Mangwon Italian wine bar with a 38,000-won season lunch: Noju

What is Noju? Fine dining near Mangwon Station from 38,000 won

Noju is an Italian fine dining restaurant on the 2nd floor at 56 Donggyo-ro 9-gil, Mapo-gu, Seoul, and at lunch you can get the season lunch course for 38,000 won. A country mouse from Daegu, up in Seoul for a visit, wanted to eat something good while I was here, so I looked up this amazingly good-value season lunch course!!!!

I came up determined to crush Seoul this year — do we even have places like this in Daegu? This is a spot that nails both ₩30,000-range value AND great taste!! I genuinely wanted to beg them to open a branch in Daegu!!!!

Noju address, hours and parking

• 🏡 Address: 56 Donggyo-ro 9-gil, 2nd floor, Mapo-gu, Seoul, South Korea
• 🕐 Hours: Daily 11:30–23:00 / break time 15:00–17:00 / last order 21:30
• 🅿️ No parking lot!
• 🚇 145 meters from Mangwon Station Exit 2
• 📍 It's super super super close to the subway!

You can also book through Naver Reservation or Catchtable!💬

How to walk to Noju from Mangwon Station

✔️ Here's Noju's exterior! Noju is super super close to Mangwon Station — once you spot the red sign for the Mangwon-dong makguksu (buckwheat noodle) place, you've basically arrived!

📍 Head up the stairs by the standing sign in the side alley! I think it used to be closed every Monday, but 🌟 now they're open on Mondays too! I actually visited on a Monday myself!

Bar table or hall table at Noju: which to book?

At Noju you can choose between a bar table and a hall table when booking, and there are about 6 tables total. I picked the hall table!

✔️ Here's the bar table at Noju! Once I arrived I regretted not booking the bar table instead! It has a great atmosphere too, and 📍 since it's an open kitchen, you can watch the cooking happen right in front of you!!!

Maybe because I'd booked in advance, the table was already set when I arrived. But!!! Even the cutlery at Noju is different!! It's engraved?? Seriously — this is the moment I thought, Seoul really is different! Though maybe it's just because it's Noju? ㅎ🪽 💟 They pay attention to every little detail. And this is still a ₩30,000-range value fine dining spot!! *Of course, there are various price ranges available too!🫧

Noju's wine list, from glass pours to bottles

✔️ Noju has SO many kinds of wine! There's a wine menu that's a whole separate booklet because the selection is that big, and you can order by the glass from 60ml to 370ml, or order a full bottle.

💟 They even have a dedicated spot for bags!! You know how sometimes your bag gets in the way while eating? Since there's a designated bag area, everyone ends up leaving their bag there!

🍷 With that much wine, there are also tons of wine glasses!!! I don't actually drink wine, but I studied a bit about it in college — different wines call for different glass shapes. Noju has every type of wine glass ready to go! 🌟 Wine lovers are really going to love Noju!🌟 I visited around 2pm on a Monday and there were about 3 tables of guests, with one table enjoying daytime wine!! That alone tells you it's a real wine spot!!

Oh! A wine box from the year I was born — I got excited and snapped a photo!

Noju lunch menu and prices

✔️ Here's Noju's menu! For lunch, they showed us two options total.

• Noju Signature Lunch ₩55,000
• Season Lunch Course ₩38,000

💟 The Noju Signature Lunch has two more courses than the Season Lunch Course!! 🤍 We ordered the Season Lunch Course ₩38,000 × 2.

✔️ Here's the wine menu! Wine can be ordered from 60ml to 370ml, and bottles are available too!

The 38,000-won season lunch course at Noju, course by course

Focaccia with fig and butter

🪽 Noju's Focaccia, fig/butter. Fig butter? Genuinely delicious! 🧈 The bread was golden-brown, crisp outside, soft and moist inside! My expectations shot up right from the very first bite!

Welcome to NOJU: beet and endive

🪽 Noju's Welcome to NOJU, beet/endive. The beet tart is meant to be eaten in one bite, and the endive was about the same size as the tart so I ate that in one bite too!

🪽 A close-up of the beet tart! Eating it, I was genuinely surprised. The flavor was almost unbelievable for a ₩30,000-range value fine dining spot! 💌 Really distinctive! The beet paired so well with the ricotta inside!

🪽 A close-up of the endive. The moment I ate the endive, I could feel it building my appetite for what was coming next! There's a real depth of flavor to it — savory and it paired beautifully with the cabbage-like leaves!

Bottarga pasta with fish roe and anchovy

🪽 Noju's Bottarga, fish roe/anchovy. A pollack roe pasta! The noodles were nice and plump — you could just tell at a glance they were house-made!

Mix it up well and that's it — genuinely so delicious I inhaled it in three seconds, and the chef looked kind of surprised haha. I probably should've savored it more but I just went for it — a pasta flavor unlike anything I'd normally have! This country mouse is once again dreaming about living in Seoul...

It was genuinely so good I nearly scraped through the plate! See how clean it is?

Signature gnocchi with truffle and potato

🪽 Noju's Signature Gnocchi, truffle/potato. Next up, truffle gnocchi! That distinctive earthy truffle smell paired so well with the rich, creamy sauce!

You know how important the sauce is for gnocchi, right? At Noju? Need I say more~~~~ It's just elegant, rich, and handles everything on its own!! Rather than saying

Pork tenderloin with jalapeño and zucchini

🪽 Noju's Pork Tenderloin, jalapeño/zucchini. The final highlight! Pork tenderloin steak! 💟 This is the first time I've realized pork could be this tender~~ Not sure I should say this, but with pork you often end up with tough bits stuck between your teeth — with Noju's, there was absolutely none of that!

☝🏻 The sauce and meat combo was excellent, and above all, the jalapeño's mild heat *you can adjust the spice level* really brought out the flavor. This jalapeño is genuinely magic. It doubles the savoriness of the meat!!! Please, please try it with the jalapeño!

Walnut ice cream to finish

🪽 To finish, Noju's Ice Cream, walnut. Even the final walnut ice cream tasted seriously high-end~~~

This level of value in the ₩30,000 range? Total value fine dining~~~ I'd come back a hundred times!!!🤍🪽 I want to recommend this without hesitation as a Seoul date course ><!!! Now I want a Seoul date too~~~~🫧

Details down to the restroom

✔️ Here's Noju's bathroom! As I mentioned earlier, you really feel that every corner of this place has been thought through. 💟 Disposable toilet seat covers, mouthwash, even dental floss — it's all there! First I fell for the thoughtfulness, then for the taste, then for the price!! I love you, Noju!

Hair ties, even candy!! Noju has earned its spot on the 2026 tasty-spot map!!

Who Noju is right for

"Want to enjoy a special course on a date?" Noju!! "Want to try your first fine dining without feeling nervous about it?" Noju! "Want great value fine dining?" Noju!

By the way, there's now an Autophoto in Mangwon-dong too🤍 ~~~~~ Autophoto, when are you coming down to Daegu! Today or tomorrow!!!! Enjoy Noju as your Mangwon-dong date course and hit Autophoto after~~~~♥ My friend who helped with photos every time is so cute, let's go together again.