Itaewon Korean Restaurant

Itaewon Korean Restaurant in Southport offers a broad Korean menu built around hearty hotpots, soups, stews, noodles, fried chicken and shareable sides. The menu includes several pork bone dishes, including the signature spicy pork bone soup and a hotpot made with pork bones and wombok. The restaurant says its pork bone soup is slow-cooked for more than eight hours, making it a particularly substantial choice for a comforting meal. There are also versions with kimchi, seafood or ramen, along with beef bulgogi hotpot, army stew and a spicy beef-intestine hotpot.

For a more individual meal, the soups and stews section includes seafood soft tofu stew, pork and rice soup, sundae gukbap, beef brisket soup and pork kimchi stew. The menu notes that some dishes take at least 20 minutes to prepare, including the seafood soft tofu stew, cold wheat noodles and seafood pancake. Several dishes also have clear spice distinctions, with non-spicy options available for some soups and noodles, while the restaurant notes that the spice level cannot be changed for certain soft tofu stews.

The menu’s signature bulgogi bibimbap comes with miso soup, while other meal options include glass-noodle bibimbap, stir-fried beef bulgogi with ssam, spicy pork with ssam and a teriyaki chicken rice bowl. The noodle selection covers cold and spicy wheat noodles, including versions with radish, bulgogi or spicy pork. Korean fried chicken is another major draw, with original, sweet chilli, soy garlic, teriyaki mayo, honey butter, spicy mayo and boneless leek variations. Sauces can be added separately, with choices including soy, sweet chilli, mayo, teriyaki and hot sweet chilli.

For the table, Itaewon lists seafood pancake, japchae, steamed egg, several types of topokki, DIY seaweed rice balls, fried mandu, chips and cheese corn dogs. That range makes the menu suitable for a group wanting to share different dishes, while the soups, rice bowls and noodle dishes provide plenty of options for solo diners. The menu also includes add-ons such as clear noodles, rice cakes, ramen, extra kimchi and extra pork bone for selected dishes. The supplied website does not provide details about the restaurant’s decor, service style or backstory, so the clearest reason to visit is its extensive Korean comfort-food menu. Itaewon is rated 4.9 on Google from more than 5,000 reviews.