{"id":3168,"date":"2026-06-24T19:04:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=3168"},"modified":"2026-06-24T19:04:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:04:46","slug":"one-of-durhams-top-chefs-is-set-to-unveil-a-new-downtown-restaurant-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=3168","title":{"rendered":"One of Durham\u2019s top chefs is set to unveil a new downtown restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary\">AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article280707640.html\">Read our AI Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The food at M Hansik in Durham is often wheeled through the dining room on carts. This is probably for convenience, but it also achieves an element of performance, catching the eye-levels of sitting diners with pedestals of fried chicken, sizzling ribbons of pork belly and long platters of charred lasagna.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=3167\">How the Gaudreau Family Has Coped After Johnny and Matthew&#8217;s Deaths<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mhansik.m-restaurants.com\/\" rel=\"Follow\" target=\"_blank\">M Hansik<\/a> opens June 24 as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/living\/food-drink\/article314997490.html\" rel=\"Follow\" target=\"_blank\">newest restaurant in the Michael Lee empire<\/a>. The star chef of M Sushi, M Tempura and M Kokko built <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/living\/food-drink\/article315116099.html\" rel=\"Follow\" target=\"_blank\">M Hansik as a traditional Korean restaurant<\/a>, taking over the former Plum space near Durham\u2019s Geer Street district.<\/p>\n<p>Lee said M Hansik is his group\u2019s first \u201creputable, full-blown Korean restaurant,\u201d with a menu of traditional Korean techniques and flavors with modern interpretations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe menu will change all the time, but this is our interpretation of a traditional Korean restaurant,\u201d Lee said in a phone interview. \u201cBut with our own twist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former Plum dining room has been updated with dark woods and rich jade banquettes.<\/p>\n<p>On the menu, M Hansik is built like a Korean tapas restaurant, with servers recommending two or three shared plates per person.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=3165\">Windshield flies off tumbling fire engine, hits man in his yard, NC officials say<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Small plates include steamed kimchi dumplings, crispy fried chicken wings with a gochujang dipping sauce, a tender hamachi crudo and a Korean blood sausage. At a media preview last week, a two-sheet lasagna was popular in the dining room, where curled waves of baked pasta sheets were stuffed with black bean sauce, minced pork and a b\u00e9chamel sauce.<\/p>\n<p>Larger dishes include grilled beef short ribs and spicy pork belly, a traditional kimchi soup, bibimbap beef tartare and a Korean paella.<\/p>\n<p>On the drinks side, M Hansik partnered with Durham\u2019s Fullsteam Brewing for a house rice lager, made with kolsch yeast. Other drinks include draft beer and wine and a seasonal cocktail list, featuring a Sungold Fizz, a gin drink made with lemon and sungold tomatoes.<\/p>\n<p>M Hansik is Lee\u2019s seventh Triangle restaurant, an empire that began with the acclaimed M Sushi and grew to the ramen and noodle shop M Kokko, the fry bar M Tempura, M Izakaya and M Pocha.<\/p>\n<p>M Hansik is located at 501 Washington St. in Durham and will be open for dinner Wednesday through Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=3163\">Breeze Airways announces another nonstop destination from RDU<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published <span class=\"inline-block\">June 24, 2026 at 6:00 AM<span>.<\/span><\/span><!-- --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M Hansik opens June 24 in downtown Durham near Geer Street, serving Korean tapas from kimchi dumplings to lasagna-style dishes and a Fullsteam rice lager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-read-todays-edition"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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