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Manseon Hof, Nogari-chein Bonjeom

만선호프 노가리체인본점 The Nogari Alley beer house on Euljiro 13-gil where the street seating has moved up to a rooftop, a grilled baby pollack costs 2,000 won, and what you pay for a beer depends on which floor you are on.

Bunsik (snack food) · Jung-gu, Euljiro 3-ga

Data as of · Published ·

Manseon Hof is a beer house on Euljiro 13-gil — the lane people call Nogari Alley — a few minutes' walk from exit 4 at Euljiro 3-ga. It opens at noon and runs to three in the morning, and a grilled baby pollack costs ₩2,000. The building goes ground floor, first floor, roof, and the roof is where everyone goes. The food runs from dried fish through garlic chicken, dressed whelks and soupy rice cakes, and the menu is taped to the napkin box on your table. The posts we read run from June to September 2026.

양념치킨
Yangnyeom chikin sweet-and-spicy fried chickenAn AI drawing of Yangnyeom chikin as a dish. Not a photograph of this shop, and not drawn from this shop's menu. © Gilpost · no unauthorised reproduction

The basics

Address서울특별시 중구 을지로13길 19 (을지로3가,,2호(지상1층))
19 Eulji-ro 13-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul
Phone02-2274-1040
Typical spend₩2,000 – ₩30,000
Floor area99 m²
StatusIn business

3 posts say it is walkable from the station.

When it opens

Of 6 posts: 4 wrote Daily 12:00–03:00.

OpenDaily12:00–03:00 4 of 6 posts last seen 2026-07

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

  1. The street tables have moved to the roof. Eight of the nine posts are about the rooftop. A June 2026 writer noticed it first: the tables that used to run down the road were gone, she guessed because of a crackdown, and a rooftop had appeared. A September writer is blunter — the place was famous for plastic stools in the lane, and this time there were none at all. The only way up is the stairs. The roof divides into two areas either side of the staircase, so you are asked to choose; one writer puts the difference as the big screen, and reports being offered 'the quiet one or the loud one'. The toilets are in between. One writer says the rooftop lights are visible from down the lane, which makes the place easy to find.
  2. Whether you can sit in the lane depends on which post you read. On 9 June 2026 a writer records tables out front; on 10 June another says the road seating seems to have stopped. Two September posts found none. One writer describes plastic tables running endlessly down both sides of the alley — but several businesses put tables out there, not only this one. That is as far as we got: whether the street seating has gone for good, or comes back with the weather, we do not know. If you are set on sitting outside, count on the roof.
  3. There is a big screen on the roof. Three posts mention it. One thinks it would do for watching football; another found old K-pop videos playing on it and says it derailed her evening — she gave up taking photographs when a 2011 hit came on. Which side of the roof you sit on decides whether you face it.
  4. Six o'clock is the turn. One writer arriving at half past five found it half full; another arriving at five had the place to herself and watched it fill to capacity by half past six, with a queue forming for the roof. On a Saturday evening one writer counted about ten people waiting on the staircase and was seated in five minutes as a pair. There is no app — you stand on the stairs and they call you. Indoors, meanwhile, stays empty: several writers remark that the ground and first floors are all but deserted while the roof is packed.
  5. Orders go astray when it is busy. One Saturday-evening writer sets it out in detail: nothing arrived, she asked, and her order had simply been lost. Too many people and too few staff, she reckons, so missed orders and long waits happen. She spoke to someone who seemed to be in charge, was handed a bag of crisps, and the food came almost at once. She adds that the server she dealt with was a foreign worker and that a mix-up was easy to see happening. Another writer reports the opposite: an outdoor kitchen right there on the roof means the food comes straight out — though she found the tables near it hectic. These two are the only posts of nine that discuss the staff at all.

What 9 bloggers said

We read all 9 in full. The most common claims are “Roomy” (3) and “Large portions” (3).

What they liked

Roomy3 of 9 posts
Large portions3 of 9 posts
Would return3 of 9 posts
Returning customer2 of 9 posts
Crispy batter2 of 9 posts

What they struggled with

Noisy2 of 9 posts
Expensive1 of 9 posts
Had to wait2 of 9 posts
Food comes slowly1 of 9 posts

Where they disagree

Outdoor terrace seatingyes 2 · no 2

Things you can check on site

Rooftop seating8 of 9 posts
Beer served8 of 9 posts
TV3 of 9 posts
Reachable by transit3 of 9 posts
Second floor2 of 9 posts
Toilet inside2 of 9 posts
Separate restrooms1 of 9 posts
Foreign customers in the room1 of 9 posts
Origin labelling posted1 of 9 posts
Smoking room1 of 9 posts

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

The most ordered dish is saengmaekju (생맥주) — 8 of 9 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

Who came, and with whom

Family visit2 of 9 posts
Date2 of 9 posts
With a friend2 of 9 posts

Getting there

Map showing where Manseon Hof, Nogari-chein Bonjeom is

Getting inside

Second floor2 of 9 posts
Toilet inside2 of 9 posts
Separate restrooms1 of 9 posts

What you pay for a drink depends on the floor. One July 2026 writer ordered on two of them and wrote both prices down: ₩5,000 for soju or beer on the ground and first floors, ₩5,500 on the third-floor roof. Whether the food prices move too, nobody says. The first floor is indoors, and one writer found it very large, full of tables and completely empty — because everyone goes up. It is the fallback when the weather turns or the roof is full; one writer drank there because it was raining.

