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CLEO

Name: CLEO
Address: 서울특별시 용산구 장문로 23 (이태원동,(지상1층)), 용산구, 서울특별시, 04392, KR

클레오 Cleo Mediterranean plates inside the Mondrian Seoul Itaewon

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

Cleo is a Mediterranean and Middle Eastern restaurant on the ground floor of the Mondrian Seoul Itaewon, inside the hotel at 23 Jangmun-ro between Itaewon and Hannam-dong; the registered floor area is 417 square metres. The cooking runs through Greece, Türkiye and Lebanon — three dips with bread from the wood oven, kebabs off the skewer, and the boat-shaped flatbread called pide. The oven is visible from the room and the kitchen is open. In the mornings the same room is the hotel's breakfast buffet, open to non-guests at 60,000 won a head. It closes twice a day, so lunch starts at twelve and dinner at half past five. The posts we read run from January 2025 to September 2026.

파스타·양식 — **Pasta** pasta and western platesAn AI drawing of Pasta as a dish. Not a photograph of this shop, and not drawn from this shop's menu. © Gilpost · no unauthorised reproduction

The basics

Address	서울특별시 용산구 장문로 23 (이태원동,(지상1층)) 23 Jangmun-ro, Yongsan-gu, Seoul
Phone	02-2076-2050 as written in the posts 02-2076-2170 as registered on the licence
Typical spend	₩30,000 – ₩60,000
Floor area	417 m²
Status	In business

1 posts say it is walkable from the station.

When it opens

Of 7 posts: 4 wrote Daily 06:30–22:00.

Open	Daily	06:00–22:00 2 of 7 posts last seen 2026-09
Open	Daily	06:30–22:00 4 of 7 posts last seen 2026-03
Break		15:00–17:30 6 of 6 posts last seen 2026-09
Break		10:00–12:00 2 of 6 posts last seen 2026-09
Break		10:30–12:00 4 of 6 posts last seen 2026-05
Last order		21:00 4 of 4 posts last seen 2026-09

The values differ, but the periods they were written in do not overlap. This looks like a change over time rather than a disagreement, and the top row is the most recently reported. We did not confirm it with the restaurant.

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

Four posts booked ahead, through Naver or CatchTable; one took a seven o'clock table, another found the room had plenty of tables anyway. One pulled off a sixteen-person family gathering on Chuseok day itself, noting how little else was open over the holiday. One post says seating runs from twos up to a ten-seat table, another that there is a separate bar counter. One walked in without a booking on a weekday lunchtime and was seated easily, though the room was busy.
The kitchen is open and the wood oven is in view — three posts write about the kitchen and five about the oven. Two of them read the open kitchen as a hygiene signal: you can watch the chefs work. The oven is where the bread keeps coming from, and one writer watched a chef build and fire her pizza by hand. Four posts also stop at the ceiling — coloured stained glass, which one calls the restaurant's real signature.
Three posts took thirty percent off with an Accor membership, one of them through a particular credit card. For one writer the discount is what settled the question of price — expensive, yes, but reasonable once it came off. The prices we carry are all before any discount. One of the three quotes their own post from two years earlier, which cites ten percent rather than thirty, so the rate appears to have changed.

What 19 bloggers said

We read all 19 in full. The most common claims are “Friendly staff” (4) and “Returning customer” (3).

What they liked

Returning customer3 of 19 posts

Friendly staff4 of 19 posts

No wait2 of 19 posts

Would return3 of 19 posts

Clean2 of 19 posts

What they struggled with

Cramped2 of 19 posts

Where they disagree

Expensive	yes 4 · no 2
Large portions	yes 2 · no 3

Things you can check on site

Takes reservations	4 of 19 posts
Open kitchen	3 of 19 posts
Discount offered	3 of 19 posts
Reachable by transit	1 of 19 posts
Valet parking	2 of 19 posts
Large windows	2 of 19 posts
Foreign customers in the room	1 of 19 posts
Cooked to order	1 of 19 posts
Wine served	1 of 19 posts
Outdoor terrace seating	1 of 19 posts

These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.

