Beomgye sashimi restaurant weekday beer and ankimo: Namhae Mulgogi

A great sashimi restaurant near Beomgye Station: Namhae Mulgogi (남해물고기)

What kind of restaurant is Namhae Mulgogi near Beomgye Station?

Namhae Mulgogi is an aged sashimi restaurant near Beomgye Station, known for its sashimi omakase, and it opens at lunchtime so you can have sashimi in the daytime too. Beomgye has so many great places to eat, haha. I wanted some good sashimi for the first time in a while, so I went to Namhae Mulgogi! It opens for lunch, so you can eat there in the daytime, which I love 🤍

Namhae Mulgogi hours, parking, reservations and payment

Namhae Mulgogi is open Tuesday to Sunday, 11:30–22:50, and closed every Monday. Parking is available for 2 hours in the mechanical parking lot in the Paik's Coffee (백다방) building behind the building, across from Kookmin Bank.

• Hours: Tue–Sun 11:30–22:50, closed every Monday
• Parking: 2 hours available, in the mechanical parking lot in the Paik's Coffee building behind the building, across from Kookmin Bank (large SUVs, EVs and vehicles over 2 tons cannot enter)
• Reservations recommended (walk-ins possible; in the evening, 1–2 tables are seated first come, first served)
• Naver Pay ❌ / Onnuri vouchers and Anyang Pay 👌

What is the atmosphere like at Namhae Mulgogi on a weekday afternoon?

On a weekday afternoon, Namhae Mulgogi is relaxed, and the big windows let in lots of sunlight. Going on a weekday daytime was lovely and calm. The windows are big so the sun streams in, and the vibe is so good even at lunchtime 🤍 The default dining time is 2 hours, but they said that if there's no booking after yours, they let you take your time!

Namhae Mulgogi serves seasonal aged sashimi and handmade dishes, with fish arriving from the source every day. The shop is small, but the staff have been there for over 25 years, and they say they pick fresh and dried seafood and vegetables directly from the source or every morning to use healthy ingredients 👩🏻‍🍳 Instead of fish under 1 kg, they use big, thick-fleshed fish of 2–15 kg, and with Namhae Mulgogi's own aging method they get rid of the fishy smell and boost the umami 🐟

What comes in the sashimi omakase set?

The Namhae Mulgogi sashimi omakase set consists of starter porridge, an appetizer, assorted aged sashimi, a seasonal dish, a fish dish, fried dishes and a hot pot. We booked the sashimi omakase set for two.

• Starter porridge
• Appetizer
• Assorted aged sashimi
• Seasonal dish
• Fish dish
• Fried dishes
• Hot pot
• (The set menu may change with the season)

Starter mulhoe salad and porridge

First came the mulhoe (cold raw fish soup) and porridge~

Warm, mild porridge and a sweet-and-sour mulhoe salad totally woke up my appetite 🧡

Assorted aged sashimi with shiitake sauce and ankimo

Namhae Mulgogi's assorted aged sashimi comes with many kinds of fish, from mild to rich, alongside shiitake mushroom sauce, abalone, ankimo (monkfish liver) and more. And then the assorted aged sashimi came out right away, and seriously, how many kinds of sashimi is this~

When it came out, they explained each type of sashimi and how best to eat it, and topping it with the shiitake sauce and ankimo was a really fresh, delicious combination!!

We kept eating all the other kinds of sashimi and going on and on about how good it was, hahahahaha. Both the variety and the taste beat pricey omakase places!

Shrimp sushi and futomaki

Shrimp sushi and futomaki (thick sushi roll) came out too, so you can have some rice, haha. These cold dishes come out first, and around the time we finished them

Hot dishes: spicy fish stew, yurinki, vongole pasta and grilled fish

As the cold sashimi course wraps up, Namhae Mulgogi's hot dishes follow; that day we got maeuntang (spicy fish stew) and yurinki (fried chicken in a tangy sauce) as the fried dish of the day. The hot dishes made their entrance, hehe.

I love yurinki so much~ it was chewy and delicious,

The vongole pasta... it was nice and salty, a total beer snack, hahaha. If we weren't full, we were going to add noodles to the spicy fish stew, but we were both so stuffed we were busy just finishing what came out.

A lineup that calls for beer even in the daytime

Finally, grilled fish comes out and that's the end! We went in the daytime, but there's no resisting beer~ Even the leftover bits of fish make you want a drink..... If you go in the evening, it'd probably go great with sake too. Since there's not much rice in the set, it should go down smoothly with alcohol! haha

Are the seats at Namhae Mulgogi private?

At Namhae Mulgogi, when guests sit at the next table, the staff lower a blind so you can eat privately. While we were eating, other guests came in and sat next to us, and they lowered a blind like that, so we could eat very privately, which was great. I'm going again with my boyfriend next time!