[Isu] Izawa (이자와)

Izawa (이자와) is a casual Japanese restaurant that specializes in Gyukatsu (Japanese style beef steak cutlet).

Izawa is located near Isu station exit. 13.

Menu 

 Pictures!

This is gyukatsu.

You can either order single serving, which comes with 160grams of beef, or as double (250gram) for those with larger portion.

 They also serve steak-don, which is basically a thinly sliced roast beef over rice,

 And dontoro-don, which is a roasted pork over rice.

You can also order them as set menu,

From top to bottom, 

1. Gyukatsu + Steak-don + Can Soda

2. Gyukatsu + Gyukatsu + Can Soda

3. Steak-don + Steak-don + Can Soda

4. Gyukatsu + Steak-don + Tondoro-don + Can Soda

 Each table has this stone grill. More on this later.

 It was a hot day so I ordered a beer (3,000KRW)

It said Max on the glass but tasted pretty watery and bland, so I'm guessing it's Cass?

 Gyukatsu single serving (12,000KRW)

 Deep fried steak.

It's going to be extremely difficult to make this taste bad.

Sauce for the gyukatsu.

On the left is an onion sauce, and on the right is I'm guessing dentsuyu (tenpura sauce).

The steak is nice and thick, and it's cooked rare so the temperature of the meat isn't that high 

The meat is very nicely marbled, but if you eat it with the fresh wasabi as pictured, it's not going to be greasy at all.

 This is one of the end pieces. You can see it's been cooked bit more.

 If you don't like rare meat, or if you want your steak to be hotter, you can cook it a bit more on the stone grill provided.

 You don't have to cook them long. Once the grill heats up, Just 5~10 seconds on each side will do.

This will bring the temperature of the meat up, and melt the fat so that the flesh soaks up all that fatty goodness.

 Can you see how nicely the meat is marbled?

It's really soft and tender too.

Done.

Definitely worth visiting as not many places in Korea offer gyukatsu on their menu.

I'll probably be vising again to try out their other menus.

135-8 Basement floor, Sadang-dong, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, 02-592-5090

Business Hours: 11:00 - 22:00, Break time 16:00 - 17:00