Gilpost · Seongdong-gu, Seongsu-dong 1-ga
Flavourtown
플레이버타운 Peulleibeotaun The Korean spelling of the English name the restaurant uses on its window and its own blog, Flavourtown. Nothing in the Korean means anything on its own
Other Asian · Seongdong-gu, Seongsu-dong 1-ga
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Flavour Town is a Chinese-rooted pan-Asian restaurant in a converted red-brick house in the lanes behind Seoul Forest. You go up half a flight from the street, and it occupies two floors. The dish it is known for is jokbal twigim — pork trotter cut into cubes, fried, and glazed in coconut caramel — followed by a lobster-and-clam curry, a mapo tofu billed as Chengdu-style, and the house pan-fried dumplings. Sets for two or three arrive course by course. Tuesday to Thursday it opens only for dinner; Friday and Saturday it opens at midday; Sunday and Monday it is shut — though a few writers give different hours, which we note below. The same owners run a dessert-and-drinks room called Cake Bar in the same building. The restaurant closed from 4 to 20 August 2026 to refit. The posts we read run from 12 June to 17 September 2026.
The basics
| Address | 서울특별시 성동구 서울숲4길 18-7, 1,2층 (성수동1가) 18-7 Seoulsup 4-gil, Seongdong-gu, Seoul |
|---|---|
| Phone | 0507-1367-9954 |
| Typical spend | ₩7,000 – ₩54,000 |
| Floor area | 163 m² |
| Status | In business |
12 posts say it is walkable from the station.
When it opens
| Open | Weekdays | 17:30–22:30 17 of 20 posts last seen 2026-08 |
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| Open | Weekends | 12:00–22:00 17 of 20 posts last seen 2026-08 |
| Open | 17:30–22:30 2 of 20 posts last seen 2026-07 | |
| Break | Weekends | 15:30–17:30 13 of 14 posts last seen 2026-08 |
| Last order | Weekdays | 21:30 9 of 11 posts last seen 2026-08 |
| Last order | Weekends | 21:00 9 of 11 posts last seen 2026-08 |
| Last order | Weekends | 14:30 8 of 11 posts last seen 2026-08 |
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
- People book. Eleven of our writers say they had reserved a table, through Naver or through CatchTable. (Four more list "reservations accepted" in the venue-information block they paste at the top of the post; since that tells us nothing about what they themselves did, we have not counted it.) One found that on a weekday the six-to-eight slots had gone two weeks ahead; another notes there was no deposit to pay. Two rang up instead, one of them to hold a private room for seven. Three walked in and were seated at once — just after the weekend lunch rush, on a Saturday evening, and at five on a weekday. Nobody reports being turned away, but four describe the room filling: "nearly every table taken on a Tuesday," "they poured in as six o'clock got closer."
- The signature dish is called a fritter, and the writers cannot agree that it is one. Twenty-two ordered it: twelve call the outside properly crisp, six say it is nothing like fried food. Those six: "I expected crunch and got a completely different dish," "too soft and springy to be a fritter — it melts," "lightly fried dongpo pork," "chewy skin, meat gone after two bites." One went the other way and found it a touch hard. Four reach independently for the same comparison, dongpo pork. Order it expecting batter and you may be surprised. Not one of the twenty-two disliked it.
- Opinion on price splits down the middle — four say expensive, four say not. The first four: "on the dear side, honestly," "the à la carte prices are high enough that the bill runs away from you," "pricey even by Seongsu standards," "brutal." The other four: "not as expensive as I'd feared," "how can they sell food like this this cheap," "the prices are pretty reasonable, no?," "the whole menu is well priced." The three who say the portions are small are all in the first camp — "everything comes closer to a small plate, so order one or two dishes more than there are of you," "good, but I wanted more," "tasty, just not much of it." Nobody says the portions are generous. The curries and fried rice come with rice.
- The door is not level with the street. Six writers mention the stairs, and all of them go up: "half a flight and you're at the door," "follow the steps up and it's on the second floor." One puts it best: "the address says ground floor, but there's a flight like a mezzanine to climb." Which may be why writers cannot agree what floors it is on — most say the ground and first floors, three say it takes the first and second entirely ("I thought it was just one floor and then there was another above"). They seem to be counting the same building differently, but we cannot confirm that. What they do agree on: the open kitchen is on the lower floor, the private rooms and the terrace on the upper one.
- Ten posts say dogs are welcome; one writer saw it for herself. The other nine are either repeating the venue-information block ("pets allowed" sits in a row with takeaway, high chairs and corkage) or simply approving of a pet-friendly room they brought no pet to. The one who did brings the conditions with her — they checked the dog's vaccination record at the door, and since this is not a dog café she kept him in his buggy through dinner. Two others, dogless, pass on what they were told: that a vaccination certificate or booklet is required and a particular table is set aside, so ask when you book; and that you should ring ahead. Whether more than one dog is allowed, and where you end up sitting, nobody says.
