Must-see restaurants in North Korea

  • Lamb Barbecue Restaurant

    Pyongyang

    The Lamb Barbecue Restaurant has some of the friendliest and most boisterous staff in the country. Once the delicious lamb barbecue has been served at…

  • Pyongyang Number One Duck Barbeque

    Pyongyang

    Pyongyang Number One Duck Barbeque is one of the best places in town and will often be where groups go on their last evening. Here you’ll be served…

  • Ryongwang Coffee Shop

    Pyongyang

    Right in the centre of the city, just off Kim Il-sung Sq, is this joint-venture project set up by Austrian investors in partnership with North Koreans. It…

  • Chongryu Hotpot Restaurant

    Pyongyang

    The Chongryu Hotpot Restaurant is nearly always on the itinerary. It’s a pleasant place where you make your own hotpot dish on little individual gas…

  • Okryu

    Pyongyang

    Okryu, the most famous restaurant in North Korea, is a faux-traditional structure on the riverside that’s famed for its cold noodles and very popular with…

  • Italian Restaurant

    Pyongyang

    Pyongyang’s imaginatively named first pizza joint caused a sensation when it opened in 2009 after Kim Jong-il reportedly sent a team of chefs to Italy to…

  • Pyulmori

    Pyongyang

    Pyulmori is an innovative project run by a charity supplying food to local orphanages and is made up of a restaurant, coffee shop and bar. You can get…

More destinations you need to see