Icheon ssambap restaurant weekend lunch set for three: Neul Gogi Jip
In short
Neul Gogi Jip Icheon Main Branch is a ssambap (rice with wrap vegetables) and grilled meat restaurant on Gyeongchung-daero in Jinri-dong, Icheon, Gyeonggi, run by a certified Korean-food master. Three of us came for weekend lunch and ordered the Neul Ssambap Set at 16,900 won per person, which came with hwangmi pot rice, beef tendon doenjang stew, seasoned doraji (bellflower root) and nurungji (scorched rice), plus an unlimited self-serve wrap-vegetable bar. With a waiting lounge and private rooms, Neul Gogi Jip Icheon Main Branch is a place worth returning to for family gatherings.
Good to know
- Address
- 2541 Gyeongchung-daero, Icheon-si, Gyeonggi-do (Neul Gogi Jip Icheon Main Branch)
- Hours
- Daily 11:00–21:30
- Break time
- Weekdays 15:30–16:30 / none on weekends
- What we ordered
- Neul Ssambap Set for three (16,900 won per person)
- Lunch special
- Served until 14:30, weekends included
- Self-serve bar
- Unlimited wrap vegetables and greens in the middle of the restaurant
- Seating
- Private rooms available
- Parking
- Large lot in front of the restaurant
- Waiting
- Waiting lounge with ice cream and coffee
- Price reference
- ₩16,900 ≈ $12.5 (2026-09-15)
as written by the visitor on Sep 5, 2026
There's a restaurant in Jinri-dong, Icheon that has won an incredible number of Korean-food master chef awards!!!
Neul Gogi Jip Icheon Main Branch hours and parking
This is Neul Gogi Jip, the ssambap restaurant in Jinri-dong, Icheon run by a Korean-food master chef. ⏰ It's open daily from 11am to 9:30pm. ⏰ There's no break time on weekends, but on weekdays there's a break from 3:30 to 4:30pm, so keep that in mind!!! There's a large parking lot right in front, so you don't need to worry about parking...!
An Icheon meat restaurant lined with Korean-food master awards
Countless certificates and plaques that seem to certify this as a true Icheon meat restaurant... Blue Ribbon is just the baseline — they've received all kinds of awards, including Korean-food master chef titles.
This is a restaurant that has researched meat for over 30 years. Out of all the restaurants I've visited, this one has the most awards — just reading the certificate names was fun. lol
They also sell various snacks, wild yam broth for seasoning, and hwangmi-narak rice ingredients. There were even feminine lace handkerchiefs for sale, haha.
Even the water at this Korean-food master ssambap restaurant in Jinri-dong, Icheon is mineral spring water — I thought, this is on a completely different level from a typical Icheon restaurant.
How long is the weekend wait at Neul Gogi Jip?
My family visited on a weekend, so of course there was a wait. But there's a separate lounge where you can wait it out!! You can even enjoy ice cream and coffee in the waiting area.
Private rooms for family meals in Icheon
If you're looking for an Icheon meat restaurant with rooms, or a Jinri-dong meat restaurant with rooms, this is a great place to visit. The interior has a nice atmosphere too, and there are private rooms set aside so you can enjoy the space privately~~
There's even a spot in the middle of the restaurant where you can enjoy unlimited refills of vegetables...!!
I took a photo of the self-serve bar set up in the middle of the restaurant. It's full of all kinds of fresh vegetables and greens, perfect for wrapping into ssambap (wrap rice).
Neul Ssambap Set price and the weekend lunch special
The menu at this Korean-food master ssambap restaurant in Jinri-dong, Icheon covers both ssambap and grilled meat — I filmed a video of the various menu items.
Of course~~ there's also a menu board where you can see everything at a glance.
We visited as a party of three and ordered three Neul Ssambap Sets!!! The Neul Ssambap Set is ₩16,900 per person. A big advantage of this Korean-food master ssambap restaurant in Jinri-dong, Icheon is that the lunch special is available even on weekends. So you can eat at a relatively affordable price until 2:30pm.
Hwangmi pot rice and side dishes: which was the best?
What I enjoyed most was honestly the rice. I know you might think all cooked rice tastes about the same, but I can say for certain it was on a completely different level. Even the meat-eaters should try the hwangmi pot rice!!!! The rice grains were so chewy and glossy that they were delicious even on their own... ❤️ That's when I officially declared this the best ssambap restaurant in Jinri-dong, Icheon!!! Korean-food master chef status confirmed.
You can wrap the meat in fresh vegetable wraps too!!!! And the big advantage is that you can get unlimited refills of all kinds of vegetables. Eating it with the tasty side dishes made me feel even healthier.
There's a beef tendon doenjang (soybean paste) stew, and I was shocked at how much beef was packed into it!!!!
The doraji (bellflower root) namul left the biggest impression~~ This was the first place I've had it without that sharp, tingly doraji flavor — just deeply savory and delicious...! All the side dishes were tasty, and even my parents loved this Icheon ssambap restaurant.
The rice was definitely delicious, but the nurungji (scorched rice) made from that same rice was noticeably even nuttier. I really want to come back again to this Korean-food master ssambap restaurant in Jinri-dong, Icheon!!!!
Where it is
2541 Gyeongchung-daero, Icheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea경기도 이천시 경충대로 2541
