Last weekend, we went with Reardon to a tapas restaurant, El Plato.  It’s located on the side street across from “Tea Purple” in Hongdae.  Phone #: 02-325-3515.  The sign on the door said, “Taste Amazing Spanish Food.”  We knew not to get our hopes up, but you know what?  The food was DELICIOUS!  The cooks even knew how to properly cook the tuna and beef steaks.  The three of us had all been to Spain, and were really impressed.  We even gave our compliments to the owner, Kim Chan-hyuk.  He told us he had sent his chefs to Spain for 3 months to study the food there before opening his restaurant.  The food was very good, but I will warn you, the prices were a little on the high side.  Authentic tapas are hard to come by in Korea, so you get what you pay for.  For example, my large glass of sangria was 9,000, the tuna steak was 7,900, and the chorizo was 5,300.  Click on the pictures to see more prices.

El Plato would be a once-in-awhile, treat yourself nice, kind of restaurant.  It’s definitely worth it, though.  The three of us almost spent 100,000 that night.  That included 6 glasses of house wine and 1 sangria.

Afterwards, we visited another bar on the same street.  Peering in, you could easily see people dipping their feet in the cool water.  We went in for at least one drink.

Reardon tried to get ME to chat up these Korean girls so he could then make a movie.  First of all, I can’t speak enough Korean to hit on Korean girls.  And second, I’m not your wing man!  The girl next to Reardon is cute though, isn’t she?

Yup, it’s time to go home.