Jeju black pork BBQ dinner, corkage-free room for 10: Deo Bareun

I visited a seriously good BBQ spot near Nonhyeon Station and had to share it hahaha

Deo Bareun Butcher Restaurant Nonhyeon Station Branch: location and hours

• 6 Gangnam-daero128-gil, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South Korea
• Weekdays 11:00-23:00 (last order 22:30), break time 14:30-16:30
• Sat 12:00-22:00 (last order 22:30)
• Closed on Sundays

Deo Bareun Butcher Restaurant has its original flagship location at Sinnonhyeon Station!!!! The one right in the alley in front of Nonhyeon Station Exit 3 is the second, directly-operated location~~~ Even though it's the second branch, since it's directly run by the company it felt almost identical to the flagship!!! haha

I'd walked past this place many times, and they have a lunch special and meal menu too so it looks great for a lunchtime visit!!! Corkage is free too~

The meat cases were full of gorgeous, neatly cut cuts!! And up top you can see how many celebrities have visited~ That's how good the taste, quality, and service are!!

A room great for group dinners, with a long table seating up to 10

Most tables are for 4, and there are two or three rooms! Inside the rooms there's a long table that can fit up to 10 people, so it's perfect for a work dinner and also private enough for an important gathering — you really can't go wrong here!!! I'd totally recommend this Nonhyeon Station BBQ spot, Deo Bareun Butcher Restaurant!

Since I booked ahead through Catch Table, everything was already set up, so as soon as we walked in we were shown straight to our table haha

The menu: 1++ hanwoo and Jeju black pork

Deo Bareun's menu is broadly split into beef and pork, and the beef is 1++ hanwoo while the pork is Jeju black pork! The quality speaks for itself just from the names?!? On top of that there are premium side dishes made with lobster, yukhoe (beef tartare), abalone, and other high-end ingredients that looked so good haha

One bottle of corkage free, with a wide drink selection

They had a great variety of drinks too — wine, whisky, soju, beer, all kinds!! And the really great thing is that corkage is free up to one bottle! haha Having good meat like this with a drink you love really puts you in a great mood~~~~~

What do the side dishes look like?

The banchan (side dishes) they laid out as standard felt so neat and Korean, and there was a good variety! From fresh lettuce salad to pa-kimchi (green onion kimchi), radish pickles, salad, baek-kimchi (white kimchi), and myeongi-namul (wild garlic leaves)! Whether it's beef or pork, every combination worked, and each side dish felt made with real care ㅎㅅㅎ = meaning everything was delicious

The salt, wasabi, and ssamjang (dipping sauce) to go with the meat were also portioned out individually for each person, which was way more convenient!!

And out came the charcoal, perfect for grilling!

Jeju black pork 600g for ₩69,000, grilled tableside by staff

I ordered the Jeju black pork 600g, priced at ₩69,000! It came as a combo of pork neck, pork belly, and jowl(?), all scored with cuts to show the great quality of the meat~

Staff grill and cut everything for you so it's easy to eat and easy to keep chatting!!! The staff were incredibly kind and their grilling skills were no joke haha, I was basically taking notes~

The charcoal was really hot too so everything grilled up beautifully golden! They cut it all into bite-sized pieces so we didn't have to worry about the grilling at all, which was so nice~ Especially at a work dinner where the youngest employees usually end up doing all the grilling, coming to Deo Bareun means you don't have to worry about that lol

You can see how glossy and juicy the meat is!!!! Every single bite was packed with juice, so chewy and moist and just so good ><

After grilling everything, they set the meat aside on the grill so it wouldn't get cold, which made it easy to slowly chat and pick at the meat over time!

To finish: hanwoo chive rice porridge

And then out came this tantalizing kimchi ~~~~ It's a fresh-tossed kimchi, and the seasoning had really soaked in so it was genuinely delicious!!!!! It's not a standard side that comes with the meat order — it came because we ordered a rice dish as a side dish, haha

I tried the hanwoo chive rice porridge!!!! It was a bit thinner than the last time I had it, so I thought about asking them to cook it down more, but,,, I just ate it as is haha. It was tasty even as it was, packed with umami ><, plenty of meat in there too!! The rice grains soaked up the broth and it kept reducing down as we ate ~~~ From the meat to the rice porridge, everything was so good at this Nonhyeon Station BBQ favorite, Deo Bareun Butcher Restaurant!!!! I think I'll come back again sometime haha~~