Open Thread: How was your Valentine’s Day Dinner

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I hope you are all doing well today. I know that Valentine’s Day was a couple days ago, so I was wondering how was your Valentine’s Day Dinner? It’s one of the busiest nights of the year for restaurants and I would like to know which ones were good and which ones didn’t quite meet expectations. I received a couple messages stating that some of the places I listed in my Valentine’s Day Round-up weren’t… exemplary.

One such message I got mentioned a well-known Italian Restaurant in Itaewon that is…in the basement. The message said:

“Dan, I love you, but take (the name of the restaurant here) off your V-Day recommendation list, really disappointed ㅜㅜ. Just really mediocre pizza and bad tasting, small amount of overpriced pasta. just expected more from a 100,000 won meal for two.”

Anyone else have similar experiences?

I must admit, I didn’t go out that day. I was feeling a bit under the weather so I ate Ginseng and Chicken Soup, drank orange juice, and went to bed early. A perfect V-Day for me

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About the Author

Daniel

Daniel Gray is a Korean adoptee that returned to Korean in 2005 because he wanted to try and find his birth mother and to learn about Korean culture. He started a restaurant review blog in 2007, www.seouleats.com, that became a local and international hit. He and his blog has been featured in the New York Times, Monocle Magazine, The Kimchi Chronicles, Bizarre Foods, Rudy Maxa, Olive Magazine, Euronews and much more. He now is a partner at O’ngo Food Communications (www.ongofood.com), which is a culinary tourism and consulting company that offers Korean cooking classes and restaurant tours to travelers. Their food tours and cooking classes are ranked as one of the top attractions in Seoul according to tripadvisor.