Food
Local ingredients with global ambitions
For its final installment, "Bite Into Busan" highlights two standout restaurants that blend artistry, innovation and local flavor. Each stop appears in both the Michelin Guide and Taste of Busan, and is known for signature dishes that showcase the city's evolving culinary identity.
This finale explores contemporary cuisine, a style that reinvents tradition through creative technique. Chefs build on familiar flavors while pushing boundaries with bold ideas, inventive pairings and elegant, often dramatic plating. The result is a multisensory experience that honors heritage while embracing modern expression.
The lobster at Palate is grilled over charcoal and served with a lobster bisque sauce.
Hanwoo steak at Palate.
Spanish mackerel at Palate.
■Palate (팔레트)
At Palate, a one-Michelin-starred restaurant atop Dalmaji-gil, Chef Jae-hoon Kim applies his classic French training and global perspective to local ingredients.
Kim's menu showcases the abundance of Busan's high-quality ingredients; local kelp flavors his butter and ice cream, the seafood is from the ocean outside Palate's windows and his signature duck is sourced from a farm in nearby Gimhae.
* Address: 3F, 154 Dalmaji-gil 65beon-gil, Haeundae-gu
* Hours: Open for lunch, noon to 3 p.m. Open for dinner, 6 to 10 p.m. Last order at 7 p.m. Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.
* Menu: Lunch Course 88,000 won; Dinner Course 200,000 won
Black pig pasta served in a rich pork broth at Le Dorer.
Duck noodles from Le Dorer.
Cucumber sorbet from Le Dorer.
The dessert course at Le Dorer includes chocolate walnuts, fig bonbons and cookie sandwiches.
■Le Dorer (르도헤)
Le Dorer presents a modern take on Korean contemporary cuisine, using Busan's local ingredients as the foundation for its distinctive courses. Each dish reflects the city's flavors through an inventive, chef-driven perspective.
* Address: 2F, 37 Marine City 3-ro, Haeundae-gu
* Hours: Open for lunch, noon to 2:30 p.m. Open for dinner, 6 to 10 p.m. Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.
* Menu: Lunch Course 120,000 won; Dinner Course 210,000 won