Pasta restaurant in Daegu with free noodle refills: Pastoboy

Pastoboy Seongseo Gyedae-dongmun

What kind of restaurant is Pastoboy Seongseo Gyedae-dongmun?

Today I visited Pastoboy Seongseo Gyedae-dongmun, an Italian restaurant where you can enjoy everything from pasta to pilaf and risotto at affordable prices. It's already a popular spot for great value pasta, so I was curious, and I went in expecting to enjoy tasty Italian dishes at a reasonable price.

It's located in the Seongseo Gyedae-dongmun food alley, so it wasn't hard to find, and there was parking space around the alley too, so it was easy to visit! Since it's near a university area, it seemed to draw all kinds of customers — Keimyung University students, office workers, families out for a meal, and couples on dates.

Free noodle refills and free rice refills when dining in

And here's another generous perk of Pastoboy! If you're eating in the restaurant, pasta noodle refills and risotto rice refills are free! No need to worry about running out of food, and you can eat a really filling meal — isn't that a proper value-for-money spot?

Inside Pastoboy: atmosphere and seating

Pastoboy Seongseo Gyedae-dongmun has a clean yet warm casual restaurant atmosphere. I heard it's a popular date-course spot for Seongseo Gyedae, and since the restaurant is spacious with comfortable seating, it also looked good for gatherings with friends or group meals!

Menu lineup and how to choose your spice level

Pasta, pilaf, and risotto are the main menu categories, and there's quite a wide variety within each! With so many options, it's easy to pick something to your taste, and the prices aren't burdensome either, so it seems like a good spot for a casual meal with friends or a date.

You order through a kiosk, and every menu item lets you choose a spice level: Original / Level 1 (mild spicy) / Level 2 (spicy) / Level 3 (very spicy)! We ordered the bacon carbonara and beef brisket pilaf, both at level 2! (We had no idea just how spicy that would be at the time... 😅)

Self-serve bar: pickles, jalapeños and kids' cutlery

The self-serve bar had everything laid out — sriracha sauce, pickles, jalapeños, napkins, cutlery, and kids' cutlery — which was really convenient. There were also kids' chairs, so it looked like a good place to dine out with children too.

Since we eat a lot of pickles with Western food, having them right there at the self-serve bar was so convenient and nice 👍👍👍

How the bacon carbonara and beef brisket pilaf tasted at spice level 2

The food came out fast as soon as we ordered! The bacon carbonara looked thick and rich, and really delicious.

I popped the soft-boiled egg and mixed the yolk evenly through the pilaf! The nutty, soft yolk blended into the pilaf, making it moist and deepening the flavor even more. It had a nutty taste with plenty of that smoky wok-fired flavor, which was so delicious.

The bacon carbonara had plenty of sauce, so it was even more moist and the flavor was amazing! There was a generous amount of bacon and garlic too, so it was really tasty! Nutty and spicy — the kind of taste that really clears you up inside!

After adding extra noodles, the portion was seriously huge. The carbonara was so good! Even level 2 was spicy enough for a spice lightweight like me — I was sweating buckets while eating it hahahaha. But since there was so much sauce, scooping it up with a spoon was fiery and so delicious 👍👍👍👍👍

The pilaf was great too — the fluffy rice blended well with the ingredients, and every bite was full of smoky flavor and spice, really delicious! Thanks to the spiciness, it wasn't greasy at all and I kept going back for more. Mixing in the soft-boiled egg with the pilaf added a nutty, soft dimension that made it even tastier. And eating the pilaf together with the pasta turned out to be a surprisingly great combination! Alternating between the spicy, smoky pilaf and the pasta with its smooth sauce worked really well together.

Is Pastoboy in Dalseo, Daegu worth a visit?

Overall, Pastoboy Seongseo Gyedae-dongmun had a wide variety of menu items — pasta, pilaf, and risotto — at prices that aren't a burden, making it a great spot for a casual meal. If you're looking for a good-value pasta place in Seongseo Gyedae-dongmun, give Pastoboy Seongseo Gyedae-dongmun a try.