The story
Bobos Hannam sits in the Hannam district of Seoul, one of the city's most quietly sophisticated neighbourhoods, and it has earned recognition that reaches well beyond Korea's borders. In 2025, Wine Spectator granted the restaurant its Best of Award of Excellence — a distinction reserved for establishments that demonstrate serious depth and breadth in their wine programs, paired with a kitchen worthy of the bottle.
The restaurant works at the intersection of Italian and Korean cooking, two traditions that share a deep respect for seasonal ingredients, fermentation, and the kind of hospitality that makes a guest feel genuinely looked after. That convergence is not a gimmick here — it is the organizing principle of the menu, where Italian technique and Korean instinct inform each other course by course.
The Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence is not handed out lightly. It signals a list that goes beyond the expected, offering real range across regions and vintages, and curated with enough care to complement a kitchen that moves between two distinct culinary traditions. For a dinner-only destination in Seoul, that level of recognition places Bobos Hannam in rare company.
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