Gilpost · Gongju-si, Singwan-dong
Ollibeu Pepe
올리브페페 An Italian restaurant one flight up from the back gate of Kongju National University, student-priced, where the plate people order is a pasta of bracken fern and prawn in perilla oil.
Western · Gongju-si, Singwan-dong
Data as of · Published ·
Olive Pepe is an Italian restaurant on the first floor above a GS25 convenience store, across from the back gate of Kongju National University in Singwan-dong. Pasta and risotto, pizza from dough mixed in-house and fired above 400°C, and a plate of grilled octopus are what the menu is built on. The house dish is a pasta of bracken fern and prawn dressed in perilla oil: eight of the twenty-five writers ordered it. It opens at eleven and closes at nine, with a break from three to five, and shuts on Saturdays — in 2024 it was Tuesdays, which is discussed below. Three writers recognise the room as a former Cafe Bene. The twenty-five posts we read run from October 2024 to September 2026.
The basics
| Address | 충청남도 공주시 공주대학로 61, 2층 (신관동) 61 Gongjudaehak-ro, Gongju-si, Chungcheongnam-do |
|---|---|
| Phone | 0507-1387-2742 |
| Typical spend | ₩2,000 – ₩28,900 |
| Floor area | 110 m² |
| Status | In business |
2 posts say it is walkable from the station.
When it opens
Of 14 posts: 13 wrote 11:00–21:00.
| Open | 11:00–21:00 13 of 14 posts last seen 2026-09 | |
|---|---|---|
| Break | 15:00–17:00 12 of 12 posts last seen 2026-09 | |
| Last order | 14:30 8 of 8 posts last seen 2026-09 | |
| Last order | 20:30 7 of 8 posts last seen 2026-03 | |
| Closed | 토요일 9 of 10 posts last seen 2026-09 |
Counted from what bloggers wrote in their posts; we did not confirm it with the restaurant. Where the values differ, it may be a change over time rather than a disagreement, so we show when each one was written.
What sets it apart
- Eleven writers call this place cheap and not one calls it expensive. One titled their post with the question of whether the pasta costs less than a bowl of gukbap; another notes with some wonder that pasta generally runs over ten thousand won now and here it does not. Seven of the eleven explain the prices by the university — it is student-priced, they say, affordable enough that undergraduates can eat here without thinking about it. One writer admits the prices made them doubt the food, and then found it beat far dearer Italian places outright. The prices have moved, though, and that is set out below.
- It is up one flight, and seven writers say so; one adds that there is no lift. The way in is beside the GS25, marked by an orange A-board that four writers used to find it. One notes the restaurant's name pasted repeatedly up the stairwell, in case you forget where you are going; another says there are not many steps and they were up quickly. Two writers warn that the sign outside gives nothing away — it does not look like an Italian restaurant, and the inside is nothing like the outside. Two mention that the door is glass, so you see the room before you open it.
- The toilet is not inside the restaurant but out on the landing — five writers report it from having gone. Where exactly "out" is varies a little in their telling: right in front of the restaurant door, immediately beside the entrance, on the left as you come in. Two of them note that you take a key with you — pick it up at the entrance, or take the key from beside the door, step out of the restaurant and it is on your right. One writer, having said it is clean enough given how close it is, explains that this is the first thing she looks up before choosing anywhere, which is why she always writes it down. Whether it is separate for men and women, or how many cubicles there are, nobody says.
- The kitchen is open to the room — nine writers mention it, and five of them turn it straight into a point about hygiene. An open kitchen raises their confidence, they say, though the state of the room would have told them anyway; one wonders whether the owners built it that way out of confidence. Another connects it to the wood-toned room and how comfortable the whole place feels. One writer saw into the store cupboard as well, which happened to be open, and passed the ingredients too. Three call the place clean and none calls it dirty. The writer who grew up with the owner puts it differently: through the open kitchen she can see the back of her friend's head as she works.
- Nine writers have something to say about the window seats. Two note that being one floor up puts the university strip below you; three write about the light — good light at the window, sun coming in on a fine day, a couple who always ask for the window. One person counted: three tables for four along the glass, four more tables for four further in, and a long table for a group. Two writers say you need to be early or booked to get one — one arrived late and took an ordinary table, wanting the window; another got it precisely because they had reserved. Against that, one wondered whether the wall seats were in fact the popular ones, and another, arriving in the evening, found the room dim enough that their photos came out dark.
