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Roll in ikseon

롤인익선 Roll in Ikseon A ten-seat Japanese roll shop in the lanes of Ikseon-dong, where seventeen of twenty-four visitors ordered the same salmon-and-avocado roll.

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

Roll in Ikseon is a small Japanese place in the lane that leads into Ikseon-dong's old-house quarter. It is a salmon shop: seventeen of the twenty-four people we read ordered the salmon-and-avocado roll, and nine of those had been before. The menu runs rolls, nigiri, rice bowls, udon and buckwheat noodles — and a hot udon can be had although the menu lists only cold. The room is small: two writers count three tables for two and four single seats facing the wall, with a little more space behind; a third puts it at about five parties. Those single seats are why six posts recommend it for eating alone. Eleven in the morning to eight at night, closed for two hours from three (three posts say not on Saturdays). Closed Sundays, and there is no parking. The posts we read run from November 2025 to September 2026.

The basics

7 posts say it is walkable from the station.

When it opens

Of 11 posts: 11 wrote 11:00–20:00.

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 yeoneo abokado roll (연어아보카도롤) — 17 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

• 연어아보카도롤17 ate it
  yeoneo abokado roll₩14,000 · ₩15,000

  **This is very nearly the whole house — seventeen of the twenty-four ate it.** Thick raw salmon and avocado over a thin wrap of rice, with crisp tempura crumb through it. One writer notes the salmon is raw, not smoked. Eight pieces, and one advises halving them if your mouth is small

  **The price moved:** ₩14,000 in November 2025 and March 2026, ₩15,000 in all four posts from May and June 2026. The praise repeats itself — the salmon is thick (ten posts), the tempura crumb earns its place (seven), the rice is sparing enough not to fill you (two). **The complaints exist too:** one writer found it short (she eats two portions of pasta by herself, she adds), one wishes it cost a little less, one wants cream cheese on it. And one avoided it on purpose, expecting a flavour she could get anywhere, and ordered the prawn rolls instead

• 연어초밥 (6피스)3 ate it
  yeoneo chobap₩12,000 · ₩13,000

  **Known for the size of the fish.** Half again as big as ordinary nigiri, says one; too big for one mouthful, says another; a third simply calls them giant. One notes there is no wasabi inside, so add your own

  **It went up:** ₩12,000 for six in March 2026, ₩13,000 for six in July 2026. One writer found six enough to fill her, given the size. Another went for the nigiri, judged the portion small, **and ordered a roll instead**

• 사케동 (연어덮밥)3 ate it
  sakedon₩14,500

  Raw salmon over rice. **One post prices it** at ₩14,500 in May 2026. One writer likes that the soy sauce comes separately, to dip rather than pour

  One party came because a friend wanted this specifically; in another, the companion ordered it. All three liked it, and none has a complaint

• 우삼겹우동3 ate it
  usamgyeop udon

  Hot udon with thin-sliced beef. **No post gives a price.** One notes spring onion and fried tofu in it

  **All three write about the broth** — one calls it the kick of the meal; one, deep without tipping into salty, and the kind you keep spooning after the noodles are gone; one, filling without being heavy. One found the portion generous, and one recommends the pairing: cold raw salmon against hot broth

• 드래곤롤 (새우·연어)2 ate it
  dragon roll

  **The second roll people reach for.** One writer explains it is not everything at once but **half salmon rolls and half prawn rolls,** with cucumber and crab stick inside. No price on record

  Showier on the table and better to photograph, says one. Where the avocado roll is richer and heavier, this one eats light and clean, says another. **Two writers advise ordering both and sharing**

• 유부우동 (따뜻한 우동)2 ate it
  yubu udon₩8,500

  **The cheapest thing anyone here prices** — ₩8,500 in May 2026. One writer notes that **the menu lists only the cold noodles but a hot udon can be had anyway,** and hers came with fried fishcake and a large piece of tofu skin

  One ordered it so as not to eat only salmon and was glad of it, singling out the thin-sliced fishcake. The other found the noodles springy and the broth good — enough to share when the rest falls a little short

• 냉모밀·판모밀2 ate it
  naeng momil₩10,000

  **One post prices it** at ₩10,000 for the cold buckwheat in July 2026. One notes the dipping broth comes separately; the other, a heaped plate of noodles with spring onion, radish and wasabi

  One advises pouring the broth a little at a time so it stays cold to the end. The other liked it clean and cold between mouthfuls of roll

