The Nines is a luxury hotel in the heart of downtown Portland. It houses two restaurants – Departure (modern Asian fare) and The Urban Farmer (a modern steakhouse). As part of Raswan’s last hurrah in Oregon, we had lunch at the Urban Farmer, an atrium restaurant with a seven-story skylight. Check out this link for [...]
Continue reading...19. October 2008
What wonderful things can I say about Star Chef restaurant that hasn’t already been said by FatManSeoul or ZenKimchi? I wholeheartedly agree with them – the restaurant is fantastic. Yesterday, I was reading ZenKimchi’s blog and came upon his Star Chef post. Since the food looked amazing, and we were going to be in the [...]
Continue reading...13. July 2008
I met up with Barbara and Amy at 1:00pm yesterday at the Seoul Museum of Art. Amy is a docent for the Chun Kyung-ja exhibition, and gives a guided tour in English at 1pm every Saturday and Sunday. Including me, there were seven of us on the tour, which lasted about 20 minutes. For those [...]
Continue reading...23. August 2007
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 [...]
Continue reading...22. February 2007
I had a delicious dinner tonight! Who knew there were so many restaurants in Reardon’s neighborhood? This is the first time I’ve grilled chicken like this in Korea. Usually at a restaurant, you grill pork or beef. Chicken doesn’t seem to be a popular grilling meat. Six chicken thighs were de-boned and marinated in a dakalbi-like [...]
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28. July 2009
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