Gilpost · Yongin-si Giheung-gu, Gugal-dong
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Soar
쏘어 Ssoeo A four-table Italian room behind a shopping block near Gangnamdae station, where one chef cooks and serves everything
Data as of · Published ·
Soar is an Italian room on the ground floor of the Daegyeong Plaza, a short walk from exit 1 at Gangnamdae station on the Yongin light rail — and it is round the back of the building. The front is all black with a small English sign; one writer says you have to look hard to find it at all. There are four tables, two for two and two for four, and one chef cooks and serves all of it. What people come for is the abalone-liver cream risotto, then the Toowoomba pasta. Eleven to nine on weekdays with the kitchen closed from three to four, a short Saturday, shut on Sunday. There is wine in the evening, and students from the neighbouring university get ten percent off. The posts we read run from September 2024 to July 2026.
The basics
| Address | 경기도 용인시 기흥구 중부대로 555, 대경프라자 1층 111호 (구갈동) 555 Jungbu-daero, Yongin-si Giheung-gu, Gyeonggi-do |
|---|---|
| Phone | 031-287-0117 |
| Typical spend | ₩14,000 – ₩18,500 |
| Floor area | 40 m² |
| Status | In business |
5 posts say it is walkable from the station.
When it opens
Of 9 posts: 5 wrote Weekdays 11:00–21:00, 5 wrote Saturday 11:00–15:00, 3 wrote Mon–Sat 11:00–21:00.
| Open | Weekdays | 11:00–21:00 5 of 9 posts last seen 2025-07 |
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| Open | Saturday | 11:00–15:00 5 of 9 posts last seen 2025-07 |
| Open | Mon–Sat | 11:00–21:00 3 of 9 posts last seen 2025-03 |
| Break | Weekdays | 15:00–16:00 3 of 7 posts last seen 2025-07 |
| Break | Mon–Sat | 15:00–16:00 3 of 7 posts last seen 2025-03 |
| Last order | 14:00 7 of 7 posts last seen 2025-07 | |
| Last order | 20:00 7 of 7 posts last seen 2025-07 | |
| Closed | Sunday 8 of 8 posts last seen 2025-07 |
Counted from what bloggers wrote in their posts; we did not confirm it with the restaurant. Where the values differ, it may be a change over time rather than a disagreement, so we show when each one was written.
These hours are counted from the posts we read. Shops change them without notice — check Naver Place before you go. 
Place — check hours
What sets it apart
- The size of this room explains everything else about it. Every writer who mentions the space calls it small, and none calls it roomy; they count the tables slightly differently — two twos and two fours, "four tables", "four or five" — but never beyond that. One writer puts it best: because one person runs it, one party leaves as the next arrives, and you can sit and talk. Here cramped and quiet turn out to be the same observation.
- With one person covering both the kitchen and the floor, how long the food takes is the thing posts most disagree about — and it is the same kitchen. One writer arrived around half past six on a weekday and waited an hour for the first plate, noting that the same person was also handling delivery orders that evening. Another says the food comes quickly precisely because there are so few tables, and a third got hers in about five minutes. What seems to decide it is the hour, not the place. One writer reports that phoning ahead removes the wait altogether; another simply advises booking.
- In a four-table room, no free seat does not mean a queue — it means turning round and leaving. One writer went and walked out again because nothing was free; another, who has been more than three times, warns that mistiming it can cost you forty minutes. Yet a writer who arrived just before noon on a weekday had the place to herself, and another who got the last free table was the last customer in the room by the time she left. If there is a wait here it is at the lunch rush and in the evening.
- Nearly every writer who weighs in says the portions are large; one says the opposite. There is a post with a photograph of a hand next to the plate for scale, by someone who had to leave food behind, and another who writes that the portion was not small but tasted so good it felt small. The single dissenter had swapped the Toowoomba onto rigatoni and warns that big eaters may be disappointed. Whether changing the pasta shape changes what you get is not something one post can tell us.
- That wine is sold and that wine was drunk are two different findings here. Several posts mention wine in the evening, one notes the glasses hanging by the kitchen, another calls the list affordable — but only one writer records drinking any, and she rates the house wine above everything else on the table. Another is candid about it: she says she comes here when she wants to make an evening of it, then admits she has never actually had a drink in the room. Three posts say corkage is free, but all three lifted it from the shop's Naver listing — one of them says so outright. Nobody writes about bringing a bottle.
- Students at the university next door get ten percent off. Three writers saw it on the menu card — and all three were too old for it. One works out that she graduated nearly ten years ago and resigns herself to the full price; another writes that she envies the students the discount almost as much as the youth. No post is written by someone who got it.
