Gilpost · Nowon-gu, Sanggye-dong
Korean
Season Seoul by HongShinae
씨즌서울 바이 홍신애 Ssijeun Seoul bai Hong Sinae Season Seoul by Hong Shin-ae — named for seasonal cooking, the restaurant runs under the name of cookery writer Hong Shin-ae and builds its set meals around seasonal produce.
Compiled from 13 blog posts read in fullSources →
A Korean restaurant inside the visitor-centre building of Sulahyu, the forest recreation lodge at Dongmakgol on Suraksan in Nowon. The core is the wrap set meal — beef short rib 22,000 won, spicy pork or grilled mackerel 19,000 won — with a 100,000-won-per-person tasting course at dinner. Rice, soup, greens and pastes are refilled from a self-serve bar, and the room runs straight into the visitor-centre café. You don't need to be staying at the lodge. We read 30 posts dated 14 September to 14 October 2026; 14 of them actually ate here, and most of the rest are lodge booking guides that mention the restaurant in passing. Breakfast changed in mid-September 2026 to two brunch sets, a sandwich and a waffle.
Data as of · Published ·
Location & hours
- Address서울특별시 노원구 덕릉로145길 108, 수락 휴 (상계동)108 Deongneung-ro 145-gil, Nowon-gu, Seoul
- Phone02-931-3953
- Typical spend₩4,500 – ₩100,000
- Floor areaFloor area 99 m² · Status In business
When it opens
Of 4 posts: 4 wrote 11:00–21:30.
| No day given | 11:00–21:30 | 4 of 4 posts |
|---|---|---|
| Break | 16:00–17:00 | 3 of 3 posts |
| Last order | 21:00 | 2 of 2 posts |
| Closed | Tuesday | 4 of 4 posts |
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 sets it apart
- Rice, soup, greens and the pastes are all refilled from a self-serve bar — 9 of the 14 posts that ate here said so. One diner who first thought the sets a bit pricey went back for another bowl of rice with the mackerel. Every set comes with three house pastes (brown-rice doenjang, tofu gochujang, nut-and-chive), which several posts say are sold by the jar.
- Five posts brought children — a 30-month-old, a 3- and 6-year-old, a 7-year-old niece — all on family outings, plus one group of five. Children were given the 10,000-won kids' cutlet or the mackerel set. One post saw a high chair; another mentions children's tableware.
- The dining room shares the visitor centre with the check-in desk and café, separated by a partition; 7 posts mention the attached café. That makes it noisy at peak times: a Sunday-lunch diner said it felt like a food court as check-in time approached, and another compared it to a staff canteen.
- Four posts said the seasoning was gentle and none called it salty — the pastes were 'not salty at all', the hot pot 'on the bland side'.
What 13 bloggers said
jeju tojong dwaeji jeyukbokkeum ssambap jeongsik
Not salty
We read all 13 in full. The most common claims are “Not salty” (4) and “Clean” (4).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Things you can check on site
- Free refills 9 of 13 posts
- Cafe on site 7 of 13 posts
- Takes reservations 4 of 13 posts
- Coffee served 3 of 13 posts
- Takeout 3 of 13 posts
- Discount offered 3 of 13 posts
- Large windows 2 of 13 posts
- Self-order screen 2 of 13 posts
- High chairs 1 of 13 posts
- Outdoor terrace seating 1 of 13 posts
- Beer served 1 of 13 posts
These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.
Parking
1 posts say you can park. None say you cannot.
| Posts saying you can park | 1 of 13 posts |
|---|
Only one post covered parking first-hand: diners use the P2 public lot at the lodge entrance (four hours free once a day, then 150 won per 5 minutes); P1 is for lodge guests. Three other posts copied the same line from an info block, so we don't count them.
Who came, and with whom
- Family visit 5 of 13 posts
- Came with children 5 of 13 posts
- Group visit 1 of 13 posts
Where it is
We could not find this shop’s own listing on Naver Map, so the link searches for its Korean name around this spot instead.
Getting inside
| In a basement | yes 0 · no 1 (of 13 posts read) |
|---|
Nobody described a step at the restaurant door or getting in with a wheelchair or stroller; one post notes it is on the ground floor of the main building. The lodge's barrier-free trail and accessible room come up often, but not the restaurant itself — we don't know.
No diner described the toilets; 'separate men's and women's toilets' appears only in one copied info block, which we don't count. We don't know.
