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BACKDON

Name: BACKDON
Address: 서울특별시 중구 을지로14길 22, 1층 (을지로3가), 중구, 서울특별시, 04550, KR
Telephone: 010-6464-4561

빽돈 중구 을지로 Ppaekdon Jung-gu Euljiro A pork grill house in a lane off exit 9 at Euljiro 3-ga, where you cook the aged belly and collar yourself.

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

Backdon Jung-gu Euljiro is a pork grill house behind a yellow sign, fifty metres into the lane from exit 9 at Euljiro 3-ga. Belly and collar are aged by a method the shop calls water aging, and the board also runs to jowl fat, skin-on belly and honeycomb-scored rind. You grill it yourself. Order a set and the black-pork kimchi stew and the vinegared squid come with it at no charge; at lunch a good many office workers come for the stew or a fried rice alone and never touch the grill. It is a franchise with several Seoul branches. The posts we read run from April to September 2026.

삼겹살·돼지구이 — **Samgyeopsal** grilled porkAn AI drawing of Samgyeopsal as a dish. Not a photograph of this shop, and not drawn from this shop's menu. © Gilpost · no unauthorised reproduction

The basics

Address	서울특별시 중구 을지로14길 22, 1층 (을지로3가) 22 Eulji-ro 14-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul
Phone	010-6464-4561
Typical spend	₩4,000 – ₩66,000
Floor area	30 m²
Status	In business

5 posts say it is walkable from the station.

When it opens

Of 10 posts: 6 wrote Weekdays 11:00–23:00, 6 wrote Saturday 12:30–03:00, 6 wrote Sunday 12:30–23:00.

Open		11:00–23:00 2 of 10 posts last seen 2026-09
Open	Weekdays	11:00–23:00 6 of 10 posts last seen 2026-09
Open	Saturday	12:30–03:00 6 of 10 posts last seen 2026-09
Open	Sunday	12:30–23:00 6 of 10 posts last seen 2026-09
Open	Friday	11:00–03:00 5 of 10 posts last seen 2026-09
Open	Saturday	11:00–03:00 2 of 10 posts last seen 2026-09
Open	Weekdays	11:00–22:10 2 of 10 posts last seen 2026-06
Last order	Weekdays	22:15 2 of 2 posts last seen 2026-09
Last order	Friday	02:15 2 of 2 posts last seen 2026-09
Last order	Saturday	02:15 2 of 2 posts last seen 2026-09
Last order	Sunday	22:15 2 of 2 posts last seen 2026-09

The values differ, but the periods they were written in do not overlap. This looks like a change over time rather than a disagreement, and the top row is the most recently reported. We did not confirm it with the restaurant.

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

You do the grilling. Nobody cooks at your table here — a member of staff wipes the plate with a piece of fat and lays the meat on, and from there it is yours. One writer says they will step in and show you how if you are struggling; another found the flame fierce while the inside of the meat stayed raw, had to keep adjusting it all evening, and says that alone is why she would not come back. Two note the warming rim around the plate, where cooked pieces sit without burning.
A great many people here got a side dish for nothing. Write a receipt or photo review on Naver and the shop hands you the 'dirty bomb' steamed egg or the grilled corn cheese — nine of the twenty first-hand posts got one that way, and one writer says it also comes free if you queue more than twenty minutes. So the dish's reputation here is largely not the verdict of people who paid for it. Some did pay; two of those found the sauce heavy or the taste not what they expected.
The room is small. Two writers counted the round tables — six to eight of them. One found it cramped and oddly triangular; one sat by the door and had to shift herself every time somebody pushed it open; one says four people and a beer bottle would not fit on the table at first. One post disagrees — she came at one in the afternoon on a weekday and found it roomy, with space between the tables. That may be the difference between lunch and a full evening, but we could not confirm it. Two writers remark that the tables themselves are round and generous, big enough for six or eight, so it is the room that is small, not the table.
In the evening you wait. One writer sat down at six-twenty on a weekday and a queue formed behind her; another arrived at five on a Tuesday expecting it quiet and found it already full of work parties with a list running; another watched people waiting outside at half past nine on a Saturday night. There is a waiting bench and a sign-up sheet at the door. Book and you walk in — four writers reserved through Naver and waited for nothing; the shop takes two to twelve, and parties of twenty-four to thirty-six by arrangement. The two who found no queue came on a weekday evening and just before the dinner rush respectively.
Noticeably many of the customers are from abroad. The sign outside spells the name BACKDON in large Roman letters, and three writers remark on it: one says there really were a lot of foreign customers; one watched Southeast Asian guests waiting outside through her meal; one looked up as she was leaving to find that the room had turned over and everyone left but her table was foreign. One concluded the place is aimed at them.
You may bring a bottle — one writer says the first one carries no corkage. She had been out collecting a whisky, went looking for a place in Euljiro that would let her open it, and chose here; the staff asked, unprompted, whether she would like ice and a rocks glass. This comes from a single post and we have not confirmed it still holds — ring ahead if it matters.
The staff come off unusually well. Eight writers mention the service and not one has a complaint. They fetch what you need at the busiest hour; they will bring garlic and chillies if you ask; one writer was told, before she asked, that the contents of a set could be swapped; one who ate alone says they were just as kind to her. Another was handed a wet wipe at the end of the meal and offered a second.