- Being near the station and being easy to find are not the same thing here. One writer measures it at 277 metres from exit 1, another at five minutes on foot, a third simply says it is right by the station. But the place sits behind the Daegyeong Plaza, and three posts spend a paragraph on the route: right at the community centre and round the corner, beside the ramp down to the car park, round the back so you have to loop. One writer says the sign is so small and the frontage so dark that from a distance she assumed it was closed. No post describes arriving by bus.
What 21 bloggers said
We read all 21 in full. The most common claims are “Cramped” (10) and “Large portions” (8).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Where they disagree
| Food comes slowly | yes 3 · no 2 |
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Things you can check on site
| Reachable by transit | 5 of 21 posts |
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| Wine served | 5 of 21 posts |
| Discount offered | 3 of 21 posts |
| Open kitchen | 2 of 21 posts |
| Takes reservations | 2 of 21 posts |
| High chairs | 2 of 21 posts |
| Seasonal decorations | 1 of 21 posts |
| Takeout | 1 of 21 posts |
| Large windows | 1 of 21 posts |
These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.
What people order
The most ordered dish is jeonbok naejang keurim rijotto (전복 내장 크림 리조또) — 16 of 21 posts.
The prices here are what bloggers wrote down in their posts, and they may have changed since. Check Naver Place for the current menu and prices. This list is not a menu board — it counts what bloggers actually ordered and ate. Check on Naver Place
What to order
Sides, and what comes with it
To drink
Parking
4 posts say you can park. None say you cannot.
| Posts saying you can park | 4 of 21 posts |
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The posts agree that you can park and disagree about where. Four of them describe something you could only know by looking: there is a lot in the building but it is tight; there is a notice board about parking and not much slack because it is a commercial block; you can park in the building but each shop has its own assigned bay, so stopping in a neighbour's leaves you waiting to be asked to move; and, from a fourth, that there is a dedicated lot on the second floor. A fifth post sets out paid parking nearby until five and an empty lot across the road after that — but that reads as the shop's own guidance passed along, so we did not count it. Nor did we count the posts that write "parking available" and move on. None of them describes the act of parking.
Who came, and with whom
| With a friend | 6 of 21 posts |
|---|---|
| Date | 4 of 21 posts |
| Group visit | 2 of 21 posts |
Getting there
Getting inside
| Toilet inside | yes 0 · no 1 (of 21 posts read) |
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No post says what floor this is on, or whether there are steps up to the door. The registered address puts it in unit 111 on the ground floor of the Daegyeong Plaza, but that is the licence record, not something a writer observed; the one post that writes "1F, unit 111" copied its address line from Naver. The only hint about level in any of them is a writer noting that the door is beside the entrance down to the underground car park.
Not one post says whether you can get in with a wheelchair or a pushchair. Nobody records a step at the door, a ramp, or how wide the entrance is. We know the room is behind a commercial building and next to the car-park entrance, but nobody says whether the approach is level. Two writers mention a high chair for children, which is a different question. This is not a finding that there is no access — it is a finding that the answer is not in the twenty-two posts we read.
Exactly one of the twenty-two posts mentions the toilet, and it says the toilet is outside the room, elsewhere in the building. That single line is all that stands behind the finding. It does not say where in the building, how far, whether men's and women's are separate, or how clean it is — and the other twenty-one posts say nothing about toilets at all. Given a room with four tables, being sent out to the building's facilities is not surprising. But that is us inferring, not us reading.
No one mentioned: Second floor · In a basement · Lift to the floor · Ramp at the door · Step at the entrance · Step-free access · Accessible toilet · Separate restrooms. That is not the same as there being none — it means we could not confirm it. Worth calling ahead, and do tell us: we will put it here.
How to read these posts
- Someone else paid2 of 21 posts
- Posts saying they paid themselves7 of 21 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way12 of 21 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 23 posts we gathered, 2 went up on a single day right after a TV spot and show no sign of a visit. They retell the broadcast, so we left them out of the counts.
We do not discard them. That a TV spot produced a burst of posts is itself something worth knowing about a place, and a star rating will not show it.
When the posts appeared
Month by month
| Month | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2024-09 | 1 |
| 2024-10 | 3 |
| 2024-12 | 1 |
| 2025-03 | 3 |
| 2025-04 | 1 |
| 2025-05 | 2 |
| 2025-06 | 2 |
| 2025-07 | 1 |
| 2025-09 | 1 |
| 2025-10 | 1 |
| 2025-11 | 2 |
| 2025-12 | 1 |
| 2026-03 | 1 |
| 2026-07 | 1 |
What we do not know
- Why twenty-two and not twenty-five. Of the twenty-five posts, one is a round-up of places near the station in which Soar appears only as a name in a candidate list, with the post itself noting that it has little detail on it — we dropped that one entirely. A second is a wholesale copy of the shop's Naver listing, weekday-by-weekday hours and all, with no record of anyone eating. The third has the shape of a visit but lists pizza, which this kitchen does not serve, gives no prices, and describes a glass front with warm light spilling out — where every other writer describes a black frontage you cannot see into. We did not count it as a visit.
