
Gilpost · Jeonju-si Wansan-gu, Hyoja-dong 3-ga
Grill houseNoodle houseKorean
Banchon Sutbul Jeongyuk Sikdang
반촌숯불정육식당 전주효자 본점 A charcoal butcher-restaurant in Jeonju's Sinsigaji where you pick your own tray of Korean pork or beef and the table comes free
Compiled from 27 blog posts read in fullSources →
Banchon is a butcher-restaurant in Jeonju's Sinsigaji district, in the eating lane opposite Hongsan primary school. You do not order from a menu: you take a tray of meat from the chilled case and grill it over charcoal at your table — pork on the left, beef on the right, brisket in a case of its own. Six writers say the owner will pick for you if you ask. The name comes from the village beside the old Seonggyungwan academy, one of the few places where slaughter was permitted in the Joseon era; the shop explains this on a sign and two posts repeat it. It opens at two in the afternoon and closes at midnight — there is no lunch service. You pay after you eat, and a tray left out of the case for more than three minutes cannot be exchanged. The posts we read run from May to September 2026.
Data as of · Published ·
Location & hours
- Address전북특별자치도 전주시 완산구 마전들로 49, 101호, 102호 (효자동3가)49 Majeondeul-ro, Jeonju-si Wansan-gu, Jeonbuk-do
- Phone0507-1464-1502
- Typical spend₩11,700
- From the station0 posts say it is walkable from the station.
- Floor areaFloor area 170 m² · Status In business
When it opens
Of 24 posts: 24 wrote Daily 14:00–24:00.
| Daily | 14:00–24:00 | 24 of 24 posts |
|---|---|---|
| Break | 없음 | 4 of 4 posts |
| Closed | None | 10 of 10 posts |
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.
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
- Posts about this place talk about the table before they talk about the meat. A butcher-restaurant normally charges a per-head cover; this one does not, and it is not thin in exchange — a beef doenjang stew, a cold acorn-jelly soup, a swollen steamed egg and tofu-with-kimchi arrive for nothing, followed by leaves to wrap with, aged kimchi, macaroni salad, shredded spring onion, pickled daikon, the chilli-and-seaweed pickle and pickled onion. Salt, wasabi, ssamjang and a pot of salted anchovy for dipping. "I nearly filled up on the side dishes before the meat was cooked"; "how is there anything left in this for the owner?" Almost no post we read leaves this out.
- And most of it comes back when it runs out. The stew and the jelly soup are bottomless; the rest of the banchan and the leaves live on a self-serve stand in the middle of the room, and you help yourself (staff lay the first setting). Only the steamed egg is once-only, ₩2,000 for another. One writer reports staff circling to press more stew on her; one family got through three bowls of the jelly soup. Four writers say the same thing about the stand — not that it exists, but that it spares you having to call anyone over. One notes the leaves are kept under a lid.
- Nobody calls it expensive, but the price comes in two storeys. Pork is ₩11,700 for a 150g portion, posted on a board at the door with the per-gram rate beside it — one writer is glad to be able to see what she is in for. Beef is another matter: low to high twenty thousands per 100g, and 290g of 1++ ribeye at ₩69,600. So the posts fall into a pattern of pork first, beef if the wallet holds: one ordered tenderloin because she was still hungry after the pork; another promises herself beef when she has earned more. Two people, no drink, ₩42,000. Since everything is sold by weight, what you pay is decided by which tray you pick up.
- It is built for groups. There is a room at the back with a door that closes, alongside a hall of round tables and a section of square ones. The figures for how many the room holds do not agree — ten, twelve, sixteen — and we could not tell whether people are describing the same room or different ones; one post mentions a separate annexe and group seating for as many as 110. What is clear is that the room is booked, with a minimum: one writer was told six people, and another found it standing empty and was let in. Work dinners and family gatherings come up in more than ten of the posts.
