Restaurants in Korea: 4x4 Camping Restaurant 포바이포

Friday, January 1, 2016

4x4 Camping Restaurant 포바이포 - Sinchon 신촌

4x4 is a camping restaurant in Sinchon that serves a variety of different types of barbecued meats and pizza in Sinchon. Although this place is on the expensive side, it serves some the of the best quality meat in all the entire area. I love to go to this place on special occasions and as yesterday was New Year's Eve, I went there and had their jumeokgogi.

4x4 offers a variety of set menus that range from 30,000 - 60,000 won that include a variety of mixes and matches of pizza, beer, wine, handmade sausage and BBQ meat. BBQ alone will for the most part cost you between 30,000 - 50,000 for two people. Also sausages, stews and veggies can be purchased as sides and pizza can also be purchased alone.

I have been to this place a few times, and I have tried a few different types of their meat. My personal recommendation is the jumeokgogi. The meat is absolutely to die for and it may very well be my favorite meat place in the area. I have also had the skewers, a kimchi jjigae that came with generous portions of meat, and jumeokbap. All of these items were on par with the meat and were absolutely fantastic. The one issue that I do have with this place is with the sides. The sides (반찬) are not all the various nor are they spectacular. That being said, they are decent and you can get as many as you can eat at their self serve bar.

One of the things that is cool about this place is the atmosphere. This is a camping restaurant which means that the interior of the building is designed to look like a campsite. In the back of the restaurant there is fake grass flooring, and the chairs are camping chairs. The tables look like the tables you would find at a camp site, and even the dishes and cups look like something you would take with you on a camping trip. This is a pretty cool experience by itself. In addition to this, the wait staff at this place are some of the nicest and most attentive I have ever seen in Korea. They will cook the meat for you, offer you blankets, and attend to any other need that you may have. The service is excellent.

Although 4x4 may be a bit on the expensive side, I would say that this place is a great place visit because of all the things that they do well. The service is excellent and the staff are kind, the indoor camping experience is unique and the meat is among the best in the area.