40 restaurants in the Korea on a Plate guide for Korean BBQ, ranked Monthly 30 first and then by Google rating. Each has hours, a price per person and what to order.
In this guide: Yukmian Gangnam branch, Donsadon · Main Store, Samwon Garden, Jeongdeunjip (JD BBQ), Bogwangjung.
At a glance: Price per person ₩16,000–₩85,000 (middle ₩27,000). Average Google rating ★4.4. 11 of 40 are open late or 24 hours.
Updated 2026-10-05
Tips before you go
Meat is ordered by the portion (usually 150–200 g), and most places need at least two portions.
Staff often grill for you. Wrap the meat in lettuce with garlic and ssamjang.
Yukmian's Gangnam branch, near Sinnonhyeon Station, is listed on DiningCode as a beef barbecue restaurant. Cuts include angchang galbi and bon galbi (250 g, ₩27,000 each) and pork galbi (200 g, ₩16,000), with fried rice and a truffle galbi sotbap to finish; DiningCode reviewers most often describe it as clean, pretty and casual.
Make room for Jeju’s black pork barbecue. Staff grill the meat at your table over briquettes, so you can settle in and enjoy the island’s signature meal.
START WITHHeukdwaeji gui · grilled Jeju black pork
Hours Mon–Sat 11:30–21:30; Sun & holidays 11:00–21:00
Opened in 1976, Samwon Garden is a garden-style barbecue house that has hosted generations of Seoul families and business dinners over grilled short ribs. Private rooms and a landscaped courtyard make it feel like an occasion rather than a quick meal.
A Korean barbecue house a few minutes from Itaewon Station that opens in the late afternoon and grills until nearly midnight. Staff cook the meat at the table and keep the side dishes topped up, and English is spoken, which is why it is one of the most-reviewed barbecue rooms in Itaewon.
START WITHSamgyeopsal and pork neck grilled at the table
A pork barbecue room on Bogwang-ro, down the hill from Itaewon Station, open until midnight every day and from noon at weekends. There is a set that lets you try several cuts at once, and the house stew is what regulars add to the grill.
START WITHPork belly, pork neck and the house stew
A second branch of a pork barbecue place in the lanes below Itaewon Station, open from late afternoon to midnight every day. Servers grill the thick cuts at the table and tell you which condiment to eat each one with; the room is set up for visitors, with most tables full of travellers.
A salt-grill pork restaurant on Achasan-ro by Seongsu Station, open from noon to midnight every day. The point is well-marbled fresh pork grilled with nothing but salt, with carefully made side dishes; staff guide you through the grilling.
START WITHSaeng-sogeumgui · fresh pork grilled with salt
A barbecue house steps from Konkuk University Station, open noon to midnight daily, serving pork belly and shoulder as well as Korean beef. Staff grill at the table, and the steamed egg on the side is worth adding.
A Korean set-menu restaurant inside Lotte World Mall built around galbi courses, with a weekday-lunch galbi special, 1++ Hanwoo gomtang and Pyongyang-style naengmyeon on the à la carte side. DiningCode reviewers most often describe it as formal, upscale, quiet and clean.
START WITHGalbi course · marinated beef short rib set menu
Gwanghwamun Seokgalbi's D Tower branch, about 190 m from Gwanghwamun Station, serves pork and beef stone-plate grills, 1++ hanu striploin on a tabletop brazier, a large galbitang, hanu yukhoe bibimbap and a cheese potato pancake. DiningCode reviewers most often describe it as clean, upscale, formal and casual.
START WITHSeokgalbi · meat grilled on a hot stone plate
A pork barbecue restaurant in the lanes between Ttukseom and Seongsu, open from lunchtime to 23:00. Staff grill for you and suggest which salt or sauce to pair with each cut, and locals queue here as well as visitors.
START WITHPork barbecue with house salts and sauces
Ggupdang is a pork neck specialist directly in front of Sinsa Station. The meat is aged about fifteen days and cooked quickly on a custom aluminium plate over binchotan charcoal. A separate rice dish, developed with a Japanese chef, is meant to be eaten with the pork.
START WITHMoksal · aged pork neck grilled over binchotan
A pork barbecue restaurant in the Songnidan-gil lanes near Seokchon Lake, open until 00:30 on weekdays. Servers cook the pork belly at the table so the group can talk, which makes it a common spot for after-work dinners with soju.
Majang-dong is Seoul's biggest wholesale meat market, a warren of butcher counters each paired with a simple grill room where you eat what you just bought. Yeongchuksan is a reliable, foreigner-workable stop for this butcher-shop-to-table format, selling top-grade hanwoo at close to wholesale prices.
START WITHHanwoo yukhoe & grilled cuts · raw beef tartare and grilled Korean beef
First time in KoreaGroups & sharingNear the sights
₩20,000 per person
Hours 11:30–22:00
The Itaewon branch of a polished barbecue group, tucked into a lane off Itaewon-ro in a traditional-style house. It serves lunch as well as dinner, cooks the set menus at the table and is a common pick for hotel guests and tour groups who want a first Korean barbecue in comfortable surroundings.
This directly run Haebangchon branch is listed on DiningCode for naengsam, frozen sliced pork belly. Besides pork belly it grills hanwoo brisket and makchang, with stews such as spicy sundubu and cheonggukjang, and reviewers most often call it down-to-earth, lively, casual and popular with locals.
START WITHNaengsam · thin-sliced frozen pork belly grilled at the table
A market eatery in Ttukdo Market, Seongsu, known for jeyuk and charcoal-grilled marinated pork bulgogi sold by 600 g, alongside low-priced bean-sprout bibimbap, gamjatang and cockle bibimbap. DiningCode reviewers most often describe it as down-to-earth, under the radar, good value and generous with portions.
Perched along the scenic Dalmaji-gil road above Haeundae, this hanwoo barbecue house is listed in the Michelin Guide Busan and known for high-grade Korean beef grilled tableside. Private rooms make it a step up from casual barbecue joints.
START WITHHanwoo galbi · Korean beef marinated and grilled ribs
A newer name on Bangi-dong's restaurant street, built on the idea that aged meat deserves real technique — the name pairs 묵 (to let rest) with 힘 (strength). Staff grill at the table, and the doenjang-cured belly picks up a distinctive savory crust.
A charcoal beef-rib house inside Banpo Shopping Town at Express Bus Terminal. Raw galbisal and top blade arrive on a steel tray to grill yourself; every staff member greets you at the door, and many customers are foreign.
START WITHGalbisal · beef short-rib meat on charcoal
A neighbourhood barbecue restaurant in Mangwon serving black pork: grilled samgyeopsal, gabrisal and galmaegisal cuts, plus black-pork duruchigi (stir-fry) in medium and large sizes, with doenjang or cheonggukjang stews on the side. DiningCode reviewers most often describe it as down-to-earth, popular with locals, under the radar and casual.
START WITHHeukdwaeji · Korean black pork, grilled or stir-fried
Ppalgan Uijajip near Gangnam Station is listed on DiningCode as a barbecue restaurant with a camping theme. The menu runs from a two-person set (₩69,000) and a barbecue and lobster platter (₩168,000) to charcoal-grilled whole cuttlefish (₩25,000) and kimchi fried rice; DiningCode reviewers most often describe it as lively, casual and down-to-earth.
START WITHBBQ sets · charcoal barbecue for sharing
Every place is in the Korea on a Plate guide, written by an editor who runs four restaurants in Seoul. The list is filtered from published hours, prices and tags; nobody pays to be listed.