4 more
- Several writers describe a counter that is actually working. One found the owner behind it trimming meat; another noticed that every tray carries the date it was packed, and checked it against the day she was there. The raw beef depends on a same-day carcass, and one writer says flatly that it is a weekday thing — going for it on a Saturday may be a wasted trip. The beef tartare, one was told, is dressed when you order it. Two were told the kimchi is made in house.
- Ten posts are about the staff, and they overlap on what was done: picking a tray for you (six), swapping in fresh charcoal and a clean grill plate without being asked (one), grilling for you if you would rather (two — one adds that the child's portions were cut small), telling you to take the collar off while it is still pink (one), coming round to check nothing is missing (one). One writer was brought baby cutlery she had not asked for; another had the odd change knocked off the bill. Not one post records unwelcome service.
- Most people get their dessert free. A receipt-review promotion ran through the whole period we read: write one and you choose from cold noodles, mixed noodles, ramyeon or scorched-rice porridge. The conditions vary between accounts — one says five stars and a photo, another says book through Naver and the Hamheung noodles are on the house — so it is worth asking on the day. Which means that of the many who ate noodles here, we cannot say how many paid. The listed prices are ₩5,000 for the cold noodles, ₩3,000 for ramyeon or porridge, ₩4,000 for the warm dropwort noodles.
- Exactly one post has a reservation about the meat. On a Friday evening in May 2026 a writer found the belly short of the fresh-meat smell she expects — as though a day had passed since slaughter. She made the skirt her pick of the night instead, and adds: if you are sensitive to that, take the skirt over the belly. The other twenty-six posts say the opposite, that there is no off-smell at all. It is one voice, but it is the only one standing on that side, so we leave it standing.
What 27 bloggers said
doenjang-jjigae
Roomy
We read all 27 in full. The most common claims are “Roomy” (16) and “Not expensive” (10).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Where they disagree
| Had to wait | yes 3 · no 3 |
|---|
Things you can check on site
- Complimentary starter 26 of 27 posts
- Free refills 24 of 27 posts
- Private room 11 of 27 posts
- Review event 7 of 27 posts
- Prepped daily 6 of 27 posts
- Takes reservations 4 of 27 posts
- High chairs 2 of 27 posts
- Takeout 2 of 27 posts
- Corkage free — bring your own drink 2 of 27 posts
- Complimentary tea or drink 2 of 27 posts
- Bag storage 1 of 27 posts
- Certified Korean pork 1 of 27 posts
- Staff cook it at your table 1 of 27 posts
- Parking capacity 1 of 27 posts
- Discount offered 1 of 27 posts
- Outdoor terrace seating 1 of 27 posts
- Waiting area 1 of 27 posts
- Origin labelling posted 1 of 27 posts
- Local currency accepted 1 of 27 posts
These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.
Parking
13 posts say you can park. None say you cannot.
| Posts saying you can park | 13 of 27 posts |
|---|
Parking is written up as a strength, but no two posts park in the same place. A private lot behind the building, a free public lot beside it, another behind, the side lanes, and the road in front once the evening is late. Only one person counted the private lot — about five cars — so the many who call the parking roomy are probably talking about the public lot next door. Even the hour at which the street becomes fair game is disputed: seven in one account, eight in two others. Nobody paid; every account says free. One writer clocks it at thirty seconds from the car to the door.
Who came, and with whom
- Family visit 10 of 27 posts
- Came by car 5 of 27 posts
- Came with children 4 of 27 posts
- Date 2 of 27 posts
- With a friend 1 of 27 posts
- Group visit 1 of 27 posts
Where it is

From the station
0 posts say it is walkable from the station.
Getting inside
| Toilet inside | yes 0 · no 1 (of 27 posts read) |
|---|
Not a word about floors. The address says first floor, but that comes from the check-in widget, and no one writes about a stair, or about going up or down on the way in. Sixteen describe a wide room, one mentions folding doors thrown open, one a terrace table, one a duct over every table — it reads like a single level spread out flat, but we are not going to write that down from photographs and inference.
