With Muje, Chef Jungsik Yim Expands His Culinary Palette

Chef Jungsik Yim, whose TriBeCa restaurant Jungsik remains the only three-Michelin starred Korean restaurant in America, is broadening his purview. Yim has debuted Muje, a new restaurant that follows Jungsik’s playbook with a culinary palette that ventures beyond the “New Korean” fine-dining cuisine he helped establish in New York over a decade ago.  ”Jungsik is more expensive; it’s hard to get a table there. So I wanted to create a restaurant that’s more approachable,” says Yim. “So people can enjoy something as high quality as Jungsik, but with a more affordable cost.” Inside the Muje dining room. Alexander Stein Muje is located at 151 W 30th Street, just south of Herald Square and located between Chelsea and Koreatown. The restaurant takes the place of Sea, a casual Southeast Asian a la carte restaurant that Yim opened in 2024 and which closed its doors earlier this spring to make way for the new concept. “We realized, ‘Look, why don’t we lean into what we’re actually good at?'” says Yim. “I’m Korean, but our head chef here is Chinese, and we have a lot of other Asian chefs on the crew. So we figured, ‘Let’s broaden our scope and go with Asian cuisine.'” Muje in Korean means

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