- There is room for a party — seven writers call it roomy and none calls it cramped. Four mention a group table, and the ones who actually came in numbers counted: six adults who booked for lunch found broad tables and comfortable chairs; a party of five thought the bright, well-divided room suited either a date or a gathering; another reckoned up to ten could sit at one table. Five writers remark on the spacing between tables — wide enough to ignore your neighbours and talk quietly, and partitioned as well. One notes a semi-private corner. And one writer explains that she chose this place against another: the year before, at a rival, the tables had been small and the chairs uncomfortable, and she would not take a party of six there again.
- There are four ways the bill comes down. First, stamps: one per ten thousand won spent, and ten of them buy a choice of two ades, two coffees, two glasses of wine or two soft drinks, according to one writer. Four posts mention the card; one was already halfway there in a single visit, another says the stamps come generously enough that it will fill up fast. Second, a review promotion — three writers disclose a free drink for it, two plum ades and a strawberry one, and one advises checking both the wifi password and the Naver review offer before you go. Third, the Gongju local currency, which one writer used at the till. Fourth, a university arrangement: one writer noticed a departmental discount on offer, but does not say which department or how much it takes off.
- Four writers had been before, eight say they will come again, and not one says they will not. Among the returners, one folds two separate visits into a single post — dinner with friends first, then, on another day, a second trip because the food had been good. Another crowns it a place they keep going back to, for the risotto. A third calls it their mill, the place they end up at. Of the eight who mean to return, two already know what for: one to work through the whole menu, the other to bring her boyfriend and make him eat the aglio e olio. The remaining thirteen say nothing about their own return, so we have counted them neither way.
What 24 bloggers said
We read all 24 in full. The most common claims are “Not expensive” (11) and “Would return” (8).
What they liked
Things you can check on site
| Large windows | 9 of 24 posts |
|---|---|
| Open kitchen | 9 of 24 posts |
| Second floor | 7 of 24 posts |
| Toilet outside | 5 of 24 posts |
| Coupon | 4 of 24 posts |
| Takes reservations | 4 of 24 posts |
| Review event | 3 of 24 posts |
| Wi-Fi | 2 of 24 posts |
| Coffee served | 2 of 24 posts |
| Wine served | 2 of 24 posts |
| Reachable by transit | 2 of 24 posts |
| Private room | 1 of 24 posts |
| Takeout | 1 of 24 posts |
| Local currency accepted | 1 of 24 posts |
| Discount offered | 1 of 24 posts |
| High chairs | 1 of 24 posts |
| Self-order screen | 1 of 24 posts |
| Cooked to order | 1 of 24 posts |
These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.
What people order
The most ordered dish is gosari deulgireum pasta (고사리 들기름 파스타) — 8 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
What to order
To drink
Parking
8 posts say you cannot park. None say you can.
| Posts saying you cannot | 8 of 24 posts |
|---|
There is no car park of its own — eight writers say so and none says otherwise. Five of the eight send you to the same place: the Daehak-ro public car park at Singwan-dong 241-20, two or three minutes' walk, free of charge. One describes it as two minutes and one set of lights away; another notes that it has since been paved, so the car stays clean. A space is not guaranteed, though. One writer qualifies having found one with "it was a weekday"; another found none and reckoned on squeezing in near the university's back gate; a third simply says parking was quite a struggle. Two suggest the university's own car park instead. As for it being free: one writer reports that as something they were told, and nobody records actually paying — or not paying — themselves.
Who came, and with whom
| Date | 4 of 24 posts |
|---|---|
| With a friend | 4 of 24 posts |
| Family visit | 3 of 24 posts |
| Came by car | 3 of 24 posts |
| Came with children | 2 of 24 posts |
| Group visit | 2 of 24 posts |
Getting there
Naver Map has a full English mode — Settings → Language → English. In Korea it gives better walking and transit directions than Google Maps.
Getting inside
| Second floor | 7 of 24 posts |
|---|---|
| Lift to the floor | yes 0 · no 1 |
| Toilet inside | yes 0 · no 5 |
Nobody writes about getting in with a wheelchair or a pushchair. The words wheelchair, pushchair, ramp, threshold and step do not appear once across the twenty-five posts. We know exactly two things: that it is one floor up, from seven writers, and that one of them recorded "(no lift)". Nobody counted the steps — one writer says only that there are not many — and nobody looked at the door for a lip. We will not turn that into "you cannot get in": there being none and our not having checked are different things. Two posts describe coming with a child, a seven-year-old and a primary-school child, and one writer noted high chairs in the room.
No one mentioned: In a basement · Ramp at the door · Step at the entrance · Step-free access · 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
- Someone else paid3 of 24 posts
- Posts saying they paid themselves4 of 24 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way17 of 24 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 28 posts we gathered, 4 went up on a single day right after a TV spot and show no sign of a visit. They retell the broadcast, so we left them out of the counts.
