Gilpost · Jongno-gu, Ikseon-dong
Grill houseKorean
Ikseondon
익선돈 Ikseon is the neighborhood, Ikseon-dong, and don (豚) means pig — a pork-only house in Ikseon-dong.
Compiled from 26 blog posts read in fullSources →
Ikseondon is a pork house in the barbecue alley of Ikseon-dong, just north of Jongno 3-ga station (21 Donhwamun-ro 11ga-gil). People come for kimchi-and-onion pork belly or neck (18,000 won per 180 g portion), finish with squid-ink kimchi fried rice pressed into the shape of a coal briquette (7,000 won), and most of them come for the outdoor tables set out in the alley. Since September 2026 the menu adds oak-smoked raw pork belly and neck (18,000 won per 180 g) that staff grill at your table, odol galbi has become a 9,900-won side, and closing time moved to 11 pm. In posts from March to July the meat all came fully cooked from the kitchen and odol galbi was a 16,000-won main. We read 30 posts dated 23 March to 8 October 2026: 27 are first-hand visits, two are multi-restaurant lists and one was about a different restaurant, so we left it out.
Data as of · Published ·
Location & hours
- Address서울특별시 종로구 돈화문로11가길 21, 애플하우스 지상 1층 (익선동)21 Donhwamun-ro 11ga-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul
- Phone0507-1384-8743
- Typical spend₩5,000 – ₩18,000
- From the station4 posts say it is walkable from the station.
- Floor areaFloor area 93 m² · Status In business
When it opens
Of 19 posts: 10 wrote Weekdays 15:00–23:55, 10 wrote Weekends 12:00–23:55, 3 wrote Daily 15:00–23:00.
| Daily | 15:00–23:00 | 3 of 19 posts |
|---|---|---|
| Weekdays | 15:00–23:55 | |
| Weekends | 12:00–23:55 | |
| No day given | 15:00–23:55 | 2 of 19 posts |
| Last order | 22:00 | 5 of 14 posts |
Rows without a count: 10 of 19 posts.
1 other values
| Last order | 23:25 9 of 14 posts last seen 2026-06 |
|---|
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
- Expect to wait in the evening and at weekends. Eleven posts waited: 10 minutes (weekend), about 20 minutes (weekend evening), 40 minutes plus another 10, about an hour, and 'over an hour and a half' on a weekday evening. One couple joined the CatchTable queue at 5 pm on a weekend as number 15 and got in at 7:40 pm; the queue for outdoor seats was in the 70s by then. Three posts walked straight in: at the 3 pm opening, early on a weekday evening, and at 8 pm on an October weekday. You join the queue on a CatchTable tablet outside the door. One post missed the 3-minute window to answer the 'your table is ready' message and had the place cancelled until a staff member restored it; another found three groups already waiting although the app showed no queue, because the tablet had been switched on late. One post mentions several chairs beside the shop to wait on.
- Twenty posts mention the outdoor tables in the alley, and they are the main draw. Accounts of how many there are differ: one post counted 7 terrace tables, another 'about 3'. One October post saw a note on the table limiting outdoor seats to two hours; another sat out in heavy rain under clear plastic sheeting without trouble. In March and April posts the outdoor area was sometimes closed for the cold with a heater inside, or the plastic awning was rolled up from early evening. Several posts ended up indoors because the outside was full; four found the inside roomier than expected.
- Eight posts from March to July 2026 said the meat comes fully cooked from the kitchen, so you never grill it yourself; two said it takes 10–15 minutes after ordering, and one found the food a little slow for that reason. Three September posts describe something different: oak-smoked raw pork grilled at the table by the owner or staff, who put pieces on your plate. The split falls by date, so on a visit now expect the smoked pork to be grilled at your table.
- Views on portions split six to three. Six posts found them generous (two portions of kimchi pork belly, the steamed egg, the radish noodles, the acorn-jelly soup). Of the three that found them small, two were about the odol galbi, which comes with cartilage, and one about a single portion of meat.