Nobody looked at the entrance. The words "wheelchair accessible" appear in exactly two posts and both are copying Naver's facilities list; in twenty-seven posts the words ramp, step, threshold and pushchair never appear at all. Four writers bring children and several bring elderly parents, and still none of them describes the way in. We are not going to say it is accessible on their behalf — all that exists is the fact that two people copied the phrase. If you are coming with a wheelchair or a pushchair, ring the shop first.
The posts contradict each other here, and we sided with the person who went. One writer, describing her own trip to it, says the toilet is unfortunately outside, seems to be for this restaurant's customers only, and needs a code you should read before you go. Three others state it is indoors and divided by sex — but two of those are copying Naver's facilities list wholesale (group bookings, takeaway, wi-fi, contactless payment, all in a row), and the third is a summary its author compiled without saying she used it. So we did not count them. If it is outside, nobody says whether it is still within the building, whether it is divided, or where the code is posted. Worth asking when you sit down.
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 payment3 of 27 posts
- Posts saying they paid themselves4 of 27 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way20 of 27 posts
When the posts appeared
Month by month
| Month | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05 | 2 |
| 2026-06 | 3 |
| 2026-07 | 2 |
| 2026-08 | 12 |
| 2026-09 | 8 |
What we do not know
- Only one writer describes getting here without a car, and he says not to try. Jeonju is hard to explain by public transport, he writes, and there is not much of it — so drive. In the other twenty-six posts there is no bus number, no stop, no walk. The location is not remote: it sits in the middle of the Sinsigaji district, ringed by the provincial police headquarters, the KBS building and the farmers' bank, in the eating lane by Hongsan primary school. But how you would arrive is something we cannot tell you, and the one testimony we have says to bring a car.
- Whether you wait looks like a question of the hour. Everyone who walked straight in came early — before five on a Sunday, five on a weekday, five at the weekend — and all three then watched the same thing happen: the room filled up behind them. One was glad she had come early when it went to standing room just after five; another, arriving at half eight, found more people coming in at ten than when she sat down. Three posts state plainly that there is a queue and you should book; two more repeat it as something they were told, which we did not count. One writer noticed somewhere to wait.
- Choose your tray carefully. Several posts repeat the same notice: meat that has been out of the case for more than three minutes cannot be exchanged or refunded, for freshness. If you are unsure of a cut, ask before you pick it up — six writers did, and were handed whatever was good that day. If a slab looks too thick, you can ask to have it halved; one writer did. You cannot adjust the fire, and one warns that fresh charcoal runs hot for the first few minutes.
- There is a second shop of the same name near Jeonju. A branch opened in Wanju county in August 2026, and searches return the two mixed together. Free cover charge, bottomless stew and jelly soup, the same self-serve stand — the text alone will not tell them apart. The hours will: this one, the Hyoja original, runs 2pm to midnight; the branch stays open until one in the morning. We took three branch posts out of this shop's count. Every price, queue and room on this page belongs to the Majeondeul-ro address.
- Three posts declare sponsorship — one with a bare hashtag, one saying a meal voucher was provided, one saying it was part sponsored and part paid for. The most detailed price record of the twenty-seven is one of the three: black-pig belly at ₩9,200 per 100g, collar at ₩7,800, jowl at ₩10,900, each tray's weight and total written out, and most of the per-100g figures on this page come from it. Sponsorship does not make the numbers wrong, but it is worth saying that the cuts such a writer picks may be the dearest ones — and indeed she took the jowl, the priciest pork here, and the Jirisan black pig. Four others say they paid for themselves; twenty say nothing.
- What you expect on the table may not be on it. One May 2026 post notes that the acorn-jelly soup everyone else writes about had been replaced that day with chilled radish water — and that she preferred it. Twenty-five posts got the jelly soup, so this looks like the exception, but the free setting is not identical every day. Nothing is described as seasonal; only the raw beef carries a condition, which is a same-day carcass and, by one account, a weekday.
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Every number above was counted from the posts below.
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Of 358 candidate posts we opened 74 and kept 27 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.