Team dinner patio pub in Suwon: pork, sashimi & squid, Taebaek Sanghoe

Taebaek Sanghoe Ingye Main Branch: a patio pub packed even on weekday evenings

Taebaek Sanghoe Ingye Main Branch (태백상회 인계본점) is a patio pub hotspot on Nahyeseok-geori in Ingye-dong, Suwon, and I went after work with people from the office. The weather is so nice right now, perfect for eating outside. You can only do patio season at this time of year..! Do it before it gets hot, you really have to.

Maybe because it's patio season, Taebaek Sanghoe was full of people even on a weekday evening. Of course, it's the Ingye-dong patio pub everybody knows. The patio area is under tents, so I bet it's lovely for a drink on a rainy day too!

Inside or outside, your pick

Taebaek Sanghoe has both an indoor area and an outdoor patio, so you can sit wherever you like. With the weather this good, nobody was sitting inside.

The best thing about Taebaek Sanghoe!! You can eat meat and raw fish all at once~~ You get lots of variety, so it's great for company dinners and get-togethers!

What side dishes come at Taebaek Sanghoe?

When you order, you get corn salad, green onion kimchi, seasoned radish strips, and a seriously delicious tteokbokki (spicy rice cakes) as side dishes! The tteokbokki is made with wheat rice cakes so it's chewy, and the sauce is a total dopamine hit..! It was so good I think I went back for more a few times. Really, so good!!

Our deputy manager mixed somaek (soju and beer) for us.. the ratio was absolutely perfect, so delicious.. It's been a while since I had somaek, so I was happy..

The patio vibe was so good that we ordered Chamisul Fresh soju and beer too, and started drinking before the meat and raw fish even arrived.

How big is the free mussel soup for a receipt review?

Taebaek Sanghoe gives you mussel soup as a freebie if you write a receipt review! Since it's a review event, I honestly expected a tiny portion, but they gave us a seriously huge amount of mussels. It was packed with mussel meat inside. The broth was really refreshing too, so good with drinks. This alone could work as a side dish for drinking?!

How was the meat in the pork and seafood set?

What we ordered was Taebaek Sanghoe's pork and seafood set (돼지해물한상)! I was surprised by how good the meat quality was. It comes thick-cut, with both pork belly and pork jowl, and they give you mushrooms too haha

We grilled the meat while drinking. It comes on a stone plate, so the meat grills up nicely. Put green onion salad, kimchi and gosari (bracken fern) on top and it gets 10 times tastier!!

There's a nice variety of extras like vegetables, ssamjang (dipping paste) and wasabi! The meat was really good!! Rich and fatty, exactly how good pork should be. It was good enough to pass for a dedicated meat restaurant!!

Raw fish in the pork and seafood set: salmon, flounder and ddaksaeu

The raw fish in Taebaek Sanghoe's set is also plated prettily. It came with salmon, flounder, ddaksaeu (a type of deep-sea shrimp eaten raw) and more, so it's nice for trying a bit of everything. You could tell the fish was fresh, and it was tasty, probably because it was well aged too.

The fish was fresh and chewy. Especially the ddaksaeu!!! It tasted just like what I had in Jeju Island once. Dipped in chojang (sweet chili vinegar sauce), it was so rich and delicious.

Cheese-baked scallops, scraping up every bit of cheese

Meat, raw fish, and then cheese-baked scallops too.. it feels like a trip to the seaside. At Taebaek Sanghoe I really ate everything I wanted: meat, sashimi and seafood. Plus there's a grill burner right beside the table, so it felt like we ate everything properly rather than just snacking on the side.

They piled on so much cheese you couldn't even see the scallops.. the cheese bubbles away as it cooks, and even though I was full my mouth kept watering. Generous, and just great value. Even after finishing the scallops the cheese was so good that I scraped up every last bit!!

Finishing with stir-fried squid on a bed of udon noodles

The last dish at Taebaek Sanghoe was stir-fried squid.. the squid is really good. A huge portion too, just plentiful. It was springy and the sauce was so tasty that I wanted to mix it with rice. Because the sauce was so good, even the onions and vegetables were nice to pick at one by one. There were udon noodles laid underneath too, which made it the perfect drinking snack.

Taebaek Sanghoe has become my favorite patio pub. I'm going again after work next time. This is such good patio weather!! If you want to unwind at a patio pub on Nahyeseok-geori in Ingye-dong, I recommend Taebaek Sanghoe Ingye Main Branch~!!