Hoban Korean BBQ
Tabletop grills, a long list of marinated meats, and a generous spread of banchan. The room runs late, which has made it a regular stop for the after-work and pre-show crowds.
Read full entry →The Korean scene in the metro is smaller than the Vietnamese one but has its own anchors. A two-block stretch of Snelling Avenue in St. Paul’s Hamline-Midway is essentially a small Koreatown, and there is a proper tabletop-grilling room in Uptown. Bring a group.
Tabletop grills, a long list of marinated meats, and a generous spread of banchan. The room runs late, which has made it a regular stop for the after-work and pre-show crowds.
Read full entry →Tucked in the back of a Korean grocery store, this counter turns out some of the most direct Korean cooking in the metro. Soups, stews, and stone-bowl bibimbap, all priced like a neighborhood lunch.
Read full entry →A second-generation spot on Snelling with a long menu and a small, warm room. Bibimbap, soondubu, and bulgogi are the easy orders, and the banchan rotation is always interesting.
Read full entry →Steps from Mirror of Korea in St. Paul’s small Koreatown stretch. Dolsot bibimbap, jjigae, and kimbap, made with care and served in a quiet sit-down room.
Read full entry →A south-metro destination for tabletop grilling, popular with groups. The all-you-can-eat menu is the move, and the marinated short rib is what people come back for.
Read full entry →Chef Jeffery Watson’s contemporary Korean room in Northeast, with the more casual Pikok Lounge sharing the space and its own menu. The kitchen treats Korean cooking with real ambition, and the lounge does upscale fare at prices Axios called a bargain. Dinner only.
Read full entry →A longtime tradition-focused room near the University on Oak Street. No frills, no tabletop grills, just a deep menu of the standards cooked the way regulars expect. Closed Sundays. The kind of place that has outlasted most of its neighbors.
Read full entry →A small spot near campus built around soondubu, the bubbling soft-tofu stew that comes to the table still boiling. The curry soondubu and the lunch bulgogi specials are the orders, and it is exactly what you want on a cold Minnesota day.
Read full entry →The Uptown outpost of the global Korean fried chicken chain, on West Lake Street. The double-fried chicken comes glazed in soy garlic or the gochujang-based secret sauce, and it holds up to the hype that brought the chain stateside. Good for a group, better with beer.
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