Where to eat in Jeju City & North Coast
Jeju's main town and the coast from Aewol to Gujwa. This is the place for gogi-guksu pork noodles and bracken fern stew, thick-cut black pork, cold abalone soup and old island dishes such as horse mackerel soup and seaweed momguk.
11 places our guide covers in Jeju City & North Coast, with what to order, how long the wait is and how to eat each dish.
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Apbaengdi Sikdang 앞뱅디식당
Home-style meals · Jeju City & North Coast
A local favorite for Jeju home cooking, and the place to try gakjaegi-guk: a clear cabbage soup made with fresh horse mackerel. It's a true island taste that's hard to find elsewhere. Anchovy dishes (mel-guk and mel-jorim) are also on the menu.
Try: Gakjaegi-guk (horse mackerel soup)
Locals' pickNo wait - 🍜
Donmul Guksu 돈물국수
Noodles · Jeju City & North Coast
A lunch-only noodle shop in a quiet Jeju City neighborhood, and a favorite of locals. Black bean noodles in a thick, cold soy broth (geomeun-kong-guksu) are a big draw. Hours are short, so come at opening time.
Try: Donmul-guksu (house pork noodle soup)
Locals' pick30-60 min wait - 🥩
Donsadon (Main) 돈사돈 본점
Korean BBQ · Jeju City & North Coast
A veteran of Jeju black pork, specializing in geun-gogi: thick cuts sold by weight and grilled over briquettes. The meat goes into melted anchovy sauce (meljeot) before it reaches your mouth. Bring a group, since the portions are sized for sharing.
Try: Heukdwaeji geun-gogi (Jeju black pork, sold by weight)
Short wait - 🍲
Eunhine Haejangguk 은희네해장국
Soups & stews · Jeju City & North Coast
A Jeju hangover soup brand, now with branches around Korea, and this is one of its original shops. A bubbling beef soup comes packed with meat, blood curd and bean sprouts, with a lightly spicy kick. A filling, low-cost breakfast, and solo diners are a common sight.
Try: Haejangguk (beef hangover soup)
Short wait - 🍜
Gommak Sikdang 곰막식당
Noodles · Jeju City & North Coast
A big seafood noodle house on the coast at Dongbok, between Hamdeok and Gimnyeong. Try hoe-guksu, cold noodles with raw fish in a sweet-spicy sauce, or seongge-guksu with sea urchin. It's a good lunch on an east coast drive, with plenty of parking and sea views.
Try: Hoe-guksu (noodles with raw fish)
Locals' pickShort wait - 🍜
Jamae Guksu 자매국수
Noodles · Jeju City & North Coast
The name most travelers know for gogi-guksu, Jeju's signature noodle soup: thick noodles in a rich pork broth, topped with slices of pork. It's close to the airport, so it makes a handy first or last meal. Add a bibim-guksu to share if you want something spicy, or a plate of dombe-gogi (boiled pork served on a board).
Try: Gogi-guksu (pork noodle soup)
30-60 min wait 
Myeongjin Jeonbok 명진전복
Home-style meals · Jeju City & North Coast
A coastal road institution in Gujwa, on Jeju's east side, known for jeonbok-dolsotbap: stone-pot rice cooked with abalone and its liver. Grilled mackerel usually comes with it.
Try: Jeonbok-dolsotbap (abalone stone-pot rice)
30-60 min wait- 🍲
Sinseol Oreum 신설오름
Soups & stews · Jeju City & North Coast
A Jeju City specialist in momguk, the island's festival soup: pork broth thickened with moja-ban seaweed. It's rich but clean, with a taste of the sea. Boiled pork and gogi-guksu round out a good introduction to Jeju's old dishes.
Try: Momguk (pork and seaweed soup)
Locals' pickShort wait - 🥩
Sukseongdo (Jeju Main) 숙성도 제주본점
Korean BBQ · Jeju City & North Coast
Jeju's most talked-about black pork grill. The meat is aged before grilling, and staff cook bone-in cuts such as ppyeo-deungsim (bone-in loin) and ppyeo-moksal (bone-in neck) at your table. The main branch moved from Nohyeong to bigger premises on Jewon-gil, but demand is as high as ever, so plan ahead.
Try: Ppyeo-deungsim (bone-in black pork loin)
1 hr+ wait Sunogine Myeongga 순옥이네명가
Home-style meals · Jeju City & North Coast
A Jeju seafood specialist near the airport. It's best known for jeonbok-mulhoe, a cold, tangy soup of raw abalone, and for abalone in a hot ttukbaegi (stone bowl). If it's your first mulhoe, this is a good place to try one: the broth is bright, sweet and very cold.
Try: Jeonbok-mulhoe (cold raw abalone soup)
Short wait- 🍲
Woojin Haejangguk 우진해장국
Soups & stews · Jeju City & North Coast
Jeju City's most famous breakfast. The dish to order is gosari-yukgaejang: a thick stew of pork and bracken ferns cooked down until it's almost porridge. It's nothing like the red yukgaejang on the mainland. Jeju's seaweed soup, momguk, is the other local choice, and lines start before the door opens.
Try: Gosari-yukgaejang (pork and bracken fern stew)
30-60 min wait