We do not discard them. That a TV spot produced a burst of posts is itself something worth knowing about a place, and a star rating will not show it.
When the posts appeared
Month by month
| Month | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2024-10 | 3 |
| 2024-12 | 2 |
| 2025-01 | 3 |
| 2025-02 | 1 |
| 2025-05 | 2 |
| 2025-06 | 1 |
| 2025-07 | 1 |
| 2025-08 | 2 |
| 2025-09 | 1 |
| 2025-11 | 1 |
| 2025-12 | 2 |
| 2026-03 | 1 |
| 2026-06 | 1 |
| 2026-07 | 2 |
| 2026-09 | 1 |
What we do not know
- We counted twenty-five of the thirty confirmed posts. One was removed outright: a personal diary whose only trace of the restaurant is an automatic check-in widget, with nothing about it in the text. Four more we kept on file but took out of the count. A round-up of three pasta restaurants in Gongju adds ours in a single closing line, as a fourth suggestion. The same blogger's second post, headed with what they felt after visiting, consists of quoted praise and never says what they ordered — both posts lead into promotion of their own guesthouse, and one of those links is itself labelled a paid ad. A third is a new parent's diary recording a pasta and a pizza ordered in for delivery, with nothing seen of the restaurant. The fourth is the same blogger writing up the same single visit again as a travel itinerary, which would turn one person into two. So twenty-five posts here means twenty-five people on twenty-five different blogs.
- Two writers disclose knowing the owner. One introduces the restaurant as her childhood friend's — friends since before either was born, she says, and now her friend runs a place — and adds later that the ade came free, which is what friends are for. The other describes it as run by the older brother of a friend of a younger friend of hers. Neither hid it, so neither is excluded; but their verdicts on the food are not weighed with the other twenty-three. What we took from those two posts is only what can be checked against the rest: prices, the open kitchen, whether they take food away. For what it is worth, the childhood friend still reports — with an apology — that the squid-ink risotto was not to her taste.
- Two years of posts make a price rise visible. A single September 2026 post gives ₩10,900 for the carbonara, ₩15,900 for the bisque pasta and ₩28,900 for the grilled octopus. Posts from December 2024 through December 2025 give those same three as ₩9,900, ₩14,900 and ₩27,900, several posts to each figure. All three went up by exactly a thousand won. But the same September 2026 post gives ₩14,900 for the margherita and ₩13,900 for the squid-ink risotto, unchanged from the older posts, so it was not an across-the-board rise — and the signature bracken pasta is ₩10,900 in both October 2024 and September 2026. We have therefore kept both the old and the new figures in the menu: erasing one loses the record of when it changed, and one post from 2026 is not enough to declare a current price. Budget for the higher number.
- Not one writer says they queued. Across twenty-five posts there is no mention of a wait, a ticket, a line, or anywhere to wait. Two mention a full room, and both have a reason attached: one found every table taken at Sunday lunch because of a group booking, and the other says only that plenty of people were eating early in the day. That is not the same as saying you never wait here — it means nobody wrote about it. What four writers do record is booking ahead: a table for six at lunch, one reservation made to secure a window seat, one for a wedding anniversary. One writer notes that arriving as the afternoon break ends gets the food out fast, but that is about the kitchen, not a queue.
- The weekly closing day changed. An October 2024 post lists the opening days as Wednesday through Monday and states that it closes on Tuesdays. But nine posts from January 2025 to September 2026 all say Saturday, and that single October 2024 post is the only one that says Tuesday. It evidently changed at some point in between; when, these posts cannot tell us. The hours themselves are steady: nineteen posts give 11:00–21:00, eleven give an afternoon break from 15:00 to 17:00, and six give last orders at 14:30 and 20:30. One post alone treats Sunday differently — a September 2025 post gives Monday to Friday as 11:00–21:00 and Sunday as 11:00–19:30. With only one post saying it, we cannot tell whether that still holds. Check before you go, and particularly for Saturday and Sunday.
- Here is what nobody wrote, and so we cannot answer. Whether the table is yours for a fixed time, whether you can bring a dog, whether there is a menu in any other language — not a line in twenty-five posts. Takeaway appears once, and for one dish only: the writer who grew up with the owner says she often buys the gorgonzola pizza to take home. Which other dishes travel, and at what price, we do not know. Corkage is listed as free or permitted in two posts, but in both cases inside a header block that also recites group bookings, takeaway, reservations, wifi and high chairs, so we have not counted it — nobody records actually bringing a bottle. Wifi we counted only in the two posts whose writers saw the password notice themselves.
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Of 128 candidate posts we opened 96 and kept 24 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.