Gilpost · Goseong-gun, Toseong-myeon
Ayajin Tto-ollae
아야진 또올래 Ttoollae means "coming again?" — the question the owner's sign asks, and the one most writers end their posts by answering.
정종/대포집/소주방 · Goseong-gun, Toseong-myeon
Data as of · Published ·
Ttoollae sits in the lane facing Ayajin harbour in Goseong. The registered name is the longer one; the sign and the customers use the short one, which means roughly "coming back?". The owner's card promises braises, soups and grills, but what the posts record is almost all braise and soup — the braised janchi and the gomchi soup are the two pillars here, with sea-urchin seaweed soup and cod soup behind them. Open at seven in the morning, shut at seven in the evening, with an afternoon break, so it fills with people eating breakfast and people nursing hangovers. The fish is what the owner brings in that day, which means a dish can be on the menu and not be available, and the price moves with the catch. The posts we read run from October 2024 to September 2026.
The basics
| Address | 강원특별자치도 고성군 토성면 아야진해변길 81-2 81-2 Ayajinhaebyeon-gil, Toseong-myeon, Goseong-gun, Gangwon-do |
|---|---|
| Phone | 033-633-1851 |
| Typical spend | ₩12,000 – ₩28,000 |
| Floor area | 53 m² |
| Status | In business |
When it opens
Of 14 posts: 7 wrote 07:00–19:00, 4 wrote Mon–Sat 07:00–19:00, 4 wrote Sunday 07:00–14:30.
| Open | Mon–Sat | 07:00–19:00 4 of 14 posts last seen 2026-09 |
|---|---|---|
| Open | Sunday | 07:00–14:30 4 of 14 posts last seen 2026-09 |
| Open | 07:00–19:00 7 of 14 posts last seen 2026-08 | |
| Open | Daily | 07:00–19:00 2 of 14 posts last seen 2026-05 |
| Break | Mon–Sat | 14:30–17:00 2 of 10 posts last seen 2026-09 |
| Break | 14:30–17:00 5 of 10 posts last seen 2026-08 | |
| Break | Daily | 14:30–17:00 2 of 10 posts last seen 2026-05 |
| Last order | Daily | 18:30 2 of 6 posts last seen 2026-05 |
| Last order | 18:30 2 of 6 posts last seen 2026-05 | |
| Closed | 없음 3 of 8 posts last seen 2026-04 | |
| Closed | 수요일 5 of 8 posts last seen 2025-10 |
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
- A free side dish is the thing this restaurant is most written about. Twenty-two of the twenty-nine posts mention the raw flounder salad, and three remember it better than whatever they ordered. Sliced through the bone and dressed sharp, it prompts the same question twice over — why is this not something you pay for? They refill it if you ask; one writer got back twice what she had, another calls it bottomless. Kimchi also comes on request, and one post explains why: too much of it was being thrown away. It is not guaranteed, though. One visit in October 2025 brought squid salad and whelks instead. Others record gomchi roe, poached lumpfish, fermented sculpin and steamed cod roe in its place, so what lands on the table follows the day's catch.
- This is a place you telephone first. Seven writers ordered or booked ahead — two because a local told them to, one who rang on the way down from the DMZ observatory ("forty minutes away, keep three portions of gomchi for us") and was told it would be kept, one whose group got the doors opened on the Wednesday closing day. The reason is the fish: only what came in that morning is cooked, and it runs out. One writer ate the braised janchi at lunch and watched the next table be refused; one was served flounder braised in when the janchi ran short; one found no gomchi at all and switched to cod; one wanted it with abalone and the abalone was gone; one arrived last and was offered a choice of two. Ordering ahead, one adds, also means the food is on the table almost at once.
- Some prices here are fixed and some are not. The sea-urchin seaweed soup was ₩12,000 in April, May and September 2026 alike, and soju has been ₩3,000 all through 2025 — six posts note the price, one of them saying she has not seen soju that cheap in years. The gomchi soup, by contrast, is sold at the day's rate and every post gives a different figure: ₩20,000 a head in October 2024, ₩22,000 and ₩23,000 in November 2025, ₩25,000 in September 2026, ₩28,000 in January and February 2026. One writer calls it cheap beside the famous places in Sokcho; another finds ₩28,000 a lot for one lunch. The braised janchi is sold by pan rather than by head — ₩40,000 small, ₩50,000 medium — and the small cost the same in October 2025 as in April 2026. One party paid ₩87,000 for a braise and a soup.
