Gilpost · Suwon-si Yeongtong-gu, Yeongtong-dong

Sam Soon

쌤순 영통점 Ssaemsun Yeongtong-jeom A small Italian restaurant behind an almost invisible sign in Yeongtong, Suwon, where the wine you bring costs nothing to open.

Other · Suwon-si Yeongtong-gu, Yeongtong-dong

Data as of 2026-09-27 · Published 2026-09-30 · Compiled by Gilpost

Sam Soon is an Italian restaurant on the main road at the foot of the Donga Plaza building in Yeongtong, Suwon, five hundred metres or so from exit 8 of the station. Pasta, risotto, pizza, lasagna, gnocchi and steak share one board, and the sauces are said to be made in-house — six posts were told so. Wood, jazz, an open kitchen, and a tablet on every table to order from. It sells wine and charges no corkage, so plenty of people bring their own. Eleven in the morning until ten at night, with lunch orders closing at twenty past three and the room reopening at five. It does not close on any day of the week. The posts we read run from November 2024 to September 2026.

The basics

1 posts say it is walkable from the station.

When it opens

Of 28 posts: 28 wrote Daily 11:00–22:00.

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.

What people order

The most ordered dish is vongole pasta (봉골레 파스타) — 11 of 29 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

• 봉골레 파스타11 ate it
  vongole pasta₩17,000 · ₩18,000

  Marked best-seller on the board, and the most-ordered dish here — eleven of the twenty-nine had it. They disagree about which clams: two say baby clams and hard clams, one says baby clams and surf clams. Three note the courgette. It comes mildly spicy by default and the level is adjustable — one asked for hotter, one asked for none so her child could eat it. One writer thinks the pasta is linguine.

  It went from 17,000 to 18,000 won: posts from June 2025, August 2026 and 4 September 2026 give the lower figure, and posts from 12 and 20 September the higher. The rise happened in early September. Two writers note that the clams were properly purged and not at all fishy.

• 트러플 감자 뇨끼9 ate it
  truffle gamja gnocchi₩18,000

  Nine ordered it and five single it out as the thing to get. Three say the dough is made and browned in-house, and the texture words repeat: crisp outside, floury and soft within, in four accounts, chewy in three. One describes pistachio, bacon and parsley scattered over the truffle-mushroom cream. Three found the sauce generous enough to dip bread or pizza crust in.

  18,000 won (August and September 2026). The texture accounts do not quite agree: one writer expected something chewier and got something closer to crisp and floury — which, she decides, lets the potato through.

• 페퍼로니 피자8 ate it
  pepperoni pizza₩22,000

  Eight ordered it. Five note the tomato sauce is made in-house and spread on a wood-fired base, and two credit that for the absence of the sharpness bottled sauce has. The crust divides them: two call it thin and wood-fired, one insists it is thicker than that, one calls it pillowy. One sizes it against a chain's regular.

  22,000 won in July, August and September 2026 alike — this one did not move in the September rise. One writer's friend wanted more tomato sauce on it.

• 감태 크림 파스타6 ate it
  gamtae cream pasta₩16,000 · ₩17,000

  Often called the signature. Cream pasta buried under gamtae seaweed with an egg yolk in the middle — four writers describe breaking the yolk and stirring it through. Six ate it, and four make the same point: the salt of the seaweed cuts the cream. Three note the prawns.

  16,000 won in September 2026 — and 17,000 in a November 2024 post, so it has come down, or the dish has changed; we cannot tell which. Two warn it may divide people, though one who does not much like the seaweed found it shredded fine enough not to dominate.

• 부채살 스테이크6 ate it
  buchaesal steak₩34,000 · ₩37,000

  The cut has changed: four posts from 2024 and 2025 name one cut of beef, five from 2026 name another. Six ate it, and the doneness is yours to choose — one notes medium rare is the default. Three describe the spread of garnishes and the three sauces alongside: wholegrain mustard, mascarpone (which one writer took for yoghurt) and fresh wasabi. Two say it melts; one found the seasoning heavy enough that salt arrived before beef.

  34,000 won for 230 grams in November 2024, and 37,000 in September 2026 — three thousand over two years. Two posts give the 2026 figure and they agree.

• 매콤 게살 리조또6 ate it
  maekom gesal risotto₩16,000

  Crab picked into a spicy cream, finished with an egg yolk and spring onion. Six ate it and they line up on the heat: pleasantly rather than aggressively hot, fine for an adult, mild enough for children. Two say stirring the yolk in takes the edge off.

  16,000 won (June and September 2026). Two writers found enough crab in it to chew on.