- Not one post declares that the meal was comped. Seven say outright that they paid their own way, and two record someone else paying — a friend in one, and in the other a company card at lunch. The remaining thirteen say nothing at all about money. That is not a finding that those thirteen were unsponsored; it is a finding that they were silent. And one blogger wrote three of these posts, so twenty-two posts are not twenty-two people.
- The hours line up almost everywhere, and then one post does not. Eight writers give hours; seven of them say eleven to nine, with Saturday finishing at three. Only one, from December 2024, says ten in the morning to ten at night — and it is also the only post to add public holidays to the Sunday closure. Saturday splits too: five posts give it as eleven to three, while three fold it into "Monday to Saturday, eleven to nine", and two of those three are by the same blogger. One post alone notes that there is no afternoon break on Saturdays. We cannot tell which of these is current, so we publish the disagreement rather than pick.
Sources (21)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- 📍🥄 강남대 양식 쏘어(soar) 2026-07-20 · dahhae님의 블로그 · via Daum
- [용인맛집] 작은공간을 가득 채우는 파스타의 대향연 강남대 쏘어(soar) 후기 2026-03-19 · 광마83의 맛있는 이야기 · via Daum
- 네잎클로버가 되기 위해 준비하는 세잎클로버가 가득한 12월 2025-12-31 · 오늘의 하루 · via Daum
- [D+364] 긴급 연차 데이 (2/2) - 쏘어, 호수앉기, 돌반지 수여식 2025-11-21 · 오늘도 아기랑 · via Daum
- 11월 뒤늦게 시작한 청모 무한 굴레에 빠지다.(정자역 청모맛집추천) 2025-11-16 · 일상을 리뷰해 :) · via Daum
- 구갈동 강남대역 양식 맛집 쏘어 - '전복내장크림리조또' 내돈내산 .... 2025-10-25 · 운콩의 세상 리뷰
- [25.07.21 | 쏘어] 내돈내산 강남대 파스타 맛집 후기 2025-09-14 · 헹니‘s Log · via Daum
- 용인 강남대 이탈리안 레스토랑 리조또맛집 쏘어 리얼후기 2025-07-09 · 피어라의 카르페디엠 · via Daum
- 용인 강남대역 감성있는 인생 파스타 쏘어 2025-06-07 · 데이트 하기 좋은 날 ☀️
- 강남대 쏘어 soar 여기 괜찮아 2025-06-03 · 채소네 블로그 · via Daum
- 250505-11 / 어린이도 키덜트도 아닌 막냉이의 한 주 2025-05-13 · 비비기록장 · via Daum
- [용인 기흥 이탈리안] 쏘어 | 전복 내장 리조또와 투움바, 분위기 맛집 2025-05-05 · 올리 · via Daum
- [용인 맛집 강남대역 쏘어 soar] 분위기 파스타집 파스타맛집 강남대파스타 2025-04-21 · 냠냠의 탐방일지 · via Daum
- "강남대 인근의 숨은 보석, Soar(쏘어)- 정성과 풍미를 담은 아담한 이탈리안 비스트로" 2025-03-19 · 써니의 그게 뭐야? · via Daum
- 3월 셋째 주, 빙글빙글 돌아가는~ 2025-03-18 · 쏘소소한 일상기록 · via Daum
- [soar]용인 기흥 구갈동/내돈내산 강남대맛집/분위기 파스타 맛집_쏘.... 2025-03-01 · 기똥이의 똘갱찬 하루
- [용인/기흥] 쏘어(Soar): 강남대역 근처 브런치 파스타 와인바 소개팅 맛집 솔직후기 (주차가능) 2024-12-11 · 토끼의 먹부림 · via Daum
- 강남대 맛집 파스타 맛집 쏘어(Soar) 재방문 2024-10-31 · 피어라의 카르페디엠 · via Daum
- 용인 강남대 근처 숨은 파스타 맛집 쏘어(soar) 2024-10-16 · 피어라의 카르페디엠
- 용인 기흥 강남대역에 위치한 파스타 맛집 재재재방문 쏘어 2024-10-12 · 조하루의 하루 - 맛집/뷰티/가전제품 · via Daum
- 9월 넷째 주 일상 포토덤프 2024-09-28 · 우리가 사는 보통날의 이야기 · via Daum
We opened all 155 candidate posts and kept 21 as evidence.