• 치킨가라아게동2 ate it
  chicken karaage don₩10,500

  Fried chicken under egg and onion, over rice. **One post prices it** at ₩10,500 in July 2026 — the second-cheapest thing anyone here has put a figure on

  Both liked it: the egg and onion soften it and keep the fried chicken from cloying, says one; the batter is thin and stays on the meat, says the other

• 반반동 (돈카츠·가라아게)2 ate it
  banban don

  Half pork cutlet, half fried chicken, over rice, with egg laid over the top by both accounts. **Neither gives a price**

  The sauce soaks into the rice just enough, says one, and the fried pieces come generously — a bowl of it left her properly full. Both ordered it alongside a roll

• 오야꼬동1 ate it
  oyakodon

  **It appears as a single line in a diary covering seventeen restaurants** — the best thing she ate. No price, no description

  That line is all we have. Four posts confirm rice bowls on the menu, but only one names this one

• 명란 덮밥 (이름 불확실)1 ate it
  myeongnan deopbap

  **Even the writer did not know what it was called** — a cod-roe and beef bowl, maybe, she guesses, saying the name is probably wrong (December 2025). We have not checked it against the menu either, **so the name here is not to be trusted**

  She works nearby and comes often, and says she has never once ordered without the avocado roll. This bowl appears to have come alongside it

• 연어장덮밥1 ate it
  yeoneojang deopbap₩15,000

  Soy-cured salmon over rice. **One person ate it,** at ₩15,000 in June 2026, and liked the look of it before tasting it

  The cure is savoury without being sharp, she writes, and the seasoning stops short of salty, so it stays easy to the last bite. **The same post prefers the roll**

• 냉우동1 ate it
  naeng udon

  **You pour a part-frozen broth over it,** according to the one writer who had it (June 2026). **A soy-cured egg and fried chicken come in it** — which, she says, makes it a meal on its own. No price given

  She recommends it outright for summer, the fried chicken included. One other post confirms it sits on the menu beside the cold buckwheat

• 새우템프라롤1 ate it
  saeu tempura roll

  **One writer deliberately skipped the salmon** (February 2026): everyone orders the avocado roll, she says, and she expected a flavour she could get anywhere, so she went for prawn — with fried chicken and fried king prawns alongside. No price given

  **It is also the coldest verdict in the set:** it does the basics, she says, but she is honestly not sure she would come twice. She is the only person who ordered the prawn side of the menu, **so whether the disappointment was the roll or the restaurant we cannot say**

• 후토마키1 ate it
  futomaki₩14,000

  **One person ate it,** at ₩14,000 in November 2025 — the same price as the avocado roll that day. Just about a single mouthful, she says, with something crisp inside and well put together

  **She preferred it to the avocado roll** — the only one of the twenty-four to put anything above that roll

Sides, and what comes with it

• 기본 찬·장국3 ate it
  gibon chan / jangguk

  An order brings pickled ginger, pickled shallot and pickled radish with water, and a hot clear broth before the food. Three posts record it

  **The two who mention the broth agree on one thing — it comes properly hot,** which one of them says matters because it loosens you up before the food. One calls it exactly the broth everyone knows. Whether you can ask for more, no post says

• 치킨가라아게 (사이드)3 ate it
  chicken karaage

  **One writer's strongest recommendation here is not a roll but this side.** It looks ordinary, she says, and she took the first bite expecting nothing — and now spends every visit trying to reverse-engineer the sauce (mayonnaise, wholegrain mustard, lemon, honey?). Crisp outside, soft within, and seasoned exactly right

  **Not one post gives a price.** One ordered it because rolls alone felt thin, and found that something crisp between the soft mouthfuls made her eat more of both

• 왕새우튀김1 ate it
  wang-saeu twigim

  **One person ordered it** (February 2026), with a prawn roll and fried chicken. Neither the price nor how many you get is recorded

  That post passes a single verdict over all three dishes and **says nothing about this one on its own**

Parking

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

There is no parking — four posts say so and none of them disagrees. Three put it in a line of their own, and the fullest answer is this: no, there is no car park, and the lanes of Ikseon-dong are hard to park in anyway, so take public transport. Most people walked instead: seven posts record arriving on foot from a station or note how close it is, and one recommends it as a date spot precisely because you need not think about the car. Not one post names a paid car park nearby — if you must drive, where to leave it we do not know.

