Seoulsup sashimi bar: aged platter by open windows, Daemul Hoepocha

The weather has been sooo nice lately!!! Before it gets hotter, I went on a picnic to Seoulsup haha. After Seongsu I was craving sashimi so badly that I tried Daemul Hoepocha (대물회포차), a newly opened place people call a great sashimi restaurant near Seoulsup!!

Where is Daemul Hoepocha?

Daemul Hoepocha is at 2F Unit 201, 8 Wangsimni-ro 8-gil, Seongdong-gu, Seoul. Come out of Exit 7 of Ttukseom Station and walk straight in for about 3 minutes, and it's right there on the 2nd floor!!! It's really close on foot from Seoulsup, and close to the hip Seongsu and Ttukseom alleys too, so it's a great spot when you're craving aged sashimi~

• Weekdays 11:00-01:00 (last order 00:00)
• Break time 14:30-17:00
• Saturday 17:00-01:00
• Closed on Sundays

What is the 2nd-floor open-window vibe like?

Being on the 2nd floor, Daemul Hoepocha doesn't really catch your eye from the street, but with the windows thrown open like an outdoor pub (yajang), I ended up thinking the 2nd floor felt nicer than the noisy street-level seats downstairs haha.

Group reservations are possible and they do lunch specials, so office workers could easily drop by at lunchtime for good-value hoedeopbap (sashimi rice bowl), mulhoe (cold raw fish soup), grilled fish or dongtae-tang (pollock stew)!!

We went really early for dinner, so we were the only ones there hehe. Most tables are spacious 4-person ones, and you can push them together for company dinners or group gatherings, so it looked great for reserving a get-together!!

Isn't the weather just amazing? On the 2nd floor you can see the sky and the air felt great, and having a glass of soju while looking at the blue sky was pure romance haha.

What's on the menu, and which drinks do they have?

The menu is simple: Daemul sashimi platters in small, medium and large, plus seafood, mulhoe, hoe-milmyeon (sashimi with wheat noodles), a value course and more, so you can pick to your taste! The back has single seafood dishes, stews and drinking snacks too haha.

There are lots of small sides to add as drinking snacks, like bibim noodles, seafood ramyeon, stews and corn cheese!!!! Recommended right now are live webfoot octopus shabu-shabu and boiled turban shell sashimi~ We played it safe and ordered the small Daemul sashimi platter!

For drinks, besides soju and beer they also sell highballs, tonic sets and sake, so you can order whatever you like~

Starter snacks and soju in an ice basket

The starter snacks were soft tofu (sundubu) and kidney beans?, nice to nibble on before the sashimi arrived.

We ordered one bottle of soju first, and they put four bottles into an ice basket to start lol. Great for drinking it ice cold, and you don't have to call them every time you want more, which is so convenient haha.

What comes in the small Daemul sashimi platter, and how does it taste?

After a wait, here came the Daemul sashimi platter!! The aged sashimi came in one row each of flatfish, striped mullet, salmon and flatfish fin! It was sliced thick and tasted great haha. Being aged, it was chewy and tender, and the portion was just right for two!! They gave us plenty of fin too, which I loved ><

There was also hoe-muchim (spicy seasoned raw fish) and a fistful of seasoned rice? Wrapping it with the seaweed, rice and this monkfish liver (ankimo) is unbelievably good!!!!!! The sashimi was tasty, but sashimi topped with ankimo in a wrap was great, and so was the liver just with rice haha.

They gave us a wide variety of sauces too, perfect for dipping each kind of sashimi in the one that suits it~~~

The grilled fish that comes with the table and the cool, spicy bean sprout soup went so well with it too! They pair nicely with aged sashimi, so they were great with drinks haha.

Do I recommend Daemul Hoepocha as a sashimi restaurant near Seoulsup?

Daemul Hoepocha has a great atmosphere and is good for company dinners, so if you're wondering where to find a good sashimi restaurant near Seoulsup, I totally recommend a platter of fresh aged sashimi and seafood here~~~~ On a nice day they throw the windows wide open, and I think that made the sashimi taste even better!!! If you're near Seongsu or Seoulsup, give Daemul Hoepocha a try~