Hae Woon Dae

Hae Woon Dae Restaurant Review:

Hae Woon Dae's Korean barbecue is cooked over charcoal rather than the more common gas. Cold noodle dishes, seafood pancakes, stews and other classics of Korean cuisine also have contributed to keeping the place open for a couple of decades (prices have zoomed, to almost $30 per person). We recommend the short ribs or bulgogi (marinated strips of beef), the pork belly and the squid. A staffer will bring a bucket of hot coals to place in the table’s center, then return to barbecue your meat, snip it into bite-size morsels with scissors and guide you to roll up the meat in lettuce leaves along with condiments, a few of which may be quite hot. The little dishes that appear after you order might include some very good pickled daikon, kimchi and other vegetable-based nibbles, all made in-house. If dining late, check out the more reasonably priced soups; try the clear broth with clams and seaweed. Beer is the quaff of choice, or a bracing hot tea.