Gilpost · Cheongju-si Heungdeok-gu, Bokdae-dong

Varnish Burger

Name: Varnish Burger
Address: 충청북도 청주시 흥덕구 사직대로82번길 14 (복대동,(1층)), 청주시 흥덕구, 충청북도, 28641, KR
Telephone: 070-8247-0921

바니시버거 Banisi Beogeo Handmade burgers built to order, by the university's main gate

패스트푸드 · Cheongju-si Heungdeok-gu, Bokdae-dong

Data as of 2026-09-27 · Published 2026-10-01 · Compiled by Gilpost

A burger shop in the lane opposite Cheongju High School, between the main and middle gates of Chungbuk National University — a green sign on the ground floor of a low-rise block. Three posts say it has been in the same spot since 2012. The patties and the sauces are made in-house, and nothing starts cooking until you order. Two burgers carry the place: the mahogany, with its fried egg and bacon, and the birch, under a house meat chilli. ₩3,500 more turns either into a set. Open daily, closed between three and five. The posts we read run from November 2024 to September 2026.

**mahogany** 마호가니 12 of 25 ordered itGenerated by AI from 12 posts. Not a photograph of this shop. © Gilpost · no unauthorised reproduction

The basics

Address	충청북도 청주시 흥덕구 사직대로82번길 14 (복대동,(1층)) 14 Sajik-daero 82beon-gil, Cheongju-si Heungdeok-gu, Chungcheongbuk-do
Phone	070-8247-0921
Typical spend	₩10,000 – ₩12,000
Floor area	46 m²
Status	In business

1 posts say it is walkable from the station.

When it opens

Of 16 posts: 13 wrote Daily 11:30–21:00.

Open	Daily	11:30–21:00 13 of 16 posts last seen 2026-09
Open	Daily	12:00–21:00 2 of 16 posts last seen 2026-01
Break		15:00–17:00 16 of 16 posts last seen 2026-09
Last order		20:20 9 of 10 posts last seen 2026-09
Closed		None 2 of 2 posts last seen 2026-03

The values differ, but the periods they were written in do not overlap. This looks like a change over time rather than a disagreement, and the top row is the most recently reported. We did not confirm it with the restaurant.

These hours are counted from the posts we read. Shops change them without notice — check Naver Place before you go. Place — check hours

What sets it apart

Nothing is cooked before you order it, and the shop tells you to expect about thirteen minutes. Four posts repeat that figure. Only two writers actually timed it: one at fifteen to twenty minutes, one who found it quicker than warned. There are board games out for the wait — three people mention them, and one says the wait vanishes into a game. The room is small enough, another writes, that you hear the bun and the patty going on from your table. Two expect it to run longer when the place fills.
It is a small room. Four writers count the tables and get five, nine, nine and ten; three note they are mostly two-tops, and one passes on the house rule — two to a two-top, three or more to a four. Only one post calls it roomy, and even that says cosy first. Two mention a mirrored wall hung with small framed photographs. Groups of six and seven have squeezed in, but one writer advises against it for a date or anything that matters — on the grounds that the burgers cannot be eaten tidily.
Six posts say the burger is too tall to pick up. Three note that a knife and fork arrive with it and that cutting works fine; one writer, eating her first handmade burger, found the whole business awkward. Another passes on the trick — leave the skewer in and cut either side of it. Two women report that one set and one burger on its own was right for them, where two sets would not have been, and one chose the junior out of caution. One writer dissents and says the burgers are not that big.
The prices moved. The mahogany and the birch are ₩10,000 in posts from November 2024 and January 2025, and ₩11,000 in May and September 2026. A January 2025 writer catches the shop mid-change: every item had gone up five hundred won and the board had not caught up, so you added it at the till. Even so, not one post calls the place expensive — all five that discuss price say the opposite. One May 2026 writer claims the prices are what they were ten years ago, which our own two years of posts contradict. The same writer remembers a ten-thousand-won burger being a stretch at twenty.
There are board games in the room — three writers saw them, placing them variously at the side and by the entrance. One guesses they are for students lingering over a drink after dinner, and is reminded of burger places in the States. Nobody says what the games are.
One shop, and the person making the food is right there. One writer thinks the owner runs it alone; another met both an owner and a member of staff, so the count varies. A May 2026 visitor fell into conversation with the owner's wife and came away with the line she was given — that the food is made as if for her own child — along with an account of same-day prep and sauces developed in house. One writer, saying it was her first visit, was simply told what most people order.

What 24 bloggers said

We read all 24 in full. The most common claims are “Cramped” (10) and “Large portions” (8).

What they liked

Large portions8 of 24 posts

No wait6 of 24 posts

Returning customer6 of 24 posts

Not expensive5 of 24 posts

Would return5 of 24 posts

Friendly staff3 of 24 posts

Clean1 of 24 posts

What they struggled with

Cramped10 of 24 posts

Food comes slowly1 of 24 posts

Things you can check on site

Cooked to order	6 of 24 posts
Independent, not a chain	4 of 24 posts
Board games on the table	3 of 24 posts
Takeout	1 of 24 posts
Reachable by transit	1 of 24 posts
Beer served	1 of 24 posts

These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.

