# Gyeongju Western restaurant for marinated beef salad: Midam Kitchen - By Jiyeon (https://superchart.com/en/@daegu-order-book/) - Written Sep 19, 2026 - Local places › Restaurants › Gyeongju, Gyeongbuk - Sponsored: This post was written after a sponsored visit to the restaurant. - English edition: https://superchart.com/en/@daegu-order-book/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad/ - Also in: [한국어](https://superchart.com/ko/@daegu-order-book/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad/index.md) ## In short Midam Kitchen is a Western restaurant on Cheomseong-ro 49beon-gil in the Hwangnidang-gil area of Gyeongju. Three dishes were ordered — beef salad 14,900 won, sirloin pork cutlet 14,900 won and Toowoomba pasta 15,900 won — with the old-school pork cutlet coming out bigger than a palm and going home as a takeout box, while the beef salad arrives topped with house-marinated grilled beef. For anyone who loves old-school Korean-style pork cutlet, Midam Kitchen is a Hwangnidang-gil restaurant worth a second visit. ## Good to know - **Address**: 33 Cheomseong-ro 49beon-gil, Gyeongju - **Hours**: 10:30-21:00 (last order 20:30) - **Closed**: Every Wednesday - **Seating**: Group table for up to 6 by reservation, large groups welcome, high chairs available - **Beef salad**: 14,900 won - **Sirloin pork cutlet**: 14,900 won - **Toowoomba pasta**: 15,900 won - **Price reference**: ₩14,900 ≈ $10.5 · ₩15,900 ≈ $11.5 (2026-09-20) *as written by the visitor on Sep 19, 2026* ![Visit photo of Midam Kitchen on Hwangnidang-gil, Gyeongju](https://img.superchart.com/images/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad-01-12kat-900.webp) There are so many restaurants on Hwangnidang-gil in Gyeongju that it's hard to decide where to go. Once you actually look into it, a lot of places feel like they're only there for the tourist crowd, and finding somewhere that makes you think "I want to come back here again" is trickier than you'd expect. Midam Kitchen, which I visited this time, was a restaurant I left satisfied with after a long while. It sells old-school Korean-style pork cutlet (경양식 돈까스), which I personally love, so that made me like it even more! ![Midam Kitchen entrance and sign](https://img.superchart.com/images/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad-02-jhbra-900.webp) ## Where is Midam Kitchen, and what are its hours? - Midam Kitchen - 📍33 Cheomseong-ro 49beon-gil, Gyeongju-si, South Korea - ⏰ Hours 10:30-21:00, last order 20:30 - Closed every Wednesday - Group visits welcome - Group table for up to 6, reservation available - High chairs available ![Midam Kitchen exterior decorated like a garden](https://img.superchart.com/images/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad-03-mehoc-900.webp) ![Full view of the Midam Kitchen building with floor-to-ceiling windows](https://img.superchart.com/images/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad-04-1tmd9-900.webp) The exterior is decorated like a garden, which fits right in with the distinct Hwangnidang-gil atmosphere. The building itself is pretty, and with the floor-to-ceiling windows, you can catch glimpses of the scenery outside even from inside, which made for a nice mood throughout the meal. ![Midam Kitchen's main dining hall seating](https://img.superchart.com/images/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad-05-ugk3m-900.webp) ![Widely spaced tables at Midam Kitchen](https://img.superchart.com/images/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad-06-q9muv-900.webp) ![Seat at Midam Kitchen with a view through the floor-to-ceiling windows](https://img.superchart.com/images/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad-07-cv4u7-900.webp) ![Midam Kitchen's group table for 6](https://img.superchart.com/images/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad-08-mg2g1-900.webp) ![Midam Kitchen interior design](https://img.superchart.com/images/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad-09-1cx6a-900.webp) ![Full view inside Midam Kitchen](https://img.superchart.com/images/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad-10-1sddd-900.webp) ## Midam Kitchen's seating: roomy tables and a table for six A lot of Hwangnidang-gil restaurants are cute but cramped, with tables packed close together, so I appreciated that Midam Kitchen's interior seating felt more spacious than expected. It was a good atmosphere for couples and also fine for a family meal, and there's a group table that seats up to 6 people, so it looked great for larger visits too. Reservations are possible, so on weekends or during busy hours, it might be worth booking ahead. ![Table setting at Midam Kitchen](https://img.superchart.com/images/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad-11-x98of-900.webp) ![A corner view of Midam Kitchen's dining space](https://img.superchart.com/images/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad-12-1ufpx-900.webp) ## Midam Kitchen's menu and the three dishes ordered The menu was more varied than expected — salads, pizza, pasta, risotto, and pork cutlet were all on offer, so it would be a great spot for a group of people with different tastes to each order what they're craving. ![Midam Kitchen menu with salad, pizza, pasta and risotto](https://img.superchart.com/images/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad-13-1l2eq-900.webp) We ordered beef salad (₩14,900), sirloin pork cutlet (₩14,900), and Toowoomba pasta (₩15,900). Considering how pricey Hwangnidang-gil has gotten these days, this felt pretty reasonable, and once we tried the food, there was zero sense of "cheap