Grill houseKorean
Hwayangyeonhwa
화양연화 Hwayang yeonhwa (花樣年華) means 'the most beautiful moment of one's life' — the hanja name is what hangs on the signboard.
Compiled from 27 blog posts read in fullSources →
Hwayangyeonhwa is a charcoal-grill restaurant in a renovated old hanok down an alley off Hangang-daero 14ga-gil in Yongsan. A brazier is set at your table and staff grill beef ibon-rib (250g, 32,000 won), lamb French rack (200g, 36,000 won), lamb shoulder rack (200g, 28,000 won) or marinated pork rib (23,000 won); people finish with cold milmyeon (10,000 won) or herring-roe rice (6,000 won). Prices are from posts since July 2026. We read 30 posts from December 2025 to October 2026; after removing 2 about other places and 1 that only mentioned the name, 27 describe an actual meal.
Data as of · Published ·
Location & hours
- Address서울특별시 용산구 한강대로14가길 12, 1층 (한강로3가)12 Hangang-daero 14ga-gil, Yongsan-gu, Seoul
- Phone0507-1340-6825
- Typical spend₩5,000 – ₩89,000
- From the station6 posts say it is walkable from the station.
- Floor areaFloor area 146 m² · Status In business
When it opens
Of 22 posts: 19 wrote Weekdays 17:00–23:00, 11 wrote Weekends 15:00–23:00, 11 wrote Sunday 17:00–23:00.
| Weekdays | 17:00–23:00 | 19 of 22 posts |
|---|---|---|
| Weekends | 15:00–23:00 | |
| Saturday | 15:00–23:00 | |
| Sunday | 17:00–23:00 | |
| Break | 15:00–17:00 | 3 of 3 posts |
Rows without a count: 11 of 22 posts.
1 other values
| Open | Weekdays | 11:00–23:00 3 of 22 posts last seen 2026-07 |
|---|
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.
What sets it apart
- Staff do all the grilling — 25 of the 27 meal posts say so. Several note that different meats are cooked one after another rather than together, meat on the bone is snipped off for you, and staff suggest which sauce goes with each cut. One post found its lamb overcooked, with charred bits trimmed away.
- 15 posts mention wooden lockers at the entrance for coats and bags, so your things stay clear of the grill smoke while you eat.
- 12 posts say the lamb had no gamey smell. None said it did; one only remarked that the meaty aroma was fairly strong.
- Seating splits between a hall of wooden tables and a U-shaped counter where staff grill in the middle; 5 posts mention a separate room for groups. 7 posts say the banchan — konjac noodles, beet-tinted potato purée, white wood-ear mushrooms and so on — were refilled.
2 more
- 6 posts put it a 7–10 minute walk from Sinyongsan Station exit 2; one said that is a bit far to call convenient. It sits in a lane behind the HYBE building by Hangang Elementary, and one post advises using a map app the first time.
- 8 posts were dates, 6 family meals, 3 with friends and 2 work or group dinners.
What 27 bloggers said
siwon milmyeon
Juicy
We read all 27 in full. The most common claims are “Juicy” (12) and “No gamey smell” (12).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Things you can check on site
- Staff cook it at your table 25 of 27 posts
- Bag storage 15 of 27 posts
- Free refills 7 of 27 posts
- Reachable by transit 6 of 27 posts
- Takes reservations 6 of 27 posts
- Private room 5 of 27 posts
- Beer served 5 of 27 posts
- Review event 5 of 27 posts
- Self-order screen 4 of 27 posts
- Wine served 4 of 27 posts
- Toilet inside 3 of 27 posts
- Separate restrooms 2 of 27 posts
- Phone charging 1 of 27 posts
- Complimentary tea or drink 1 of 27 posts
- Open kitchen 1 of 27 posts
- Hand-wash sink in the dining area 1 of 27 posts
- Air conditioned 1 of 27 posts
These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.
