sep 14, 2026Sponsored
Osan, GyeonggiRestaurants

Kid-friendly Osan sushi restaurant with an egg rice bowl: Special

Special Sushi Osan Branch is a conveyor-belt sushi restaurant on the second floor along Seongho-daero in Osan, Gyeonggi. On a dinner visit with a friend and a four-year-old, the wait was 15 minutes before counter seats opened up, and the table covered flounder, yukhoe (raw beef) sushi and fried shrimp plus an egg rice bowl for the child, with basic plates at 1,890 won each and about 30,000 won for two people eating their fill. Special Sushi Osan Branch has a wait even at dinner, so allow extra time.

Written Sep 14, 2026Sponsored
Gwangmyeong, GyeonggiHair & beauty salons

Gwangmyeong hair salon root dye and RE:X 4-step clinic: Maple Hair

Maple Hair Gwangmyeong Sageori Station Branch is a second-floor hair salon a 3-minute walk from Exit 3 of Gwangmyeong Sageori Station in Gyeonggi. The writer arrived with hair left dry by repeated coloring and had a premium root dye plus the Clinic B Set (RE:X 4-step clinic), and the new roots matched the already-colored hair in one even tone rather than reading as a separate shade. Hair that had been hard to comb through ended up smooth, making Maple Hair a repeat candidate even for a self-described salon nomad.

Written Sep 14, 2026Sponsored
Suwon, GyeonggiCafés

Mangpo Station café with cream cheese toast and einspänner: Hongrad

Hongrad Mangpo Station Branch is a café and dessert shop on the 4th floor of the Nonghyup building by Mangpo Station in Suwon, Gyeonggi, fitted out with an American-style interior. On this solo visit the order was Hongrad toast, an einspänner and omija tea (five-flavor berry tea); the toast leans hard on cream cheese, so anyone lukewarm about cheese may prefer the brownie or kaya toast. With sofa seats along the floor-to-ceiling windows, self-serve water and a clean restroom, Hongrad Mangpo Station Branch has become a hangout worth losing count of visits to.

Written Sep 14, 2026Sponsored