The most ordered dish is Beef Kebab (비프 케밥) — 7 of 19 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

비프 케밥7 ate it
Beef Kebab₩34,000
Beef grilled on a steel skewer with a white and a red sauce; a server pulls the skewer out at the table.
**The most-ordered single dish, and all three who priced it say 34,000 won.** Three single out the smoke, one guessing at a blowtorch finish. **But two found the beef tough** — the bluntest swearing off it and declaring the chicken better that evening. **Another says flatly that it was not tough at all and full of juice.** One writer helpfully reframes it for the hesitant: think of it as a steak.
조식 뷔페6 ate it
Breakfast Buffet₩41,800 · ₩60,000
The hotel's breakfast is served here — Korean and western dishes with a bakery section, and eggs cooked to order.
**There are two prices**: 60,000 won on the day, or 41,800 if you add it the day before — a gap of 18,200 won that one writer, reading the in-room sheet, tells you not to pass up. Children's rates run 30,000 and 20,900. **Two posts note that adding adult breakfast makes it free for children under eleven.** **Six posts ate it, and four of them land on the same complaint: not much choice.** One calls it light morning food rather than a spread; another was disappointed for a five-star hotel. **Two say the opposite** — Korean through western with a good bakery section. What they remember differs completely from post to post, which suggests the line-up moves. **One singles out the eggs cooked to order.**
갑오징어 먹물 파스타5 ate it
Cuttlefish Ink Pasta₩38,000
Squid-ink pasta with cuttlefish, named as tagliatelle in some posts; sometimes topped with cured roe and salmon eggs.
Five posts ate it and two name it the best thing they had. Several praise how the cuttlefish was cooked and how the ink carries in the sauce; one tells you to squeeze the lemon over it. **One flags where it might lose people**: the cured roe can read as fishy and the edible flowers can put people off. One post gives the price.
치킨 케밥4 ate it
Chicken Kebab₩30,000 · ₩32,000
Chicken kebab, with the same pair of sauces.
Called very tender and generous in May; a regular order for another writer, who after a side-by-side with the beef resolved to get two of these next time. The 2026 price is 32,000 won and the 2025 one 30,000. **One writer wished someone had told her what the two sauces were.**
버섯 피자4 ate it
Mushroom Pizza
Mushroom pizza from the wood oven; two posts smell truffle in it.
Four posts ate it and **three call it the best**: the truffle and cheese, the oven a few steps away, the edge crisp and the middle chewy. **Nobody wrote down the price.**
피데 (튀르키예식 화덕빵)3 ate it
Pide₩36,000
A boat-shaped Turkish flatbread from the wood oven — truffle with egg yolk and cheese, or tantuni with lamb. A server mixes and cuts it for you.
**Three ate it, and one explains it as halfway between a pizza and a naan.** Of the two who had the truffle version, one describes the server mixing and cutting it at the table, the other found it big enough to finish them off. The writer who had the lamb one expected the end piece to be hard and instead rates the dough above most wood-fired pizza.
램 코프타3 ate it
Lamb Kofta₩32,000
Minced lamb kofta.
One writer rates it for keeping the lamb's character without leaning on spice; another orders it every time. One post gives the price.
주키니 감베리 피자2 ate it
Zucchini Gamberi Pizza₩31,000 · ₩32,000
Thin-crust pizza with courgette and prawn, sometimes finished with edible flowers.
One writer rates the thin chewy base and the amount of courgette and prawn on it, finding it savoury and salty at once; another had never eaten an edible flower before. The two prices are a year apart.
믹스드 케밥 플레이트1 ate it
Mixed Kebab Plate₩200,000 set
Beef, chicken and lamb kebabs with three dips. **A plate to share.**
**One post, one price: 200,000 won** (April 2026) — and the same writer still ordered extra lamb and chicken because the plate was not large. **The three kebabs priced singly elsewhere do not add to half of that, so this figure needs a human check**; we carried it as written and filed it as a set so it does not set the per-person range.
봉골레 카펠리니1 ate it
Vongole Capellini₩39,000
Clams in oil over capellini, a thinner strand than usual.
One post ate it and measures the clams against a four-person pot of clam noodle soup back home — there were more in this one plate. The same writer's gloss on capellini: it is spaghetti.

