Bar & Dining
The sool jib, in print
Feature interview with the founders on Korean drinking culture, the comeback menu and what a modern sool jib means in Los Angeles.
What people are writing about the rooms — Koreatown, Los Angeles and the Mission, San Francisco. For interviews, photography or a table for your editor: hello@chimmelierusa.com
Feature interview with the founders on Korean drinking culture, the comeback menu and what a modern sool jib means in Los Angeles.
Noël Burgess lists Jilli SF among the city’s new bars — a Korean third place built around makgeolli and rigatoni alla kimchi vodka.
Read ↗Park Jin-hai on the fully-booked Mission room, 18 craft makgeolli and the U.S. makgeolli market it is riding.
Read ↗The Chronicle’s wine desk on the makgeolli list — and, separately, Jilli in its best new bars of 2025 and its L.A.-to-Bay-Area expansion coverage.
Read ↗Opening report from the Mission.
Read ↗Nadia Lopez on makgeolli, the sool jib idea and Korean food’s expansion across the U.S.
Read ↗Astrid Kane on why a sool jib is a different thing from a restaurant.
Read ↗Dakota Kim talks to Dustin Lee about turning a room around — and why Jilli was the answer.
Read ↗Sylvio Martins: natural wine, inventive bar food, a room that works from after-work beers to late night.
Read ↗Erin Mosbaugh on the original Koreatown room and the team behind it.
Read ↗Amanda Berrill on the double-fried chicken and the rigatoni alla kimchi vodka.
Read ↗Named a 2021 StarChefs Los Angeles Rising Star. This newspaper has reviewed the list again. The list was right.
Read ↗Jilli · modern sool jib — a contemporary Korean drinking house in Koreatown, Los Angeles. Twenty-five seats. Chef Justin Min. Sister brand to Chimmelier, the Korean fried chicken lifestyle brand.