What 26 bloggers said
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Friendly staff
We read all 26 in full. The most common claims are “Friendly staff” (5) and “Roomy” (4).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Where they disagree
| Had to wait | yes 11 · no 3 |
|---|---|
| Large portions | yes 6 · no 3 |
Things you can check on site
- Outdoor terrace seating 20 of 26 posts
- Meat arrives fully grilled from the kitchen — no grill at the table 8 of 26 posts
- Toilet inside 5 of 26 posts
- Reachable by transit 4 of 26 posts
- Free refills 3 of 26 posts
- Staff cook it at your table 3 of 26 posts
- Air conditioned 3 of 26 posts
- Self-order screen 2 of 26 posts
- Dogs allowed 2 of 26 posts
- Complimentary tea or drink 2 of 26 posts
- Meat is pre-grilled before it reaches the table 1 of 26 posts
- Waiting area 1 of 26 posts
- Wi-Fi 1 of 26 posts
- Time limit on the table 1 of 26 posts
- Phone charging 1 of 26 posts
These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.
Who came, and with whom
- With a friend 7 of 26 posts
- Date 3 of 26 posts
- Group visit 3 of 26 posts
- Family visit 3 of 26 posts
- Came with children 1 of 26 posts
- Came by car 1 of 26 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
4 posts say it is walkable from the station.
Getting inside
| Toilet inside | 5 of 26 posts |
|---|---|
| Separate restrooms | yes 0 · no 1 (of 26 posts read) |
No one described the floor or any stairs from their own visit; only the address says ground floor.
No post mentions a step at the door or whether a wheelchair or pushchair gets in — that means we don't know, not that there is none. One family went with three children but said nothing about a pushchair.
Five posts say the toilet is inside the restaurant. One of them notes it is unisex and quite cramped; another calls it clean.
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. 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 themselves11 of 26 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way15 of 26 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 28 posts we gathered, 2 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 |
|---|---|
| 2026-03 | 1 |
| 2026-04 | 2 |
| 2026-05 | 9 |
| 2026-06 | 3 |
| 2026-07 | 1 |
| 2026-08 | 2 |
| 2026-09 | 7 |
| 2026-10 | 1 |
What we do not know
- How the meat is cooked, and the menu, changed between August and September 2026. Posts through July say the meat came cooked from the kitchen; September posts say staff grill it at the table. One September post noted that odol galbi had gone from a main (220 g, 16,000 won) to a side (150 g, 9,900 won), and an October post found the old 220 g / 16,000 won price still on the wall menu, at odds with the kiosk.
- Opening hours have changed. Posts through July 2026 copied weekdays 3 pm–11:55 pm, weekends noon–11:55 pm, last order 11:25 pm (one said noon every day). Six posts from September give an 11 pm close, five of them with last order at 10 pm, and one September 12 post found ordering really did stop at 10 pm. Most give a 3 pm opening; one says 1 pm. These hours are mostly copied from Naver, and one August post listing 'closed Monday to Wednesday' contradicts itself, so we did not use its closing days.
- Four posts walked from exit 6 of Jongno 3-ga station. Many copy '131 m from exit 6', but one post that walked it took 5–6 minutes, and another got a little lost in the alleys.
- Price per meal: one October post paid 48,000 won for two portions of meat, the steamed egg and a bottle of soju for two; an April receipt shows 50,000 won for one portion each of neck and belly plus a noodle side and the fried rice. One post called it on the pricey side; another said the meat isn't expensive but the sides add up. Yogurt makgeolli is listed at 8,000 won in May and 6,000 won on the October kiosk.
- No post made an actual reservation; the CatchTable the posts mention is a remote waitlist, not a booking. Most posts give the phone number 0507-1384-8743; one gives 02-766-8743.
- 'Uses only Sunjin Pork Korean pork', 'grade-1 domestic sow' and the Handon-certified sign are the shop's own claims, copied by bloggers, so we don't rely on them. One September post reads like promotional copy lifted from the shop's description, and two multi-restaurant list posts were left out of the counts.