price, so-so quality" — actually the opposite, the quality was great and we left satisfied...!! ![The three dishes we ordered laid out on the table at Midam Kitchen](https://img.superchart.com/images/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad-14-17evw-900.webp) ![Pork cutlet and pasta set on the table](https://img.superchart.com/images/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad-15-oztr4-900.webp) ## Beef salad, 14,900 won — topped with house-marinated grilled beef First up, the beef salad! It's not a dish you see often at other salad places, so I was curious and ordered it — totally satisfied..! ![Midam Kitchen's beef salad topped with house-marinated grilled beef](https://img.superchart.com/images/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad-16-jd7i1-900.webp) When I ordered, I expected the usual kind of salad with just a bit of meat scattered on top, but it actually came with house-marinated grilled beef piled on. The meat itself was seasoned so well that I was genuinely surprised — did the owner used to run a Korean BBQ place or something? Honestly, this meat alone could've been eaten with a bowl of rice and I'd have finished the whole thing 🥹 ![Close-up of the marinated beef on top of the beef salad](https://img.superchart.com/images/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad-17-55dom-900.webp) ## Sirloin pork cutlet, 14,900 won — an old-school cutlet bigger than a palm And the dish I was most looking forward to at Midam Kitchen — the sirloin pork cutlet! These days a lot of people go for crispy Japanese-style tonkatsu, but every so often I just crave that old-school Korean-style pork cutlet haha. So the moment I spotted sirloin pork cutlet on the menu, I ordered it right away... ![Midam Kitchen's old-school sirloin pork cutlet, bigger than a palm](https://img.superchart.com/images/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad-18-fts54-1200.webp) The size was genuinely huge lol. From the moment it arrived I thought, can I actually finish this... and in the end the portion was so big I had to take the leftovers home. It's way bigger than a palm lol. Owner, I think you might need to rename this the "king-size cutlet" ![Cross-section of the sirloin pork cutlet with old-school sauce](https://img.superchart.com/images/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad-19-hp0ya-900.webp) Eating it with that classic old-school sauce made it even better, exactly the flavor I was hoping for haha. It's ₩14,900, and given the portion and quality at that price, I thought it was genuinely a great deal. A dish that really showed the owner's generosity. ![Plate of Midam Kitchen's sirloin pork cutlet](https://img.superchart.com/images/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad-20-ghz8i-900.webp) ![A plate of Midam Kitchen's Toowoomba pasta](https://img.superchart.com/images/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad-21-17hzn-900.webp) ## Toowoomba pasta, 15,900 won — with two whole shrimp Lastly, the Toowoomba pasta! Cream pasta can get heavy pretty easily, but Midam Kitchen's Toowoomba pasta had a spicy kick that kept it from feeling greasy, so I kept eating without getting tired of it. ![Toowoomba pasta topped with whole shrimp](https://img.superchart.com/images/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad-22-1bdol-900.webp) ![Noodles in spicy cream sauce from the Toowoomba pasta](https://img.superchart.com/images/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad-23-6r9xv-m-900.webp) You could tell they weren't skimping on ingredients here either. Instead of the usual few tiny frozen cocktail shrimp you get in most pastas, this came with two big, whole shrimp on top. Even the rich, creamy shrimp innards were delicious... eating it along with the plump shrimp made the texture even better and boosted the overall satisfaction of the Toowoomba pasta! Both the price and the taste were completely satisfying. ## Why Midam Kitchen is worth a return trip to Hwangnidang-gil All three dishes we ordered that day were delicious, which made for a satisfying meal at Midam Kitchen! More than anything, the food was great, but the owner was also kind, which made the whole meal feel even better. Hwangnidang-gil has so many pretty restaurants and cafés, but when you're sightseeing and want a proper meal, you end up caring about taste, portion, and price all at once. On that front, Midam Kitchen is going to stick in my memory as a place on Hwangnidang-gil worth revisiting. If you love old-school Korean-style pork cutlet like I do, the sirloin pork cutlet is worth trying at least once, and if you're visiting with several people, I'd recommend ordering a mix of salads and pasta to share. This time the portions were so big we had to take some home, but next time I'm back on Hwangnidang-gil, I want to bring the rest of my family and try even more of the menu! With its pretty exterior, the atmosphere from those floor-to-ceiling windows, and generously spaced interior seating good for couples, family meals, or small gatherings alike, Midam Kitchen was a solid Hwangnidang-gil restaurant in Gyeongju. I'd recommend it as a great Western-style restaurant on Hwangnidang-gil 💓 ## Where it is - Midam Kitchen (미담키친) - 33 Cheomseong-ro 49beon-gil, Gyeongju-si, Gyeongbuk, South Korea - 경상북도 경주시 첨성로49번길 33 미담키친 - 35.836035, 129.2075997 - Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/search/%EB%AF%B8%EB%8B%B4%ED%82%A4%EC%B9%9C/@35.836035,129.2075997,17z --- Superchart · https://superchart.com/en/@daegu-order-book/gyeongju-hwangnidan-gil-midam-kitchen-beef-salad/ · https://superchart.com/llms.txt