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Gucheondong Matjip

구천동맛집 A wild-greens and mushroom restaurant at the mouth of the Gucheondong valley below Deogyusan, open from nine in the morning.

Data as of 2026-09-27 · Published 2026-10-01 · Compiled by Gilpost

Gucheondong Matjip is a Korean restaurant in the row of eating houses at the mouth of the Gucheondong valley, by the visitor centre for Deogyusan National Park. Its name literally means "Gucheondong restaurant" — two writers open by saying so, because it is also what everyone types into a search box. On the register since 1999, it serves what the valley grows: wild greens, mushrooms, trout. It opens at nine, so people come for breakfast; the room is large and has a private one off it for groups. The posts we read run from January to September 2026.

The basics

1 posts say it is walkable from the station.

When it opens

Of 5 posts: 4 wrote Daily 09:00–20:00.

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.

These hours are counted from the posts we read. Shops change them without notice — check Naver Place before you go. Place — check hours

What people order

The most ordered dish is nungi beoseot sogogi haejangguk (능이버섯 소고기해장국) — 3 of 5 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

• 능이버섯 소고기해장국3 ate it
  nungi beoseot sogogi haejangguk₩15,000 · ₩20,000

  A soup of nungi mushroom and beef. Three of the five came for it at breakfast time.

  **The name and the price both change between posts:** ₩20,000 in June 2026 without the beef in the name, ₩15,000 in August and September with it. Whether these are two dishes or one that moved, **we could not tell.** **The heat differs too:** in August a couple found the chilli already in the bowl and wished it were not; in September the broth was not hot at all and the chilli came on the side. The September writer says there was beef in every spoonful.

• 비빔밥2 ate it
  bibimbap₩13,000 · ₩15,000

  The one writer who ordered it found the vegetables sparse and the taste fine, and **better once he mixed the sauce it came with into the chilli paste that arrives with the trout.** The same writer groups it with the pancake and the acorn jelly as the things one eats up a mountain.

  An August 2026 party ordered five at ₩13,000 each. A January 2026 writer paid ₩15,000 for the stone-pot version and **thought the range of wild greens thin for the money.** The stew that comes with it is full of mushroom, potato and radish, with a few river snails.

• 산더덕구이2 ate it
  san deodeok-gui₩40,000

  Deodeok root, beaten flat and grilled with chilli paste.

  Two posts three months apart give the same price. The September writer thought it dear until she saw the size, and notes each root had been beaten out by hand rather than grilled whole. **She also found it cold when it arrived, as though it had been made ahead and frozen,** and softer than fresh deodeok should be.

• 송어회1 ate it
  songeo hoe₩85,000

  **The trout comes out of the tanks next door, raised on the Gucheondong stream.** Five writers looked at them — a small tank beside the building holding the day's fish; a farm up by the stream with a great many trout moving slowly through it; the farm right there, which is why the fish must be fresh. **It is cut differently here than elsewhere.** A writer who has eaten trout for years around Daejeon explains it: there it is mixed with vegetables and chilli paste and dusted with bean flour, because of the soft texture and the smell — and **this was the first time she had eaten trout the way sea fish is eaten,** with a springiness she had not met in it before. Four others land on the same points: the colour of salmon but chewier (two), a finish like flounder (one), lean rather than fatty (one). **Two say there is no river-fish smell.** One prefers wasabi and soy to chilli paste; one prefers it wrapped in a lettuce leaf. **They do not agree on the verdict, though.** One writer calls it the best trout she has eaten, full stop. A party of four concluded together that **it was fine, but not something they would travel for.**

  **Ordered by one writer,** in September 2026, who could not shake the feeling it was dear for what arrived — but says it was plainly fresh, netted from the tank by the door, with none of the muddiness freshwater fish can have. The soybean powder had to be asked for; when she asked for more vegetables a whole basin came. One person's word.

• 제육백반1 ate it
  jeyuk baekban₩15,000 · ₩30,000

  Stir-fried pork with rice and soybean stew.

  **It comes for two at the least:** a January 2026 writer who went as a pair paid ₩30,000 for it, and was not charged for one of the two bowls of rice. He calls it the good version of what you would cook at home. One person's word.

• 삼겹살named in 2
  samgyeopsal₩18,000

  Fresh pork belly, grilled at the table.

  **Nobody ate it, but somebody watched other people eat it:** a June 2026 writer says half the room was grilling pork belly at lunchtime and that it looked like the thing to come back for in the evening. The price is from the January menu board.

• 토종닭 능이버섯 약재백숙named in 2
  tojongdak nungi baeksuk₩100,000

  The whole-chicken pot on the menu board.

  **A price and nobody to eat it.** Copied from the board in January 2026; a June writer was tempted by it and ordered something else.

• 능이버섯 소고기전골named in 1
  nungi sogogi jeongol₩70,000

  A hotpot listed on the menu board.

  **A price and nobody to eat it** — copied from the board in January 2026 and never mentioned again.

Sides, and what comes with it

• 기본 반찬 (열두 가지)named in 4
  banchan

  The wild-green side dishes that come down before the main. Two writers counted twelve.

