Seoul · Open Sunday
Best Restaurants Open on Sunday in Seoul 2026
Seoul's independent counters run a Tuesday-to-Saturday week, so three-star Mingles and most of the city's tasting rooms go dark on Sunday. What stays open is the hotel-tower band: Michelin-starred Korean and Cantonese rooms that treat the weekend as core trade. These six are confirmed open Sunday, with the hours to prove it.
Seoul's dining map runs on two calendars. The stand-alone Michelin counters in Cheongdam and Hannam, the rooms that win the stars, mostly close Sunday and often Monday to rest small teams. The hotel dining rooms work the opposite week: a Sunday lunch with a skyline view is built into the model, so the towers of Songpa, Gangnam and Jung-gu carry the day. The list below leads with the starred rooms that keep a full Sunday, then the daily institutions. Korean won prices are quoted without drinks, and hours are checked against each restaurant's current schedule. For the rest of the week, start with the Seoul dining guide.
La Yeon
Sunday: 12:00 – 14:30 and 17:30 – 21:30
Chef Kim Sung-il holds two Michelin stars in the 2026 guide for a refined reading of royal-court Korean cooking, served on the 23rd floor of The Shilla with the room turned north toward Namsan Park. The hanjeongsan format moves through seasonal jeon, slow-braised galbi and a hot-stone bibimbap that arrives without theatre, and the Sunday service is identical to any weeknight. Kim's Mentor Chef Award marks him as one of the keepers of the tradition. This is the Sunday booking when the meal has to carry weight, a family milestone or a guest you want to show the city's most polished Korean room. Reserve two to three weeks out.
Eatanic Garden
Sunday: 12:00 – 14:30 and 18:00 – 22:00 (closed Mon–Tue)
Eatanic Garden holds one Michelin star in the 2025 guide for contemporary Korean cooking read through a French lens, on the 36th floor of Josun Palace in the Gangnam business district. There is no printed menu; each course arrives with an illustrated card naming the seasonal element it is built around, and the wine list is one of the deepest in the city. It opens Wednesday through Sunday and closes Monday and Tuesday, so Sunday is one of its core services rather than an afterthought. The Sunday lunch, with the city laid out below the windows, is the one to book for a long, unhurried table.
Bicena
Sunday: 11:30 – 14:30 and 18:00 – 22:00
Bicena holds one Michelin star in the 2025 guide and sits on the 81st floor of Lotte World Tower, the tallest building in Korea, which makes it the highest starred Korean room in the country. The kitchen works a modern hansik tasting menu, jang-driven and built on premium hanwoo and seafood, in a room where the floor-to-ceiling glass does half the work. It keeps a full Sunday, lunch from 11:30 and dinner from six, so a Sunday booking here buys both the cooking and the single best dining-room view in Seoul. Ask for a window two when you book through Catch Table.
STAY by Yannick Alleno
Sunday: 12:00 – 14:30 and 17:30 – 22:00
Yannick Alleno's Seoul outpost shares the 81st floor of Lotte World Tower inside the Signiel hotel, a modern French dining room listed in the Michelin Guide and built around the chef's extraction-driven sauce work. The format runs a la carte and by set menu, lighter and more European than the Korean rooms on this list, with a pastry section that justifies staying for dessert. It opens Sunday for both lunch and dinner, which makes it the Sunday alternative for a table that wants French technique with the same Songpa skyline as Bicena next door. Book the late-morning slot for the clearest city view.
Yu Yuan
Sunday: 11:30 – 14:30 and 17:30 – 21:30
Yu Yuan is the Cantonese room at Four Seasons Seoul in Jongno, listed in the Michelin Guide, and the strongest Sunday answer when the table wants Chinese rather than Korean. The kitchen runs classical Cantonese: roast meats, claypot, and a dim sum service that is the reason to come at lunch. It opens daily, Sunday included, with a Sunday yum cha that reads as a family occasion for the city's Cantonese diners. The hotel setting and the private rooms make it the flexible Sunday booking for a group that wants a long midday meal rather than a tasting menu.
Tosokchon Samgyetang
Sunday: 10:00 – 22:00 (open every day)
Not every Sunday calls for a tasting menu. Tosokchon, a few minutes from Gyeongbokgung in the Seochon lanes, has served ginseng-chicken soup since the 1980s and opens every day of the year from 10:00, a young whole chicken stuffed with sticky rice, ginseng, jujube and garlic in a clear restorative broth. It is the most reliable upscale-adjacent Sunday meal in the city, the room a Seoulite books a parent into after a long week. Expect a queue rather than a reservation, and go early; by noon on a Sunday the line wraps the block. The black-chicken version is the order worth the few thousand won more.
How to book a Sunday table in Seoul
The hotel rooms make a Seoul Sunday easier than most Asian capitals, but the marquee slots still go early. La Yeon, Bicena and Eatanic Garden release on Catch Table and through their hotels, with Sunday lunch the first window to fill, so reserve the moment your date is set. STAY and Yu Yuan clear Sunday more readily, which makes either the safer call on short notice or for a larger group. Dining alone? The view rooms at Bicena and STAY take a single booking happily, a strong solo dining in Seoul move on a quiet Sunday. For the ranked city list and the rest of the week, the Seoul dining guide is the place to start.
Seoul Sunday dining FAQ
Which Michelin restaurants are open on Sunday in Seoul?
Several keep a full Sunday. La Yeon, the two-star Korean room on the 23rd floor of The Shilla, opens Sunday for lunch and dinner; Eatanic Garden and Bicena, both one star, run Sunday lunch and dinner from hotel towers in Gangnam and Songpa; and Yu Yuan, the Cantonese room at Four Seasons, opens Sunday too. The independent counter rooms, including three-star Mingles, tend to close Sunday, which is why a confirmed list is useful here.
Is La Yeon open on Sunday?
Yes. La Yeon at The Shilla Seoul opens Sunday for lunch from 12:00 to 14:30 and dinner from 17:30 to 21:30. Chef Kim Sung-il holds two Michelin stars in the 2026 guide for a modern reading of royal-court Korean cooking, served on the 23rd floor with a view north over Namsan Park. Book through Catch Table or the hotel two to three weeks out, since the Sunday window seats are the first to go.
What is the best Sunday lunch in Seoul for a special occasion?
For a ceremonial Korean lunch, La Yeon at The Shilla and Bicena on the 81st floor of Lotte World Tower both run Sunday midday service with a skyline view, and both hold Michelin stars. For a more relaxed Sunday, Tosokchon Samgyetang near Gyeongbokgung serves its ginseng-chicken soup from 10:00 to a Korean institution's crowd. Reserve the hotel rooms a few weeks ahead; Tosokchon takes a queue rather than a booking.
Are most fine-dining restaurants in Seoul closed on Sunday?
Many of the city's most decorated independent counters run a Tuesday-to-Saturday week and close Sunday, including three-star Mingles and several one-star tasting rooms. The rooms that stay open are mostly the hotel dining rooms, where the weekend is core trade, plus the daily institutions. That split is the reason a verified Sunday list matters in Seoul, where the open and closed rooms do not follow an obvious pattern.
Where can I eat with a skyline view on a Sunday in Seoul?
Three altitudes keep a Sunday service. Bicena and STAY by Yannick Alleno share the 81st floor of Lotte World Tower, the highest dining in Korea, both open Sunday lunch and dinner. Eatanic Garden looks out from the 36th floor of Josun Palace in Gangnam. La Yeon sits lower, on the 23rd floor of The Shilla, with a view across Namsan. All four take Sunday bookings and all four reward a window seat.
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