What 20 bloggers said

We read all 20 in full. The most common claims are “Cramped” (9) and “Friendly staff” (8).

What they liked

Friendly staff8 of 20 posts

Clean5 of 20 posts

Would return4 of 20 posts

Not greasy3 of 20 posts

No gamey smell3 of 20 posts

Juicy3 of 20 posts

Thick cut2 of 20 posts

Not expensive2 of 20 posts

Returning customer2 of 20 posts

Large portions1 of 20 posts

What they struggled with

Cramped9 of 20 posts

Cramped restroom1 of 20 posts

Where they disagree

Had to wait	yes 7 · no 2

Things you can check on site

Review event	6 of 20 posts
Staff cook it at your table	5 of 20 posts — saying it is not
Reachable by transit	5 of 20 posts
Takes reservations	4 of 20 posts
Foreign customers in the room	3 of 20 posts
Waiting area	1 of 20 posts
Corkage free — bring your own drink	1 of 20 posts
Air conditioned	1 of 20 posts
Large windows	1 of 20 posts

These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.

The most ordered dish is heukdwaeji kimchi-jjigae (흑돼지김치찌개) — 14 of 20 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

모둠세트 2인7 ate it
modum set (2 people)₩44,000
The most-ordered thing here: 430g of three cuts — jowl-fat pork, aged belly, aged collar — and the kimchi stew and the vinegared squid come with it at no extra charge
Seven writers ate it; all four who name a price say ₩44,000. Four note that corn, king oyster mushroom and okra come up on the plate beside the meat — two single out the okra, where most grill houses give you green chillies
모둠세트 3인6 ate it
modum set (3 people)₩66,000
The same idea at 680g, with pork belly-on-skin added. Two parties of four ordered this plus one more serving of the skin-on belly
Six writers ate it; all three who give a price say ₩66,000. **The line-up is written down slightly differently from post to post** — most list skin-on belly, jowl fat, aged belly and aged collar, but a June 2026 post has cheek-and-jowl in it and a July one has plain jowl
숙성삼겹5 ate it
suksung samgyeop₩14,000
Aged pork belly — the shop calls its method water aging. **It can be ordered one serving at a time**
All three who give a price say ₩14,000. **Writers disagree about the thickness** — two say it is thick before it even hits the grill, but a September 2026 post found the belly thinner than expected, cut the old butcher-shop way rather than the fat slabs now in fashion. Two say it carries no porky smell
꼬들살4 ate it
kkodeulsal
The special cut that comes in every set. **Posts do not agree on what it is** — one calls it neck meat; the rest simply do not say
Four writers stop to describe the texture: the fat stays firm and springs back against the teeth rather than melting. No price anywhere — nobody ordered it by itself
한돈오겹4 ate it
handon ogyeop₩17,000
Belly with the rind still on. **Four writers finished their set and ordered this again** — it draws more repeat orders than anything else on the board
The ₩17,000 comes from a photographed menu board. One writer liked the chew of the rind best of everything and ordered three more servings; another says simply that they added three more and ate them too
숙성목살2 ate it
suksung moksal₩14,000
Aged pork collar, the same price as the belly, and likewise available by the single serving
Many more ate it inside a set, but **only two ordered it on its own**. Four say it is not dry the way collar usually is; two say it comes thicker than the belly
양념벌집껍데기2 ate it
yangnyeom beoljip kkeopdegi
Pork rind scored in a honeycomb and marinated. **Two writers note it arrives already boiled, so the grill only has to brown the outside**
No price given anywhere. Two mention the soybean powder and turmeric-curry powder that come alongside; one warns that it curls and spits on the grill unless you hold it down
양념세트 2인1 ate it
yangnyeom set (2 people)₩44,000
The marinated set: 530g of charcoal-grilled marinated pork. **One writer was told she could swap the kimchi stew that comes with it for the brisket-and-doenjang rice pot**
One writer ate it: marinated collar rather than rib, she thought, and good meat — seasoned sweet-salty enough that none of the table sauces were needed. The ₩44,000 comes from another post's photograph of the menu board

