Daedeok fish breakfast & self-bar: Hwadeogeuro Gan Godeungeo

A great grilled-fish spot in Sintanjin, with a seriously generous self-bar too—Hwagan-go 🤍

Hwadeogeuro Gan Godeungeo Sintanjin Branch (화덕으로간고등어 신탄진점)

• 490 Sintanjin-ro, Daedeok-gu, Daejeon
• Daily 10:00–21:00
• Weekday break time 15:30–17:30
• No weekend break time
• Large free parking area around the building
• Tesla Superchargers available
• Daejeon Love Card accepted; group gatherings welcome
• Unlimited self-bar with pork cutlet and bibimbap
• Signature dish: oven-grilled mackerel set meal

Hwadeogeuro Gan Godeungeo in Sintanjin is a Daedeok-gu favorite with easy parking. There are even Tesla Superchargers 🔋 so I especially recommend it to EV drivers!

Charcoal-oven grilled fish for breakfast in Sintanjin

A premium charcoal-oven grilled fish specialist

This restaurant was featured on “What Should We Do With the Leftovers,” with Lee Young-ja and Park Se-ri 🍴 It specializes in premium grilled fish cooked in a 500°C charcoal oven 🔥 and opens at the precious breakfast-friendly hour of 10 a.m. Thanks to that, this reptile keeper got a solid breakfast before visiting the weekend DCC event 😆

The restaurant is clean, modern, and spacious—great for group gatherings, and private rental is possible too ✅️

As soon as you enter Hwagan-go, its signature charcoal oven greets you with an overwhelming presence 🔥

At this Sintanjin grilled-fish favorite, even the basic side dishes are neatly presented.

For the set meal rice, you can choose white rice or brown rice with no extra charge 🍚

An unlimited self-bar with pork cutlet and bibimbap

Unlimited self-bar

Hwadeogeuro Gan Godeungeo Sintanjin Branch is the only Hwagan-go location in Daejeon, and its self-bar is wonderfully generous 🥢

There’s pork cutlet at the unlimited self-bar! 😋 When my pork-cutlet-loving husband is happy, I’m so happy too 🫶 There’s such a variety of food that even companions who do not care for fish are guaranteed to finish a bowl of rice 😉

The two mackerel set meals we ordered for breakfast

Recommended mackerel set meals

These are the main mackerel set meals my husband and I ordered one each for breakfast ✨️ One serving of bracken fern mackerel-and-radish braise, and one serving of oven-grilled mackerel. If you want a wider variety centered on grilled fish, I recommend the restorative two-person set 🙂 It comes with domestic sea eel, oily flounder and seasonal fish braise, and mackerel.

Oven-grilled mackerel set meal ₩16,000

Hwagan-go’s signature dish, crisp outside and moist within after roasting in a 500°C charcoal oven

Fresh wasabi comes with the grilled mackerel plate 🤍 How delicious is it to dip that crisp-outside, moist-inside mackerel into good wasabi and soy sauce? 😋

Bracken fern mackerel-and-radish braise set meal ₩18,000

A fish braise combining pleasantly textured bracken fern with a spicy, refreshing seasoning

🍯 Tip: Make a three-way bite with chewy bracken fern, tender, plump mackerel flesh, and radish well soaked in the sauce.

As mornings and evenings become cool and properly chilly these days, this Daedeok-gu mackerel-braise spot is perfect 🌶 That spicy broth looks so good, right?

An unlimited bibimbap station loaded with namul

Unlimited bibimbap station

Another standout at Daedeok-gu favorite Hwagan-go is the bibimbap station at the self-bar 🥢

You can pile on unlimited namul (seasoned vegetable side dishes) and make bibimbap 😋 A grilled-fish restaurant with a bibimbap bowl full of namul—wow.!

This Sintanjin grilled-fish restaurant, which I recommend for family meals, has high chairs too 👶 For a refreshing finish, there is dessert coffee as well as maesil-cha (plum tea) and sujeonggwa (cinnamon punch) ☕️

Hwadeogeuro Gan Godeungeo in Daejeon opens at 10 a.m., making it a generous self-bar restaurant for either breakfast or a late breakfast 😋 On a day when you crave crisp-outside, moist-inside mackerel 🐟 grilled in a charcoal oven, I recommend Sintanjin Hwagan-go, where you can also have pork cutlet and bibimbap ❤️