The Ministry of Agriculture, Meals and Rural Affairs and the Korean Meals Promotion Institute introduced Monday that they’ve designated seven new eating places in Singapore, Los Angeles and Paris as excellent Korean eating places.
The excellent Korean restaurant program evaluates abroad institutions primarily based on the general high quality of their Korean delicacies, service requirements, hygiene administration and using Korean elements to advertise Korean meals tradition worldwide.
These eating places are chosen by a rigorous screening course of to spice up native customers’ belief in Korean meals and to strengthen the worldwide picture of Ok-food by highlighting the authenticity of Korean culinary strategies and cultural ambiance.
“The excellent Korean restaurant program is enjoying a big position as a world model representing Korean delicacies,” the ministry stated.
“We plan to develop the variety of designated eating places abroad to 100 by 2030 to additional improve the worldwide competitiveness of Korean delicacies and help Ok-food exports.”
Assorted beef from Soowon Galbi / Display Captured from Soowon Galbi’s Instagram
This 12 months, evaluations have been carried out throughout 27 standards, ensuing within the choice of seven exemplary institutions: Singapore’s Nae:um, Seoul Restaurant and Um Yong Baek; Los Angeles’ Baroo, Daedo Sikdang and Soowon Galbi; and Paris’ Quickly Grill Champs-Elysees.
Nae:um in Singapore attracts inspiration from Korean elements and cooking strategies, providing artistic dishes reminiscent of tomato dongchimi (water kimchi), buckwheat noodles, chogye (chilly hen soup), brief ribs and candy rice muffins. It has earned worldwide acclaim, receiving one Michelin star since 2022 and rating 73rd on Asia’s 50 Greatest Eating places in 2024.
Seoul Restaurant provides refined Korean-style grilled delicacies, that includes beef, stews, pancakes and japchae (stir-fried glass noodles). The institution highlights conventional Korean aesthetics by using vintage furnishings and ornamental components that create a sublime and cultural ambiance.
Um Yong Baek, the Singapore department of the well-known Busan eatery Um Yong Baek Dwaejigukbap, serves signature dishes reminiscent of pork soup, grilled pork, soy sauce noodles and perilla oil buckwheat noodles. Its conventional Korean-inspired inside, that includes ground seating and eaves, evokes a way of homestyle consolation.
Baroo in Los Angeles reinterprets Korea’s fermentation tradition in a contemporary approach with dishes like lobster doenjang, soy-braised black cod, brief ribs and rice with namul (a wide range of greens). It was named the LA Instances’ Restaurant of the Yr in 2024 and featured on The All-Time Eater 38 listing in 2025.
A photograph of Quickly Grill Champs-Elysees in Paris / Captured from Quickly Grill Champs-Elysees’ Instagram
Daedo Sikdang, the LA department of the famend Seoul barbecue institution, makes a speciality of genuine Korean-style grilled beef, providing marinated brief ribs, bulgogi and kimchi fried rice, preserving the flavors of conventional Korean delicacies.
Soowon Galbi offers an immersive Korean barbecue expertise with grilling stations and premium meat. The restaurant was listed within the 2024 Michelin Information.
Quickly Grill Champs-Elysees in Paris is a high-end Korean barbecue restaurant that includes dishes reminiscent of bulgogi, beef and pork ribs, japchae and stews, catering to a various worldwide clientele searching for genuine Korean flavors.
The designated eating places will obtain official plaques and luxuriate in numerous advantages, together with help with promotional content material for home and worldwide advertising and help in buying Korean elements and tableware.
Since 2022, a complete of 23 institutions have been designated for this system throughout a number of cities, together with New York, Los Angeles, Paris, London and Tokyo.
