Must-see restaurants in North Korea

The Lamb Barbecue Restaurant has some of the friendliest and most boisterous staff in the country. Once the delicious lamb barbecue has been served at…

Pyongyang Number One Duck Barbeque is one of the best places in town and will often be where groups go on their last evening. Here you’ll be served…

Right in the centre of the city, just off Kim Il-sung Sq, is this joint-venture project set up by Austrian investors in partnership with North Koreans. It…

The Chongryu Hotpot Restaurant is nearly always on the itinerary. It’s a pleasant place where you make your own hotpot dish on little individual gas…

Okryu, the most famous restaurant in North Korea, is a faux-traditional structure on the riverside that’s famed for its cold noodles and very popular with…

Pyongyang’s imaginatively named first pizza joint caused a sensation when it opened in 2009 after Kim Jong-il reportedly sent a team of chefs to Italy to…

Pyulmori is an innovative project run by a charity supplying food to local orphanages and is made up of a restaurant, coffee shop and bar. You can get…