Gilpost · Jung-gu, Namsan-dong

Jeil Yeon Jjukkumi

제일연쭈꾸미 A stir-fried baby-octopus house a lift ride up from its own car park by Namsan station in Daegu, opened in the summer of 2026, where the draw is a self-service bar of side dishes and street food that costs nothing extra.

Other · Jung-gu, Namsan-dong

Data as of 2026-09-27 · Published 2026-09-30 · Compiled by Gilpost

Jeil Yeon Jjukkumi is a stir-fried baby-octopus house on the first floor of a building on Myeongdeok-ro, 150 metres from exit 2 of Namsan station on Daegu's line 3. It opened in the summer of 2026; two writers remember a cafe in the same space. Notices on the wall and in the lift explain that the octopus is cured first in lotus leaf and then in wine. You can have it brought out already stir-fried (₩11,000 a head) or cook it yourself on a hotplate, and there are two sets at ₩14,000 a head that add either a seafood kalguksu or a cheese pizza. Rice and a cold acorn-jelly soup come with the sets. Two things define the place: a self-service bar that costs nothing, and the heat — twenty-seven of the twenty-eight writers mention the bar, and the spice level cannot be adjusted. It opens at eleven and closes at ten, with a break from three to five, and shuts on Thursdays. There is a car park on the ground floor and a lift up to the restaurant. The twenty-eight posts we read run from 12 August to 27 September 2026.

The basics

4 posts say it is walkable from the station.

When it opens

Of 20 posts: 16 wrote 11:00–22:00, 4 wrote Daily 11:00–22:00.

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 people order

The most ordered dish is muksabal (묵사발) — 16 of 28 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

• 묵사발16 ate it
  muksabal

  A cold acorn-jelly soup that comes with the sets and the lunch special — sharp, with ice still floating in it, as four writers describe. **Twelve of them reach for it between mouthfuls of the hot stir-fry to reset their palate, which makes it one of the most repeated observations about this place**

  It comes with the set, so **it has no price of its own.** Two writers found it generous — plenty of jelly in it; one drank the bowl dry. **Two found the opposite:** a small bowl for the price of the hotplate dish, said one; another thought the portion mean and still left it

• 치즈피자9 ate it
  cheese pizza

  The cheese pizza, also sold on its own — a thin base under a heavy layer of cheese, with honey

  **Not one post gives a price, because nobody paid for it.** All nine who ate it had written a receipt or photo review, or an Instagram one, and taken it free — the restaurant lets you pick between a beer, this pizza and a soft drink, as several writers explain. Four say the same thing in different words: they did not expect a pizza at an octopus house to be any good, and it was. **One dissent, on presentation only: you could tell, they say, how rushed the kitchen was**

• 쭈꾸미볶음8 ate it
  jjukkumi bokkeum₩11,000

  The house basic, and **the version that arrives already stir-fried** — octopus with cabbage, bean sprouts and water dropwort. A bowl of rice scattered with seaweed comes with it, and several writers describe mixing in the pickled radish and bean sprouts. Six people report notices, on the wall and in the lift, explaining that the octopus is cured first in lotus leaf and then in wine

  ₩11,000 a head — one writer records ₩22,000 for two, and three others give the same ₩11,000 for the lunch special served from eleven until half past two. **You cannot choose the heat:** several say so, and five report a notice putting it at about the level of Shin Ramyun. What the people who actually ate it say about that is another matter, set out below

• 쭈꾸미 + 칼국수 세트8 ate it
  jjukkumi + kalguksu set₩14,000

  The stir-fry with rice and acorn-jelly soup, plus a seafood kalguksu you boil yourself on a burner at the table. Five writers list what comes to go in it: clams, warty sea squirt, prawn, octopus, mushrooms and vegetables, all laid out separately

  Six posts give ₩14,000 a head. **The kalguksu splits the room completely.** Five are enthusiastic — one had never seen a set throw in a noodle soup of this quality, another praises the sweetness the clams and vegetables give the broth, a third the spring of the fresh-cut noodles. **One writer calls it a flat no:** the broth, they say, was not broth but plain water, with no savour at all; they drank a little and left the noodles. That same writer also waited thirty minutes for it to arrive

• 쭈꾸미 + 치즈피자 세트6 ate it
  jjukkumi + cheese pizza set₩14,000

  The stir-fry with rice and acorn-jelly soup, plus a cheese pizza — a thin base, freshly baked, and two writers mention honey drizzled over it

  ₩14,000 a head. **Most people use it to put out the fire:** three recommend laying a piece of octopus on a slice and rolling it up. One parent notes that their small child got through four slices. **Note that the same pizza is also what the restaurant hands out for a review, so some people paid for it inside the set and others did not pay at all**