• 쉬림프 로제 파스타5 ate it
  shrimp rose pasta₩16,000

  Rosé sauce with prawns cooked in garlic butter. Five ordered it, and four remark on the pasta — rigatoni, so the sauce fills the tubes and a spoon works better than a fork. Four mention the fried garlic scattered over. One was asked at the point of ordering whether a flat pasta instead would be all right.

  16,000 won in July, August and on 20 September 2026 — but a board transcribed on 12 September puts it at 17,000, a contradiction inside a single month that we cannot resolve. In November 2024 the same slot on the menu held a bisque rosé at 17,000.

• 문어 먹물 리조또4 ate it
  munmul risotto₩17,000 · ₩18,000

  Squid-ink risotto with a single octopus tentacle on top. Four ate it and they split. Two liked it — no muddiness in the ink, properly savoury, the one to pick if you like salt. One did not: a bit bland, she writes, and she could not place the flavour. And one offers practical advice: do not smile with your teeth showing while eating it.

  17,000 won in September 2026, against 18,000 in November 2024 — it has come down, and we do not know why. Two writers noticed other tables ordering it.

• 머쉬룸 베이컨 피자4 ate it
  mushroom bacon pizza₩23,000

  A wood-fired base with mushroom cream rather than tomato, then mushrooms, bacon and mozzarella. Four ate it and three remark on the cheese — enough, says one, to make the pizza heavy in the hand. One notes the lattice of mayonnaise over the top; two say the crust stays soft to the last bite.

  23,000 won (June and September 2026), a thousand more than the pepperoni.

• 라구 파스타3 ate it
  ragù pasta₩18,000

  Pork and beef in tomato. Three ate it and they disagree: two found it deep and unusually well made, one felt the savouriness was thin and the sauce did not marry with the pasta. Two note you can set the heat, and one ordered it with none so her child could share. One identifies the pasta as tagliatelle.

  18,000 won (September 2026). Two writers recommend spooning the ragù onto the bread that comes with it.

• 홈메이드 라자냐3 ate it
  homemade lasagna₩19,000

  Baked in its dish and brought out still bubbling — all three who ate it say so. One found hash browns layered in with the house ragù and béchamel, which she had never met in a lasagna before. Two note the crisp sheet on top. One says it is limited in number each day.

  19,000 won (September 2026). It may run out later in the day — though only one post says so, which is not confirmation.

• 전복 리조또2 ate it
  jeonbok risotto₩19,000

  Both posts that ate it say the sauce is built on abalone liver, and they could not disagree more. One calls it her favourite thing on the table and insists you order it. The other could not taste the abalone at all, found the savouriness thin and the salt heavy, and was thoroughly disappointed.

  19,000 won (September 2026), the dearest of the pastas and risottos. Two accounts, pointing opposite ways, settle nothing.

Sides, and what comes with it

• 쌤순 샐러드6 ate it
  Samsoon salad₩14,000

  Six ordered it and their lists match almost exactly: leaves with olives, chopped jalapeño, charred corn, cherry tomatoes, grilled prawns, cream cheese and rye bread. Three ended up building open sandwiches with it. What they praise most is the vinaigrette — one knew at first taste it was not bottled, and wishes they sold it by itself.

  14,000 won, and unchanged from November 2024 through September 2026. One writer found it more filling than a main.

• 토마토 바질 부르스케타5 ate it
  tomato basil bruschetta₩10,000 · ₩11,000

  Toasted rye under cream cheese, a heap of cherry tomatoes, basil pesto and balsamic glaze. Five ordered it, four of them as a starter. Sharp and fresh on the first bite, says one; Mediterranean and healthy-tasting but still good, says another. One table cut it in three.

  It went from 10,000 to 11,000 won between 4 and 12 September 2026 — the same moment the vongole moved.

• 트러플 감자튀김4 ate it
  truffle fries₩9,000

  Four ordered it and all four are surprised by the same thing: the bowl of whipped cream that comes with it. Why cream, one asks — and then answers herself. The best of sweet and salt, says another. Three note that they arrive hot from the fryer smelling strongly of truffle. One asked for ketchup instead.

  9,000 won, unchanged from November 2024 through September 2026.

• 호밀 바게트3 ate it
  rye baguette₩3,000

  Warmed, with balsamic and olive oil. Three ordered it separately, two of them specifically to mop up pasta sauce — one added it mid-meal after tasting the ragù on the bread that came free. One notes the balsamic is sweet rather than sharp, which her children accepted.

  3,000 won (September 2026). Rye bread also comes with the house salad.

