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

Gandou Dining

간도우 다이닝 “Gandou Dining” — Gandou is the name the owner's sushi shops have carried since 2015, and 다이닝 is the English word “dining” written in Korean letters. The shop writes itself Gandou Dining on Instagram

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

Updated 2026-09-24 · Published 2026-09-25

Gandou Dining is a small sushi tavern up half a flight, in the lane right outside exit 7 at Ttukseom. A counter and three tables for four is the whole room, and two posts say one person cooks and serves it all. It opens only at night — 18:30 to 02:00, last orders at one, by three accounts. Sushi is ordered a piece at a time, but the first order must be six, and everyone must order at least one drink. Ten of the eleven posts talk about the Suntory draught. The posts we read run from December 2025 to August 2026.

The basics

8 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

• 산토리 프리미엄 몰츠 생맥주8 ate it
  Suntory Premium Malt's draught₩8,900

  ₩8,900. **Ten of the eleven posts talk about this beer** — it is the single most repeated thing about the place. Two say the owner went and learned the pour from a Suntory master

  Two record a 7:3 head, four call the foam creamy. Two describe using it to reset the palate after a fatty piece of fish. **Everyone at the table must order at least one drink**

• 니기리 스시 (1피스 단위)7 ate it
  nigiri sushi₩2,000 · ₩2,300 · ₩3,500 · ₩3,900 · ₩5,900

  **Ordered a piece at a time.** Flounder ₩2,000, salmon belly ₩2,300, fin ₩3,500, marinated tuna ₩3,500, herring, sea bream and striped jack ₩3,900, sweet shrimp with sea urchin ₩5,900. One post copies out a list of more than twenty

  **The first order must be at least six pieces,** by two accounts. Two writers say they prefer it this way — no set with one fish they dislike. Four remark on how thickly the fish is cut

• 보우즈시 (고등어·삼치)5 ate it
  bouzushi₩6,500 · ₩15,900

  Pressed, bar-shaped sushi. Mackerel comes two pieces for ₩6,500; one post records a mackerel-pike version at ₩15,900, seemingly a whole plate

  Three writers note the mackerel carries none of the usual smell. The mackerel pike is lightly seared on top, by one account

• 스몰 안주 (감자샐러드·가라아게·야끼교자·멘보샤 등)4 ate it
  small plates₩5,000 · ₩5,500

  Potato salad ₩5,000, gyoza ₩5,500, and a run of karaage, fried horse mackerel, prawn toast and braised salmon belly

  One writer likes that so much of it comes small and cheap, which is what makes it feel Japanese. Another singles out how thin the batter on the karaage is; a third, the braised salmon belly

• 숙성회 모듬 사시미 8pcs3 ate it
  sukseonghoe modeum sashimi₩16,900

  ₩16,900. The oily-fish version is the same price; aged amberjack is ₩17,900

  One writer contrasts it with the thirty and forty thousand won platters elsewhere in Seongsu. Another says this is where they first understood what ageing does to fish

• 파스타 (레몬 알리오올리오·삼치 크림·나폴리탄)3 ate it
  pasta₩13,000

  The lemon-parsley aglio e olio is ₩13,000; there is also a cream pasta with mackerel pike, and a Neapolitan. Two writers note the surprise of finding pasta in an izakaya

  One admits to low expectations and names the lemon as what turns it. The one who had the mackerel-pike cream pasta notes the bones were all out

• 산토리 하이볼 · 사케 · 우메슈3 ate it
  Suntory highball, sake, umeshu₩7,900

  The highball is ₩7,900. One post lists draught sake and a run of yuzu and summer-orange umeshu alongside it

  One writer pairs it, above all, with the tonkotsu ramen

• 숙성회 모듬 스시 6pcs3 ate it
  sukseonghoe modeum sushi₩9,500

  ₩9,500. One writer ordered it on all three of their visits, and records sea bream, yellowtail and salmon in it

  Enough for one person on their own, that writer says. Six pieces under ten thousand won is what the 'good value' posts are mostly pointing at

• 야끼소바3 ate it
  yakisoba₩12,000

  ₩12,000, with a fried egg on top and a generous hand with the sauce

  One writer, who often finds yakisoba too salty to finish, did not find this one so

• 돈코츠라멘1 ate it
  tonkotsu ramen₩10,000

  ₩10,000 — a long-boiled broth with chashu, nori and spring onion, by the one account of it

  The writer on their fourth visit says this bowl is the reason for the fourth post. They taste garlic in it, and read that as an adjustment for Korean palates

Parking

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

There is no car park. Three posts say so, one of them adding that if you drive you will be paying for a space nearby, and that the train is simply better. It is also a bar that stays open until two.