No one mentioned: Second floor · 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 themselves3 of 13 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way10 of 13 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 29 posts we gathered, 16 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.
| 2026-09-16 | 2 posts in one day |
|---|
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 |
|---|---|
| 2026-09 | 6 |
| 2026-10 | 7 |
What we do not know
- Posts disagree on space: one found the tables well spaced, one said the room is small enough that you may wait. Heat is split too — two found the pork spicy, one said it wasn't very hot.
- Breakfast has changed. One post says the Korean or Western breakfast choice became brunch from 17 September 2026; a returning guest found the French-toast set gone. By October there were only two sets, ham-and-cheese sandwich and seasonal-fruit waffle at 15,000 won each, and one guest arriving around 9 a.m. got nearly the last sandwich.
- Four posts touch on booking: one phoned ahead, one saw a CatchTable kiosk at the door, and two had to fix their course time at check-in. Another walked in without a booking early in the evening.
- No post actually queued. Some warn that you may have to wait, but nobody who ate here recorded a wait — that's an absence of reports, not proof there's no line.
- None of the diners described arriving by subway or bus. Guide posts repeat that it is about a 25-minute (1.6 km) walk from Buramsan Station on Line 4, but no diner reported making that trip.
- No post went alone or on a date; the companions recorded are family (five posts) and one group of five.
- Opening hours agree across the four posts that list them: 11:00–21:30, closed Tuesdays (when the lodge closes), with a 16:00–17:00 break in three and last order at 21:00 in two — though three of the four copied these from an info block. Two guide posts say it closes from Tuesday evening to Wednesday lunch, so check Wednesday lunchtime and holiday weeks.
- All prices are from September–October 2026. One diner thought 19,000–22,000 won a bit steep per person until seeing the refill bar; another called the 100,000-won course expensive. The 10% Nowon-resident discount reportedly applies only to café drinks. Only one post showed a receipt.
- Two posts give the phone number as 0507-1358-3953 and one as 02-931-3953. One diner booked by phone but didn't say which number.
- Of the 14 dining posts, two are the same blogger writing up the same course dinner twice, and two read like generic promotional copy with no location or prices, so we give them less weight.
Sources (13)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- 수락산 자연휴양림 수락휴 10월 숙박 후기 | 13호 수락산의 푸른밤 | .... 2026-10-12 · 밍의 봄귤로그 : min_bomgyul
- 씨즌서울바이 홍신애 수락휴 맛집 주차 저녁 조식 후기 2026-10-12 · 고민보다 GO
- 서울 가볼만한곳 수락산동막골유아숲 체험, 주차, 씨즌서울바이홍신애 수락휴 맛집까지 꿀팁 2026-10-11 · 퇴근 후 엄마, 새벽엔 나 · via Daum
- 아이랑 수락휴 트리하우스 B612 2026-10-08 · 개인적인 공간 · via Daum
- 노원 씨즌 서울 바이 홍신애 이용 내돈내산 이용후기 2026-10-06 · 말랑유의 이모저모 · via Daum
- [9월]수락휴 12호 밤하늘을 날아서 4인실 숙박후기, 씨즌서울 바이 홍.... 2026-10-05 · 요기조기 감성여행 기록 & 맛집 & 카페
- 수락산동막골자연휴양림-수락휴/씨즌서울 2026-10-01 · 그리듯 여행하는 옥디너리 · via Daum
- [서울 수락산] 정갈한 제철 한식 다이닝, '씨즌 서울 바이 홍신애 (수락휴)' 방문 후기 및 메뉴 안내 2026-09-30 · 뽈치고 여행하는 시리 · via Daum
- 수락휴 예약방법 가격 트리하우스 홍신애 식당 후기 2026-09-28 · 고민보다 GO
- 수락산 맛집 씨즌서울 바이 홍신애 건강한 한식 가족모임 추천 2026-09-27 · 모두함께
- 서울감성숙소 노원 수락휴 트리하우스 예약방법 주차 아이랑 후기 2026-09-23 · 하호남매네, 일상육아블로그დ
- 노원구 수락휴 레스토랑 '씨즌서울 바이 홍신애' 내돈내산 후기 (제.... 2026-09-21 · 따봉시츄 토미와 누나의 하루
- 서울 맛집 추천｜씨즌서울 바이 홍신애 제육볶음정식 & 소갈비정식 후기 2026-09-14 · 또갈집 · via Daum
Of 283 candidate posts we opened 52 and kept 13 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.