Elevating Korean Taste and Style: Refined Banquet Cuisine at POOM Seoul
Creatrip Team
23 days ago
POOM Seoul, a refined restaurant recently relocated to Cheongdam-dong, showcases traditional banquet (ban-gwa) dishes plated on pristine white porcelain (baekja). Chef No Young-hee, a long-time food stylist and scholar of aristocratic household cuisine (ban-gwa), changes the seasonal course monthly to highlight fresh ingredients—this summer featuring croaker (min-eo) prepared in royal styles such as min-eo sashljeok (pan-fried alternating fish and meat), min-eo naengchae (cold salad with salted radish and perilla oil), and spicy min-eo gamjeong (stew with fish broth and gochujang). The space blends traditional craft—hanji paper lighting, embroidered chandeliers, rotating curated tableware, ceramics—with meticulous plating to present Korean culinary aesthetics. Lunch course is ₩165,000 and dinner ₩275,000 per person. (ban-gwa: traditional Korean upper-class/ceremonial cuisine; baekja: white porcelain; min-eo: croaker fish)