흑돼지김치찌개14 ate it
heukdwaeji kimchi-jjigae₩9,000
The kimchi stew that comes free with any set. **It is also sold on its own, and at lunch some people come for nothing else**
Both writers who give a price say ₩9,000. One lunch post got a coil of ramyeon in it for that price; another was told the ramyeon comes when two or more order it — **the two accounts do not agree on when you get it.** Six writers remark on how much pork is in it, and how thickly cut
더티폭탄계란찜14 ate it
dirty poktan gyeranjjim₩7,000
A steamed egg risen over the rim of its pot, buried under mozzarella, garlic mayo and chilli sauce. **Fourteen of the twenty first-hand posts ate it, and nine of those did not pay** — the shop gives it away for a Naver receipt or photo review
₩7,000 if you pay. **Not everyone liked it** — twelve did, but one writer could not place the taste at all, and another found the chilli mayo laid on so thick it went greasy and claggy. Three note you can take grilled corn cheese instead of the egg for your review. **One writer says it also comes free if you wait more than twenty minutes for a table.**
오징어초무침5 ate it
ojingeo chomuchim
The sharp vinegared squid that comes with a set — two writers say it arrives before the meat, to pick at while the grill heats
One writer calls it cuttlefish; the rest just say squid. **One asked to order it, only to be told it was already part of the table setting.**
불닭게티3 ate it
buldak-getti₩7,000
Buldak fire noodles mixed with jjapaghetti, topped with a slice of cheese and chopped spring onion
Both prices given are ₩7,000. **How hot it is depends who you ask** — one writer calls it salty-spicy and exactly her thing; another took two spoonfuls onto her plate and could not go on, her tongue numb. Worth knowing if you do not eat chilli
함박산볶음밥3 ate it
hambaksan bokkeumbap₩10,000
A fried rice with cheese and kimchi under an egg — **it is on the lunch board too**
₩10,000. One writer kept going back to it although she was already full; another says an earlier lunch of it is what brought her back to the shop at all
차돌된장찌개3 ate it
chadol doenjang-jjigae
Doenjang stew with beef brisket. **One writer swapped it into her marinated set as a rice-pot version**
**Writers split hard on the seasoning.** A July 2026 post found it bland, asked for it to be boiled down further and still found it weak, and steers you to the kimchi stew instead; a September post calls it astonishing in both taste and quantity. The July writer adds that she is from Gyeongsang and used to a harder-hitting stew. All three agree there is a lot of it
갓지은 백미밥2 ate it
baekmi-bap₩4,000
**Not sold by the bowl** — one writer found it priced only in ₩4,000, ₩6,000 and ₩8,000 lots
One writer was thrown by it, ordered the ₩4,000 lot and got what she reckoned was three bowls' worth, cooked dry and separate the way she likes. Another logs it as ₩4,000 for two
트러플크림볶음밥1 ate it
truffle cream bokkeumbap
A truffle-cream fried rice, also on the lunch board
One writer ate it and says it is closer to a risotto than a fried rice, and the best rice she has had in any grill house. No price anywhere. Two more say they mean to try it next time
갓지은 곤드레밥 2인1 ate it
gondre-bap (2 people)₩6,000
A gondre-herb rice pot, cooked from raw once you order it
₩6,000, and **it took fifteen minutes to arrive**. The one writer who ordered it names it as half the reason she keeps coming back, and singles out the seasoned soy that comes with it
물냉면1 ate it
mul-naengmyeon
Cold buckwheat noodles, ordered mid-meal to clear the palate
One writer ordered it: slushy ice on the broth, sweet-sour, with cucumber, radish and egg. No price given

