Gilpost · Suseong-gu, Beomeo-dong
Beomeo Modeon Kichin
범어모던키친 A one-floor-up Western kitchen in a Daegu cram-school lane, known for a hamburg steak that arrives boiling in an earthenware pot
Other · Suseong-gu, Beomeo-dong
Data as of · Published ·
Beomeo Modern Kitchen is a small Western-food restaurant up one floor, in a lane behind a high school in the Beomeo district of Daegu. The dish it is known for is the hamburg steak, and it does not come on a plate — it arrives in an earthenware pot, still boiling, with a bowl of rice. You choose the heat when you order, and extra pasta can be added, but only to the pot dishes. Beyond the patties there are pastas, risottos, pizzas, omelette rices and pork-neck rice bowls — over twenty dishes, most in the ₩11,000–15,000 range. The kitchen is open to the room and the owner cooks in front of you. Three posts note a one-dish-per-person rule. It opens at eleven; the closing time was half past nine through 2025, and the 2026 posts say nine. The posts we read run from December 2024 to September 2026.
The basics
| Address | 대구광역시 수성구 청호로85안길 11, 2층 (범어동) 11 Cheongho-ro 85an-gil, Suseong-gu, Daegu |
|---|---|
| Phone | 053-421-5050 |
| Typical spend | ₩1,000 – ₩20,000 |
| Floor area | 90 m² |
| Status | In business |
When it opens
Of 13 posts: 8 wrote Daily 11:00–21:30.
| Open | Daily | 11:00–21:00 3 of 13 posts last seen 2026-07 |
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| Open | Daily | 11:00–21:30 8 of 13 posts last seen 2025-08 |
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.
What sets it apart
- Nobody calls it expensive. All eight posts that discuss price say the opposite — that you would not expect Western food at these prices in this neighbourhood; that it is genuinely reasonable next to other restaurants nearby; that ₩18,000 felt cheap for what arrived. From the menus people photographed: pastas and risottos ₩11,000–13,000, the patty dishes ₩11,000–16,000, pizzas ₩15,000, and the flat-iron steak dearest at ₩20,000. Every price we have is from the first half of 2025 or earlier. A May 2025 post says prices had gone up a little since her last visit; a July 2026 post says the same of the six months since February. Not one post gives a price from after either rise. Two other snags: the steak reads ₩20,000 on a January 2025 menu, ₩18,000 in a May post and ₩20,000 again in June, and one post gives the signature patty as ₩13,000 in its header and ₩11,000 in its own photograph of the menu.
- It is small. Nobody says otherwise, and five say so outright. The six posts that count the seats do not quite agree — four tables of four; four tables, four to a table; four tables large and small; a six and a four; a group table for six plus two two-tops tucked behind the fridge. However you count it is around twenty, and one writer notes a screen down the middle of the largest table. Small comes paired with roomy in a way worth repeating: four writers say in almost the same breath that the restaurant is not big but the tables are wide — good for putting a lot of dishes down, good for a group. Two mention the full-height window and the light; three call it quiet. Two, though, found it full: one waited for a table at half past one in the afternoon, another arrived to a full room in the evening.
- It reads as a place to bring children. Six posts record high chairs; three came with children of their own, and what those three write is specific: a plastic cup swapped in for the glass one on request; a steak cooked through because it was being shared with a small child; the owner steering a family to the mild version of the pot dish. Two mention school pupils eating early before their evening classes in the cram-school district next door. Four say their children cleared the plate. It is up a flight of stairs, though — and not one post says whether there is a lift, or whether a pushchair can get up.
- The kitchen is open to the room and the owner cooks in front of you. Two writers describe it — one saw flames go up over a pan and was told it was part of making the pasta; another simply approves of being able to watch. One watched the pasta being timed with an actual timer. How many people work there is not settled: two posts describe one person doing the room and the kitchen alone and marvel at the speed, and two describe a husband and wife both run off their feet. It may vary by shift; we could not check.
- Three posts state a one-dish-per-person rule, all three from January 2025 — one of them explaining that it was why her work party ordered so widely. No later post mentions it, and we cannot tell whether that means the rule went or simply that nobody wrote it down. Since seven posts say the portions are large, the rule is worth knowing: the pot dishes come with rice, and one writer who added pasta to hers could not then manage the rice. One writer found the quantity short — and her complaint was that you cannot order extra pasta with a pasta, only with the pot dishes.
- It reads as a place the neighbourhood comes back to. Five posts are return visits: a woman who first went three years ago when her child had classes nearby and found after moving that it was round the corner; a man who works close by and intends to post every dish on the menu; a woman who calls it her local; another who walks there because it is a stone's throw from her flat. One writer gives it five stars for returning. Only one post is a first visit. One notes that restaurants in this district open and close constantly and that few hold a spot for long. Another says she would rather keep it to herself, since a crowd would only cost her a table.
