Seogwipo, Jeju course restaurant with fern butter bread: Nansan-ri

This is my Nth visit to Nansan-ri Restaurant! If you're looking for a course-meal restaurant in Jeju, I recommend this one ⭐️ I wanted to come again with a friend, so I booked through Naver Reservation. You can also book through Catch Table~! Lunch has two seatings, 11:30 and 13:00, and dinner is at 18:30!!

📍38 Nansan-ro 41beon-gil, Seongsan-eup, Seogwipo-si, Jeju-do / ⏰ 10:00-21:00 (closed Tuesdays)

Where is Nansan-ri Restaurant, and where do you wait?

Nansan-ri Restaurant sits inside a quiet village in Nansan-ri, Seongsan-eup, so even the way there feels very Jeju 🌿 The waiting area in front of the restaurant is nicely decorated too ✌🏻 They seat you in the order you arrive, so while you wait outside you can take photos at the photo zone, which is a nice bonus.

Where do you park at Nansan-ri Restaurant?

🚙Parking info🚙 You can park at the blue-roofed warehouse in front of the restaurant. The spaces are wide too, which was nice.

Inside Nansan-ri Restaurant: bar counter or table?

Nansan-ri Restaurant has both bar seats and regular tables. They assign seating order based on when you arrive, so if you wait, you can sit wherever you like haha.

They even give you a little card that puts you in a good mood!! It was decorated so nicely. From the interior to the dishware the food is served in, you could feel the owner's touch on every single detail haha. Even on my second visit, it was still just as lovely.

What does the 38,000 won lunch course include?

Lunch at Nansan-ri Restaurant is made up of 6-7 dishes, and drinks are ordered separately — there were lots of wine options, and you could order by the glass too.

Today I had the lunch course!! Lunch is ₩38,000 / dinner is ₩68,000.

Pre-meal bread with bracken fern butter

🍀Pre-meal bread + bracken fern butter🍀: Starting with warm baguette and butter with a subtle bracken fern (gosari) flavor was so good!! The butter melted nicely into the warm bread and had a lovely aroma.

Egg with tomato sauce, mushroom cream and caviar

🍀Egg (tomato sauce, mushroom cream, caviar)🍀: A perfectly soft-boiled egg with smooth mushroom cream and tomato sauce underneath went so well together!! And the caviar popping in your mouth was the kicker. I wanted a whole other plate of this.

The salad course

🍀Salad🍀: Romaine with Caesar dressing, bacon, and parmesan on top — perfect palate cleanser before the steak!! And eating it together with the steak that followed was great too.

Jeju black pork tenderloin

🍀Jeju black pork tenderloin🍀: The meat was so tender I couldn't believe it, and the fermented anchovy (myeoljeot) cream sauce paired perfectly! Eaten together with the roasted potatoes and shishito peppers on the side, it just melted in my mouth...🥹

Chorizo oil spaghetti with house-made pickles

🍀Chorizo oil spaghetti + house-made pickles🍀: The slightly spicy sausage kept it from feeling heavy, and the pasta was cooked just right. Eating it with the house-made pickles was a perfect match with the combination I'd had before.

Panna cotta to finish

🍀Panna cotta🍀: The refreshingly sweet berries on top went so well with it, and the cookie crumble at the bottom was delicious too!! It had such an unusual berry flavor that my friend and I spent a while trying to figure out what it was haha.

Once you finish the dessert, today's lunch course is done!! The owner explained each dish so kindly, and knowing what I was eating made it taste even better.

Is Nansan-ri Restaurant worth a Jeju lunch stop?

I went looking for a slightly special lunch in Jeju, and found Nansan-ri Restaurant. Tucked into a quiet village near Seongsan, it had a completely different atmosphere from the busy restaurants near the tourist spots!! This time I visited for the lunch course during my Jeju trip, and having the pre-meal bread, main, pasta, and dessert come out one after another made for a relaxed meal.

If you want a lunch in Jeju that's a bit different from the usual black pork or seafood, this is somewhere worth stopping by at least once 🤍 Next time I'm planning to come with my boyfriend and try the dinner course hahaha.