Gilpost · Jeonju-si Wansan-gu, Hyoja-dong 3-ga
Noodle houseJapanese
MOTOISHI
모토이시 전주 신시가지점 Motoishi Jeonju Sinsigaji A Japanese-style yakiniku house where you grill Australian wagyu over charcoal, open evenings only
Compiled from 29 blog posts read in fullSources →
Motoishi Sinsigaji is a yakiniku house on the ground floor of a plaza in the Hyoja-dong new town in Jeonju. Australian wagyu, cut by the piece, which you grill yourself over charcoal at the table; the house order is a mixed set of six cuts plus a seasoned seventh. It opens at five in the evening and closes at one in the morning — there is no lunch. Wooden partitions stand between the tables and there are sliding-door rooms further in. It is one branch of a chain that started in Geoje. The posts we read run from March 2025 to September 2026.
Data as of · Published ·
Location & hours
- Address전북특별자치도 전주시 완산구 홍산남로 45-22, 1층 (효자동3가)45-22 Hongsannam-ro, Jeonju-si Wansan-gu, Jeonbuk-do
- Phone0507-1394-3892
- Typical spend₩6,600 – ₩69,000
- From the station1 posts say it is walkable from the station.
- Floor areaFloor area 124 m² · Status In business
When it opens
Of 23 posts: 23 wrote Daily 17:00–01:00.
| Daily | 17:00–01:00 | 23 of 23 posts |
|---|---|---|
| Last order | 00:00 | 13 of 13 posts |
| Closed | None | 3 of 3 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
- Booking here is less about getting a table than about getting food. Twenty posts discuss it, and almost all of them are really about the same thing: book online and you pick a side dish for nothing. What people picked varies — ramen, white jjamppong, a beef bowl, a hamburger-steak bowl, raw beef, curry — and what they all say afterwards is that it arrived full-sized. Three found their names written on a card at the table; one who mentioned two small children was given the largest booth. One post notes that bookings are only taken up to seven in the evening.
- There are three kinds of seat here. The floor tables are all divided by wooden partitions — one writer says every seat feels like its own room — and further in there are actual rooms with sliding doors. Eight people saw them; three sat in one. One puts a room at eight to ten people; two mention separate space for parties of six or more, bookable by phone. Many posts use the words 'partition' and 'room' interchangeably, so it is worth asking which you are getting when you book. Two describe the layout as a long corridor with seating either side.
- One writer describes actually queueing — fifteen minutes at half past eight on a Saturday, with a note that people come here for a second round of the evening so there tends to be some wait. One other says she booked and walked straight in. What comes up instead is the waiting bench — six posts, all pleased that the chairs are inside rather than out on the pavement, whatever the weather. Three mention a free plate of raw beef for anyone who waits more than twenty minutes (phone waits excluded); one actually got it. Three arrived at six or seven on a weekday to a full room, but all three had booked and none of them waited.
- You can bring your own bottle and pay nothing for it. Seven posts say so and two actually did it — one with a bottle of makgeolli, one unnamed. Both report a member of staff asking first whether they wanted glasses, and bringing the right ones. There is a nice footnote: the makgeolli drinker thought the house draught better than what he had carried in. Note, though, that a July 2026 post says corkage is possible but to ask the shop about terms and cost first, and another mentions a free-corkage coupon. Whether it is simply free or needs a coupon is not consistent across the posts, so ask before you pack a bottle.
2 more
- Eight writers had been before — the most striking number here. They call it their nth visit, their regular, the place they went back to; one counts two work dinners before the visits with friends. One marked her first, second and third anniversaries all in this room; another finishes the tofu stew every time she comes. Nobody says they would not return, and three more say they will. Four came for a work dinner, two of them reporting that the colleagues — and in one case the senior managers — were won over.
- The staff do the same specific things in post after post: they set the grilling order when the meat lands (twelve), explain the garlic and chilli in the sauce (six), bring a taste of chicken neck partway through (eight), and hand out a Japanese corn snack at the till, one per person (thirteen). That last is the single most-repeated moment in these posts. One-offs: a fan and a handheld fan for a hot table; two Pororo drinks counted out for two children; being asked what glass the bottle you brought would want. Four mention the fabric spray by the door, for the smoke in your clothes.
What 29 bloggers said
asari sundubu-jjigae
Friendly staff
We read all 29 in full. The most common claims are “Friendly staff” (8) and “Returning customer” (8).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Things you can check on site
- Takes reservations 20 of 29 posts
- Self-order screen 8 of 29 posts
- Private room 8 of 29 posts
- Corkage free — bring your own drink 7 of 29 posts
- Waiting area 6 of 29 posts
- Discount offered 3 of 29 posts
- Ground floor 3 of 29 posts
- High chairs 3 of 29 posts
- A minimum number of portions on the first order 2 of 29 posts
- Separate restrooms 2 of 29 posts
- Time limit on the table 1 of 29 posts
- Reachable by transit 1 of 29 posts
- Air conditioned 1 of 29 posts
- Open kitchen 1 of 29 posts
- Lift to the floor 1 of 29 posts
- Wi-Fi 1 of 29 posts
- Phone charging 1 of 29 posts
- Beer served 1 of 29 posts
These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.
