Bloom in the Palace Seoulsquare — Restaurant in Seoul

Located close to Seoul Station, this restaurant is highly rated and is good for what it is - a multi-course Korean meal at a decent price.

I was able to get a table without a reservation for dinner at this bright and spacious establishment. Looks more casual than fine dining. Each table has an electronic tablet for a menu and can be set to English mode. The staff also speak some English.

While some a la carte options exist, I assume they want you to order the set meals, which consist of their "top tier", and some smaller options that just have the same food but fewer courses.

The food was good enough, and I would say delivered at a better level than Korean restaurants overseas (except for the much pricier ones in NYC aiming to get on the Michelin guide). Some are decorated elaborately and others are more plain. Plenty of vegetables. The banchan was ok, though I would have liked a different selection when we finished the first batch and they brought the same thing again.

I had a good experience and don't regret my visit, but I'm not sure the menu has enough other options for me to try if I went...

Lovely service; food was tasty and wonderfully presented. Genuinely a great value-for-money given the quality and quantity. I ordered the 79000w set meal and it was extremely filling. While I enjoyed everything in the set, I particularly liked the omelette, noodles and the juice (dessert).

If I had to nitpick, the seaweed (from the yukhoe & seaweed soup) tasted quite fishy. Most of the courses involved beef which felt a little greasy after a while. Of course, this was also a fantastic showcase of the many ways they were able to utilise a...

Excellent experience at this restaurant. We ordered the 79,000 and 99,000 meals. Servers were attentive, and one of them did an amazing job presenting the food to us in English. I was personally not a fan of the salad and the sorbet was okay but everything else was...