Who came, and with whom

Getting there

Getting inside

One post mentions the floor, and it does so in an address line — ground floor, June 2026. The check-in address carries no floor at all. Not one post says whether there are steps, or what the doorway is like. Four writers describe finding the place — tucked into the lane, easy to walk past, look for the snug-looking one — and none of the four mentions a floor. One does tell us the sign is easy to miss: the beer-and-dried-fish place next door catches the eye first.

Not one post says whether a wheelchair or a pushchair can get in. Across the twenty-four there is no threshold, no step, no ramp, no wheelchair, no pram. This is a place where that question presses harder than usual: about ten seats, six writers calling the room small, one of them sizing it as roughly five parties. Small is not the same as impassable — but small is said six times and passable is never said at all. The posts place it in the lanes of an old-house quarter without once describing the ground underfoot. If you are coming, ring and ask.

One post says the toilet is inside: a May 2026 writer puts it in her own information line, beside the note that there is no parking. In a quarter of converted old houses, where the toilet is often out the back, that reads as a thing worth saying. Another post carries a toilet symbol with nothing written after it — we cannot tell what she meant to say, so we have not counted it. Whether the toilets are separate, how many, or what they are like, nobody records.

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

• Posts saying they paid themselves5 / 215 of 21 posts
• Posts saying nothing either way16 / 2116 of 21 posts

Posts that followed a TV spot

Of the 22 posts we gathered, 1 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

• Five posts say there was no wait, and nobody records queueing — and yet the queue is talked about. The five arrived at different hours: twenty past eleven on a Saturday (first through the door, two or three tables by the time she left), seven on a Saturday evening, half past six on a weekday (no wait, she notes, but one seat left), an odd hour on a Sunday, and right at opening. The first of them adds that the reviews she had read were full of waits, and puts the empty room down to the heat keeping people in. The queue reaches us only second-hand: one writer was told by a friend who works in the area that the weekday lunch line runs out of the door; another says only that with so few tables you might wait a little at a busy hour. No post describes actually waiting. With about ten seats, though, it reads as a room that simply fills, and two writers advise avoiding the peak.
• You can get here by subway, and the posts cannot agree on how long it takes. The figure that recurs is 235 metres from exit 4 at Jongno 3-ga (three posts, two of them by the same writer), and one gives it as about five minutes on foot. But one post says fifteen minutes from the same exit — and 235 metres is not a fifteen-minute walk. We have not checked which is right. What the others offer is not minutes but feel: close enough to come by train and on foot; a short walk from the station through lanes of old shops and small cafés that one writer says is a walk worth taking for itself. Against that, a woman who works in Jongno 3-ga says you have to march to get here — which reads as tight for a lunch hour. One post notes you can also walk from Anguk station, and two name three subway lines at Jongno 3-ga.
• One writer ate here on a Sunday, and ten posts say it closes on Sundays. On 13 June 2026 she describes finally acting on a free weekend, braces for a wait, and gets a table at once — an odd Sunday hour, she supposes — over a ₩15,000 avocado roll. Ten other posts give Sunday as the weekly closing day, and those ten are spread from March to August 2026, so this cannot be a change that happened in between. She may have the day wrong; it may have opened that once. We cannot tell. If you are going on a Sunday, ring first. There is one more thing worth the same care: it closes at eight and the last order is half past seven (two posts give the last order). One writer records turning up with a friend to find the kitchen shut, and coming back another day.
• One post warns that the food can be slow, and it is written by a regular. The pace depends on when you come, she says, so leave yourself time — and she returns to it at the end, judging the wait repaid by the food. Another writer records the opposite: her avocado roll arrived eight minutes after ordering, on a weekday afternoon in June 2026. A third notes a short wait because her order was fried. That the fried dishes take longer is a reading of one post, not a count. If you are fitting this into a lunch hour, allow for it — two of the writers here work nearby and came on their break.
• Not one post declares a sponsorship, and five declare that they paid. The other nineteen say nothing. There is no batch of near-identical posts and no repeated hashtag block: the dishes, the prices and the complaints differ post to post, and even with seventeen people eating the same roll, no two of them reach for the same comparison for its thickness. One writer, though, came twice in August 2026 and wrote three times: a visit on the 4th, a "three Seoul restaurants" round-up on the 22nd, and a second visit on the 25th. We took the middle one out of the count — it records nothing eaten that day and links back to her own post from the 4th, so counting it would turn one visit into two. Hence twenty-four posts, twenty-three people. One more thing: only one of the seven posts that give prices is later than July 2026, so whether ₩15,000 still holds, we do not know.

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