Sources (26)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- [익선돈 종로] 테이블 넓은 야장에서 김치생삼겹구이 먹은 후기 (반.... 2026-10-08 · ☁️nuuns cloud☁️
- 종로3가 삼겹살 야장 맛집 익선돈 본점,연탄모양 볶음밥까지 내돈내.... 2026-09-21 · 꽥꽥이의 맛집.여행.꿀템 정보
- [종로야장맛집] 연탄모양볶음밥으로 유명한 맛집 “익선돈 본점“ 2026-09-18 · 졔둥이의 하루 · via Daum
- 야장에 미친 두여자의 종로 야장 투어 익선돈 오픈런, 막걸리 야장 유목민노마드 2026-09-17 · 윤영이의 일상일기 · via Daum
- 익선동 익선돈 방문기 | 노포 감성 고깃집 아이들과 외식 추천 2026-09-16 · 별빛가족과 삼남매의 하루
- 종로 야장 맛집 [익선돈]내돈내산 2026-09-13 · BLESSU
- 종로3가 맛집 익선돈 연탄모양볶음밥 치즈 궁합 솔직 후기 추천 2026-09-12 · 안나로그
- 종로 익선동 야장 비 오는 날 더 운치 있었던 익선돈 2026-09-08 · 트윗비비
- [종로 술집/익선동 와인]종로찌게마을, 식물,익선돈본점 2026-08-21 · uzinlog
- 익선동 야장_고기 맛집 추천, 익선돈 본점 (내돈내산 후기) 2026-08-02 · y0ung.zip
- 종로 익선동 익선돈 본점 반려견동반 식당 2026-07-15 · 피플 OF 퍼플
- 종로3가 익선동 맛집 익선돈 고기 먹고 연탄볶음밥까지 대만족 2026-06-29 · 오늘도 볼레나
- [종로3가 맛집] 웨이팅해도 먹는 이유! 익선돈 본점 김치생삼겹살구.... 2026-06-24 · 나니쁘니의 맛집 여행 사진첩
- 종로3가 오돌갈비와 환상조합인 신라면투움바를 맛볼 수 있는 맛집!.... 2026-06-21 · § 행복한 Churin이네 §
- 종로 익선동 야장 맛집 익선돈 내돈내산 후기 | 웨이팅도 납득됐던 .... 2026-05-29 · 도도의 하루
- [서울 종로 맛집] 종로 야장 추천 익선돈 방문후기 2026-05-27 · 절미, 기억의 조각.
- 종로3가 맛집) 김치 생목살구이, 오돌갈비와 함께! 즐기는 연탄 모양.... 2026-05-21 · 옹기종기 다락방♡
- [서울맛집] 종로 연탄볶음밥 먹으러 방문한 익선돈 본점 후기/주말 .... 2026-05-18 · ❣️응경쓰❣️
- [익선동] 익선돈 - 김치 삼겹살을 즐길 수 있는 야장 핫플 종로 맛집 2026-05-17 · 먹깨비일기장
- [종로] 종로 3가 익선동 레트로 감성 맛집 | 익선돈 본점 2026-05-15 · 수박이의 맛집리뷰
- 종로3가 핫플 익선동 목살김치구이 맛집 분위기까지 추천 [익선돈 .... 2026-05-12 · 오늘만 사는 남자의 에너지
- 종로3가 야장 고기집 추천 익선돈 : 익선동 한식 저녁 맛집 사이드 .... 2026-05-10 · 해피한 별이 일상
- 종로 야장 익선동 핫플 총정리 2026-05-01 · 오늘의일상
- 종로 익선동 야장 맛집 익선돈 2026-04-10 · 반짝, 빛을 내 ✨
- 종로 3가 - 익선돈 익선동맛집 종로 맛집 2026-04-01 · HAPPEN 일기
- [종로] 익선돈 | 종로 고기 맛집| 종로 야장 | 연탄 볶음밥 2026-03-23 · Day Diary⋆⑅˚₊✩
Of 344 candidate posts we opened 110 and kept 26 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.