Recommend me a good Korean restaurant in San Francisco, please.

July 5, 2007 6:31 PM

I'd like some recommendations for Korean restaurants in San Francisco.

Preferably, but not mandatory, the following would apply:
1) Close to the Mission (Dolores Park area)
2) Freaking amazing kimchi
3) Mulnengmyun on the menu
4) Tastes like what I had when I lived in Korea, not augmented for American tastes.

Thanks!

posted by BuddhaInABucket to Food & Drink (4 answers total)

Japantown. I've only been to the one next to Soko Interiors with the big old doors, but my Korean friend who recommended it to me didn't seem to think any of the obvious ones around there were worth dissuading me from. In the Mission you're probably only gonna get Hahn's Hibachi or some other kind of pan-Asian place that has your choice of bibambap, sushi and chow mein. The Outer Mission is a better candidate for specifically regional food and I don't think there's a Korean restaurant on the strip there around 30th.
posted by rhizome at 7:33 PM on July 5, 2007

Han Il Kwan on Balboa x 19th (Outer Richmond) is popular with my friends. Not sure if they have mul naeng myun.

The only places I know that have mul naeng myun are in Oakland (Pyung Chang) and Santa Clara (Seoul Gom Tang, Cho Sun Myun Oak).
posted by junesix at 11:04 PM on July 5, 2007

Try Brother's. Not exactly in the Mission, but still good.
posted by chlorus at 4:19 PM on July 6, 2007

Second Brother's. That's the go to place for my parents and all their friends and families.
posted by like_neon at 6:27 AM on July 12, 2007