• 무피클named in 8
  mu pickle

  Pickled radish, brought with the water when you sit down, free — eight posts mention it. Two think it is made in-house. One, who usually leaves house pickles alone, found this one less sour than most and ate it. Another says there is plenty of it.

  Free. It and the lollipops by the till are the only things here that are: bread before the meal is a separate order.

Parking

12 posts say you can park. None say you cannot.

You park in the building and they validate two hours — twelve posts mention it and eleven of them drove. Three note that the levels above hold plenty of cars; one says parking is simply not something you need to think about here. Two say the validation happens when you pay. Past two hours, though, you pay: one writer talked for longer than that and reports the bill she got. Three give the same piece of advice — don't try to find the restaurant from inside the building; come out at ground level and go round to the main road.

Who came, and with whom

Getting there

Naver Map has a full English mode — Settings → Language → English. In Korea it gives better walking and transit directions than Google Maps.

Getting inside

One post lists wheelchair access and an accessible parking bay, and we counted neither. Those words sit inside a block copied wholesale from the platform's facility list — birthday perks, roastery, wine pairing, Wi-Fi, separate toilets, waiting seats, three kinds of local voucher — which is not the same as having seen them. None of the other twenty-eight mentions a step, a ramp, a wheelchair or a pushchair. This is missing information rather than an absence of obstacles. It is a ground-floor room on a main road and not a large one; if it matters, call first.

No one mentioned: Second floor · In a basement · Lift to the floor · Ramp at the door · Step at the entrance · Step-free access · Toilet inside · 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

• Posts disclosing payment3 / 293 of 29 posts
• Posts saying they paid themselves3 / 293 of 29 posts
• Posts saying nothing either way23 / 2923 of 29 posts

When the posts appeared

What we do not know

• Prices went up in early September 2026. The vongole was 17,000 won in June 2025, in August 2026 and still on 4 September; by the 12th it was 18,000, and the bruschetta moved from 10,000 to 11,000 in the same window. The post from the 12th says as much itself, noting that several dishes now cost more than the platform listing, and transcribes the whole board. Not everything moved, though: the pepperoni pizza, the house salad and the truffle fries are unchanged since November 2024. The steak has drifted further — 34,000 won in late 2024, 37,000 by September 2026. One figure will not reconcile: the shrimp rosé appears at 17,000 on that 12 September board, and a diner on the 20th records paying 16,000.
• Two dishes have been renamed, and in one case rebuilt. Four posts from 2024 and 2025 name one cut of beef for the steak; five from 2026 name another. And the rosé pasta that was a bisque in November 2024, at 17,000 won, is a prawn dish at 16,000 in 2026. Searching the old names will turn up a different plate in the same slot.
• There is barely a sign, and people walk past it — eight posts say so. Five give the same landmark in almost the same words: find the mala tang place next door. The sign is tiny, says one; you have to look hard to see the lettering on the glass, says another; one admits she went straight past and had to double back. Other landmarks offered are the Donga Plaza building with the cake shop in it, the family court, the tax office and a nearby hotel. One writer disagrees that it is a problem: sign or no sign, she says, you know which one it is, because it is the only good-looking frontage on the row.
• They disagree about the size: two call it roomy, two do not. Three counted tables and their counts are close — five or six fours and two twos; about eight; seven or eight fours. Those who found it small advise booking. Those who did not offer a reason: from outside you think it will be cramped, writes one, and then the ceiling height opens it up. Another says the open kitchen keeps it from feeling closed in. By table count this is a small restaurant that does not read as one — though that is our reading of it, not anybody's sentence.
• Thirteen of the twenty-nine posts went up between 4 and 20 September 2026, which suggests the restaurant was courting visitors around then, and is worth knowing. We did not treat them as commissioned copy, though: no two share a block of hashtags, they run in different orders, nine of the thirteen quote prices, and two of them complain about a dish. What separates a real meal from a written one is the record of eating, not the tags — so all thirteen are counted. Three posts declare a sponsorship. Two of them do it with a single tag tucked into a link block at the bottom; the third says in the body that she was comped but comes here anyway. Four state that they paid, and the remaining twenty-two say nothing.
• Not one writer looked at the toilet and said so. The phrase "separate men's and women's" appears in two posts, and in both it is part of a copied facility list, so we counted neither. Whether it is inside the restaurant or shared with the building, and whether there is an accessible one, nobody says. Twenty-nine people ate here and none of them mentioned it — which is silence, not an answer.
• Several posts say which floor the restaurant is on and none says anything about steps. The address includes the unit number on the ground floor, and several place it on the main road at the foot of the building, so that much is settled. Getting there from the car is another matter: one writer took a lift up from the parking level, one parked in the basement and went up, one says the parking is on the second and third floors. So there is a change of level between car and table, and nobody says whether the lift is the only way to make it.
• Only one post describes arriving without a car. Writing in February 2025, she notes that the station is close enough to make this easy, and that as someone who walks everywhere it matters to her. Three give a distance: 490 metres from exit 8 in two of them, and a short walk in the third. One gives directions — out of exit 8, straight on past the footbridge, left at the first junction. Everyone else drove: eleven of them.
• The afternoon break is given as starting at either twenty or half past three, and there seems to be a reason. Twenty-two posts say twenty past, four say half past — and the two that separate the two numbers explain it: the break runs from half past three, and last orders for lunch are at twenty past. Either way, if you are coming for lunch, get your order in by twenty past three.
• There is a second branch. A February 2025 post reports that one is about to open in Gwanggyo; a June 2025 one says it has; posts from June and September 2026 mention it as a going concern. This page is about the Yeongtong branch only — none of the twenty-nine has been to the other, and whether they are alike we do not know. One writer says she intends to find out.
• Only one of the thirty posts was dropped, automatically, for carrying another restaurant's tag. The remaining twenty-nine all record a real meal, and they are twenty-nine different people; no blog wrote twice. Five complaints appear, and we record them as written: the ragù is thin on savouriness, the abalone risotto is salty and does not taste of abalone, the steak is heavily seasoned — those three come from one diner at one table, who concludes that the seasoning here is heavy across the board — the squid-ink risotto is bland, and the gnocchi less chewy than expected. The seasoning is where the accounts most directly contradict each other: one writer finds it heavy, several describe the food as notably unaggressive.

