JD BBQ
정든집
About
Itaewon's beloved old-style Korean BBQ house — the name means 'the place you grow attached to'.
Jeongdeun-jip — JD BBQ to the district's international regulars — carries the most affectionate name in Korean restaurant naming: 'the place you grow attached to,' jeong being the untranslatable Korean word for accumulated warmth between people. Itaewon has taken the name literally for years: this is the neighborhood's beloved old-style grill house, where the charcoal, the cuts, and the banchan run traditional while the tables mix longtime locals with the district's global crowd — many of whom had their first real Korean barbecue here and kept coming back, which is jeong operating exactly as described. Old-style means the fundamentals without concept: proper fire, honest meat, lettuce and ssamjang, soju as the social lubricant. In a district of rotating trends, the grill house people return to for decades is the rarest format going.
Details
Opening hours
- Sunday
- 16:30–23:50
- Monday
- 16:30–23:50
- Tuesday
- 16:30–23:50
- Wednesday
- 16:30–23:50
- Thursday
- 16:30–23:50
- Friday
- 16:30–23:50
- Saturday
- 16:30–23:50