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Dongnip Millbang

독립밀방 익선 Dongnimmilbang Ikseon Italian plates in an Ikseon-dong hanok

Data as of 2026-09-30 · Published 2026-10-01 · Compiled by Gilpost

Dongnip Millbang Ikseon is an Italian restaurant three to five minutes' walk from Jongno 3-ga station, down a lane at the near end of the Ikseon-dong hanok quarter. It occupies one old house: white tables and western settings under exposed rafters and timber posts. Pasta, risotto, pizza and a flat-iron steak, with two-person sets priced separately. Open daily, closed between three and five in the afternoon. It opened in 2017 under a different name and became Dongnip Millbang Ikseon in 2026, and the same name now hangs on branches at Dongnimmun, Seoul Station and Cheongnyangni — worth checking which one you are reading about. The posts we read run from August to September 2026.

The basics

4 posts say it is walkable from the station.

When it opens

Of 9 posts: 5 wrote 11:00–22:00, 4 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.

These hours are counted from the posts we read. Shops change them without notice — check Naver Place before you go. Place — check hours

What people order

The most ordered dish is Cheonggyul Ade (청귤 에이드) — 4 of 13 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

• 쉬림프 갈릭 오일 스파게티니4 ate it
  Shrimp Garlic Oil Spaghettini

  Garlic-oil spaghettini with prawns and rocket, served with a grilled lemon.

  The single dish most often ordered. Two writers say the oil sauce stays lighter than they expected, and one calls the prawns unusually plump. Nobody wrote down the price.

• 부챗살 스테이크3 ate it
  Buchaesal Steak₩39,500

  Flat-iron steak with french fries; you pick the doneness and the dip — salt, wholegrain mustard or wasabi.

  **Writers split on this one.** One found it cut cleanly with the juices intact; another hit a sinew tough enough to spit out and steers readers to the pizza or risotto instead. Two posts give the same price.

• 관자구이 전복 리조또3 ate it
  Grilled Scallop and Abalone Risotto₩25,000

  Risotto under grilled scallop and abalone; one post files it as a summer menu.

  All three writers taste the abalone liver in the rice. The scallop divides them: one eats it apart from the risotto on purpose, another compares it to fried fishcake. Two posts give the same price.

• 파스타 & 리조또 2인 세트3 ate it
  Pasta and Risotto Set (2)₩48,500 set

  Two dishes from the pasta and risotto list plus two drinks. **This is the price for two people.**

  One post gives 48,500 won; another says the set saves 3,500 won against the same dishes ordered singly.

• 파스타 & 피자 2인 세트3 ate it
  Pasta and Pizza Set (2)₩49,000 set

  One pasta, one pizza and two drinks. **This is the price for two people.**

  Two posts give 49,000 won, and one notes the set undercuts ordering the same dishes separately. A post about another branch lists a different figure; since we excluded that post, we do not carry its price here.

• 부라타 마르게리타 피자3 ate it
  Burrata Margherita Pizza₩23,000

  An eight-inch margherita topped with burrata and rocket.

  All three note the size first: it arrives smaller than expected, an eight-inch single pizza, which two of them decide is right once a second main is on the table. The price comes from one post.

• 베이컨 화이트 라구 리조또2 ate it
  Bacon White Ragù Risotto₩23,000

  A white beef ragù risotto over mushrooms, finished with bacon.

  The writer who priced it rates the mushrooms underneath above the bacon the dish is named for, calling the bacon decoration. The price comes from that post.

• 베이컨 도피누아즈 크림 파케리2 ate it
  Bacon Dauphinoise Cream Paccheri₩20,500

  Wide tube paccheri in a thick cream sauce with potato and bacon.

  Both writers single out the pasta shape rather than the sauce — the wide tube holds the cream and chews firmly. The 20,500 won figure comes from one of them.

• 해산물 로제 소스 스파게티니2 ate it
  Seafood Rosé Spaghettini₩23,000

  Rosé-sauce spaghettini with clams, prawn, crab and baby octopus under rocket.

  Both call the shellfish generous and the sauce thick without turning heavy; one adds that the crab had little meat in it. The price comes from that post.

• 콰트로 포르마지 피자2 ate it
  Quattro Formaggi Pizza

  Four-cheese pizza, served with honey on the side.

  One writer watched the cheese set as it cooled and advises eating it the moment it lands. Both dip it in the honey. Nobody wrote down the price.

• 잠봉 햄 피자2 ate it
  Jambon Ham Pizza

  Tomato-sauce pizza with jambon ham, mozzarella and a soft egg, brought to the table pre-cut.

  Both writers like the salt of the ham, and one is careful to say it stops short of actually salty. Nobody wrote down the price.

• 토마토 소스 해산물 스파게티니2 ate it
  Tomato Seafood Spaghettini

  Tomato-sauce spaghettini with prawn, clams, scallop and baby octopus.

  One writer found the tomato neither sharp nor aggressive, with the shellfish coming through; another warns it looks hotter than it tastes. Nobody wrote down the price.

• 파스타 & 스테이크 2인 세트1 ate it
  Pasta and Steak Set (2)₩68,500 set

  One pasta, one steak and two drinks. **This is the price for two people.**

  One post gives this price. The same writer added a risotto on top, spent 98,000 won for two, and advises stopping at the set.

To drink

• 청귤 에이드4 ate it
  Cheonggyul Ade

  Green tangerine ade — the drink most often picked with a set.

