Grill houseKorean
Wangbijib
왕비집 Wangbijip Wangbijip means 'the queen's house' (wangbi is a royal consort).
Compiled from 4 blog posts read in fullSources →
A charcoal-grill barbecue house on the second floor of a building on Myeongdong 8ga-gil, between Myeongdong Station and the cathedral. We read 4 posts from November 2025 to September 2026, and all four describe an actual meal. Two ordered grilled cuts such as marinated pork ribs and a mixed pork platter; two had the weekday lunch sets (LA ribs, brisket, pork ribs), which a September 2026 post priced at 15,000, 17,000 and 24,000 won.
Data as of · Published ·
Location & hours
- Address서울특별시 중구 명동8가길 26, 2층 (충무로2가)26 Myeongdong 8ga-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul
- Phone02-3789-1945
- Typical spend₩15,000 – ₩28,000
- From the station1 posts say it is walkable from the station.
- Floor areaFloor area 183 m² · Status In business
When it opens
| Last order | 21:15 | 2 of 2 posts |
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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
- Staff do the grilling. Both posts that ordered grilled meat say staff cooked it start to finish, and one adds that it was cut into bite-size pieces so they never needed scissors.
- Two posts mention waiting seats at the top of the stairs on the second floor. The November 2025 poster did wait there and says it kept them out of the winter cold, but no one recorded how long the wait was.
What 4 bloggers said
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Clean
We read all 4 in full. The most common claims are “Clean” (3) and “Not expensive” (2).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Things you can check on site
- In a basement saying it is not 3 of 4 posts
- Second floor 3 of 4 posts
- Waiting area 2 of 4 posts
- Staff cook it at your table 2 of 4 posts
- Private room 1 of 4 posts
- Reachable by transit 1 of 4 posts
- Beer served 1 of 4 posts
- Foreign customers in the room 1 of 4 posts
These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.
Where it is
We could not find this shop’s own listing on Naver Map, so the link searches for its Korean name around this spot instead.
From the station
1 posts say it is walkable from the station.
Getting inside
| Second floor | 3 of 4 posts |
|---|---|
| In a basement | yes 0 · no 3 (of 4 posts read) |
Three posts note from experience that the restaurant is on the second floor, one saying you go up by the stairs. Two call the room spacious; one mentions private rooms and another 'semi-private' rooms.
Three posts place it on the second floor; none mentions a basement or ground-floor room.
No one mentions an elevator, a step at the door, or getting in with a wheelchair or stroller. One post says you take the stairs; that does not mean there is no elevator, only that no one wrote about it.
No one says whether the restroom is inside the restaurant. 'Separate men's and women's restrooms' appears only in one post's copied listing, so we did not count it.
No one mentioned: 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 nothing either way4 of 4 posts
When the posts appeared
Month by month
| Month | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2025-11 | 1 |
| 2026-07 | 1 |
| 2026-09 | 2 |
What we do not know
- One post says from experience that it is close to Myeongdong Station and easy to reach by transit; the '139 m from Exit 9' figure is copied directions. No one mentions buses.
- Only the November 2025 post says they waited, with no time given. Another post saw a sign about waiting, but that is not a report of a wait, so we did not count it.
- We cannot say who people came with. Posts say only 'we' or give a single name; none says it was friends, family or a work dinner. Mentions of group dinners or family meals are suggestions, not what happened.
- Two posts give the same opening hours, 11:30 to 22:00 with last order at 21:15, but both copied them from the listing. No one mentions a closing day. The lunch-special window differs: 11:30 to 14:20 in one post, weekdays 11:30 to 15:00 in another that read it off the menu.
- Prices disagree: the LA rib lunch set was 28,000 won in a July 2026 post and 24,000 won in a September 2026 post. With two posts we cannot tell whether the price dropped or one is wrong. No post priced the dinner grill menu.
- The phone number 02-3789-1945 and Naver booking come from listing info copied into two posts; no one says they actually booked.
- None of the four posts discloses sponsorship, but they look like commissioned pieces: two end with the same pair of English hashtags, two paste the same kind of info block with phone, hours and booking link, and one includes photos credited to the restaurant.
Sources (4)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- 명동역 고기집 왕비집 명동본점｜블루리본 LA갈비·차돌박이·돼지.... 2026-09-09 · 웃쨔-!!^___^
- 명동역 고기집 왕비집 추천하는 이유 2026-09-01 · r00t_r0ute
- [명동역 고기집] 왕비집 명동본점에서 즐긴 꿀맛 LA 갈비정식 가성비.... 2026-07-20 · 얜의 하루
- [서울] 중구 "왕비집 명동본점" 갈비 맛집ㅠㅠ 또또간집!!!! 명동역 .... 2025-11-24 · 소리가 난다
Of 381 candidate posts we opened 20 and kept 4 as evidence. We have not seen them all yet; another pass would add more.