Parking
4 posts say you cannot park. None say you can.
| Posts saying you cannot | 4 of 27 posts |
|---|
The restaurant has no parking; 4 posts say you cannot park out front. The 2 who drove used the Yongsan Tax Office lot about five minutes' walk away, free on weekends and after 6 pm on weekdays according to the posts.
Who came, and with whom
- Date 8 of 27 posts
- Family visit 6 of 27 posts
- With a friend 3 of 27 posts
- Group visit 2 of 27 posts
- Came by car 2 of 27 posts
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
6 posts put it a 7–10 minute walk from Sinyongsan Station exit 2; one said that is a bit far to call convenient. It sits in a lane behind the HYBE building by Hangang Elementary, and one post advises using a map app the first time.
Getting inside
| Second floor | yes 0 · no 1 (of 27 posts read) |
|---|---|
| In a basement | yes 0 · no 1 (of 27 posts read) |
| Toilet inside | 3 of 27 posts |
| Separate restrooms | 2 of 27 posts |
No one mentioned steps or a threshold at the entrance, or whether a wheelchair or stroller gets in. One post calls it a single-storey hanok, and another warns the lighting is dim enough to watch your footing at night. Silence here means we don't know, not that it is step-free.
3 posts say the toilet is inside the restaurant, and 2 that it is separated by gender.
No one mentioned: 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 disclosing payment3 of 27 posts
- Posts saying they paid themselves3 of 27 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way21 of 27 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 28 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
Month by month
| Month | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12 | 1 |
| 2026-04 | 1 |
| 2026-05 | 1 |
| 2026-06 | 2 |
| 2026-07 | 7 |
| 2026-08 | 4 |
| 2026-09 | 8 |
| 2026-10 | 3 |
What we do not know
- No post describes waiting. 6 posts booked ahead; one that went at 7:30 pm on a Sunday via Naver booking found only about five tables occupied. How long a walk-in waits, we don't know.
- Opening hours are mostly copied into post headers. Posts from August 2026 on give Sunday–Friday 17:00–23:00 and Saturday alone 15:00–23:00; earlier posts say both weekend days opened at 15:00, and a 29 July post went for the 3 pm Sunday opening. Four early-July 2026 posts list weekday lunch (opening 11:00, break 15:00–17:00), but three others that month say weekdays start at 17:00, so we can't tell whether lunch is still served. The only word on closing days is one December 2025 post saying open every day.
- Prices have gone up. In December 2025 the ibon-rib was 30,000 won, French rack 35,000, marinated pork 22,000 and herring-roe rice 5,000; posts from summer 2026 give 32,000, 36,000, 23,000 and 6,000. The 500g French rack was written as 87,000 won in April, 88,000 in June and 89,000 in September–October. One table of three spent about 180,000 won with drinks; a couple spent 75,000. Three posts call it expensive, one called it reasonable.
- The potato-noodle naengmyeon gave way to siwon milmyeon. Four posts from December 2025 to early July 2026 ate the potato noodles (9,000 won in December 2025); on 1 July one diner found them sold out and had milmyeon instead. Since then only milmyeon (10,000 won) gets ordered, and the potato noodles appear only as a review-event freebie. One post took milmyeon for a summer-only item, so whether it stays through winter is unknown.
- Three posts disclose sponsorship, three say they paid themselves, and the other 21 say nothing. Two posts from 2 and 3 September 2026 are near-identical — same locker tip, same private-room line, U-shaped table and seven banchan, in the same order. Five posts mention the review-for-a-freebie event (a highball, herring-roe rice or potato noodles).
- Many posts give the same phone number, 0507-1340-6825. Bookings were made through Naver and CatchTable; one post copied that the annex room seats 8–22 with a 900,000 won minimum spend.
