Ellen White wrote:I just realized the other day that I have never tried Korean food. What and where are the best Korean restaurants in town? I live in St. Matthews, and I'm trying to avoid driving too far. Is there any place on Bardstown Road or environs?
Ellen, Arirang in Middletown (which is Korean and Japanese, but run by Koreans) is probably closest to you, but unfortunately, it's not quite up to the other two local Koreans in my opinion, although it's okay, and the people who run it are nice.
The two top spots for Korean, I think, are Lee's, which looks like a coffee shop but is actually ethnic Korean, located on the main floor of the Watterson Towers building just off the Watterson Expressway at Newburg Road; and Koreana II, which is in a small shopping center in the northeast corner of Preston Highway and Gilmore Lane, not too far out from the Watterson. This neighborhood is worth a visit, as you're also in close reach of the tiny Chez Seneba, currently Louisville's only Senegalese West African restaurant, and Rosticeria Luna, one of my favorite tiny ethnic Latino spots, a replica of Colombia's El Pollo Loco. There's also a nice Asian market in the same parking lot with Koreana, and the big Da Hwa Asian market is just a little way on out the strip, which also contains one of the city's largest concentrations of taquerias and Thai Smile V.
