Where to eat in Haeundae & Gwangalli
Busan's two famous beaches and the streets behind them. Around Haeundae Market you'll find a 24-hour pufferfish soup house, a beef rib institution and a 60-year-old beef soup shop, while Gwangalli and Namcheon add Michelin-listed bibimbap and gomtang.
11 places our guide covers in Haeundae & Gwangalli, with what to order, how long the wait is and how to eat each dish.
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Geumsu Bokguk (Main) 금수복국 본점
Home-style meals · Haeundae & Gwangalli · Since 1970
The Haeundae house credited with the first pufferfish soup served in a ttukbaegi (hot stone bowl). A clear, bracing broth comes loaded with bean sprouts and minari (water dropwort), and the first floor runs around the clock, so it works as breakfast or a hangover cure after a night out.
Try: Eun-bok guk (silver pufferfish soup)
Short wait - 🥩
Haeundae Amso Galbi 해운대암소갈비집
Korean BBQ · Haeundae & Gwangalli · Since 1964
Haeundae's famous beef rib house, in a converted home near the beach. Go for saeng-galbi (fresh, unmarinated ribs) or yangnyeom-galbi (marinated ribs), then finish with gamja-sari: potato noodles cooked in the sauce left in the pan. The fresh ribs often sell out.
Try: Saeng-galbi (fresh beef ribs)
1 hr+ wait - 🍲
Haeundae Wonjo Halmae Gukbap 해운대원조할매국밥
Soups & stews · Haeundae & Gwangalli · Since 1962
A six-decade-old soup shop near Haeundae Market. Skip the pork here: this is Gyeongsang-style sogogi-gukbap, a clear, peppery beef and radish soup over rice, at a price that's rare by the beach. It's where locals stop for breakfast.
Try: Sogogi-gukbap (beef soup with rice)
Locals' pickShort wait - 🍜
Sinheunggwan 신흥관
Korean-Chinese · Haeundae & Gwangalli · Since 1954
A Blue Ribbon Korean-Chinese restaurant by Haeundae Market, in business for over 70 years. Regulars come for gan-jajang (black bean noodles with the sauce on the side), sweet and sour tangsuyuk and fried dumplings, and it's an easygoing spot for an afternoon beer.
Try: Gan-jajang (black bean noodles, sauce on the side)
Locals' pick - 🍚
Bibijae 비비재
Home-style meals · Haeundae & Gwangalli
A Michelin Bib Gourmand bibimbap specialist in Namcheon, a short walk from Gwangalli Beach. The bowls go beyond the classic, with toppings like beef bulgogi, spicy pork and jeon, and a signature mala bibimbap with a Sichuan-style tingle. It's popular with foreign visitors, and any bowl can be upgraded to a hot stone pot.
Try: Mala bibimbap
Short wait - 🍜
Buda Myeonok 부다면옥
Noodles · Haeundae & Gwangalli
A Michelin Bib Gourmand noodle house by Haeundae Market, serving pure-buckwheat Pyongyang-style cold noodles in a delicate broth. If this is your first naengmyeon, the flavor is subtle by design. Korean beef suyuk (boiled sliced beef) is a popular side, and a small tasting portion is on the menu.
Try: Pyongyang naengmyeon (cold buckwheat noodles)
Short wait - 🍲
Geukdong Dwaeji Gukbap 극동돼지국밥
Soups & stews · Haeundae & Gwangalli
A convenient bowl of Busan's signature pork and rice soup, by Mipo and the Blue Line Park beach train at the east end of Haeundae. Rice is warmed in the broth the traditional Busan way (toryeom), and visitors and locals share the tables.
Try: Dwaeji-gukbap (pork and rice soup)
Short wait - 🥩
Haeseong Makchang (Main) 해성막창집 본점
Korean BBQ · Haeundae & Gwangalli
A Busan favorite for grilled beef intestines. Korean beef makchang (fourth stomach) and daechang (large intestine) go on the fire, and a spicy gopchang-jeongol (intestine hot pot) rounds out the meal. Locals pick it over the tourist strip, and it stays busy into the night.
Try: So-makchang (grilled beef fourth stomach)
Short wait - 🍜
Haeundae Gaya Milmyeon 해운대 가야밀면
Noodles · Haeundae & Gwangalli
Milmyeon is Busan's own cold noodle: wheat noodles in an icy, slightly sweet broth, invented when refugees during the Korean War made naengmyeon with the flour they could get. This shop is a local standby in the Jwa-dong neighborhood, east of the beach, and its big dumplings are the classic side.
Try: Mul-milmyeon (noodles in cold broth)
Short wait - 🍲
Hanwolgwan 한월관
Soups & stews · Haeundae & Gwangalli
A Michelin Bib Gourmand beef soup house just off Gwangalli Beach. Choose malgeun gomtang (a clear broth) or ppoyan gomtang (a milky one); the two are very different, and regulars argue over which is better. Hand-chopped tteokgalbi (grilled beef patties) is the other reason to come.
Try: Malgeun gomtang (clear beef soup)
Short wait - 🍲
Subyeon Choego Dwaeji Gukbap (Millak Main) 수변최고돼지국밥 민락본점
Soups & stews · Haeundae & Gwangalli
One of Busan's most talked-about pork soup houses, at the Millak end of Gwangalli Beach. The bowl to order is hangjeong-gukbap, topped with tender pork neck. It's open around the clock, so a post-beach or very late bowl is a good way to dodge the long lines.
Try: Hangjeong-gukbap (pork neck soup)
1 hr+ wait