Sources (27)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- [용산 맛집] 양갈비 맛집 화양연화 | 양보다 청어알밥 추천 2026-10-06 · 달록 · via Daum
- 용산역 모임하기 좋은 고기집 화양연화에서 양고기 회식하기 2026-10-04 · 소심한 수다쟁이 젬스톤 : 소젬 · via Daum
- 용산 양고기 맛집 화양연화 | 프렌치랙 데이트 추천 (내돈내산) 2026-10-02 · 경제 문맹 탈출
- 용산 양 프렌치랙 맛집 화양연화 후기! 위치, 예약, 메뉴 총정리 2026-09-27 · 수딩이네 리뷰일기
- 용산 양고기 맛집 화양연화, 한적한 골목의 한옥 다이닝 2026-09-26 · 김뚜의 소소한 일상 · via Daum
- 모임하기 좋은 용산 양고기 맛집 화양연화 솔직 후기 및 무료 주차정보 2026-09-26 · 체크인앤테이블 · via Daum
- [서울] 용산역 고급 한옥 분위기의 고기맛집 '화양연화' 후기 2026-09-03 · 공백
- 용산역 고기집 맛집 추천 화양연화 주말 용리단길 주차 꿀팁 2026-09-02 · 계절사냥꾼
- 용산역고기집 화양연화ㅣ한옥 감성에서 즐기는 모던한식 (주차정보) 2026-09-01 · Crystal Note · via Daum
- [용산] 용리단길 용산역고기집 '화양연화'ㅣ아이본립·양갈비 회식.... 2026-09-01 · 배츄의 하루(◕‿◕✿)
- 용산) 신용산역맛집ㅣ화양연화ㅣ용산역고기집 소양갈비 완전정복 2026-09-01 · 웽이의 취미생활
- 용산역 고기집 화양연화 | 한옥 정취 속에서 아늑하게 즐기는 소와 .... 2026-08-29 · 뉴미 맛지도 완성 하기٩(๑❛ᴗ❛๑)۶
- [용산역고기집] 한옥 분위기 구워주는 고기집, 용산 화양연화 재방문 후기 2026-08-25 · 비오는맑은날 · via Daum
- 용산역고기집 한옥감성 고급스러운 데이트맛집 화양연화 2026-08-19 · 별 하나 있고 너 하나 있는 · via Daum
- [ 용산역고기집 ] 한옥 감성 데이트 모임 맛집 화양연화 2026-08-11 · 소소한 취향기록 :)
- 용산 고기집 한옥 분위기 프리미엄 신용산 맛집 화양연화 2026-07-29 · 맛집따라 여행하는 주기록
- 용산 고기집 한옥 분위기 찾아가는 길 메뉴 프렌치렉 양갈비 밀면 2026-07-27 · TRAVELER hotseven · via Daum
- 용산 고기집 양갈비가 맛있는 한옥 분위기 화양연화 2026-07-14 · 자연친화적 여행가 ᯓꕤ · via Daum
- 한옥 분위기의 데이트 맛집 용산 고기집 화양연화 방문 후기 2026-07-13 · JJINLOG · via Daum
- 용산 화양연화, 군인 아들 휴가와 아빠 생일이 겹친 날 (한옥 화로구이 예약 팁) 2026-07-02 · 뜨개하는 집사의 TODAY TOMORROW · via Daum
- 신용산 맛집 화양연화 직접가본 고기집 후기 2026-07-01 · 영이의 세상기록 · via Daum
- 용산 화양연화 한옥 프리미엄 고기집 신용산 데이트 맛집 후기 2026-07-01 · 내가 좋아하는 모든것 · via Daum
- 용산 고기집 화양연화 한옥 분위기 데이트 맛집 프라이빗 룸식당 추천 2026-06-17 · ✅ 1시간 전 · via Daum
- 신용산 양고기 맛집 화양연화 단체 회식하기 좋은 장소 내돈내산 2026-06-12 · 오늘,은 · via Daum
- 용산역고기집 추천 화양연화 용산 구워주는 양고기 먹고 온 후기 2026-05-19 · 위니 · via Daum
- [용산맛집] 분위기 맛도리 "화양연화" 용산 모임 내돈내산 후기 2026-04-06 · 눈누의 일상 · via Daum
- 신용산 고기집 좋은 분위기에서 소갈비 화양연화 2025-12-17 · 성저십리 의식주 · via Daum
Of 402 candidate posts we opened 109 and kept 27 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.