The most ordered dish is mahogany (마호가니) — 12 of 24 posts.

The prices here are what bloggers wrote down in their posts, and they may have changed since. Check Naver Place for the current menu and prices. This list is not a menu board — it counts what bloggers actually ordered and ate. Check on Naver Place

마호가니12 ate it
mahogany₩10,000 · ₩11,000
**The burger the shop leads with, and the one most often ordered here.** A barbecue patty under a hash brown, grilled onion, **a fried egg and two rashers of bacon**, with cheddar — three writers say it eats like brunch. Three recommend it to anyone who cannot take heat.
Twelve writers ate it. ₩10,000 in posts from November 2024 and January 2025, ₩11,000 in May and September 2026; ₩3,500 more makes it a set. **Three posts from 2024–25 list grilled pineapple among the fillings and the 2026 posts do not.** One 2025 writer advises anyone who dislikes pineapple to order something else.
버치11 ate it
birch₩10,000 · ₩11,000
**The spicy one.** Patty, hash brown and grilled onion under the house-made meat chilli — two writers note the minced beef in it. On the heat they disagree: one puts it at instant-ramyeon level, one found it milder than expected, and one who does not consider herself weak with chilli found it quite hot.
Eleven ate it, at the same price as the mahogany. Four say the chilli cuts the richness just as it starts to build. One records three slices of jalapeño on the side.
버거 2 + 사이드 1 + 음료 2 세트4 ate it
set for two
**The set to take if there are two of you** — one writer works out that it saves two thousand won over ordering separately. Upgrading a single burger is ₩3,500 in every post, and brings fries and a drink.
Three writers give what they paid, and **the totals differ because the orders did** — about ₩33,000 in March 2026, ₩31,000 in May for two burgers, one fries and two drinks, ₩32,000 the same month. **These are receipts, not menu prices.**
버치 피칸테3 ate it
birch picante₩12,000
**The hotter sibling of the birch** — one writer reports the menu marks it with three chillies against the birch's one. Cheese, onion, patty and hash brown under the same sauce.
Three ate it. A September 2026 post gives ₩12,000 and adds pineapple for a thousand more, which the writer recommends. One person took fright at the three chillies and went for the plain birch instead — and found that hot enough.
졸라피노2 ate it
jolapino₩12,000
**The creamy one** — a carbonara-like sauce with gorgonzola, over hash brown, grilled pineapple and onion. Two writers say it is lighter than it looks.
Two ate it; a May 2026 post gives ₩12,000. One writer, back after eight or nine years, says it was her order seven times in ten. **Note that the similarly named bellapino is a different burger.**
포레스트2 ate it
forest
**The cheese one:** patty, hash brown and grilled onion under sweet chilli and mozzarella, **and it comes with a small salad in onion dressing** — which, one writer notes, the other burgers did not.
Two ate it; nobody gives a price. One says it might cloy on its own and paired it with something spicy.
마호가니 주니어2 ate it
mahogany junior
The smaller mahogany — though **one writer reports it is not that much smaller.** Two rashers, a fried egg, and a sauce she likens to Thousand Island.
Two ate it, neither giving a price. One chose it fearing the portion; the other added it as a third burger.
밀리언셀러1 ate it
million seller
One of the burgers on the board. The single post that records eating it says only that **it was as good as the mahogany,** without listing what is in it.
No price anywhere. All we know is that one person ordered it alongside a mahogany in November 2024.
벨라피노1 ate it
bellapino₩10,000
Another carbonara-sauced burger. **One writer flags it as a non-bestseller worth ordering,** and suggests its softness suits children and older diners.
Only one post, from January 2025, records eating it, at the mahogany's ₩10,000 (₩13,500 as a set). **Easy to confuse with the jolapino when ordering.**
블랙젝1 ate it
blackjack
**One writer only,** in November 2025, and she says nothing about what is in it. **It does not appear in the full menu transcription from November 2024.**
No price. Whether it is a newer addition we could not confirm.

크리스피 프라이즈3 ate it
crispy fries₩6,500
Crinkle-cut chips under colby jack, grated onion and the same house chilli that goes on the birch — one writer spotted the connection. Another says it eats less like a side than a dish.
Three ate it; a November 2024 post gives ₩6,500 on its own. One writer singles out the onion buried in the sauce.
모짜렐라 크리스피 프라이즈1 ate it
mozzarella crispy fries
The crispy fries with mozzarella added. One post lays out the four kinds of chips: plain, crispy, mozzarella crispy and chichi.
One person ate it in July 2026 — **not the writer, who says she cannot abide potatoes,** but her companion. No price given.
파인애플 추가1 ate it
pineapple topping₩1,000
**Grilled pineapple, a thousand won.** A September 2026 writer added it to a birch picante and tells you to do the same.
**People divide on it.** One writer decided the grilled pineapple is the whole point of the place; another warns that if you do not want it, the mahogany is not your burger.
치치 프라이즈1 ate it
chichi fries₩7,500
**Four cheeses on chips** — cheddar, American and Swiss, with mozzarella over the top, by the one account we have.
One post, September 2026, ₩7,500. The cheese, she writes, has melted down into the chips.
서 프라이즈1 ate it
sir fries
Chips with cheese and parmesan. **The name is a pun one writer only got afterwards** — he had assumed it was "surprise".
One post, May 2026, and no separate price — it came inside a ₩31,000 order with two burgers and two drinks.
바니시 샐러드named in 2
varnish salad
On the board as a side. **Not one post records eating it** — the name appears only in the two menu transcriptions.
No price, no description. Note though that **the forest burger arrives with a salad in onion dressing** of its own.