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

No post says whether a wheelchair or a pushchair gets in. Three do say you climb half a floor or a floor from the lane, so there are certainly steps. How many, and whether there is another way, nobody writes.

No one mentioned: In a basement · Lift to the floor · Ramp at the door · Step at the entrance · 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 themselves4 / 114 of 11 posts
• Posts saying nothing either way7 / 117 of 11 posts

Posts that followed a TV spot

Of the 14 posts we gathered, 3 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

• Three of the fourteen are not accounts of a visit. Two of them come from the same blog, two days apart, and describe dishes this shop does not serve — a clay-pot rice, an abalone pasta, charcoal skewers, an open kitchen, a two-and-a-half-hour table limit. They give different opening hours from each other, and neither matches the hours the real posts record. They disagree on which station exit. One of them states in its own text that the photograph is AI-generated. The third simply reprints the Naver listing's review counts, and says the opening hours and booking policy could not be established. All three are out of the denominator. We did use their menu prices to check against the rest.
• Eleven posts are not eleven people. One blogger wrote three of them — December, then twice in February — and links to two earlier ones we did not collect. That makes nine people. Three of the four 'came back' counts are theirs. That writer adds, unprompted, that they have no connection to the place.
• Three writers were given something free — a slice of mackerel pike, a piece of yellowtail, a salad — handed over at the table, not arranged in advance. Worth knowing when reading the warmth of the praise. Four state outright that they paid for everything.
• You go up half a flight to get in. Three posts say so — one calls it half a floor, two call it the second floor — while the registered address says ground floor. What they mean is that there are steps from the lane. How many, and whether there is any way round them, nobody writes. Nor does anyone say whether a wheelchair or a pushchair gets in. That three separate writers mention the stairs is itself worth knowing before you go.
• The posts disagree about closing days. One says Mondays and Tuesdays. One says Mondays and Tuesdays usually, Wednesdays uncertain, Thursday through Sunday reliable. One says Wednesdays, and was let in on Christmas Eve anyway. One says there is no regular closing day at all. Four posts, four answers. By date they drift from Wednesday in December to Monday-and-Tuesday in February, but that is as far as we can take it. Ring before you go.
• The toilet is outside the shop — right beside the door, and clean, says the one writer who mentions it. Only one of the eleven does.
• Nobody writes about coming alone. One post notes the counter and that six pieces suits one person, but of the eleven, five came as a pair and two with a group, and none by themselves. The one-drink-per-person rule applies whoever you come with.

Sources (11)

Every number above was counted from the posts below.

1. [성동/뚝섬]뚝섬 이자카야 간도우다이닝｜오마카세급 숙성스시와 산토리 명장 생맥주인데 갓성비? 2026-08-30 · 지구 관찰기 · via Daum
2. 뚝섬역 스시 맛집 감성 가득한 J-POP 스시바 이자카야 간도우다이닝 솔직후기 2026-07-15 · 프라임 · via Daum
3. 성수 - 서울숲 맛도리 나들이 ( 루쎄로 / 간도우 다이닝 / 성수 감자.... 2026-06-15 · Like the first time
4. 간도우 다이닝ㅣ뚝섬역 일식 추천 오마카세급 스시와 부드러운 크.... 2026-06-05 · 참새로운 삶
5. 뚝섬 맛집 이자카야 성수동 술집 초밥 간도우 다이닝 2026-05-23 · 30대 혜블리 블로그
6. 성수동 맛집 이자카야 간도우 다이닝 뚝섬역 스시 초밥 술집 2026-05-11 · MUYAHO
7. 성수 이자카야 추천-간도우 다이닝(맛없는 메뉴가 없어요...) 2026-03-14 · 쟌쟌의 일상
8. [성수맛집] 뚝섬역 최애맛집 간도우다이닝 내돈내산 재재재재방문.... 2026-02-26 · 펜시브(Pensieve)
9. [성수맛집] 성수동 가성비 이자카야, 간도우 다이닝 재재재방문기 2026-02-07 · 펜시브(Pensieve)
10. [뚝섬역 맛집] 간도우 다이닝 | 숙성회 모둠 사시미, 고등어 보우즈.... 2026-02-06 · 맛집 추천하는 블로그
11. [성수맛집] 성수 가성비 이자카야 간도우 다이닝 내돈내산 재방문 2025-12-26 · 펜시브(Pensieve)

Of 213 candidate posts we opened 97 and kept 11 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.

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