Korean Restaurant

Choosing a downtown restaurant often comes down to whether you can walk to it afterward, and Korean Restaurant answers that easily from 280 Bernard Avenue, close enough to the waterfront parks that a meal and a stroll along the lake fit into the same evening.

Korean cooking covers a great deal of ground, and no two kitchens draw the same line through it. Grilled dishes, stews, noodles and rice plates all belong to the tradition, and one place may build around a grill while another does nothing of the sort. If you have not been in before, ask what the kitchen leans toward and how the heat levels run, since spice is pitched differently from one kitchen to the next. Groups should ask whether dishes are meant to be shared, because that changes how much to order, and anyone with an evening on the waterfront planned afterward should ask how long a table usually takes.