  **Four of the five write about them.** Named: young castor-aralia shoots, a vinegared salad, fried shiitake, bellflower root, bracken, pickled Chinese artichoke, white kimchi, braised burdock. They are described as gently seasoned. **A sign on the wall charges ₩3,000 for more white kimchi** — one writer noticed it, and adds that the first bowl was big enough that the question never came up.

To drink

• 무주 구천동 생쌀막걸리1 ate it
  makgeolli

  **This is somewhere you can drink inside a national park.** One writer spells it out: drinking is not allowed in the parks, and this place trades under an exception. Both who drank it call it sweet — one says it sticks to the mouth; the other finished a quiet mountain lunch with a bowl of it. **One could not:** she notes the local makgeolli as the point of the place, and that she was driving.

  **One writer drank it and gives no price** — she got it free for writing a receipt review, in September 2026. She found it watery and switched to soju and beer. One person's word.

Parking

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

Two writers mention parking. One simply notes that you can leave a car in front; the other says there were several places to put one when she came, and adds on her own account that the marked bays and whether anyone charges for them need checking. Nobody says how many cars fit. This is a tourist strip where parking is likely to depend on the season and the hour, and all we have is one winter lunchtime and one autumn morning.

Who came, and with whom

Getting there

Getting inside

No post says which floor it is on. Our register puts it in unit 5 of building 1; another business in the same building calls itself units 4 and 5 on the ground floor, so even the unit numbers overlap. Not one writer gives a floor. We do not count what we merely infer.

Not one post says whether you can get in with a wheelchair or a pushchair. No writer mentions a step, a ramp or stairs. Two describe the size of the room and the private room off it, but nobody describes the doorway. We have not checked it. This is a strip of restaurants at the foot of a mountain — an easy place to invent an approach — so we leave it empty.

Nobody writes about the toilet. The word does not appear in any of the five. Whether it is inside or out in the building, whether it is separate for men and women, we do not know. That is not the same as saying there isn't one.

No one mentioned: Second floor · In a basement · Lift to the floor · Ramp at the door · Step at the entrance · 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 themselves1 / 51 of 5 posts
• Posts saying nothing either way4 / 54 of 5 posts

Posts that followed a TV spot

Of the 7 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

• Twenty of the twenty-eight confirmed posts were about other restaurants, and we removed them. The name is also the search term for this whole valley, so everything came in with it: three about a duck house, four about the place next door but one, three about a freshwater-snail restaurant, two about a fried-chicken shop, and single posts about six more, plus one restaurant's own advertisement and a golf package. Of the eight that remained, three more contain no record of anyone eating and are out of the count: a five-line listing, a winter travel guide copied from the county tourism page (which names a mushroom rice soup that none of the five who actually ate here mention), and a directory of addresses and phone numbers. The numbers on this page come from five posts.
• At least four businesses share this address. 101 Gucheondong 1-ro is ours, but also Samwol (unit 4–5 on the ground floor of building 1 — our register puts us in unit 5 of building 1), a fried-chicken franchise, and a fourth restaurant with a different phone number. All four turned up in our pool of posts. A matching address proves nothing here — the name and the number have to match too. Our unit number and Samwol's overlap, and we could not establish which is right.
• In the evening this becomes a drinking house. A January 2026 writer found enough drinkers in the room to make eating there uncomfortable, and says so plainly. A June visitor at lunchtime noticed how many tables were grilling pork belly and thought it would be the thing to come back for with soju. If you only want to eat, the morning looks better — both breakfast visitors found the room quiet.
• The closing time does not agree. Four posts give nine in the morning to eight at night, last orders at 19:05. The one writer who ate dinner here, in September 2026, gives ten at night, last orders at 21:05. Another from the same month gives the earlier hours but adds, unprompted, that an older review had the doors opening at 8:30 and that it is worth ringing before a breakfast visit; she could not find a closing day or a break in any official listing either. Not one of the five names a day when it shuts. If you are going early or late, ring first.
• Not one post declares a sponsorship. One says plainly that she paid; the other four say nothing about it, and saying nothing is not the same as not being sponsored. One does record that a receipt review earns you a bottle of the local rice beer (September 2026). On price there is little to go on: one writer could not get past what she paid for the trout, and one thought the stone-pot bibimbap thin on greens for the money.

Sources (5)

Every number above was counted from the posts below.

1. 무주 구천동맛집 아침식사｜맵지 않고 시원한 능이버섯 소고기해장국 후기 2026-09-23 · 쏠쏠한 하루 | 먹고 걷고 살펴본 기록 · via Daum
2. [전북 무주] 구천동계곡 송어회 더덕구이 맛집 구천동맛집 2026-09-02 · 마음만은 Highteen · via Daum
3. 무주 구천동 아침식사 식당 구천동맛집 2026-08-18 · 힐링
4. 2025 무주산골영화제 l 무주맛집 구천동맛집, 카페 세븐컴퍼니 2026-06-05 · 언제나 여름
5. [전북/무주] 구천동맛집 / 무주 덕유산 근처 맛집 식사류 내돈내산 .... 2026-01-11 · How you been

Of 313 candidate posts we opened 120 and kept 5 as evidence. We have not seen them all yet; another pass would add more.

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