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Every number above was counted from the posts below.

1. 수원 쌤순 영통역에서 데이트로 추천하는 파스타맛집 2026-09-20 · 소식일기✏️ · via Daum
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9. 영통역 파스타 맛집 쌤순, 아이들과 다녀온 분위기 좋은 이탈리안 .... 2026-09-14 · 우당탕탕 내 인생
10. 영통역 맛집 쌤순 | 영통역 데이트로 좋은 콜키지 무료 파스타 맛집 2026-09-12 · 홍니하동 자매 블로그
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16. 영통 파스타 맛집 "쌤순 영통점" 아이와 함께 방문해본 솔직 후기(샐러드, 토마토 파스타, 로제 파스타... 2026-07-27 · 빵밍이의 일상 · via Daum
17. 영통역 파스타 맛집 '저라면 여기서 데이트하겠어요' 행복은 성적순.... 2026-06-28 · U deserve it
18. 영통역 파스타 쌤순 sam soon 데이트 청모 맛집 추천 2026-06-24 · Take my time ღ · via Daum
19. 영통역 파스타, 리조또 자주가는 양식맛집 중 하나 쌤순 (samsoon) 2026-06-24 · 수연｜ 일상 육아 뷰티
20. [영통] 쌤순 | 가성비와 분위기 다 잡은 뇨끼 파스타 맛집 (청모/소개팅 추천) 2026-04-27 · 댕댕쀼 ๑•‿•๑ · via Daum
21. 영통역 맛집 영통역 파스타 쌤순 sam soon 2026-03-16 · 희로그 · via Daum
22. [영통] 분위기 좋은 영통역 파스타 맛집 '쌤순(SAMSOON)' 내돈내산 후기 2025-09-29 · ✩°｡⋆⸜ ✮
23. 영통역 파스타 맛집 쌤순 추천입니다! 2025-06-29 · 랑맘
24. 수원 영통역 맛집 쌤순(samsoon) 이탈리아 레스토랑 추천 2025-06-23 · 모래위잡초
25. [수원/ 영통맛집] 쌤순 영통점 (캐쥬얼다이닝레스토랑) 2025-04-22 · YEA JIN's BLOG.
26. 영통역 파스타 분위기 좋은 영통데이트코스 쌤순 영통점 주차정보 .... 2025-03-02 · 나는야 김도랑
27. 경기도 - 수원시 영통구 "쌤순"/Sam Soon/이탈리아레스토랑/살치살스테.... 2025-02-17 · 내삶의 오아시스
28. [수원 영통 맛집] 쌤순 Sam Soon 영통점 / 문어 먹물 리조또 감태 크림 .... 2025-02-01 · 모든 순간의 기록
29. 영통맛집 영통역 쌤순(sam soon) : 파스타, 샐러드, 스테이크 맛집 2024-11-21 · ❁ 세듀니쓰 일상.zip ❁

Of 281 candidate posts we opened 61 and kept 29 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.

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