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Daban Seongsu

다반 성수 Seasonal Korean sets up a stair off a Seoul Forest lane

Korean · Seongdong-gu, Seongsu-dong 1-ga

Updated 2026-09-24 · Published 2026-09-26

Daban Seongsu is a modern Korean restaurant five minutes from either Seoul Forest exit 5 or Ttukseom exit 8, up a flight of stairs in a back lane. The name means everyday tea and rice, and the kitchen serves seasonal banssang sets alongside à la carte dishes. One dish appears in all twenty-six posts: gimbap rolled in gamtae seaweed around aged kimchi. Barley or cassia tea arrives instead of water, in an old glass bottle, and you order from a kiosk at the table. It opens at eleven every day and closes at half nine, with a break from half three to five on weekdays only. You can book through Naver or Catch Table, and those who book barely wait. We read posts from 10 June to 25 September 2026.

The basics

6 posts say it is walkable from the station.

When it opens

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 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

• 묵은지 감태김밥22 ate it
  Aged-kimchi gimbap in gamtae seaweed₩15,000

  **All twenty-six posts name it.** A gimbap rolled not in laver but in **gamtae**, a finer green seaweed, around aged kimchi, seasoned dried squid, sous-vide chicken breast, rolled egg, cucumber and romaine — four writers list the fillings and the lists match. **A dish of fresh kimchi comes with it**, which three say is the point of the plate and one says makes it too salty. Two are surprised to learn the meat was chicken breast, so little did it dry out. One writer reports every table in the room eating it; another thinks the filling has changed since her last visit.

• 들기름 성게 메밀국수13 ate it
  Sea-urchin buckwheat noodles in perilla oil₩21,000

  **One of the dearest dishes, named in sixteen posts.** Sea urchin steeped in perilla oil over buckwheat noodles, with salmon roe and prawn; two writers are told by staff to mix the urchin through before eating. **Opinions split**: several call it cool and bright for summer and praise the freshness, while one finds it much like any perilla-oil noodle and says the urchin barely registers. One who feared it would taste fishy did not find it so.

• 보리새우 미나리전11 ate it
  Shrimp and water-dropwort pancake₩15,000

  **Eleven ordered it and it draws the most even praise on the menu** — two call it the best thing they ate. Barely any flour, they say, so it tastes of the herb; the dropwort comes through hard and the edges crisp. **A soy-and-onion dip comes with it.** One writer found it too wholesome for her own taste but watched her friends finish it, and would order it again with her parents.

• 차와 음료 (보리차·식혜·에이드)8 ate it
  Tea and soft drinks₩6,000

  **Tea comes instead of water** — fitting for a restaurant whose name means tea and rice — and three writers note that it arrives in an old Del Monte glass bottle. Five call it barley tea; one was corrected by her mother and sister, who recognised it as cassia seed tea. There are ades and a pumpkin sikhye at 6,000 won; one writer found the sikhye overwhelmingly of jujube and had to keep stirring it. Four mention the traditional liquors and a makgeolli highball.

• 고사리 육개 볶음국수8 ate it
  Yukgaejang-style stir-fried noodles₩15,000

  **Yukgaejang rebuilt as a noodle dish** — brisket and its broth, bracken, oyster mushroom, bean sprouts, chilli oil and crushed perilla, according to the one writer who lists it. **"New but familiar" is the recurring verdict**, with two calling it addictive. **One found it too salty to finish**, and another warns that anyone who dislikes yukgaejang will dislike this.

• 궁중 라구 떡볶이6 ate it
  Royal-court tteokbokki with ragù₩19,000

  **Court-style tteokbokki under a beef ragù and cheese, with pasta (casarecce) among the rice cakes** — three writers note the pasta. Two praise the way the ragù seasons the rice cake and the tomato lifts it; one records only "so-so". Two mention the button mushrooms.

• 루꼴라 오징어 김치전6 ate it
  Rocket, squid and kimchi pancake

  **Six people ordered it and not one wrote down the price.** The rocket works better with kimchi than they expected, they say, and the edges crisp well. It reads as the alternative to the dropwort pancake — nobody ordered both.

