• Drink
• Food
• Decor
• Service
• Atmosphere

It's always nice when you do something on a whim, and we just happened to be near this area so thought we'd check it out. It's known as the 'French quarter' and around there the roadsigns are in French but aside from that didn't get a huge French feeling going on, really. We didn't fully explore though. Another interesting thing about this area is that there is a greater proliferation of Italian restaurants than French and so we headed to one of them; Bufala.

The menu had a good set going on but we decided to be greedy and order pizzas and pasta each. They had a selection of wines with a house one starting at 8,000 so I gave it a miss and opted for capri. The others saw a Peroni poster and ordered that which also came in at 8,000 for a bottle. We also ordered 2 Napoli pizzas, one without cheese cos I'm a freak and a pasta dish with seafood in.

The restuarant wasn't hugely busy and it took a while for our food to come out, but they did cook it from stratch. My pizza tasted amazing, expecially cos I've not had one in 5 months!! The base was crisp and the toppings of salami and chillies good, the salami wasn't the best but for Korea I was impressed.

My friends' pasta went down well with no complaints but our second pizza never came so we had to explain that we wanted 2 altogether. After a wait the other came and my friends enjoyed it.

The decor was good inside, with a nice balcony which overlooked the street below. The lighting was really trendy with clusters of cool lightbulbs dotted around and some big murals on the wall. the atmosphere was buzzy.

Our service was good except for the pizza cock-up. I wonder if that's because of our bad Korean and not the waiters' problem.

So, I would recommend around here just for the area; a contrast from usual korean life. There are lots of other places around here which would be worth a try.

To get there, we walked from Seocho station line 2, pass under the silkworm bridge to the National Digital Library and took a left. It's about a 15 min walk from the station at least so be prepared to walk for your dinner!