Parking
4 posts say you can park. None say you cannot.
| Posts saying you can park | 4 of 29 posts |
|---|
Ten posts carry the parking notice; four describe actually parking. The notice — eight free spaces under the building, the public car park next door when it is full, an hour's ticket if you eat here — appears in nearly identical words ten times over. The four who parked: one took the basement and came up to the door in the lift; one took the plaza lot right outside and was glad of the short walk with two small children; a regular says she usually ends up across the way if she arrives late; one simply collected her ticket. Eight spaces run out — five writers call the basement cramped.
Who came, and with whom
- Date 10 of 29 posts
- Came by car 6 of 29 posts
- With a friend 5 of 29 posts
- Family visit 4 of 29 posts
- Came with children 2 of 29 posts
Where it is
From the station
1 posts say it is walkable from the station.
Getting inside
| Second floor | yes 0 · no 3 (of 29 posts read) |
|---|---|
| Lift to the floor | 1 of 29 posts |
| Toilet inside | yes 0 · no 1 (of 29 posts read) |
| Separate restrooms | 2 of 29 posts |
The restaurant is unit 101 on the ground floor of the plaza building. No post describes steps up or down, and three say you walk in from the street. Arriving by car from the basement, you take the lift straight up to the ground floor, as one writer describes; from the plaza lot, another says it is immediately on your right as you come up. Six mention the Japanese vending machine out front — it does not work — and the cartoon figures beside it, visible from a distance.
Not one writer says whether you can get in with a wheelchair or a pushchair. The words for step, threshold and ramp appear in none of the twenty-nine posts. It is on the ground floor and one writer rides a lift up from the basement car park, so there is evidently a way in without stairs — but what the doorway is like, and how wide the aisles are, nobody says. One thing gives us pause: two posts describe a long, narrow layout with partitioned tables down both sides of a central passage, which may not be generous. That is a guess, so we will not say it works and we will not say it does not. Even the writer who brought two small children says nothing about a pushchair.
The posts do not agree on where the toilet is. That it is split by sex, two people saw for themselves — one following the corridor round in June 2025, one noting in March 2026 that it is inside the building and has a keypad. Whether it is inside the restaurant is another matter. An August 2026 writer says she assumed it was indoors, then went through a door into a space connected to the building's exterior, and praises the roll of paper hung by that door so you can take some with you. A July 2026 post manages to say it is inside the restaurant and that you go out to it in the same sentence. Only one post mentions a code. What we can fairly tell you is this much: there are separate toilets, you leave your table to reach them, and you may find a lock.
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
- Posts disclosing payment3 of 29 posts
- Someone else paid1 of 29 posts
- Posts saying they paid themselves4 of 29 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way21 of 29 posts
When the posts appeared
Month by month
| Month | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2025-03 | 1 |
| 2025-06 | 2 |
| 2025-08 | 1 |
| 2025-11 | 1 |
| 2026-03 | 3 |
| 2026-05 | 1 |
| 2026-06 | 2 |
| 2026-07 | 6 |
| 2026-08 | 9 |
| 2026-09 | 3 |
What we do not know
- The side-dish numbers here are a product of the booking promotion. Plenty of posts record eating ramen, jjamppong, rice bowls, raw beef and curry — and most of those were picked free for having booked online. Six of the seven who ate the offal ramen paid nothing; all four who ate the white jjamppong paid nothing; all three who ate the raw beef paid nothing. The egg rice was earned six times over by writing a receipt review. Eaten often and ordered often are not the same thing here. It cuts the other way too: nine posts saw the offal hotpot on the menu and one person ate it (two wanted it and found the minimum was two portions), five repeat that the ox tongue is famous and one ordered it, and seven saw the wagyu cake while nobody ate it — it needs a day's notice.
- Several writers reproduce the same marketing copy. A Korean student who went to Japan in 2007 and ran a yakiniku place in Saitama for five years; a twelve-pyeong original shop in Geoje in 2014; top-five-percent marbling on Australian wagyu; the names of two supplying farms; meat trimmed fresh each day — these recur nearly word for word. The branch count is given as fifty, sixty and eighty in different posts. We have verified none of it and counted none of it. Two writers say outright that they read it off a poster on the wall, so it is evidently posted in the room. The same goes for the list of offers — ten percent for emergency services, ten percent for students nearby, a birthday bottle, raw beef after a twenty-minute wait — which appears in the same order repeatedly. We counted only what somebody records actually receiving.
- There are two phone numbers in circulation. Nine posts give one (from March to September 2026), two give another (June 2025 and June 2026), and one gives a mobile (November 2025). We could not establish which is current and have listed the most recent and most frequent. Worth knowing too that there are other branches of the same name — another in Jeonju and one in Gunsan; one writer signs off saying that once she moves next month she will be going to the Gunsan one instead. Check the branch before you ring or search.
- One writer explains how to come without a car: take the 3001 or the 3002 to the cinema stop, cross the road, walk five minutes — and she adds that it is easy enough by public transport. One other simply says she walked, without saying from where. The remaining twenty-seven either talk about driving or say nothing about arriving at all — six came by car, three of them noting they could not drink because of it. The place serves until one in the morning and not one person writes about how they got home.
Sources (29)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
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Of 224 candidate posts we opened 52 and kept 29 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.