GeSsano The Premium Ulsan: Fresh Snow Crab & Seafood 2026

Guess who's back from the depths〰️🦀🦀

In celebration (?) of cute crab plushies being released at Daiso,

we visited Ulsan's snow crab specialty restaurant,

Gesano The Premium!

Gesano The Premium, a snow crab and king crab specialty restaurant

that's already proven its immense popularity in Busan,

has now opened in Ulsan too‼️

📍 Location: 216 Gugyo-ro, Jung-gu, Ulsan

✅ Operating Hours: Weekdays 5 PM - 11 PM (Weekends open at 12 PM)

Closed every Monday

(Please note: The closing day has changed from Tuesday to Monday‼️)

✅ Parking available

✅ Experience the unique freshness of premium snow crab that people used to line up for in Busan, now at reasonable prices in Ulsan.

Finest quality snow crabs, carefully selected daily

Comfortable dining in a clean establishment

Basic table setting includes seafood shabu-shabu

It's a direct-run brand operated by a distributor,

making it a snow crab specialty restaurant with great prices and excellent yield.

This is Namoe-dong's new hot spot, opened in May!🦀

Ulsan Snow Crab Restaurant

Gesano The Premium Store Usage Guide

First, check today's market price,

then order and pay for your crab on the 1st floor.

Head up to the 2nd floor where you can enjoy your ordered crab,

along with drinks, alcohol, and additional meals.

(Chosukjang sauce fee: ~$4 per person)

On the day of our visit, regular snow crab was sold out,

and only Bakdal snow crab was available.

1kg was ~$43‼️

My sister had crab recently,

and the price per kg here was cheaper than what she paid.

If you're a big eater,

they recommended around 2.5kg-3kg for two people,

but since Amy was already full

and hungry Miranda joined,

we ordered 2.36kg across three crabs!

Hello, crab,,

I'm going to eat you.

The staff member who helped with the crabs provided friendly guidance,

and after a closer look at the Bakdal snow crabs

and some intense eye contact, we moved to the 2nd floor!

They steam them right on the 1st floor and send them up to the 2nd,

and you can even watch them being steamed.

Ulsan Snow Crab Restaurant Gesano The Premium

2nd Floor: The Dining Area

The clean 2nd floor

was more spacious than I expected.

There are also private rooms that can accommodate up to 50 people,

making it a great option for

family gatherings, company dinners, and other group events.

It seems like a perfect spot to use for such occasions.

Ulsan Gessano The Premium Table Setting & Menu

For a chojang (spicy vinegared dipping sauce) fee of ~$4 per person,

you get a shabu-shabu table setting you won't see anywhere else!

It includes vegetable, seafood, and beef shabu,

and we could add more ingredients, including extra vegetables.

You can order stir-fried rice with crab innards and self-serve ramyeon as main dishes,

plus, there's a garlic butter grilled shrimp for a review event!

Even the soy sauce and chojang bottles on each table

were so clean and non-sticky,

they get a pass from me! (A+ for cleanliness!)

Plenty of wasabi too~~

Even the tools for eating crab (lol)

had little crab shapes engraved, which definitely earned them a +1 cuteness score!

From beef to seafood and vegetables,

this generous ~$4 set is amazing.

You can even add more broth,

making it perfect for drinks to flow endlessly~

Review of Gessano The Premium's Bakdal Snow Crab

I personally chose the crab from the restaurant's tank.

They say they only select Grade A crabs with a minimum 85% meat yield,

and just smelling the savory, fragrant steamed crab

with its abundant innards,

put me in such a good mood!

They even prepared it all for us,

so all we had to do was eat!

*If you plan to order the stir-fried rice with crab innards,

make sure to save about 1/3 of the crab innards.

Gloved up on both hands,

let's start scraping the meat from the legs!

Dipping it in the innards,

The glorious claw meat, so plump and delicious!

My mouth was overflowing with crab meat,

seriously, fake crab sticks and surimi can't even compare.

This is the real deal!

Throughout our meal, the staff kept clearing our empty plates and mountains of crab shells,

which was super helpful.

And just then, BTS's 'FAKE LOVE' started playing as the background music.

It was perfect timing!

Excited by the delicious crab

and grooving to the great music,

I even started doing the fanchants (?),

and a staff member heard me at that exact moment and burst out laughing! LOL

If the staff member was happy and I was happy,

then isn't that what truly matters? 😇

Dipping it bit by bit into the innards,

then putting some innards on top of the meat,

the teasing flavor (?) got to Amy,

and she just started piling crab meat straight into the shell!

Haha,

why am I so happy right now?

Since there were three crab shells,

I initially thought we'd each take one,

and save one for stir-fried rice.

,, Who fills up on just crab?

A: It's me.

I got so incredibly full from the crab,

that I ended up having to give up on the stir-fried rice...

You know, someone who treats you to snow crab is

way better than someone who buys you beef, right?

Gessano The Premium,

where you can feast on snow crab to your heart's content without a care in the world...

it was absolutely fantastic!

Their menu is brilliantly designed to let you fully savor

the pure joy of snow crab and king crab, and honestly,

you'll be so engrossed, there's no time for anything else—not even the side dishes〰️〰️‼️

Even on a weekday evening,

people were steadily flocking to Gessano,

and everyone's faces just radiated pure happiness as they ate!

(Well, naturally, they were eating crab!)

For my next visit, I'm already mentally booking my order: two crabs🦀🦀 + crab roe fried rice, no questions asked!

And with that delicious promise,

my visit to Gessano The Premium came to a perfect close.