a guide to 'traveleating'
Posted in dining out, food, food & travel, Korean, London, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating on Sep 7th, 2009
Background: Despite our recent Koba tweatup, Catty from The Catty Life and I were craving yet more Korean food. So after reading a positive Time Out review of new Korean restaurant Naru in Covent Garden, we decided to see what it was like. It’s a pretty space, simply decorated, and interestingly, there are no barbecue [...]
Posted in dining out, food, Korean, London, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating on Apr 28th, 2009
[UPDATE - August 2009 - here are the latest photos from a huge dinner at Koba with some fellow food bloggers] Background: When it comes to Korean restaurants in London, we’re now spoilt for choice, although it wasn’t always the case. Twenty years ago, there were only a few places in central London, highly priced [...]
Posted in dining out, England, food, Korean, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating on Apr 24th, 2009
Background: I’ve never had the chance to visit any of the Korean restaurants in New Malden, Surrey, so when Charmaine from tasty treats! suggested a trip to Sorabol, I jumped at the chance. Sorabol is one of about a dozen restaurants (and several supermarkets) catering to the large Korean community in the area. After an [...]
Posted in dining out, food, Korean, London, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating on Jan 21st, 2009
Background: After our recent experience at Leong’s Legend, I thought that my brother and I should avoid Chinatown for our next meal out. We used to eat quite a lot of Korean barbecue when we lived in Beijing over a decade ago, and as we’re both meat fanatics, I thought Korean would be a perfect [...]
Posted in dining out, food, Korean, London, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating on Jun 6th, 2008
I love eating at Koba (click for previous review), one of my favourite London restaurants. Somehow it doesn’t feel like central London, but rather an Asian metropolis. When I went for lunch recently, there was a single Korean woman, two Japanese men, and another hip couple who looked like they’d just walked off the set [...]
