Gilpost · Mapo-gu, Donggyo-dong

BBQ CHICKEN

BBQ치킨 홍대입구점 BBQ Chicken Hongdaeipgu-jeom The Hongdae branch of the BBQ fried-chicken chain: two floors and a rooftop right outside the station, open from ten in the morning until six the next, with a marked seat where Jensen Huang ate in June 2026.

Bunsik (snack food) · Mapo-gu, Donggyo-dong

Data as of 2026-09-30 · Published 2026-09-30 · Compiled by Gilpost

A company-run BBQ Chicken outlet on Eoulmadang-ro, right outside exit 9 of Hongik University Station. Three things set it apart from an ordinary chicken shop: it fills two floors plus a rooftop above them, it opens at ten in the morning and closes at six the next, and a large share of the room is foreign. Five of the seven people who ate here wrote that the customers outnumbered the Koreans. Most ordered the Golden Olive chicken, three of the five splitting it half fried, half sauced. On 5 June 2026 Nvidia's Jensen Huang came here for the second round of an evening with three Korean chairmen, and the place was national news for a while. The accounts we read run from a November 2025 visit to a September 2026 one.

The basics

1 posts say it is walkable from the station.

When it opens

Of 6 posts: 6 wrote Daily 10:00–06:00.

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 Golden Olive Chicken (황금올리브치킨) — 5 of 7 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

• 황금올리브치킨5 ate it
  Golden Olive Chicken₩23,000 · ₩28,000

  The most-ordered thing here — five of the seven people who ate in. **Three of them split it half fried, half sauced.** Four call the crust crisp and two call the meat inside soft. One writer finds the seasoning light and nutty rather than salty; another says the plain fried half is crisper than anywhere else they know. One notes the sauce comes alongside without asking

  **Only two writers give a price, and they ordered different things** — ₩23,000 for one flavour in September 2026, ₩28,000 for the half-and-half in June. **One says eating in costs more than delivery,** and puts it down to the location right outside Hongik University Station and the number of visitors from abroad. The other three give no figure at all

• 필크런치1 ate it
  Feel Crunch

  A summer 2026 special, and the one writer who went that July went for it. Coarse crunch topping over the crust, breaking up with every bite. **Sharing it between two, they found it heavy by the end,** and drank cola against it. No price given

  **One person, once.** It was new at the time and we cannot tell whether it is still sold

• 크런치버터치킨1 ate it
  Crunch Butter Chicken

  One writer had it as half of a half-and-half with the Golden Olive, **and asked for drumsticks only** — the single mention anywhere that you can pick the cut. They say nothing about the taste beyond finishing the lot

  No price given

Sides, and what comes with it

• 오징어튀김·감자튀김1 ate it
  fried squid and chips

  One plate holding both, by the single account of it — salty, smelling of the fryer, and in the writer's words simply something to drink beer with. They liked it more than they expected

  No price given

• 치즈볼1 ate it
  cheese ball

  One writer added it because there was drink left over — the cheese pulling out in a string, and they wanted a second plate

  No price given

To drink

• 맥주 (생맥주)3 ate it
  beer

  Three of the seven drank beer — one on draught and cold enough to write a sentence about, one only a little because of an early start the next morning, one at a work dinner. Soju is on sale too, by one mention, though that writer did not have any

  Nobody gives a price

• 콜라2 ate it
  cola₩3,000

  Two writers ordered cola — one records ₩3,000, the other that it balanced the chicken once it got heavy

  The ₩3,000 comes from a June 2026 post

Who came, and with whom

Getting there

Getting inside

Two floors, with a rooftop above them. Four posts mention the second floor and two the roof. One April writer counts three levels and says people mostly eat on the first two, the top being a roof terrace and cold at that time of year; a June writer, who took an outdoor table, describes the place as running from the ground floor up through the roof. One found a two-seat window table upstairs with a view over Hongdae; one, arriving on a Friday evening, ended up at the second-floor bar counter because nothing else was free. Whether there is any way up other than the stairs — a lift, say — not one of them says.