소주2 ate it
soju₩5,000
Soju. One writer records ₩4,500, the same as the bottled beer
One price, ₩5,000, from a September 2026 post. **You may also bring your own** — one writer carried in a bottle of whisky and paid no corkage (see the note below)
크림막걸리1 ate it
cream makgeolli
The makgeolli the shop puts forward as its own
The only writer who drank it **declared the visit sponsored** — she says the alcohol does not push through the cream, so it suits people who do not drink much. No price given. The other mention is only a coupon line copied off Naver, by someone who did not order it

Parking

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

Posts saying you can park	1 of 20 posts

Almost everything written here about parking is copied. A paragraph appears word for word across several posts — no car park of its own, the street bays outside exit 9 at ₩1,500 per ten minutes, the Hi Parking garage at ₩1,000 — and it is the shop's own notice, written by people who did not park. Exactly one writer actually drove there. She came on a Sunday and says the street bays are free all day then, free after noon on Saturdays and after seven on weekdays, and that you can generally find something if you are willing to look. Those free hours are one person's account and we have not checked them. One other post's header says only that parking is not possible.

Who came, and with whom

With a friend	5 of 20 posts
Group visit	1 of 20 posts
Date	1 of 20 posts
Came by car	1 of 20 posts
Family visit	1 of 20 posts

Getting there

Getting inside

Toilet inside	yes 0 · no 1 (of 20 posts read)

Nor does anyone write about the floor or the stairs. The registered address puts the shop on the ground floor of its building, and several posts copy that address across, but not one writer says they went up or down anything, or names a floor. A few describe simply opening the door from the lane, which reads like street level, and that is as far as we can take it.

Nobody writes about the threshold or about getting in with wheels. Across twenty posts the words step, ramp, kerb, wheelchair and pushchair do not appear once. We know the shop is on a corner inside a lane and that the door is propped wide open in good weather, and we know that sitting near it means shifting aside for people coming through — but whether there is a step at the door we do not know. What we do know is that the lavatory is shared with the building and is outside. This is not 'there is no step'; it is 'not one writer mentioned it'.

The lavatory is outside the shop — but only one writer says so from having gone. Hers is the practical version: it is out there, it is shared with the building, it is small, go before you come. A second post carries a header line giving an outside lavatory and a door code, but that post never describes using it, so we did not count it. Whether there are separate men's and women's, or an accessible one, is not written anywhere in the twenty posts. Nor do we know whether the code still works.

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 payment2 of 20 posts
Posts saying they paid themselves6 of 20 posts
Posts saying nothing either way12 of 20 posts

Posts that followed a TV spot

Of the 29 posts we gathered, 9 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