Nobody writes about getting up there. The seating people want is on the roof, and across nine posts there is no mention of a lift, a ramp, a threshold, a wheelchair or a pushchair. All we can say for certain is that you go up by stairs; one writer's entire comment on them is that they are hard work. How many steps, whether there is a handrail, whether there is another way — no one says. There is seating on the ground floor by one account, so that is worth asking about if stairs are a problem, though we have not confirmed that either.

The toilets are on the roof — not a given at an open-air drinking place. Two writers say so: one notes a toilet and a smoking room both on the third floor, another that they sit between the two halves of the roof, either side of the stairs. A third reports them separate for men and women, adding that she did not go in and so cannot speak for the state of them. The point is that you do not have to go back down.

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 themselves3 of 9 posts
  • Posts saying nothing either way6 of 9 posts

Posts that followed a TV spot

Of the 10 posts we gathered, 1 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

060709
Month by month
MonthPosts
2026-064
2026-072
2026-093

What we do not know

  • We received thirty posts and counted nine. Here is where the other twenty-one went. Nine were about entirely different businesses: a new bar of the same name on the Incheon waterfront, another in a market in southern Seoul, a fried-chicken franchise near City Hall still trading under the old Manseon Hof sign, and roundups featuring the Hannam branch. Eleven pointed to a separately registered shop one street over. One was a route guide whose author says outright that she has not been yet. The denominator is nine because the name is crowded, not because the place is unwritten-about.
  • Several similarly named businesses are registered in this one alley. One writer's check-in widget tagged three at once: Wonjo Manseon Hof (Chungmuro 9-gil 14), Manseon Hof Nogari Chain Head Shop (Euljiro 13-gil 19) and Manseon Hof 2 (Chungmuro 9-gil 12). This page is the middle one. One writer separates two of them by sight: the Wonjo is on the corner, and you carry on past it to reach the head shop. Yet posts tagged to the corner address describe the same rooftop and the same first floor. Whether people are tagging one building inconsistently, or whether two businesses each have a roof, we could not settle, so we counted nothing from those eleven posts. On the ground, look for the yellow sign reading 만선호프 본점.
  • The licence covers one ground-floor unit; the posts describe three storeys. Our ledger has this business as unit 2, ground floor, Euljiro 13-gil 19, registered under a snack-food category. The writers, meanwhile, move between ground floor, first floor and roof as though it were one place, and one records a different drink price on each. Which floor belongs to which registration, we do not know — to a customer it is one door, but the paperwork may not agree. Take the prices and the seating from this page, but remember that moving up a floor can move the price.
  • The hours differ only in when it shuts. Six posts give opening hours. All six open at noon; five close at three in the morning and one at midnight. The midnight post adds in the same breath that hours vary between branches — and several shopfronts in this alley carry the sign, so what she saw may not have been this one. No post mentions an afternoon break, a last order or a closing day. Worth checking if you are planning a late one.
  • Only five posts record a price, so the table is thin: ₩2,000 for a nogari, ₩11,000 for a half garlic chicken, ₩11,000 for the rolled omelette, ₩16,000 for the melon, ₩17,000 for the gizzards, ₩20,000 for the boneless chicken feet, ₩30,000 for the whelks. The fried chicken, the soupy rice cakes and the fish-cake soup were eaten but never priced. The writers disagree about value: one finds it reasonable and just right for a second round, while another, weighing ₩20,000 against what chicken feet cost, concludes she is paying for the seat. Every price we have is from the summer and autumn of 2026, so we cannot say what any of it was before.

Sources (9)

Every number above was counted from the posts below.

  1. 을지로 만선호프 노가리 2026-09-28 · 쏭애미
  2. 을지로 3가 술집 만선호프 야장 주말 후기. 저렴하게 메뉴 주문하는 .... 2026-09-22 · 앨리의 취향모음
  3. 을지로 만선호프 야장 이제 루프탑으로! 토요일 웨이팅·마늘치킨 .... 2026-09-21 · 옐미의 리뷰
  4. [서울/중구] 만선호프 노가리체인본점 / 을지로 만선, 을지로 야장 .... 2026-07-19 · Newna Weblog
  5. 을지로 노가리골목 맛집|야외 루프탑에서 즐긴 만선호프 2026-07-08 · Cherry의 일상
  6. 을지로3가 만선호프 본점 야장 루프탑 메뉴 분위기 2026-06-22 · 낭만있는 발발e의 일상 아카이브
  7. [서울일상] 명동. 남대문. 을지로 만선호프. 중구 한 바퀴 / 노을캠핑.... 2026-06-17 · 열심히 먹고 여행하며 기록하는 블로그
  8. [채집통] 서울 을지로 야장 핫플 만선호프 내돈내산|옛날 케이팝과.... 2026-06-10 · 꿀냄새 가득한 양봉장이애요
  9. 을지로3가맛집/만선호프/야장 루프탑 2026-06-09 · mini의소확행

Of 370 candidate posts we opened 47 and kept 9 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.