The best Korean restaurants in New York City — 18 ranked picks across the city, with ratings, dishes and live availability.
18 picksThe 18 best Korean restaurants in New York City, ranked. Atomix takes the top spot at 4.9 stars, and JUA is the one the most people have weighed in on — 7,152 reviews. If you only order one thing, make it the full tasting menu (no à la carte) at Atomix. They are spread across 11 neighborhoods, so there is probably one near you. Prices run the whole way from $ counters to $$$$ rooms. 6 of the 18 take online reservations, and the live availability badge on each card shows what is actually open tonight.
New York City has 18 Korean restaurants on our list, spread across 11 neighborhoods.
Junghyun Park's two-Michelin-star Korean tasting counter in NoMad — the most refined Korean fine dining in America
Must-try: Full tasting menu (no à la carte), Seasonal Korean ingredient courses, The finisher dessert sequence
📍 104 E 30th St, New York, NY 10016
Korean in Flatiron — 4.8 on Resy across 7,152 diner reviews
📍 36 E 22nd St, New York, NY 10010
Korean in Flatiron — 4.8 on Resy across 6,229 diner reviews
Must-try: 5-course prix fixe, Oysters and pork belly, Chili-lobster ramyun
📍 17 W 19th St, New York, NY 10011
Korean in Midtown — 4.7 on Resy across 4,145 diner reviews
Must-try: Dweji gomtang, Kimchi mandoo
📍 13 East 30th St, New York, NY 10016
upscale anju and banju operating in a lane of its own
Must-try: Bluefin tuna tartare with caviar, Dakgalbi kimchi-bap, Anju
📍 84 Stanton St, New York, NY 10002
A fifteen-seat Hell's Kitchen counter serving a Korean hand-roll tasting menu — one Michelin star
Must-try: Kimbap hand rolls, Wagyu course, Seasonal banchan
📍 679 9th Ave, New York, NY 10036
Korean barbecue with private karaoke rooms in the back — the default Brooklyn birthday
Must-try: Grilled galbi, Kimchi fried rice, Tteokbokki
📍 328 Douglass St, Brooklyn, NY 11217
The Park siblings' accessible Korean tasting menu in NoMad — $75 for four banchan-inspired courses, from the team behind two-Michelin-star Atomix
Must-try: Four-course set menu ($75 per person), Fried chicken, Any banchan rotation with rice
📍 43 E 28th St, New York, NY 10016
A Michelin-starred Korean-Chinese tasting menu in Koreatown — Jiho Kim's precise, personal cooking
Must-try: Tasting menu, Jjajang course, Seasonal dessert
📍 312 5th Ave, New York, NY 10001
A Michelin-starred Korean tasting menu in Long Island City — fermentation-driven cooking from chef Hooni Kim
Must-try: Tasting menu, House-fermented jang, Seasonal seafood
📍 5-28 49th Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101
A Michelin-starred Korean tasting menu built entirely on skewers — nine courses in a narrow Hell's Kitchen room
Must-try: The full skewer tasting menu, Beverage pairing with Korean spirits, Seasonal banchan course
📍 652 10th Ave, New York, NY 10036
Koreatown's house-made tofu specialist since 1996 — soft tofu stews and a menu that predates the block's turnover
Must-try: Handmade tofu combination, Kimchi jjigae, Seafood pancake
📍 55 W 35th St, New York, NY 10001
Korean cooking in Park Slope named for Jeju's diving women — one of Brooklyn's strongest Korean kitchens
Must-try: Seafood pancake, Bossam, Korean fried chicken
📍 239 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Modern Korean cooking on North 6th Street — a Williamsburg room with real ambition behind the pass
Must-try: Banchan spread, Grilled fish, Seasonal tasting
📍 22 N 6th St, Brooklyn, NY 11249
A shoes-off vegetarian Korean temple restaurant off Fifth Avenue — quiet, meditative, and thirty years running
Must-try: Mountain root medley, Tofu clay pot, Pumpkin porridge
📍 12 E 32nd St, New York, NY 10016
Second-floor Koreatown grill with charcoal fires and thick pork jowl — the 32nd Street benchmark
Must-try: Thick-cut pork jowl, Marinated short rib, Soybean paste stew
📍 22 W 32nd St, Fl 2, New York, NY 10001
set meals inspired by the old-school diners of Korea
Must-try: Sweet bulgogi, Charred spicy pork, Seasonal sides
📍 205 Allen St, New York, NY 10002
a Busan-inspired room from the Atoboy team leaning hard into coastal seafood
Must-try: Bibimbap with uni cream, DIY gimbap with scallops, Octopus sook-hwe
📍 119 1st Ave, New York, NY 10003
Atomix — 4.9 stars across 1,400 reviews, the highest on this list. Junghyun Park's two-Michelin-star Korean tasting counter in NoMad — the most refined Korean fine dining in America.
OKDONGSIK at $$ — 4.7 stars without the $$$$ bill. 5 of the 18 restaurants on this page are $$ or under.
6 of the 18 book online — Atomix, JUA and Oiji Mi among them. The rest are walk-in or phone-only. Each card here shows live availability for tonight where the restaurant publishes it.
Koreatown, with 4 on this list, followed by NoMad with 2. In total these 18 picks span 11 neighborhoods.
Ratings and review volume decide the order, but the list itself is drawn from restaurants people actually post about — 16 of the 18 here have a TikTok attached to their card. Every entry is checked as open before it ships.