Yeongdong Market, located in Nonhyeon-dong, Gangnam, is famous for its many delicious restaurants. As it is located in the middle of Seoul and has a large floating population, there are various industries such as restaurants, bars, and cafes. As the old stores of the market where office workers used to talk about after work became known to the public, young restaurants appeared one after another, and Yeongdong Market is always crowded with not only office workers but also people visiting good restaurants in other regions. Today, I will introduce five restaurants recommended by office workers in Nonhyeon-dong.
Yeongdong Market Restaurant 5
Specialized in ripening sashimi and red sea bream yubiki, ‘달맞이’.
달맞이 is a famous restaurant in Yeongdong Market specializing in ripening sashimi. It is a sashimi restaurant with a small pocha atmosphere, and there are many customers who are busy with regular customers and waiting. The representative menu of Dalmaji, which brings live fish directly from the Noryangjin auction house and ripens it carefully, is Chamdom yubiki. There are three sizes: crescent moon, half moon, and full moon, and there are not many other kinds besides ripening sashimi, but the sub-menu is also excellent, so it is a good place to go when you want fresh ripening sashimi.
▲ Location
10, Gangnam-daero 128-gil, Gangnam-gu, Seoul
▲ Business hours
17:00 to 02:00 a.m. every day
▲ Menu
Dalmaji Mature Sashimi 50,000 won
‘리북집’, a jokbal restaurant that uses only the front legs of Korea.
리북집 is famous for Jokbal in Yeongdong Market, with more than 1,000 reviews on portal sites. Ribukjip is a famous restaurant that has a separate way space. It is low in fat and chewy because only domestic front legs are used. The secret of this place is to boil only various medicinal herbs and vegetables without using spices. The spicy cold jokbal mixed with vegetables and mustard sauce is also a popular menu, so please refer to it.
▲ Location
45, Hakdong-ro 2-gil, Gangnam-gu, Seoul
▲ Business hours
11:00-00:30 every day
▲ Menu
Jokbal (front feet) KRW 38,000 / Cold vegetable Jokbal KRW 38,000
Pork ribs with perfect side dishes. ‘삼미숯불갈비’.
삼미숯불갈비, located in the alley of Yeongdong Market, is a pork ribs restaurant that is always crowded with office workers who have dinner 365 days. There are various menus such as Suwon Wanggalbi, raw sirloin, beef brisket, and pork belly, but if you look around the table, most of them are eating pork ribs. In particular, the age group of guests visiting this place proves the restaurant here. If you want seasoned ribs with moderate flavor that are neither salty nor sweet, let’s go with Sammi Charcoal Grilled Ribs.
▲ Location
30, Hakdong-ro 2-gil, Gangnam-gu, Seoul
▲ Business hours
10:30-00:50 every day
▲ Menu
Pork Ribs 18,000 won
Thick meat soup, chewy noodles, noodle soup, ‘손국시’.
손국시, a Kalguksu restaurant where you can see customers who always wait for lunch on weekdays. As a restaurant specializing in kalguksu, the menu is simple. It is kalguksu, sujebi, and kaljebi, and you can taste cold bean-soup noodles as a seasonal menu in summer. Broth, the base of all menus, is a meat broth that has been boiled for a long time. Fresh geotjeori, freshly cut into noodles made with a knife in thick meat broth, is very good for a meal.
▲ Location
19, Hakdong-ro 2-gil, Gangnam-gu, Seoul
▲Business hours
Monday-Saturday 11:00-20:30 (End of Saturday 19:30 / Closed every Sunday)
▲ Menu
Kalguksu 8,000 won
‘아나고야’, a delicious Namdo food restaurant that bends the table legs.
아나고야, a famous restaurant located in Gangnam starting from Bongcheon-dong, Gwanak-gu, is a place where you can taste delicious Namdo food. Anagoya, where you can taste Namdo-style omakase in a wide variety of ways, is a place that specializes in Anagoya, as the name of the restaurant suggests, but those who have been to Anagoya tend to order an omakase course. If you want to enjoy a variety of Namdo foods from Anago to Agwigan, Chamsora, Flatfish, Yukhoe, and assorted sashimi at once, head to Anagoya.
▲ Location
3-9, Gangnam-daero 124-gil, Gangnam-gu, Seoul
▲ Business hours
Monday-Saturday 12:00-22:30 (regular closed every Sunday)
▲ Menu
Anago sashimi 40,000 won