What 23 bloggers said
We read all 23 in full. The most common claims are “Not expensive” (8) and “Large portions” (7).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Things you can check on site
| High chairs | 6 of 23 posts |
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| One dish per person | 3 of 23 posts |
| Open kitchen | 2 of 23 posts |
| Takes reservations | 2 of 23 posts |
| Large windows | 2 of 23 posts |
| Takeout | 2 of 23 posts |
| Cooked to order | 1 of 23 posts |
| Origin labelling posted | 1 of 23 posts |
| Toilet inside | 1 of 23 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 suje hambak steak (수제함박스테이크) — 6 of 23 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
Parking
7 posts say you can park; 5 say you cannot. We leave the disagreement standing rather than picking a side.
| Posts saying you can park | 7 of 23 posts |
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| Posts saying you cannot | 5 of 23 posts |
There is a car park, and it is where you will not see it. The seven posts that say parking works all say exactly where: down the slope beside the building and round the back; into the alley on the right of the shop and immediately left; behind the building and below ground. Two of them include photographs of the turn. The five that say there is none are people who did not find it — one writes, with a sad face, that the restaurant has no car park of its own and you use the lane; another that you park in front or in the side streets and that it is not easy. A neighbour who walks there put it best: there seems to be a car park between the buildings, but she has never seen it. (We did not count hers, since she says she did not look.) If you are driving, look for the downhill lane on the right of the building. How much room is in it is less settled — one writer calls it not large, another calls it comfortably empty — and one arrived on a busy day, parked some distance off and walked.
Who came, and with whom
| Family visit | 5 of 23 posts |
|---|---|
| With a friend | 3 of 23 posts |
| Came with children | 3 of 23 posts |
| Date | 1 of 23 posts |
| Group visit | 1 of 23 posts |
| Solo visit | 1 of 23 posts |
| Came by car | 1 of 23 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
| Toilet inside | 1 of 23 posts |
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Not one post says whether a wheelchair or a pushchair can get in. The words do not appear anywhere in the twenty-three. That is not the same as saying no — it means nobody wrote it down. As above, nobody describes the floor or the stairs either, so we do not even know whether the way in is level. Six posts record high chairs and three came with small children, and none of those three mentions a pushchair. One writer notes that the front is a full-height window, so you can at least see in from outside. Ring and ask if it matters — three writers say they phoned before going.
No one mentioned: Second floor · In a basement · Lift to the floor · 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
- Posts disclosing payment1 of 23 posts
- Someone else paid2 of 23 posts
- Posts saying they paid themselves4 of 23 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way16 of 23 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 30 posts we gathered, 7 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.
| 2026-09-11 | 2 posts in one day |
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| 2026-09-02 | 2 posts in one day |
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 |
|---|---|
| 2024-12 | 2 |
| 2025-01 | 8 |
| 2025-02 | 1 |
| 2025-03 | 1 |
| 2025-04 | 1 |
| 2025-05 | 3 |
| 2025-06 | 1 |
| 2025-07 | 1 |
| 2025-08 | 1 |
| 2025-11 | 1 |
| 2026-01 | 1 |
| 2026-02 | 1 |
| 2026-07 | 1 |
What we do not know
- Seven of the thirty posts have been taken out of the count, which leaves twenty-three. The seven went up between August and September 2026 across five accounts, and all seven describe the same single meal — the same two dishes ordered, the same two-tables-of-two-and-three-of-four seating count, the same remark about the water jug, the same line about the origin labelling, the same note about a free salad with takeaway for two, in the same order. Two pairs among them are word-for-word the same post published on two platforms. And they are not merely copied, they are wrong: all seven give the opening hours as eleven to ten and the closing days as the first and third Tuesday, which not one of the twenty-three first-hand posts says — fourteen of those give half past nine or nine. Their seating count does not match what people who sat down describe either. One ends with an unrelated hotel booking advertisement. Counting all seven would turn one meal into seven.
- The closing time has moved. Nine posts from December 2024 through August 2025 all say half past nine; three from January, February and July 2026 all say nine. No month carries both, so this reads as a change rather than a disagreement. Opening is eleven in all thirteen. The closing day is another matter. March 2025: no closing day. May 2025: closed Mondays. January 2025: possibly Mondays on special occasions. Two 2026 posts: the closing days seem to move around. Ring before you go — one writer says she did exactly that before a Sunday visit.
- Two posts mention the lavatory and both of them are about a cat. One writer says the only thing wrong with her local is that she has heard a cat lives in the lavatory and she is too frightened to go in — she never went in. The other opened the door, found a cat trying to come the other way, shut it again, and listened to it complain outside for the rest of her meal. From the second we can at least say the lavatory is inside the restaurant. Nothing else: not whether it is shared, not how big, not whether it belongs to the building. Nor do we know if the cat is still there — both posts are from the first half of 2025 and no later one mentions it. Worth knowing if you react to cats.
