Culinary Class Wars restaurants in Seoul, and how to book them

CatchTable tags most of these 'Culinary Class Wars' and lists them at catchtable.net/exhibition/culinary-class-wars; MOSU Seoul, the judge's restaurant, and Mingles are not tagged. This page covers the main ones, and the list has more, such as Rudbeckia, Migaki and PONO BUONO. Sign up with a Google or Apple account, pick the restaurant, a date and a party size, then pay the deposit.

On CatchTable Global deposits can only be paid with foreign-issued cards, per the Korea Tourism Organization, and no Korean phone number is needed (that page was last updated in September 2024). Our Seoul guide has the full steps.

Pay only inside CatchTable. Choidot's notice warns of impersonation sites and says it takes bookings only on CatchTable or by phone. Vesuvio says a resold reservation loses its deposit and the account is blacklisted.

Prices are CatchTable's per-person range for the course on November 12, 2026, in Korean won, and they change. Michelin badges are those shown on CatchTable.

The chef column follows each restaurant's CatchTable page, Deepin's own site and press reports. Where we say 'reported', the restaurant's page does not name the chef.

• Choidot: reservations for January 2027 opened on November 11 at 1 PM, and its Christmas menu opens on November 17 at 3 PM.
• Soigné: the year-end menu opens on Monday, November 16 at 3 PM, with the full price paid up front. Cancel 7 or more days ahead for a full refund.
• Evett: Christmas tables opened on November 11 at noon, deposit equal to the full meal price.
• Yunjudang Haebangchon: reservations for next month open at 7 PM on the 15th of every month, Seoul time.
• MOSU Seoul: no release date is published that we could find. Guides disagree, so we do not repeat one.

All times are Seoul time. Be on the restaurant's CatchTable page a few minutes early with your card already added.

We watch 14 Seoul restaurants on CatchTable around the clock. 14 of them have 90 clean days; the figures below cover the last 90 days, through November 11, 2026, for four of the restaurants above.

• MOSU Seoul: a table on 90 of 90 days, the typical one about 5 minutes. These are openings outside any regular release; we cannot see why a table appeared.
• Eatanic Garden: 69 of 90 days, the typical table about 2 minutes.
• SOUL: 77 of 90 days, the typical table about 4 hours.
• Restaurant EVETT: 86 of 90 days, new dates usually around 12:05 AM Seoul time, the typical table about 16 hours.

We do not publish numbers for Soigné, Yunjudang or Yun Seoul.

We do not watch Choidot, trid, Vesuvio Seoul, Deepin, Tianmimi, Table for Four, Haobin, Superpan or Okdongsik yet. For those, the booking rules above are all we have, not measured availability.

As of January 2026, The Korea Times reported that Choi Kang-rok does not operate a restaurant (his Neo closed in 2024), that Lee Ha-sung does not operate one in Korea, and that Lim Seong-geun had yet to open his own place. CatchTable now lists an Osan 'Premium Galbi' branch under his name.

For Edward Lee we found no Seoul restaurant to book.

• Napoli Matfia's old Via Toledo listing (catchtable.net/shop/viatoledo) now shows Vesuvio Seoul, a new restaurant by the same chef in Sindang, at ₩200,000 to ₩250,000. Older guides that still quote Via Toledo are out of date.
• Jung Ji-sun's restaurant is Tianmimi, and its Hongdae branch is waitlist-only for now.
• Table for Four is a Michelin Selection restaurant, not a starred one. Mingles holds three Michelin stars, per the Michelin Guide's 2026 Seoul list, but is not tagged Culinary Class Wars on CatchTable.