When an area of a city builds a reputation for hosting the best restaurants for a particular cuisine, the neighborhood lets you know. Just like Chinatown, K-town (Koreatown) is rife with unbelievable Korean fare. Here, you'll find the best of the best, both in K-town and around the five boroughs.
This attractive Korean-style ssam bar serving "delicious American food" is owned by the brilliant minds behind nearby Momofuku. Momofuku Ssam also proudly offers one of the only menus in New York City that boldly proclaims: We do not serve vegetarian friendly items. We are partic...
207 Second Ave. (East 13th St.)Who could resist the multiple sensory pleasures of Korean barbecue: the spicy salty flavors and the combination of textures and temperatures, not to mention the hands-on fun of going through a pile of lettuce leaves, wrapping your own little barbecue "sandwiches"?
35 W 35th St Fl 8Koreatown BBQ staple since 1983. Open 24 hours, for those that crave a little bibimbap at 3.30am.
1250 Broadway (32nd St.)Providing a well-curated menu of healthy vegetarian offerings, this Koreatown haunt is a veritable shrine to vegetarian cuisine with a decidedly and not unexpected Asian milieu. Aside from ensuring that meat doesn't get past the door, Hangawi offers one of the best selections of ...
12 E 32nd St (bet. 5th & Madison Aves.)One of Koreatown's most reliable restaurants, Kunjip does business around-the-clock, with a particularly compelling lunch menu that's affordable and satisfying.
9 West 32nd StreetRed Hook can feel like a little village of outcasts and artists. Artisans who forgo the bushy beards and twill of their more self-conscious brethren in Williamsburg. Well, paradise for these bohos is The Good Fork. Beloved down to earth Asian influenced eatery from chef Sohui Kim...
391 Van Brunt StIn-house restaurant at the Wythe Hotel, with Andrew Tarlow bringing "whole-animal, wood-fired cooking" to the table.
80 Wythe AveWildly popular Korean food in the middle of Koreatown. Fortunately stays open late - and the later you go the more raucous the crowd. Ambience driven by K-pop beats, green fish nets tenting the dining area and nearly every table ordering up watermelon sawa, a hollowed-out hal...
15 West 32nd Street (5th Ave)Fast food-style burgers served laden with irony in Williamsburg.
160 Havermeyer St