- Six posts are about the owner and only one of them is unhappy. The five kind ones overlap on specifics: a child's chair brought before it was asked for; someone standing outside to wave a car in; a promise on the telephone to hold three portions back; flounder braised in when the janchi ran short; a second helping of the flounder salad, twice the size of the first. Four read his character off the walls instead — a hand-lettered sign dismissing aged fish in favour of whatever is in season, and a piece of gambling slang repurposed into a motto about keeping your nerve through wind and wave. The exception is a party of five in May 2025, who could not decide whether he was taciturn or simply rude, and who found the food short of moving — they are also the ones who paid for rice they did not eat. One more writer notes only that he says very little.
- Three writers watched the fish being prepared. One found flounder being filleted in the doorway, the bones stripped out by machine. One passed the owner cleaning flatfish on the way in and saw freshly landed gomchi at the harbour on the way out. One was shown a janchi, just caught, as she left. Another notes a space beside the building's low front steps given over to sorting what comes off the boats. The day's recommendations change accordingly, and so do the prices; one post records a separate mobile number posted up for asking what is good today.
- The name asks whether you will come again, and the posts keep answering it. Four record an actual return: one who first came in 2024 and came back in 2026, one on her second visit, one regular who orders the same braise every time, one who stops here whenever she is in Goseong. Nine more say they mean to come back. Five cannot resist playing on the name in their closing line. Six were sent here by someone local; one overheard a man at the next table recommending the seaweed soup to his own family, and another guessed from the room that the coastguard and the boat crews take their breakfast here.
What 27 bloggers said
We read all 27 in full. The most common claims are “Would return” (9) and “Friendly staff” (5).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Where they disagree
| Roomy | yes 2 · no 3 |
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Things you can check on site
| Takes reservations | 7 of 27 posts |
|---|---|
| Free refills | 7 of 27 posts |
| Prepped daily | 3 of 27 posts |
| Private room | 3 of 27 posts |
| High chairs | 1 of 27 posts |
| Floor seating | 1 of 27 posts |
| Step at the entrance | 1 of 27 posts |
| A minimum number of portions on the first order | 1 of 27 posts |
| Open kitchen | 1 of 27 posts |
| Origin labelling posted | 1 of 27 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 gajami hoemuchim (가자미회무침 (기본 반찬)) — 22 of 27 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. None say you cannot.
| Posts saying you can park | 7 of 27 posts |
|---|
People come by car — eleven of the twenty-nine say so, and seven record where they actually put it. Five parked directly outside, though one of those adds that there is no car park as such and room for about two cars in front. Two say that when the front is full you use the fish-market car park by the harbour, or the verge nearby; the party of twelve was sent to the market car park from the start. One regular, who has been many times, says parking has never been a problem. Two note that the lane itself is narrow.
Who came, and with whom
| Group visit | 12 of 27 posts |
|---|---|
| Came by car | 11 of 27 posts |
| With a friend | 5 of 27 posts |
| Family visit | 5 of 27 posts |
| Date | 2 of 27 posts |
| Came with children | 1 of 27 posts |
Getting there

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Getting inside
| Step at the entrance | 1 of 27 posts |
|---|
Not one post says whether a wheelchair or a pushchair can get in. Nobody mentions a ramp, a threshold or the width of the door. The closest we have is a single line from November 2025: beside the building's low front steps there is a space for sorting the fish off the boats — and the next sentence is the writer opening the door. That there are low steps at the front is the whole of what we know. How many, and whether there is another way in, nobody wrote down. One writer was brought a child's chair without asking, but that is a kindness on the day, not a fixture.