- Nineteen posts talk about the staff, and the specifics repeat. They walk you through the menu (eleven posts); they explain how to eat each dish as it lands (six); they recite the off-menu specials, which are not printed anywhere (eight); they ask before ordering whether you want coriander (five); they offer to adjust the heat (three). One-offs: the writer who rang from a delayed coach and was waited for, then relieved of her suitcase and umbrella; the birthday table sent a plate of dumplings; the guest who walked in holding a takeaway coffee and was asked whether she'd like it taken away. Nobody had a complaint about the service.
- You walk from the station — though nobody agrees how far. Twelve writers give exit 5 at Seoul Forest on the Suin-Bundang line; five give exit 8 at Ttukseom on line 2. From Seoul Forest the walk is put at five minutes, six minutes, eight minutes, and 429 metres; from Ttukseom, seven minutes. Most of those figures sit inside the venue-information block bloggers paste at the top, so this may be four copied numbers disagreeing rather than four people timing the walk. One writer notes that Ttukseom exit 8 is the quicker way if you are heading for Cake Bar. Four say the route through the Seongsu café lanes is worth the detour in itself, and one puts the park five minutes away on the other side of dinner.
What 31 bloggers said
We read all 31 in full. The most common claims are “Friendly staff” (19) and “Juicy” (10).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Where they disagree
| Crispy batter | yes 18 · no 6 |
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| Expensive | yes 4 · no 4 |
Things you can check on site
| Second floor | 19 of 31 posts |
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| Reachable by transit | 12 of 31 posts |
| Takes reservations | 11 of 31 posts |
| Cafe on site | 6 of 31 posts |
| Open kitchen | 6 of 31 posts |
| Step at the entrance | 5 of 31 posts |
| Beer served | 3 of 31 posts |
| Toilet inside | 3 of 31 posts |
| Waiting area | 2 of 31 posts |
| Large windows | 2 of 31 posts |
| Review event | 2 of 31 posts |
| Bag storage | 2 of 31 posts |
| Coupon | 1 of 31 posts |
| Dogs allowed | 1 of 31 posts |
| Cooked to order | 1 of 31 posts |
| Chef credentials | 1 of 31 posts |
| High chairs | 1 of 31 posts |
These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.
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
Parking
5 posts say you cannot park. None say you can.
| Posts saying you cannot | 5 of 31 posts |
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There is no car park. Thirteen posts raise the subject and all thirteen say the same, but seven of them are only repeating the venue-information block pasted at the top. Six say it in their own words, and exactly one writer actually arrived by car — she left it at the Seongdong district sports centre and walked five minutes. Four list the nearby lots and one copied out the tariffs (the sports centre, the Ttukseom retention-basin lot, the Seoul Forest lot, Galleria Forêt, D Museum, an AJ Park street lot); those figures are hers, not ours. One writer simply guesses: "parking? probably not." Another: "nothing round here has parking." Nobody writes how many cars fit anywhere, or whether there is valet — whether because there is none or because nobody thought to say, we do not know.
Who came, and with whom
| Group visit | 7 of 31 posts |
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| Date | 6 of 31 posts |
| Came with children | 2 of 31 posts |
| Family visit | 1 of 31 posts |
| Came by car | 1 of 31 posts |
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
| Second floor | 19 of 31 posts |
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| Step at the entrance | 5 of 31 posts |
| Toilet inside | 3 of 31 posts |
Not one post says whether a wheelchair or a pushchair can get in. None mentions a lift or a ramp. Six do describe climbing steps to the door, and three place the toilet on the upper floor, so there are stairs in at least two places. How many, and whether there is another way round, nobody writes. One family of seven brought a one-year-old and a seven-year-old; even they only discuss the high chair, not the way in.
No one mentioned: In a basement · Lift to the floor · Ramp at the door · 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 of 31 posts
- Someone else paid1 of 31 posts
- Posts saying they paid themselves10 of 31 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way19 of 31 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 36 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.
| 2026-08-27 | 2 posts in one day |
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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 |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | 12 |
| 2026-07 | 12 |
| 2026-08 | 6 |
| 2026-09 | 1 |
What we do not know
- One post declares a sponsorship — nothing in the body, just a single `#sponsored` tag on the video clip at the bottom. Ten say they paid for everything themselves, and one says a friend picked up the bill. The other nineteen say neither. We started with thirty-eight posts and took seven out of the count: two were about Cake Bar, the separate room downstairs (one of them admits in the body that its author has never eaten in the restaurant), two were notices the restaurant posted on its own blog, one was a recap of a YouTube episode that name-checked three restaurants, one was a list of six places a paragraph each, and one compared three Seongsu restaurants using, in its own words, other people's published reviews. The thirty-one that remain are thirty-one different people — nobody here wrote twice. One of them is a return visit, and links to her own earlier post about this place; that post is not among the ones we collected.
