A lot is "added" in this highly unusual new restaurant. Firstly, there is the owner couple Jungyun Kim and Jaeho Jung, who had their marital addition engraved on their wedding rings. Then there is the idea of marrying Austrian and European elements with Korean culinary tradition. A little bit of Japan is also part of it, you know
restaurants with omakase - i.e. with a defined menu sequence - are primarily known from the Far Eastern island state. Here in the one-room restaurant on Vienna's Franz-Josefs-Kai, this is how it works: A maximum of eight guests sit at the L-shaped table around the kitchen, the nine-course menu comes to 170 euros. It starts at 7 pm sharp for everyone. Kim and Jung gained experience in the course of their "Asiana Prjkt", starting out from the Asian market "Asiana", the two have repeatedly appeared with pop-ups, for example in "Café Kandl" or at the Neumeister winery in Straden. After years of gastronomic wanderings, they wanted to become stationary. It was helpful for the procurement of kitchen utensils and all sorts of other things that Jungyun Kim works at the Vienna station of "Korean Air" and was able to import things in suitcases for many flights. Her husband, who prepares the elaborately composed courses almost silently and seemingly in a deeply relaxed manner, added his experience in places such as the "Steirereck" or the three-star "Mingles" in Seoul. Those who take a seat on the heavy and hard solid wood chairs are rewarded with a menu of sophisticated lightness. A palate-cleansing rice crust tea is followed by a quail egg on seaweed with fern tips and perilla oil. Then the typical local spiciness and intensity appear for the first time: Top-quality raw mackerel comes with sancho seasoning, sesame oil and cucumber. Excitingly good: a chorizo donut with fermented hot gochujang spice paste and coriander flowers. The famous Korean barbecue comes in the form of pork with mild white baek kimchi, garlic stalks and bulbous celery. You can book a drinks package for 69 euros, including glasses from Champagne Philipponnat, the cellar artists or Christian Tschida. The wine list is (still) quite small, but it has been put together with a brain. It includes wines from Envinate from Tenerife, the great mature Riojas from López de Heredia or, for larger budgets, Domaine de Chevalier or Chardonnay from DuMol. Don't miss a glass of Song I Ju rice wine, which is given its distinctive aroma by shiitake and angelica root.
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