클레오 딥 셀렉션6 ate it
Cleo Dip Selection₩19,000 · ₩20,000
Three dips — hummus, a labneh-and-feta yoghurt cheese, and a smoked aubergine muttabal — with zaatar bread straight from the wood oven. Two pieces of bread come with it; you can order more.
**Six posts ordered it and it draws the most consistent praise here.** One writer, who says she had never found good hummus in Korea, now comes for this specifically — and ordered extra bread twice. Two others put it down to the bread arriving straight from the wood oven. **Which of the three dips wins is contested**: two pick the yoghurt one, two the hummus. The price is 20,000 won in 2026 and 19,000 in 2025.
그릭샐러드3 ate it
Greek Salad₩23,000
Cherry tomato, cucumber, onion and olives under feta.
One writer says it alone made her feel she had been to Greece. **Another found the dressing sharp enough to linger.** A third describes the feta as crumbly-dry. The price comes from the last of these.
레바논식 감자튀김2 ate it
Lebanese Fries₩16,000 · ₩17,000
Spiced fries with a yoghurt dip and a hot red one.
The writer who was most looking forward to it says the spice makes it addictive and he would order it again; he and his wife split on which dip. The earlier post, at 1,000 won less, is briefer — it had wondered what made them Lebanese and found the answer in the yoghurt.
샤프란 라이스2 ate it
Saffron Rice₩9,000 · ₩13,000
Yellow saffron rice with raisins and nuts; posts name it differently.
**Two posts had it alongside the kebabs and each gives it a different name and price** — 13,000 won under one, 9,000 under the other, four thousand apart, so whether it is the same dish needs a human check. The cheaper one admits he could not find it on the menu board.
도미 세비체2 ate it
Sea Bream Ceviche
Sea bream ceviche in a sharp dressing, with herbs.
**Both used it to cut the richness of everything else** — one says the meal would have been heavy without it, the other that it resets the palate between dishes. Nobody wrote down the price.
크리스피 칼라마리1 ate it
Crispy Calamari
Fried squid with lemon and a dipping sauce.
One post ate it, finding it light rather than oily and hard to stop eating with the lemon. **Its three-line summary opens by rating it above the calamari they had in Spain.** Nobody wrote down the price.

Parking

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

Posts saying you can park	5 of 19 posts

Eat at Cleo and three hours' parking is covered — five posts discuss it. One is pointed about it: three free hours in Itaewon, where parking is otherwise hell. Another found the stack goes further — buy something at the basement café and you get two hours more, which they used for a walk. Valet is available, and one writer says they are generous with it and advises driving. One dissent: the car park on basement levels three and four is tight enough that you should go down early. Nobody wrote down what parking actually costs.

Who came, and with whom

Date	3 of 19 posts
Family visit	2 of 19 posts
Group visit	2 of 19 posts

Getting there

Getting inside

Ground floor. Thirteen posts carry the address line saying so, but that line comes from Naver's check-in widget. Four writers state the floor themselves, the most precise placing it to the right of the main entrance on the first floor, and one noting the building's quirk: the hotel lobby is on the second floor and the restaurants on the first, so you go up to check in and back down to eat. Five mention the basement arcade with its convenience store, bakery and restaurants — that is not Cleo.