- Twenty posts give the opening hours and five of them disagree. Fifteen say the same thing: Tuesday to Thursday 17:30–22:30 with last orders at 21:30; Friday and Saturday 12:00–22:00 with a break from 15:30 to 17:30 and last orders at 14:30 and 21:00; closed Sunday and Monday. The shape of that timetable is the thing to hold on to: midweek it is an evening restaurant only, and the lunch service — with the afternoon break and the 14:30 last order that go with it — exists on Friday and Saturday alone. The five outliers: one writes "Friday to Sunday, 12:00–22:00," which would mean it opens on Sundays; one writes "Tuesday to Saturday, 17:30–22:30," dropping the weekend lunch; one gives a flat 17:30–22:30 with no days; one gives a flat 12:00–22:00 with no days and puts the lunch last order at 14:00 where eight others say 14:30; and one rounds it to "weekday evenings, weekends from noon." Sunday is where they part company most sharply, so ring before you go (0507-1367-9954). Also: the restaurant was shut from 4 to 20 August 2026 for a refit — two posts give those dates and three more discuss the rebuild, so anything you read from before it may no longer hold.
- Prices and set contents appear to have shifted in August, and we could not confirm it. The restaurant shut from the 4th to the 20th to refit. Either side of that: the set is ₩79,000 for two in June and mid-August, but a post from 31 August calls it ₩79,000 a head for "Set A" and lists far more plates. The prawn toast is ₩18,000 in three July and early-August posts and ₩22,000 on 31 August. The half lobster curry is ₩54,000 in July and ₩53,000 in August, and the beef-cheek curry ₩33,000 then ₩32,000 — those two move the wrong way, so someone may simply have miscopied. A writer on 19 August had already noticed the sets looked different from her previous visit. If the bill matters, ring and ask.
- Seven writers were given something free without any sponsorship involved. Five came from the kitchen or the floor: an egg tart for a couple who'd travelled up from out of town, two dumplings for a birthday, a plate of stir-fried cabbage, a plate of pan-fried dumplings, and some prawn dim sum. Two more came from a Naver save-and-review promotion, both spring rolls. Separately, one writer says the Yunnan pickles are free if you order alcohol — whether they come without a drink, we do not know. What those tables were served was not what everyone else was served: four of the five were on the set menu, and theirs had an extra plate on it.
- Two facts get repeated in identical words and disagree about the number. How many years running the restaurant has held a Blue Ribbon: six posts say five, five posts say four. Six say four consecutive years in Taste of Seoul's hundred; five say two years of Red Ribbon, one says three. Sorting by date does not resolve it. What we can count is that many posts say the same thing; which number is right, we could not check. That Seventeen and Stray Kids held a team dinner here appears in eleven posts in near-identical phrasing, and four other celebrities in three. Three posts mention a Shake Shack collaboration called Sichuan Crisp — none of the three ate it.
- Three writers mention the toilet, and all three put it upstairs. If you are seated on the lower floor, that means climbing. One writer's husband came back from it with a report on the floor above; another simply says she went up to the second floor to find it; a third was delighted by how much gold there was in it. Nobody says from their own eyes whether it is split by sex, or whether there is an accessible one. One post lists "separate men's and women's" among the venue's features, but in the same breath as Wi-Fi and payment apps, which reads as copied rather than seen.
- Nobody reports queueing — most had booked. Three walked in and sat straight down: after the weekend lunch peak, on a Saturday evening, and at five on a weekday. Two mention the outdoor waiting seats, and one gathers that walk-ins are taken. One writer was told as she sat down that individual tables are held for an hour, shared tables longer, because of the evening rush — she is the only person who mentions any time limit, so we cannot say whether it always applies. One writer, and only one, found the food slow, and added the question herself: "or was it just the night I went?"
- Two writers brought children. One booked a private room for seven, with a one-year-old and a seven-year-old, found high chairs waiting, and took the 5.30 slot as the break ended so as not to wait. The other ordered the Hong Kong char siu fried rice for her child and was glad it was mild. Nobody says whether there is a changing table, or child-sized cutlery. Two further posts list high chairs among the venue's features, but as copied detail rather than something seen.
- About half the posts here open by pasting a block of venue information — address, phone, hours, parking, booking and a string of emoji-tagged amenities — before any writing of their own begins. We did not count anything that appears only inside that block. What that cost: "pets allowed" turns up in ten posts, but only one writer brought a dog; "no parking" in thirteen, but only one arrived by car; "high chairs" in four, but only one was handed one. And separate men's and women's toilets, Wi-Fi, takeaway and delivery, gluten-free and vegan dishes, the payment apps, a sommelier on staff — all of that comes from one post copying one list, with nobody reporting any of it from their own eyes. Which of it still holds, we cannot say.
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Of 360 candidate posts we opened 40 and kept 31 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.