• 시즌 반상 (춘하추동)2 ate it
  Seasonal banssang sets₩23,000

  **The seasonal set is the restaurant's own idea of itself, and only two writers ordered one.** The story — that daban means everyday tea and rice, and that the sets follow the four seasons — appears in ten posts in nearly identical words, so we treat it as the house blurb rather than evidence. **The two who ate one** had the spicy pork-rib set at 23,000 won and an aged-kimchi rib set, the latter finding it mild, the seaweed soup like her mother's, and the ketchup on the rolled egg a mistake. **The other thirteen say they will try it next time.**

• 갈비찜과 밤퓨레2 ate it
  Braised short rib with chestnut purée₩38,000

  **The most expensive thing on the menu at 38,000 won.** Of the two who ordered a rib dish, one ordered extra rice to go with it; the other found it mild and her mother thought it dear. The other four only read the name off the menu. **One price, one post** — we cannot say whether it still holds.

Parking

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

There is no car park, and the same list of alternatives circulates from post to post. More than ten repeat "no parking" from the listing; three actually drove, and two of them price the options: Galleria Foret at 8,000 won an hour, five minutes away; the Seongdong sports centre at 4,200, also five minutes; Ttukseom Yusuji at 1,800, ten minutes; Seoul Forest at 2,400, thirteen minutes. The cheapest is the furthest, and one writer walks it every time. The figures are marked as October 2025 and we have not checked them since.

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

Not one of the twenty-six says whether a wheelchair or a pushchair gets in. The words do not appear. What is certain is the flight of stairs — six writers call it a second floor, one of them saying she climbed and assumed. How many steps, whether there is a lift, how the door opens: nobody writes it down. Neither the writer with an eighteen-month-old nor the one who came heavily pregnant describes getting up there. On the toilets there is only a copied facility line; nobody reports using them. This is "nobody wrote it down", not "you cannot get in".

No one mentioned: 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 themselves5 / 255 of 25 posts
• Posts saying nothing either way20 / 2520 of 25 posts

Posts that followed a TV spot

Of the 27 posts we gathered, 2 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

• The address says ground floor, but you climb stairs. Our records give unit 1, and six writers call it the second floor — one of them explains why: so many restaurants around Seoul Forest are in basements, she reasons, that this one is registered as ground level even though you go up to reach it. Another describes it as "a first floor that feels like a second", and says it is not easy to spot from the street. All six agree you go up a flight, and two note the menu board at the foot of the stairs. How many steps, or whether there is a lift, nobody says.
• There is a limit on how long you can sit. One writer reports it: ninety minutes if you booked, seventy if you walked in — with the caveat, which she also passes on, that the limit is waived when nobody is booked in after you. One writer is not enough for the table, but it is worth knowing if you were planning a long lunch. The other twenty-five never mention it, and nobody reports being moved on.
• The music is on the loud side. Two writers say so — one with a toddler, one with friends who found it hard to talk over the room and the piano. Two others found it calm, one glad of a quiet afternoon, another surprised that the Seoul Forest end of Seongsu is so much quieter than the rest. All four read as accounts of a particular sitting: the quiet ones came on weekday afternoons, the loud ones at weekends and in the evening. One writer complains that the chairs are heavy enough to scrape loudly every time you shift.
• No post declares a sponsorship. Five state that they paid their own way; the other twenty-one say nothing either way. One passage recurs in ten of them, word for word from the restaurant's booking page: the explanation of the name and the four seasonal sets. It is the house's own line and we have not used it as evidence. Four of the thirty are behind nothing here — two mention us only in a list of the blogger's other posts, and two are round-ups rather than visits, one of which admits that the details it gives could not be confirmed and advises ringing ahead.
• Nobody reports using the toilets. One post carries a single line listing group bookings, reservations, wi-fi and separate men's and women's toilets — copied from the listing, so we do not count it. Whether they are inside the restaurant, shared with the building, or up another flight, we do not know. Read it alongside the stairs at the entrance.

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Every number above was counted from the posts below.

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Of 345 candidate posts we opened 49 and kept 25 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.

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