Chorokddeul - Green Field

Green Field is awesome! It’s the best authentic Korean restaurant in Seoul AND its vegan. There’s classic floor seating, plants everywhere, and Korean TV dramas going on in the background. The ladies who work there are so sweet. They dont speak any English but they try to help you any way they can. It's a very homey environment. You definitely feel warm and welcomed. And the food… OH MY GOD! You get not one but TWO different types of kimchi (white and red). Everything there is wholesome and delicious. They have everything from dumplings, stuffed mushrooms, and mungbean jelly, to lotus wrapped rice and giant soups to share. The perilla soup is my all time favourite! I highly recommend it. Its cute but they always bring a bowl of popcorn for dessert too. Its all so cheap, 100% vegan, delicious Korean food and everything is homemade. I bring all my veggie friends and omni-family members from abroad and they all love it.

It is a bit confusing to get to the first time you go. It’s definitely a hidden treasure but well worth the hunt.

The only down sides are that they are closed on Fridays and Saturdays. Ive also provided a rough translation of the menu in happycows pictures above. The menu at the resto is all in Korean so I highly recommend you save the translated version on you phone so you know what to order when you get there.


Updated from previous review on 2016-10-10

Thanks for the directions and the photographs - without careful study of both, I would never have found this great place!

Everything the previous reviewer rburrke said is correct. I phoned first, and they confirmed they were open. When you are just about to give up, you see a doorway leading to some stairs, and up you go! In traditional Korean style, your take your shoes off when you enter (I'm glad I didn't have holy socks on!) I was offered a menu only in Korean characters, but the lady sat next to me was able to translate and advise. At 6 pm it was already too late to have fried, vegetable stuffed, pastry parcels, but I could have steamed ones (thanks again to the kind lady sat next to me for negotiating that!). They were great, but surpassed by the spicy vegetables with noodles, which combined some really interesting flavours.

Kimchi and popcorn seemed to be given free (but as any vegan in Korea for any length of time will tell you, you can have too much Kimchi - and often it seems that is all you will get!)

I went on a Saturday at 1:30pm. The opening hours said 11am to 8pm (11am - 3pm Fridays). The door was locked so I'm not sure if the restaurant is open. There were lots of healthy looking plants on the stairwell so it didn't look abandoned, also all the signs were still up.