Not one of the seven says whether a wheelchair or a pushchair gets in. Whether there is a step at the door, how many, whether there is a ramp — none of it appears. The one thing established is that there are stairs to the upper floors: four writers sat on or looked at the second floor, two describe a rooftop above it. Nobody mentions a lift either. Whether the ground floor alone would do, and whether its entrance is level, we do not know.

One line, in one post. A writer who came in November 2025 lists the toilets as separate for men and women and inside the premises. That line, though, sits in the same block as the address, the phone number, the hours and the parking, so we cannot tell whether they saw it or copied it. The other six say nothing at all. Which floor, how clean, whether there is ever a queue for it — nobody writes.

No one mentioned: In a basement · Lift to the floor · 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 saying they paid themselves2 / 72 of 7 posts
• Posts saying nothing either way5 / 75 of 7 posts

Posts that followed a TV spot

Of the 13 posts we gathered, 6 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

• Seven of the thirty candidate posts are accounts of eating here. Here is what happened to the rest. Seventeen were about other places entirely. In six, "BBQ" was not a name at all but a word — a beef restaurant's sign reading Korean Beef BBQ, a rooftop barbecue party room, a menu item called BBQ pork chop steak. Six more were neighbours: one digit of the street number separates three businesses here — 115 is this shop, 115-1 is a pojangmacha, 115-2 is a ramen bar. One was a different BBQ branch four doors along, and four were "best ten places in Seoul" listicles with not a line about this shop in them. Of the thirteen that remain, six are coverage of the Jensen Huang visit — a trade-press piece built from the company's own release, a day-by-day itinerary of his five days in Korea, a guide to visiting the sites. Nobody wrote those from a table here, so they are not in the denominator. None of the seven discloses sponsorship or a free meal; two state they paid.
• Only one of the seven writes down how to get here — five minutes on foot from exit 9 at Hongik University Station. The other six treat being outside that station as too obvious to mention. Which way to turn out of the exit, and what the walk is like late at night, nobody describes. What six of them do say is that the place is open until six in the morning, so how you get home at that hour is a question they leave to you.
• Neither queueing nor the absence of a queue appears anywhere in the seven. The nearest thing is a Friday evening in September 2026, and it was about tables, not a line: half the room was already held for group bookings, and the only seat left was at the second-floor bar. That writer could find no online booking and guessed reservations go by phone. It is the only post to mention booking at all, and the phone part is their guess, not something they were told. If you need room for a group, ring.

Sources (7)

Every number above was counted from the posts below.

1. 젠슨황 다녀간 치맥 맛집 BBQ치킨 홍대입구점 2026-09-27 · 오늘을 기록하여 기억한다
2. 주말은 짧고 빠르다 : 첫 러닝 시작 아뵤 ~! 2026-08-31 · ✧화͙୧( “̮ )t୨ing✧ · via Daum
3. BBQ 필크런치 신메뉴 추천 내돈내산 솔직 후기 필릭스 포토카드 2026-07-16 · ✨
4. 젠슨황 맛집 BBQ치킨 홍대입구점 2026-06-09 · 감사한 마음 · via Daum
5. 홍대치킨 젠슨황 비비큐 BBQ치킨 홍대입구점 '황금올리브치킨 반반&.... 2026-06-07 · 시연맘 맛집•여행•쇼핑 블로그
6. 해외 감성 뿜뿜한 BBQ치킨 홍대입구점 방문 후기 2026-04-29 · 일상 속 평범한 이야기
7. [ 홍대 ] 홍대 혼밥 가능한 비비큐 치킨 프리미엄 카페, BBQ치킨 홍대.... 2025-12-29 · 미뽀리의 맛있는 결혼 기록

Of 273 candidate posts we opened 53 and kept 7 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.

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