[REVIEW] Seoul Restaurant
Oct. 31st, 2005 09:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldI was hungry for Korean food this evening, and so my disembarkment at the Bathurst TTC was predictable. What wasn't predictable was my chance encounter with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
talktooloose's gang that ended up with me joining them and talktooloose at Seoul Restaurant (621 Bloor Street West). I'd passed the restaurant on the street before, but I just hadn't gotten around to eating there. It looked bright, and expensive, and I'd come to prefer the simpler decoration of Um Ji Bunsik and its kin.
Once inside, I was pleased to find out that my initial misapprehensions were false. The price of Seoul's pork bone soup was in the same range as Um Ji Bunsik's. More to the point, I'd underestimated the effects that some visual variegation--a soothing yet energizing pale yellow shade of paint on the walls, a brightly-lit room--could have on diners. Um Ji Bunsik is somewhat utilitarian, cafeteria-style, and this is still good for certain purposes. When you want to chat at length with people you've not seen in months, and feel comfortable doing it, you want something like Seoul Restaurant.
The pork bone soup, incidentally, was good. There wasn't the same quantity of side dishes that I'd come to expect, but the soup was excellent. It wasn't as hot as a normally have it, but since I tend to have mild allergic reactions while eating the pork bone soup of the purs et durs this is probably a good thing. Now I've a good Korean restaurant for dates.
talktooloose's gang that ended up with me joining them and talktooloose at Seoul Restaurant (621 Bloor Street West). I'd passed the restaurant on the street before, but I just hadn't gotten around to eating there. It looked bright, and expensive, and I'd come to prefer the simpler decoration of Um Ji Bunsik and its kin.Once inside, I was pleased to find out that my initial misapprehensions were false. The price of Seoul's pork bone soup was in the same range as Um Ji Bunsik's. More to the point, I'd underestimated the effects that some visual variegation--a soothing yet energizing pale yellow shade of paint on the walls, a brightly-lit room--could have on diners. Um Ji Bunsik is somewhat utilitarian, cafeteria-style, and this is still good for certain purposes. When you want to chat at length with people you've not seen in months, and feel comfortable doing it, you want something like Seoul Restaurant.
The pork bone soup, incidentally, was good. There wasn't the same quantity of side dishes that I'd come to expect, but the soup was excellent. It wasn't as hot as a normally have it, but since I tend to have mild allergic reactions while eating the pork bone soup of the purs et durs this is probably a good thing. Now I've a good Korean restaurant for dates.