• 철판쭈꾸미5 ate it
  cheolpan jjukkumi₩14,000

  The same octopus, but **cooked at your table.** It arrives raw on a hotplate; you light the burner and wait for the liquid the vegetables and octopus give off to cook down. Once it is part-way, **a member of staff comes and finishes the stir-frying**, as three writers describe — one noting how carefully they mixed it so as not to splash anyone's clothes

  ₩14,000 a head. **If you want the fried rice at the end, this is the one to order** — one writer says it was their whole reason for choosing the hotplate, and another reports being told that the pre-cooked version cannot be finished that way. **But at least one person was left waiting because nobody told them it was theirs to cook:** they say a single sentence when the pan arrived would have saved them. Someone else chose the pre-cooked version precisely to avoid standing over a burner in the heat

• 어린이돈가스2 ate it
  eorini donkatsu₩6,000

  A children's pork cutlet, cut up ready to eat, with its own sauce and a plate of rice, chips and pickles

  Two posts give ₩6,000. **Two parents ordered it because the octopus was too hot for the child** — one for a third-grader who cannot take chilli, the other recommending it to anyone bringing a child. The batter, one notes, was crisp and the oil clean

• 쭈꾸미 해물전1 ate it
  jjukkumi haemuljeon₩12,000

  A savoury pancake of octopus and prawn, heavy with garlic chives

  One post, September 2026, gives ₩12,000. The writer describes a single pancake with two textures — crisp at the thin edge, moist in the middle where the chives and seafood sit — and seasoning restrained enough to suit both the stir-fry and the plain noodle broth. The other three only spotted it on the menu and wanted it

• 새우튀김1 ate it
  saeu twigim

  Fried prawns, ordered on the side

  **No price anywhere, so we leave it empty.** The one person who ordered it did so because their child picked it over the cutlet, and found it useful for the moments when the octopus got too hot

• 서리태 콩국수named in 3
  seoritae kongguksu

  A summer seasonal dish, noticed on the menu by three writers

  **Nobody records ordering it, so we know neither the price nor the taste.** One writer, who says she loves cold soybean noodles and was curious about the black-bean version, meant to go back before the summer ended. Since every post we read is from August or September, **whether it is on the menu in autumn or winter we cannot say**

Sides, and what comes with it

• 볶음밥3 ate it
  bokkeumbap₩2,000

  Rice fried at the end in what is left in the pan. **Staff come and do it at the table,** as two writers note

  One post gives ₩2,000. **You need the hotplate version** — with the pre-cooked stir-fry, one writer reports, it is not an option. Another: the sweet, hot sauce works into every grain, and then your mouth is in uproar

To drink

• 제로 콜라1 ate it
  zero cola₩2,000

  Zero-sugar cola. The review promotion offers a choice of a beer, the pizza or a soft drink, and this is presumably the soft drink — though nobody writes down which one arrives

  One post, August 2026, gives ₩2,000. **Beer is sold too, but nobody records its price** — four writers list it among the review-promotion choices and not one says they drank it. Five mention a coffee machine by the exit for afterwards

Parking

25 posts say you can park. None say you cannot.

There is a car park of the restaurant's own on the ground floor, and two hours are free if you register at the till on the way out — twenty-five writers discuss parking. In this neighbourhood that is reason enough on its own: parking around here is genuinely hard, several say, and having it under the building took the strain out of the visit before it started. Eight warn that the free hours depend on registering. But it is small. The two who counted put it at about ten cars and at eight; five raise the size as a problem — cramped for a restaurant this big, with a tight turn that one writer would steer new drivers away from, and not, as another puts it, what you would call roomy. One person could not get in at all: arriving at lunchtime on a public holiday, they parked instead at the public car park in the back streets. Two note a paid public car park a minute's walk away for when it is full.

Who came, and with whom

Getting there

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Getting inside

Not one writer says whether you can get in with a wheelchair. One post carries "group bookings / high chairs / wheelchair accessible" in a header block, but that block also recites the parking, the payment methods and the hours — a copied listing — so we have not counted it. Nobody across twenty-eight posts mentions a threshold, a step or a ramp. What we know is that there is a lift, from nine writers. One of them concludes that this makes it easy with a pushchair or with older relatives — but they did not bring a pushchair; they are reasoning from the lift. Whether there is a lip between the car park and the lift, or between the lift and the restaurant door, nobody looked. We can tell you neither that you can get in nor that you cannot. High chairs were seen in the room by twelve writers, and seven posts describe coming with a child.

