Sul & Beans

If you love dessert and sweet drinks, Koreatown is a worthwhile destination in and of itself: The neighborhood boasts several soft-serve counters, plus outposts of Beard Papa’s and SomiSomi slinging cream puffs and Japanese taiyaki, respectively. But it’s the towering bowls of bingsoo, or Korean shaved ice, from this sit-down restaurant inside Madang Mall that lure us back to the area just for dessert. Finely shaved ice serves as the bedrock for bright green matcha or nutty-tasting light brown injeolmi powder, or, if you’re in the mood for fruit, strawberries or mangoes. For a more substantive dessert, Sul & Beans also has multiple kinds of brick toast—essentially, dressed-up slices of plush milk bread best shared among two or three people