Parking

2 posts say you can park; 7 say you cannot. We leave the disagreement standing rather than picking a side.

Posts saying you can park	2 of 24 posts
Posts saying you cannot	7 of 24 posts

Driving here is a chore. Of the nine posts that discuss parking, seven say it cannot be done or is hard — no parking, the lane is impossible, hunt the verges nearby, or, in one case, four friends who each drove, each parked somewhere different, and met at the door. The two that say it is possible both counted the spaces: about four beside the building, full when one November 2024 writer arrived, plus perhaps one in front, by a January 2026 account. Four spaces, in other words, and the lane after that — a narrow one, easy to block.

Who came, and with whom

Date	6 of 24 posts
With a friend	5 of 24 posts
Family visit	2 of 24 posts
Group visit	2 of 24 posts
Came by car	1 of 24 posts
Came with children	1 of 24 posts

Getting there

Getting inside

Second floor	yes 0 · no 1 (of 24 posts read)

Nobody says whether you can get in with a wheelchair or a pushchair. Across twenty-five posts, no ramp, no threshold, no step. One writer does describe the door: a sign asks you to pull hard, and she reports it means it — a half-hearted pull gets you nowhere. She tells it as a joke, not as a note on who might be unable to open it. Several establish that the shop is on the ground floor and that the two-tops are packed close. Whether there is a step at the door, or room to turn inside, we do not know.

Not one post mentions the lavatory. Nothing in twenty-five of them says whether it is inside, out in the building's corridor, or separated by sex. That the shop is small and rents the ground floor of a residential block is the whole of what we know. This is not a statement that there is none — it is a statement that nobody looked.

No one mentioned: In a basement · Lift to the floor · Ramp at the door · Step at the entrance · Step-free access · Toilet inside · Accessible toilet · Separate restrooms. That is not the same as there being none — it means we could not confirm it. Worth calling ahead, and do tell us: we will put it here.

How to read these posts

Posts saying they paid themselves9 of 24 posts
Posts saying nothing either way15 of 24 posts

When the posts appeared

1101030507111201020304050709

Month by month

Month	Posts
2024-11	4
2025-01	2
2025-03	1
2025-05	1
2025-07	1
2025-11	1
2025-12	1
2026-01	1
2026-02	1
2026-03	1
2026-04	1
2026-05	4
2026-07	3
2026-09	2

What we do not know

One person, and one only, says how to get here by bus: get off at the Cheongju High School stop in March 2026 and it is a short walk. Nothing else in the corpus touches public transport. Two more writers walked, but both from the university — five minutes from the main or middle gate, one says. No route number, and no count of minutes from the stop.
There is a second burger shop of the same name in Cheongju. A May 2026 post describes the other one as a reinterpretation by its own owner; a September 2026 post counts two branches in all. This page is the one near the university's main gate. The other sits across town by a different campus, with a different address, a different menu — its burgers are named for their sauces — and a two o'clock opening. One writer who knows both had until recently only ever been to the other. Check the address before you set off.
The opening time is written down two ways. Thirteen posts say half past eleven; two — one from November 2024, one from January 2026 — say noon, and both writers add that they turned up at noon for the opening and found customers already inside, so these are not copied figures. One post closes at half nine rather than nine, and one puts last orders at eight rather than twenty past. Only the three-to-five break is unanimous, in all sixteen posts. Two say there is no regular closing day, and one notes it trades on Sundays. If you are aiming for lunch, it is worth a call.
Not one post discloses sponsorship. Nine of the twenty-five insist they paid, one of them adding that it carries no advertising at all. But twenty-five posts are not twenty-five people — one blogger wrote twice. Those two, and two others, are diaries or round-ups covering many places, and in two of them our shop gets a single line: lunch was a burger. We count them as visits and take nothing else from them. One writer says outright that the meal was two or three years ago and she remembers nothing; another that a month had passed and she was no longer sure what she ordered.
The number in the posts is not the number on the business register. All ten posts that give one give a Naver proxy line, which dies the day the shop stops paying for it; the registered line appears in none of them. Which is answered today can only be learned by ringing, and we did not ring. The page carries the registered number — if it does not answer, try the one in the posts. Two writers note that the shop posts new items and offers to its Instagram account.

Sources (24)

Every number above was counted from the posts below.

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Of 170 candidate posts we opened 82 and kept 24 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.