Sekdal Restaurant — Restaurant in Seogwipo-si

A must-try seafood experience in Jeju! This is a very popular seafood restaurant in Jeju, best known for their cutlassfish hotpot. It’s served on a long, rectangular hotplate that’s both picturesque and packed with flavour — a delicious combination of seafood, veggies, and rich soup that truly captures the taste of Jeju’s local cuisine.

The meal also comes with a generous array of side dishes, but a word of advice: try not to fill up on them before the hotpot arrives (like I did!) — it’s easy to get full too soon.

This place gets very busy, especially during peak dinner times. The parking lot filled up when we arrived, so we had to park off-site and walk about 500m. Definitely...

This was on the must eat at list; the food was good but not a Michelin star restaurant.

The abalone was live at the dinner table before it was cooked. A bit smaller than other places, but I will happily admit it was very tasty. The belt fish (kalji) was excellent. The rice was at once chewy and tender at once. The rest of the meal was good but not as good as I had been lead to believe by YouTube foodies.

I was disappointed by banchan offerings however; the Kimchi was nothing special and the spinach salad was sadness on a beautiful plate.

Oh, the restaurant had robo delivery which was...

First things first, the hairtail fish was the best thing we ordered. Whichever style it was cooked, it was gooooood. The rest of the food also shone, but the hairtail is what stays in my memory months after. I quite liked the way they served the food in the long, narrow pot but the liquid boiled off too quickly.

The place is clean and feels roomy, but with the crowd AND the robotic servers, it feels a little frenetic, and I didn’t feel like I could really relax...