Not one post says whether you can get in with a wheelchair or a pushchair. Across nineteen posts the words for threshold, step and ramp never appear. We know it is the ground floor of a five-star hotel with lifts, and one description of the walk from the lobby — past mirrors, artificial trees and a swing — reads as level, but nobody describes the entrance itself. One post mentions the hotel takes dogs, but that is about the rooms and we excluded that post. This is not a claim that you cannot get in; it is us saying we do not know.

Not one post mentions the toilets. In nineteen posts they never come up — whether they are inside the restaurant, whether you use the hotel lobby's, whether they are separated by sex. Being on a hotel's ground floor makes a guess easy, but a guess is not ours to write down. Two posts describe the bathrooms in detail, but those are guest rooms, and one of those posts is one we excluded.

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 saying they paid themselves8 of 19 posts
Posts saying nothing either way11 of 19 posts

Posts that followed a TV spot

Of the 24 posts we gathered, 5 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

0112010304050809

Month by month

Month	Posts
2025-01	1
2025-12	1
2026-01	2
2026-03	2
2026-04	1
2026-05	3
2026-08	5
2026-09	4

What we do not know

Four call it expensive and two do not — and they are measuring different things. The first group quotes totals: 98,000 won for three kebabs, 170,000 for a table of three, twice what they usually pay for pizza and pasta, and 60,000 for a breakfast one writer will skip next time. The second group measures against other hotels — a hundred and thirty-odd thousand for two across four plates reads as fair to them for the room and the service. Those two totals are the honest arithmetic here. Breakfast sits apart: 60,000 on the day, 41,800 if you pay the night before.
Nobody queued, and three posts describe a busy room. Breakfast is the crush: nine o'clock on a Saturday was full. A post we excluded — it never ate there — copies the hotel's own crowding chart: quiet until seven, fairly quiet until eight, and busy from eight to ten with waits possible. Lunch and early dinner read as calm, and a sixteen-person party was taken on a booking.
They disagree about arriving without a car. The clearest says it plainly: too far to walk comfortably from Itaewon station, and since they are generous with the valet, drive. One gives the distance as 921 metres from exit 3 at Noksapyeong. One came by bus, thirty minutes from Yongsan station. A post we excluded gives the fullest directions and still recommends a taxi if you have luggage — five bus routes stop at the district office, and the subway leaves you a ten-minute walk. One reviewer scored access four out of five while giving fives elsewhere.
Morning and evening read like two different restaurants. Of nineteen posts, six only ate breakfast, eleven came to the restaurant for lunch or dinner, and two did both on one stay. What the two groups write about barely overlaps: kebabs, pide, hummus and prices on one side; buffet range and the 60,000 won figure on the other. Four breakfast posts converge on "not much choice"; four restaurant posts converge on the opposite problem — the menu is hard to read. One asked the staff to recommend; another advises pulling up other people's photos on your phone and pointing, and says they will find the dish for you. Three ordered on a staff recommendation.
One in five of the posts we read never ate here. Of twenty-four, five came out of the count. One says outright that they did not take breakfast (they ate across the road instead); one is a room-and-amenities write-up that links its breakfast review separately; one carries booking-site discount links and says its author ordered delivery to the room; one is an itinerary proposal rather than a visit; and one is a hotel guide assembled from ratings, room rates and cancellation terms. That is why the number is nineteen and not twenty-four. No post declares a sponsorship and seven say they paid. But one is a Coupang affiliate post — it discloses the commission up front and carries three shopping links inside the text. We counted nothing from the disclosure, but the advertising may be why those particular dishes were ordered, so we note it. We did not count the hotel's other outlets as ours — the lobby lounge, the second-floor bar, the rooftop bar and the fifth-floor pool are separate businesses with their own check-in entries. The 15,000 won coffee and the 12,000 won beer in two posts came from those, so they are not in our menu.

Sources (19)

Every number above was counted from the posts below.

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몬드리안 호텔 끌레오(Cleo) 메뉴 추천 & 조식 후기! 수영장 피로 풀고.... 2026-01-31 · 진성핏
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Of 449 candidate posts we opened 79 and kept 19 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.