No one mentioned: In a basement · Ramp at the door · Step at the entrance · Step-free access · Accessible toilet. 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 paid1 / 281 of 28 posts
• Posts saying they paid themselves4 / 284 of 28 posts
• Posts saying nothing either way23 / 2823 of 28 posts

Posts that followed a TV spot

Of the 30 posts we gathered, 2 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

What we do not know

• All thirty posts fall inside six weeks, from 12 August to 27 September 2026, with nothing before that: several writers call it newly opened, or say a stir-fry house had finally arrived in their neighbourhood. So the numbers on this page describe a month and a half at the end of one summer. The seasons have not turned once, and as one writer puts it, the place still felt new: when the lunch crowd came in all at once, the staff looked rattled. What you are reading may be a restaurant still finding its feet. Two of the thirty are excluded from the count: one is a tour of a Catholic shrine that ends with five nearby restaurants, ours described in other people's words and a copied amenity list, and one recites the opening hours day by day and then fills the rest with a checklist of people who might like spicy food, never saying what was ordered.
• The bar can run empty, and one writer sets out exactly how. Arriving at half past seven on Sunday 16 August 2026, they found the japchae gone and were told there would be no more that day — with the bar's own closing time, 21:40, still more than two hours off. Twenty minutes after ordering, with neither the noodles nor the octopus at the table, they went back for more sausage and soup to take the edge off and found a few pieces of liver and the bottom of the soup pot. By 20:40, when they left, the sausage, the soup and the japchae had still not been refilled — and more than ten further parties had come in behind them. None of the other twenty-six writers reports an empty bar: most went at lunch or early evening, and three deliberately timed their arrival for the end of the afternoon break. If the bar is your reason for going late, weigh that one account.
• Two writers waited, and two complain about how waiting works here. One waited ten minutes at six in the evening on the last day of a holiday; the other found the room full at lunch on a public holiday, with a line of people standing about. Both say there is no list to put your name on. With no book and nowhere much to stand, one writes, people bunch up at the door and it feels chaotic. The other, trying to let another group go first because there was no order to appeal to, was told sharply that they had arrived first and nearly had a row about it. Against that, one writer describes the ground floor as a waiting area as well as a car park. We cannot tell which is current. The other twenty-four say nothing about waiting: one found the room half empty early in the evening, three timed their arrival for the end of the afternoon break, and one, having heard Saturdays get busy, turned up as the doors opened. Four mention a crowded lunch service and none of the four says they queued.
• Whether it tastes of the fire is disputed. Eight writers say it does — the smoke came off the pan the moment it hit the table; the stir-fry was full of it; it was the first thing they noticed; the char was deep. One says flatly that it does not: this is not a smoky stir-fry, they write, just a stir-fry, and they send anyone who wants smoke to three named rivals instead, describing this one as clean and hot rather than charred. Their closing summary repeats it: the missing smoke was the disappointment. A third lands in between, calling the smokiness slightly artificial. There are two versions of the dish — one finished in the kitchen, one cooked at your table — so that could be the explanation, except that it does not fit: the writer who found no smoke ate the kitchen-finished lunch special, and so did some of those who found plenty. We could not settle it.
• How fast the food comes is disputed too. Two writers found it quick — no real wait at all, one says; the octopus arrived before they had settled, says the other. Three found it slow: one blames a crowded holiday lunch; one waited nearly thirty minutes and could not work out why, since the noodles arrive raw and only need carrying to the table; and one waited a long time simply because nobody told them the hotplate was theirs to cook. All three were either in a rush hour or left without instructions — and one of the two who found it fast had timed their arrival for the end of the afternoon break. With every post falling inside six weeks, we cannot tell whether this is how the place runs or how it ran while it was new.
• Two writers tell the same story about who opened it. One reports that the owner of a well-known local soy-milk-noodle shop runs this place together with a food company that franchises two cafe brands; another calls it that same shop's new octopus venture, with its cooking already proven. A third repeats the connection. All three write it as something they had heard rather than checked, and beyond the shared first word in the two names we could not verify it. Nor does any post say whether this is a franchise branch or not. Two writers remember a cafe in the space: one had heard her regular cafe had become an octopus house, the other used to come when it was one and thinks there are more parking spaces now.
• Here is what nobody wrote, and so we cannot answer. Whether they take bookings — not one of the twenty-eight records making one. Whether there is wifi, whether the table is yours for a fixed time, which dishes can be taken away. Takeaway appears exactly once: a writer who had the lunch special reports that the leftovers were boxed up for her, with thanks, and would be her dinner — so they will wrap what you cannot finish. Delivery goes unmentioned. Four writers describe a group table seating six to eight behind a partition, and one a sofa section for several people, but nobody says the largest party they take, or whether that needs arranging in advance. Four note that beer is sold and not one of them drank any — all four mention it only as a choice in the review promotion.

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Every number above was counted from the posts below.

