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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 4,472 restaurants
Best restaurants in Seoul
The 10 most notable restaurants in Seoul, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
LOTTERIA Seoul Station
405 Hangang-daero
52 m from Seoul Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.416, percentile 100 of 4,472
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2
Gucci Osteria Seoul da Massimo Bottura
5F, #462 Apgujeong-ro, Gangnam-gu, Gangnam-gu
426 m from Itaewon Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.416, percentile 99.98 of 4,472
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3
고래불
역삼1동 828-53
554 m from Yeoksam Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.414, percentile 99.96 of 4,472
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4
뚜띠쿠치나 공덕점
공덕동 249-36
460 m from Gongdeok Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.413, percentile 99.93 of 4,472
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5
파파이스 광화문점
종로구 새문안로 91, 광화문 고려빌딩 1층
205 m from Gwanghwamun Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.411, percentile 99.91 of 4,472
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6
Wolfgang’s Steakhouse Korea
강남구 선릉로152길 21
371 m from Apgujeong Rodeo Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.410, percentile 99.89 of 4,472
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7
Linus BBQ
136-13 Itaewon-ro
286 m from Noksapyeong Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.408, percentile 99.87 of 4,472
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8
Braai Republic
19 Itaewon-ro 14-gil
298 m from Itaewon Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.408, percentile 99.84 of 4,472
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9
파파이스 강남점
서울시 서초구 강남대로 341 삼원빌딩
545 m from Gangnam Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.408, percentile 99.82 of 4,472
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10
Tongue & Groove Joint
용산구 보광로60길 7
74 m from Itaewon Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.407, percentile 99.8 of 4,472
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).