  One writer pairs it against the cream and cheese dishes on purpose. Nobody wrote down the price.

• 사과주스 (애플주스)3 ate it
  Apple Juice

  Comes in the bottle.

  One writer notes the bottle empties into a single glass and suggests handing it straight back, because the table is small. Nobody wrote down the price.

• 레몬에이드2 ate it
  Lemon Ade

  Served with lemon slices and mint.

  One writer drinks it between bites of the pasta and the pizza. Nobody wrote down the price.

• 버드와이저1 ate it
  Budweiser₩8,000

  A small bottle of beer; the list also runs to wine and other beers.

  One post gives the price, and the same writer went back to drinking from the bottle after tasting metal in the glass.

• 라임에이드1 ate it
  Lime Ade

  One of the set drinks.

  One post only: neither too sour nor too sweet against the food. Nobody wrote down the price.

Who came, and with whom

Getting there

Getting inside

Ground floor — only one post writes the floor into the address. Nobody describes climbing stairs, and no post mentions an upper floor or a basement; it is a single-storey house.

Not one post says whether you can get in with a wheelchair or a pushchair. Across thirteen posts the words for threshold, step and ramp never appear. Several describe a converted hanok down a lane, but none describes the entrance itself. This is not a claim that you cannot get in — it is us saying we do not know.

The toilet is inside — two posts say so. One was glad not to have to walk out for it; the other found it clean and noted a basin to wash up at. In Ikseon-dong, where many places send you outside, that is worth recording. Neither says whether it is separated by sex, and nobody mentions an accessible toilet.

No one mentioned: 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

• Posts disclosing payment1 / 131 of 13 posts
• Posts saying they paid themselves5 / 135 of 13 posts
• Posts saying nothing either way7 / 137 of 13 posts

Posts that followed a TV spot

Of the 16 posts we gathered, 3 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

What we do not know

• Easy to reach by subway, though the posts disagree on which exit. Four give directions: three send you out of exit 3 at Jongno 3-ga, 210 metres or five minutes away, and one out of exit 6, three minutes away. Lines 1, 3 and 5 all stop there. One writer who had been says to walk into the lane at the near end of the hanok street and look left.
• Some waited and some did not, and the difference is a booking. Two waited: one walked in at weekday lunch to a full room and sat after ten minutes, another put their name down and went off round the lanes. Two did not wait, and both had reserved — a Saturday at five, a weekend lunch. One writer warns that peak hours can mean a queue. One got in as the first customer of the day by turning up at eleven.
• One post declares a sponsorship and five say they paid. The sponsored one says nothing in the body — the disclosure is a single hashtag at the very bottom. Two of the five attach Naver's own payment or booking receipt widget. The other seven say nothing about how they paid, which means they said nothing, not that nothing was given.
• One in four of the posts we read turned out not to be about this restaurant. We set aside nine of twenty-five: five about branches of the same name (three at Seoul Station, two at Cheongnyangni), two about the owner's sister restaurant round the corner, and two that only brush past the name. Of the sixteen left we excluded three more from the count — one written about the earlier restaurant in this same house, one affiliate post carrying another branch's parking directions, and one assembled out of other people's reviews. That is why the number is thirteen and not twenty-five.

Sources (13)

Every number above was counted from the posts below.

1. [종로3가역 맛집] 분위기가 너무 좋아 데이트 장소로 제격인 파스타 .... 2026-09-24 · 맛집/여행/일상
2. 창덕궁 근처 익선동 맛집 추천! ~독립밀방 익선, 익선 달랭이, 동백.... 2026-09-19 · 후기 깎는 화산
3. 익선동맛집 추천｜한옥에서 즐기는 관자구이 전복 리조또부터 크림.... 2026-09-14 · ooo_ilsang
4. 익선동 맛집 독립밀방 | 블루리본 선정 이탈리안 레스토랑 2026-09-12 · 픽데이
5. [wedding] 종로 예물투어 | 웨딩밴드 | 스톤콧, 조이아주얼리(계약 O), 소울공방 2026-09-10 · 단이 블로그 | 결혼 준비 중 ♡⊹˳⋆ · via Daum
6. 익선동 파스타 맛집 독립밀방 익선, 1주년 기념일 데이트 후기 2026-09-10 · 안 하던 짓 해보는 중
7. 익선동 맛집 추천 양식데이트 추천 독립밀방 2026-09-10 · 미미(美味):아름다운 맛
8. 내돈내산 익선동 맛집 ‘독립밀방’ 다녀왔숩니당 2026-09-09 · H네 다락방
9. [서울 익선동] 분위기 좋은 한옥 레스토랑,독립밀방 2026-09-08 · 오늘,나는
10. 한옥에서 즐기는 이탈리안 레스토랑의 품격! 익선동 맛집 독립밀방 .... 2026-09-07 · 閑良, 도시농부
11. 익선동 맛집 독립밀방 익선 파스타앤피자 2인 세트 후기 2026-09-05 · 수정재
12. 익선동 블루리본 레스토랑 독립밀방 익선, 솔직한 내돈내산 후기 2026-09-02 · Record this
13. 종로 익선동 블루리본 맛집 독립밀방 익선 내돈내산 2026-08-29 · ෆ결혼준비하는 루나이야기ෆ

Of 297 candidate posts we opened 87 and kept 13 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.

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