Travel and Leisure Magazine has realized what we’ve known all along: Wallingford has some great eats. Their annual 50 Best New U.S. Restaurants list has given the nod to Wallingford’s Joule:
One of the city’s most disarmingly personal spots is Joule, which resembles a petite Continental café that just happens to serve both esoteric sparkling sakes and Korean kimchi. After bonding in the kitchen of Alain Ducasse in New York, Seoul-born Rachel Yang and her half-Tunisian husband Seif Chirchi moved west and opened a place of their dreams in the eclectic family-friendly Wallingford neighborhood. That’s them in the open kitchen—she adding a dollop of crème fraîche and French refinement into a hearty Korean beef soup; he garnishing an impeccably grilled dorado with a gingery sweet-sour eggplant and a pungent burst of roasted lemon and almond piccata. Dinner for two $60.
(via the Seattlest)
As a foodie-chowhound, I hate to admit that there’s something in the Korean culinary tradition that my palette doesn’t agree with 🙁 I really WANT to like Joule. 🙁