Muoki | |
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Restaurant information | |
Head chef | James Park |
Food type | Contemporary cuisine |
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Street address | 2F, 12-12 Hakdong-ro 55-gil, Gangnam District, Seoul, 06065, South Korea |
Coordinates | 37°31′08″N 127°02′32″E / 37.5189°N 127.0422°E |
Website | www |
Muoki (Korean: 무오키) is a fine dining restaurant in Seoul, South Korea. It received its first Michelin star in 2019. Its name means "oak tree" in Afrikaans.[1]
Its executive chef is James Park (박무현; Bak Muhyeon[2]). Park worked in a number of international restaurants, including in the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., in The Fat Duck in London, and in Quay in Sydney.[1] Park previously worked in The Test Kitchen in Cape Town, South Africa for five years. Over time, he reportedly became no. 2 in the kitchen.[3] He also worked in a French restaurant and led a food lab in a restaurant on Jeju Island in South Korea.[3][1] He returned to Seoul in 2017, and opened Muoki.[1] The restaurant reportedly explores creating dishes using ingredients in multiple different ways.[4]
The restaurant was reviewed positively by Lee Geon-gu (이건구) of The Sommelier Times in 2022.[5]