No one mentioned: Second floor · In a basement · Lift to the floor · Ramp at the door · 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 themselves5 of 27 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way22 of 27 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 28 posts we gathered, 1 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 | 2 |
| 2024-11 | 1 |
| 2025-01 | 1 |
| 2025-05 | 1 |
| 2025-06 | 1 |
| 2025-10 | 2 |
| 2025-11 | 2 |
| 2025-12 | 3 |
| 2026-01 | 2 |
| 2026-02 | 1 |
| 2026-03 | 1 |
| 2026-04 | 2 |
| 2026-05 | 1 |
| 2026-06 | 1 |
| 2026-08 | 5 |
| 2026-09 | 1 |
What we do not know
- The posts flatly contradict each other about the closing day. Five say the place shuts every Wednesday (October 2024, January 2025, twice in October 2025, December 2025); three say it never closes (December 2025, January 2026, April 2026). The dates overlap, so this is not a rule that changed — two posts from the same month say opposite things. One writer lists the opening days in a way that includes Wednesday; another records that it was a Wednesday and the place opened anyway for a group booking. Ring before you go (033-633-1851). The hours themselves agree well: seven posts give seven to seven, four add that Sunday ends at half past two, and only the oldest, from November 2024, says eight in the evening. Nine put the afternoon break at 14:30 to 17:00; one writes 14:30 to 15:00.
- Rice is charged separately, and it has caught people out. A party of five took the bowls as they were brought — four of them — not knowing, left two untouched, and were billed for all four. Their parting advice: on this coast, ask whether the rice is included. Four other writers gladly ordered a second bowl to finish the braise sauce, but not one of them says what it costs. Neither can we.
- The posts disagree about the size of the room. Two call it roomy — one says there is a further room at the back and that even at the lunch peak it never felt crowded, another that there were more tables than she expected. Three say the opposite: not many tables, not a big place, small but able to seat a group at its four- and six-tops. It reads less like a disagreement than like different yardsticks. Three mention a separate room at the back; one notes both chairs and floor seating. A party of twelve was given four tables pushed together; a party of six sat at one. Nobody records queuing: three walked straight in on a weekday, and four who found the room nearly full — at breakfast, or at half past one — still sat down at once.
- Not one post explains how to get here without a car. Nobody in the twenty-nine mentions a bus, a train or a station; the distances they give are the distances of people already nearby — eight minutes on foot from the beach, straight across from the harbour, five minutes by car from the guesthouse. Eleven say plainly that they drove. Whether there is a way here without a car, we do not know.
- Not one of the twenty-nine mentions a toilet — inside the room or out in the building, shared or separate. This in a harbourside place that opens at seven in the morning and fills with people stopping on their way somewhere.
- Not one post says what floor it is on. Nobody mentions an upstairs or a basement, and the fullest description of the room is one line: through the door, tables to the left, an open kitchen to the right. It reads like a single storey, but since nobody wrote that down we will not say it either.
- Nobody declares a sponsorship. Six of the twenty-nine state outright that they paid — one adding that there was no sponsorship behind it — and the other twenty-three say nothing either way. What was given away was food, not money: a second helping of the flounder salad at twice the size, flounder braised in when the janchi ran short, kimchi brought out on request. One post is a club outing booked by its secretary. The usual marks of commissioned writing — a batch posted on one day, hashtag blocks identical to the character, not a price anywhere — are absent from these thirty. One post from December 2025 does come close to a template, laid out as location, verdict, tips and nearby sights; it stays in the count because it also records what happened that day, the flounder braised in for the missing janchi.
- One of the thirty posts has been taken out of the count, which leaves twenty-nine posts by twenty-eight people. The one dropped is a tabulated four-day itinerary for the coast, and it was written four days before the trip began — it is a plan, not a record. This restaurant appears only in a closing table of recommendations: name, signature dish, telephone number, and nothing eaten. The signature dish that table names is grilled fish and seafood, where what people here actually order is the braised janchi and the gomchi soup. The count is twenty-eight people rather than twenty-nine because one blogger came twice, in October 2025 and April 2026, and had the same small braise at the same ₩40,000 both times.
Sources (27)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
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Of 239 candidate posts we opened 108 and kept 27 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.