1. 대구 남산역 맛집 떠오르는 신상 맛집 제일연쭈꾸미 무한 셀프바 최고 2026-09-27 · 신화헬스앤드의료기 헬스 운동 기구 의료기 대여 · via Daum
2. 대구 남산역 맛집 제일연쭈꾸미 단체모임으로 좋고 주차장 있는곳 2026-09-27 · 쩡이의 생활미식기록
3. [대구]매콤한 쭈꾸미와 셀프바를 함께 즐기는 '제일연쭈꾸미' 2026-09-25 · 이돌맹
4. 제일연쭈꾸미, 주차 편해서 가족 외식하기 좋았던 곳 2026-09-22 · ★죤깅의 눈과 입이 즐거운 블로그★ · via Daum
5. [26-09] 가난한 무직여자의 무료(free)한 삶… 2026-09-21 · 8013, · via Daum
6. 점심특선으로 먹은 [제일연쭈꾸미] 2026-09-17 · 건강한 오늘, 행복한 내일 · via Daum
7. 남산동 맛집 | 제일연쭈꾸미 대구쭈꾸미 맛집 2026-09-14 · 세상의 모든 리뷰
8. 대구남산역맛집 제일연쭈꾸미 주차편하고 셀프바있는 곳 2026-09-13 · 부지런한 집순이
9. 대구 남산동 맛집 남산역 밥집 제일연쭈꾸미 2026-09-13 · 김딸기 리뷰
10. 대구 남산역맛집 제일연쭈꾸미 쭈꾸미볶음 맛집 내돈내산 후기 2026-09-08 · 꿈꾸는 그대로
11. [대구] 남산역 쭈꾸미 맛집 깔끔한 새로 오픈한 곳 | 제일 연 쭈꾸미 .... 2026-09-07 · Hyeondiary:현지 다이어리
12. [대구 남산동 맛집] 제일연쭈꾸미~연잎과 와인으로 숙성한 쭈꾸미에.... 2026-09-06 · 비니 엄마
13. 대구 남산동맛집 남산역의 맛있게 매운 제일연쭈꾸미 2026-09-05 · 연연 일상이에 연 :D
14. 대구 남산역맛집 - 제일연쭈꾸미 / 무한 셀프바가 있는 쭈꾸미맛집 2026-09-05 · 일상 담아두기 ☺︎ · via Daum
15. 제일연쭈꾸미 | 샐러드바 무료? 불맛 가득 대구 남산역 맛집 2026-09-01 · 누민지 노마드로그
16. 제일연쭈꾸미 내돈내산 후기 2026-08-30 · avec toi · via Daum
17. 대구 남산동 맛집 제일연쭈꾸미 연잎과 와인으로 숙성한 쭈꾸미볶.... 2026-08-30 · 세상구경
18. 대구 남산동 맛집 추천ㅣ'제일연쭈꾸미' 불향 가득 쭈꾸미 솔직 후.... 2026-08-29 · 갓생을 위한 놀고먹는 직장러
19. 남산동 맛집 제일연쭈꾸미 셀프바까지 다양하게 맛보는 대구 쭈꾸.... 2026-08-28 · 소.나.날
20. 대구 남산동맛집 제일연쭈꾸미 무료주차에 샐러드바까지 가족외식 .... 2026-08-21 · 양양월드
21. [대구 중구] 제일연쭈꾸미 | 남산역 근처 쭈꾸미집 | 샐러드바 | 남산.... 2026-08-20 · 뜨개중독자의 일상 기록장
22. 대구 제일연쭈꾸미 철판쭈꾸미 먹어본 솔직한 방문기｜샐러드바에 어린이돈가스까지 2026-08-19 · 소소한 일상을 , · via Daum
23. 대구 중구 맛집, 남산동맛집, 대명동계대맛집, 남산역맛집, 가족모.... 2026-08-19 · v뽀시래기v
24. 남산역맛집 <제일연쭈꾸미> 셀프바 포함 가성비 쭈꾸미 맛집 내돈내.... 2026-08-18 · Toreview :-D
25. 대구 남산역 근처 [제일연쭈꾸미] 아쉬웠던 내돈내먹 솔직후기 2026-08-17 · 공간,인_달서상인점(정리상궁) · via Daum
26. 대구 중구 맛집 제일연쭈꾸미️ 매콤한 주꾸미에 푸짐한 셀프바까.... 2026-08-17 · 밍쮸블로그
27. 대구/남산동 "제일연쭈꾸미" 쭈꾸미볶음과 다양한샐러드바 가성비.... 2026-08-14 · 뭉이네
28. 남산동맛집 [제일연쭈꾸미] 셀프바있는 가성비 짱짱 대구쭈꾸미맛.... 2026-08-12 · 소소한 하루

Of 183 candidate posts we opened 49 and kept 28 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.

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