Late Night Restaurant

Late Night Restaurant
Promotional poster
Also known asMidnight Diner
Genre
Based on
Shinya Shokudō
by Yarō Abe
Written by
  • Choi Dae-woong
  • Hong Yoon-hee
Directed byHwang In-roe
StarringKim Seung-woo
Country of originSouth Korea
Original languageKorean
No. of episodes20
Production
Executive producerPark Young-soo
Producers
  • Kim Dong-rae
  • Jo Jeong-ho
  • Baek Chung-hwa
Running time
  • 30 minutes
  • Saturdays at 24:10/24:40 (KST)
Production companies
Original release
NetworkSeoul Broadcasting System
ReleaseJuly 4 (2015-07-04) –
September 5, 2015 (2015-09-05)
Related

Late Night Restaurant (Korean: 심야식당; RR: Simyasikdang) is a 2015 South Korean drama series based on the manga Shinya Shokudō. It aired two back-to-back episodes on SBS on Saturdays at 24:10 and 24:40 from July 4 to September 5, 2015.

Plot

A restaurant opens at midnight until seven in the morning. Its mysterious owner and chef, simply called the 'Master', has no fixed items on his menu, but will take orders from any customer and cook up whatever they ask for. As the Master cooks, his customers tell him their life stories.

Cast

Regular customers

Guest appearances

Episodes

All episodes are named after a certain form of food, most of them of Korean origin.

  1. Seasoned Seaweed and Rice Cakes
  2. Buckwheat Pancake
  3. Mixed, Radish and Banquet Noodles
  4. Short-Necked Clam Soup (Part 1)
  5. Hamburg Steak (Part 2)
  6. Steamed Spareribs and Kimchi
  7. Ginseng Chicken Soup
  8. Butter Rice
  9. Grilled Short Rib Patties
  10. Barley-Dried Corvina
  11. Marinated Chicken Fried Rice
  12. Chinese Plums
  13. Canned Whelk
  14. Candied Sweet Potato and Spicy Rice Cakes
  15. Potato Ongshim Seaweed Soup
  16. Oyster Sauce Mayo Ramen
  17. Tortilla Half-moon Pizza
  18. Grilled Flatfish
  19. Stone Pot Jangjorim Bibimbap
  20. A Fall Gizzard Shad Party

References

  1. ↑ "Midnight Diner serves up thorny social issues". The Korea Times. July 5, 2015. Archived from the original on July 28, 2015. Retrieved August 4, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Kim Seung-woo's Midnight Diner opens for business". Dramabeans. June 29, 2015. Archived from the original on December 3, 2021. Retrieved August 4, 2015.
  3. ↑ She played a central role in episode 6, being desperate to lose weight.