06070809

Month by month

Month	Posts
2026-06	2
2026-07	1
2026-08	3
2026-09	14

What we do not know

Thirty posts came in and we counted twenty. Ten are out of the denominator. Eight went up in the ten days between 18 and 29 April 2026 and reproduce the same promotional copy in the same order — the water-aging explanation, the four ways to eat it, the four side dishes, the four walking routes, the two car parks, all in the same sequence in all eight. Not one of the eight says what was ordered, what it cost, or who was there. One carries a line at the foot admitting its information comes from Naver's public place data, and still writes 'I went myself' in the body. The other two are a ranked round-up of fifteen Euljiro grill houses with prices copied off listings, and a post that says the meat was delicious for five paragraphs without naming a single dish or price. Counting them would turn twenty into thirty and make half the numbers below a lie.
Two writers declared the visit sponsored. One put the tag in her opening line, one only in the caption at the very bottom of the post — neither says so in the body, so you have to scroll to find it. The shop's own cream makgeolli is drunk in exactly one post, and it is one of those two. On the other side, six writers state in so many words that they paid, and the remaining twelve say nothing either way. Nothing either way does not mean unsponsored; it means we do not know.
The opening hours do not agree from post to post. Six give eleven at night as the weekday closing time and two give ten past ten — and both of the ten-past-ten posts are from June 2026, which reads like a later extension, though we cannot confirm it. Saturday and Sunday opening splits too, between half past twelve (five posts) and eleven (one, in August). Five agree that Friday and Saturday run to three in the morning. One post gives six in the evening to midnight Monday to Thursday and closed on Sundays, the reverse of the other nine, and we threw it out entirely — the same blogger has written up several other grill houses in the same streets, and her own body text describes a place that is open in the daytime. Check before you go.
Backdon has nothing to do with Baek Jong-won. One writer admits she had assumed for years that it was his, and notes that the search engine suggests the same thing to enough people that it comes up as a related query. It is a separate franchise with several Seoul branches, and this page is about one of them: the Euljiro branch at 22 Euljiro 14-gil. Posts about other branches are not in the count.

Sources (20)

Every number above was counted from the posts below.

콜키지프리 을지로 고깃집 ‘빽돈’ 웨이팅 후 방문 2026-09-25 · HEEJIN · via Daum
을지로 직장인 점심 5곳, 이번 주 나의 원픽은?｜금요점심 03 2026-09-25 · Gagarin’s Margins · via Daum
삼겹살집에 방풍나물 누가 넣었노 군침이 싹도노🥵💦 <빽돈 을지로> 2026-09-20 · 올해는 더 부지런해지기로 다짐 하였다. · via Daum
을지로 삼겹살 빽돈 내돈내산 솔직후기 | 메뉴 가격 재방문의사 2026-09-13 · 퀸즈퀸즈 · via Daum
을지로고기맛집 을지로3가맛집 을지로삼겹살 빽돈 중구 을지로 2026-09-12 · 썸머의 여름
빽돈 중구 을지로 | 을지로3가맛집 숙성고기와 다양한 사이드 조합 .... 2026-09-12 · 먹보뉴의 하루
을지로삼겹살 빽돈 중구 을지로 2026-09-12 · 하디서울 수트하우스
을지로3가 맛집 빽돈 양념세트와 차돌된장술밥 😊 내돈내산 솔직후기 2026-09-12 · 여행작가 배나영 · via Daum
을지로 | 빽돈 숙성 삼겹살, 숙성 목살 세트 솔직 후기 2026-09-11 · 푸딩의 취향연구소
을지로3가역 초역세권 맛집 '빽돈' 방문기: 가성비 최고 모듬세트 2.... 2026-09-10 · 쿠마 daily
빽돈 중구 을지로점 - 삼겹살 목살 꼬들살 한 번에 + 더티폭탄계란찜.... 2026-09-07 · 북아현 살집연구소
을지로고기맛집 빽돈 중구 을지로 ! 을지로3가맛집 트러플 크림 볶.... 2026-09-07 · 뚱스
[서울] 을지로맛집 을지로고기맛집 빽돈 중구 을지로 2026-09-04 · 데일리 시온
[을지로고기맛집] 삼겹살과 특수부이가 맛있는 빽돈 중구 을지로 솔.... 2026-09-04 · 동행집
을지로 삼겹살 고기집 빽돈 숙성모듬과 크림막걸리 완벽 조합 2026-08-27 · 소소한핫토리
을지로삼겹살집 빽돈 점심메뉴도 강추 2026-08-26 · 뚱이와 빵이네_잘먹고 잘살기
빽돈 을지로점 돼지고기 맛집 | 맛이 기가막힘 | 모임,청모 추천 2026-08-20 · 신혼일기 ღ
내돈내먹 을지로3가 맛집 추천! 빽돈 중구 을지로 2026-07-17 · 기억하다
[서울 을지로] 빽돈 중구 을지로 - 맛있는 고기와 폭탄계란찜, 친구 .... 2026-06-25 · ProcessLog
❗️빽돈 을지로 후기❗️을지로3가 고기 맛집 빽돈 중구 을지로점 .... 2026-06-19 · 사부작 일상

Of 265 candidate posts we opened 48 and kept 20 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.