- They disagree about how fast the food comes. Two say it is fast: one person cooking, everything out at once, which is why she got a photograph of the whole table. One says it is slow — and that writer had waited for a table at half past one in the afternoon, then waited again for the food, and advises ringing ahead. The delivery traffic probably explains the split. Three posts describe orders coming in without a break while they ate, and one says the kitchen looked buried in them at lunchtime. Two writers tell you to phone first.
- One post declares a sponsorship, three declare they were given nothing, and two were paid for by someone else. The sponsored one says so in its first line: partly sponsored, partly her own money. Two of the three denials come from the two blogs of the same optician's shop. The two that were treated include a post that calls itself self-funded — its author writes "not sponsored, paid for it myself" at the top and then explains that a friend had offered to buy her dinner; the other says her sister paid. The remaining seventeen say nothing either way. One thing to flag: the writer who declared she paid has Naver shopping affiliate links threaded through both her posts — for meal kits, dried pasta, mushrooms — with a line saying she takes a commission on sales. Nothing came from the restaurant, but there is money in the post.
- No post explains how to get here by train or bus. Three name a station and none of the three is an account of a journey: two carry the line "617m from exit 3 at Suseong-gu Office" — the same figure down to the metre, which is what Naver's listing prints — and the third offers one sentence about sitting between two stations and being easy to reach, in the post that declares a sponsorship. Not one writer says how long the walk is, which exit to take, or which lane to turn down. The reason is not hard to guess: the customers here are neighbours on foot and people in cars. Five posts call it their local, round the corner, a stone's throw from the flat. There are landmarks, at least: four place it behind the high school and immediately behind a named apartment block, and one warns that the lane is narrow and the sign small enough to walk past.
- Nobody describes the floor or the stairs in their own words. The registered address puts it one floor up, and the check-in widget prints that with the address in many posts — but that is not the writer speaking. Exactly one of the twenty-three states a floor in its own text, and it says the ground floor, against the registry. We could not settle which is right. No post counts the steps, mentions a lift, or describes the climb at all. The car park, by several accounts, sits below the building down a slope, so whoever parks there comes back up one way or another.
Sources (23)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- 대구범어동맛집 모던키친, 가족단위로 식사하기 좋은 파스타집! 내.... 2026-07-11 · hola, in my opinion
- 대구맛집추천 범어모던키친, 우리동네 파스타 맛집 발견! 사장님! .... 2026-02-10 · hola, in my opinion
- 대구 범어동 맛집 범어모던키친, 여전히 맛있는 대구 함박스테이크 .... 2026-01-26 · 살맛나는 한끼
- 행복한 월요일 외식데이트 기념일 특별한날 태그 다 때려넣어 범어.... 2025-11-04 · 세상 모든 찐핫플 안내서 냥둥이네
- 대구 범어동 맛집 범어모던키친, 수성구 함박스테이크 맛집 2025-08-07 · 살맛나는 한끼
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- 대구범어동맛집 범어모던키친에서 저녁먹고 왔어요 2025-05-01 · 행복냠냠의 맛있는 일기
- 범어 모던키친 색다른 느낌의 이탈리아 음식 2025-04-01 · 인생한방~
- 대구 수성구 3대 범어동 맛집 범어모던키친 내돈내산 후기 2025-03-05 · 요미언니의 맛있는 여행
- 대구 범어동 함박스테이크 파스타 오므라이스 가게 모던키친 내돈.... 2025-02-05 · 그냥 그래
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- [맛집리뷰] 골목식당 양식 맛집 범어모던키친♡ 2025-01-28 · S-ROSA(.SJY)의 Archive/ 기록보관소
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- 대구 범어동 맛집 : 함박스테이크가 맛있는 범어모던키친 2025-01-21 · 텔라의 LIFE PICKS
- 대구 범어동 맛집 양식 데이트 범어모던키친 2025-01-17 · 행복 멀리 없다
- 대구 범어동 맛집, 대구 함박스테이크 맛집 추천 "범어모던키친" 2025-01-15 · 도라미's Pick!
- 대구 범어동 맛집) 범어모던키친 - 함박스테이크, 뇨끼맛집 2025-01-14 · 대구 사는 내가 편하려고 만든 블로그
- 뇨끼크림스튜함박이 있는 대구 범어동 맛집! 범어모던키친 2025-01-09 · 홍스 커뮤니케이션
- 대구 범어동 맛집 수성구 모임하기 좋은 파스타집 범어모던키친 2024-12-26 · You are my sunshine
- 대구 범어동 파스타 맛집 '범어모던키친' 2024-12-26 · one point up
Of 262 candidate posts we opened 70 and kept 23 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.