Jamsil bar for boneless aged-kimchi dakbokkeumtang: Wareureu Mansion

A Jamsil day-drinking spot where you can try Gangneung's famous chewy potato snack. Wareureu Mansion opens early and closes late — this owner clearly knows their stuff.

Where is Wareureu Mansion Bangi Branch, and what are its hours?

• 📍Address: 11-8 Ogeum-ro 11-gil, 2nd floor, Unit 201, Songpa-gu, Seoul / 461m from Jamsil Station Exit 10
• ⏰Hours: open year-round rain or shine, Tue–Thu & Sun 14:00–04:00, Mon/Fri/Sat 14:00–05:00
• 🚗Parking: no parking, group-friendly, free corkage

Hi, this is Rittor! 🍗🍗 Lots of you are probably already out enjoying a cold beer on this Friday, right? Today I'm introducing a place with great taste, great service, and a great menu lineup — Wareureu Mansion Bangi Branch.

A roomy second-floor space with kiosk ordering and pay-on-exit

Wareureu Mansion Bangi Branch is open year-round, rain or typhoon, so you can drop by comfortably any time. Being on the 2nd floor made it easy to access, and there was no smoky smell either, which I really liked.

I visited in the evening, and it was already nearly full, so I quickly grabbed a seat by the wall. You order through a kiosk and pay on your way out.

A menu built for a first round or a second round

This is a good bar whether you're coming for round one or round two, because there's a wide variety of dishes for people who are hungry for round one — old kimchi chicken stew, large intestine chicken stew, rice balls, chicken feet, and more, all filling out the mains.

You can also add extra noodles, so it seemed like a solid place to fill up while having a drink or two. Honestly it was packed with everything currently trending, to the point I wanted to try one of each.

It's also good for round two — there's cheese pancake, kimchi pancake, and even yogurt ice cream for dessert, like the yoajeong soft-serve places. You can pile on toppings freely too, which felt like great value.

The drink selection was so wide I wondered if I was falling behind the trends. Alongside zero-sugar options like daerae soju and Saero, there were also sweet soju flavors — right up my alley.

If a friend doesn't drink, there's a drinks section too — aloe, choco-emong, cherry cola, and more. Not just plain soda, but drinks that actually whet your appetite, which I found surprising.

Free macaroni snack and the gizzard-and-fries set

I also ordered the fried gizzard as a main side, and just so you know, it comes with a side of french fries as a set! The batter was different too, giving it more of a fried-chicken feel.

The basic side dish is macaroni, and a refill costs an extra ₩500. It seemed to be handmade in-house, since it was softer than the store-bought kind.

Gangneung chewy potato bites with buldak mayo sauce

I was most looking forward to the old kimchi chicken stew, but the chewy potatoes (jjondeuk gamja) came out first. They're served with a buldak mayo sauce, and once I dipped one in, I understood why people line up for this — I hadn't managed to try the real thing in Gangneung yet, so I was curious!

The rice balls (jumeokbap) are self-assembled, and since I'm more of a spoon-it-in type than a shape-it-into-a-ball type, I left mine as is and planned to eat it together with the old kimchi.

Aged-kimchi dakbokkeumtang, served boneless

Then the main dish of the day arrived!! You can choose between the version with old kimchi (mukeunji) and without — I went with the one that had it in. Make sure to keep it boiling so the meat gets tender, since it needs to simmer down properly.

Since picking meat off the bone can be a hassle, they use boneless chicken here, so it felt like eating a soupy dak-galbi. It pairs well with the rice balls, but next time I think I'll go with plain rice instead. Save the rice balls for with the chicken feet :)

Fried chicken gizzard as crispy as a cracker

The last dish that came out was the fried gizzard. It wasn't just battered and fried plain chicken-style — it came out crispy, almost like a cracker, which surprised me. It's also good stir-fried, but I think the fried version suits my taste more.

They're also running a review event, so it might be worth joining with your friends and grabbing the tiered rewards. It seemed to upgrade in steps — a drink for one review, a rice ball for two, and so on, haha.