Gilpost · Seongdong-gu, Seongsu-dong 1-ga
GNOCCHI ROOM
뇨끼룸 Nyokki-rum Gnocchi Room — the shop writes it that way itself, on the glass and on Instagram (@gnocchi.room). Korean spells the Italian word 뇨끼 and adds 룸, room: a room for gnocchi, which is close to literally what it is.
Western · Seongdong-gu, Seongsu-dong 1-ga
Updated · Published
Gnocchi Room is an Italian restaurant down a residential lane in Seongsu, five to seven minutes on foot from exit 1 at Seoul Forest. Potato gnocchi and pasta rolled fresh each day are more or less the whole proposition. It is very small — a bar wrapped round the open kitchen and two four-tops in a back room; fifteen writers say so — which is why people book (twelve of them did). Half eleven to ten, closed between three and half five. Gnocchi ₩23,000, pasta ₩18,000–27,000. The address says ground floor, but you go up a flight of stairs. We read twenty-nine posts, from May to September 2026.
The basics
| Address | 서울특별시 성동구 성수일로1길 8, 1층 (성수동1가) 8 Seongsuil-ro 1-gil, Seongdong-gu, Seoul |
|---|---|
| Phone | 070-7537-2863 |
| Typical spend | ₩3,000 – ₩27,000 |
| Floor area | 50 m² |
| Status | In business |
10 posts say it is walkable from the station.
When it opens
| Open | Daily | 11:30–22:00 21 of 21 posts last seen 2026-09 |
|---|---|---|
| Break | Daily | 15:00–17:30 18 of 18 posts last seen 2026-09 |
| Last order | Daily | 21:00 11 of 11 posts last seen 2026-09 |
| Closed | 없음 2 of 2 posts last seen 2026-09 |
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
- It is small, and that is the single most repeated observation about it — fifteen posts say so. Four writers counted, and they agree: a bar around the open kitchen (one makes it ten seats) and two tables for four in a curtained back room. One reckons five couples fill the place; another thinks eight could book the room together. Only one writer means it as a complaint — she went without knowing and was taken aback by how little room there was, and notes that no review had told her. The rest use the word snug. You are effectively choosing between two rooms: the bar is bright, has the window, and puts the cooking in front of you (three recommend it); the back room is quiet and screened (four prefer it).
- The kitchen is open, and twenty-two writers say so. From the bar you watch the chef roll and plate, an arm's length away. Four record seeing the fresh pasta actually being made; one, arriving to a fully booked room, was sorry to have missed it. Three remark on how clean the kitchen is. Five describe being told how to eat a dish — halve the gnocchi, take the jamón and mushroom and tuile together, drag the prawn and the pineapple salsa through the sauce.
- Three writers call it dear; nobody calls it cheap. All three say it the same way — the price first, then that it earns it. Two people spend ₩40,000–70,000; one table of three records ₩76,000 for a salad, two pastas and a gnocchi. On quantity they differ: one says three dishes left two of them full and two would have done, while another found the portions small and a third says so of the gnocchi in particular.
- Reviews are paid for in food, twice over: a receipt review on Naver gets the dessert ice cream, a Google review gets bread. Seven posts describe it and six collected; one collected both. Worth keeping in mind while reading: two writers name that ice cream the best thing they ate, and it was the thing they were given for agreeing to post. Nothing they say about the food they paid for contradicts anyone else, though. One writer got the ice cream voucher with her booking instead.
- Eleven posts describe the service, and they say what was done. Five were told how to eat a dish; two had each plate explained as it landed; two mention the hot towel and water; three the mint sweet on the way out. Two record something nobody asked for: a writer who arrived carrying a cake was offered the fridge before she could ask, and a table that was too warm had the air conditioning turned towards them the moment the seat in front of it emptied. The free drink on the slow day belongs in the same list. Nobody reports being treated badly.
What 28 bloggers said
We read all 28 in full. The most common claims are “Roomy” (0) and “Friendly staff” (11).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Where they disagree
| Had to wait | yes 2 · no 2 |
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Things you can check on site
| Open kitchen | 22 of 28 posts |
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| Takes reservations | 12 of 28 posts |
| Reachable by transit | 10 of 28 posts |
| Wine served | 7 of 28 posts |
| Review event | 7 of 28 posts |
| Prepped daily | 4 of 28 posts |
| Large windows | 3 of 28 posts |
| Cooked to order | 1 of 28 posts |
| Beer served | 1 of 28 posts |
| Toilet inside | 1 of 28 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
4 posts say you cannot park. None say you can.
| Posts saying you cannot | 4 of 28 posts |
|---|
There is no car park. Plenty of posts say so, but mostly in the same copied line — no parking, a public car park five minutes away at ₩1,200 an hour, a private one at ₩3,000 — which four posts carry almost word for word, and which cannot agree whether the second is two minutes' walk or twelve. Three writers speak from what they did or saw: one parked in the public car park and walked, one concluded there was nowhere and you would end up on the lane, one simply says parking is a fight. A fourth names a different private car park, ₩1,000 per ten minutes, four minutes away. Of the two who drove, one notes that it cost her the wine.
Who came, and with whom
| Group visit | 3 of 28 posts |
|---|---|
| Came by car | 2 of 28 posts |
| Date | 1 of 28 posts |
| Family visit | 1 of 28 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
| Toilet inside | 1 of 28 posts |
|---|---|
| Separate restrooms | yes 0 · no 1 |
Not one post says whether a wheelchair or a pushchair can get in — no step count, no threshold, no lift, across twenty-nine posts. What we know is that there is a flight of stairs, that the room is very small, and that the bar seats are high. This is silence, not an assurance. One post lists a high chair among the facilities, but as a single copied line, and nobody writes about bringing a child, so we have not counted it. Ring if it matters.
No one mentioned: Second floor · In a basement · Lift to the floor · Ramp at the door · Step at the entrance · Step-free access · Accessible toilet. 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 themselves6 of 28 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way22 of 28 posts
When the posts appeared
Month by month
| Month | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05 | 5 |
| 2026-06 | 6 |
| 2026-07 | 6 |
| 2026-08 | 8 |
| 2026-09 | 3 |
What we do not know
- People book — twelve of them did — and no two use the same route: four through Naver, five through one restaurant app, two by telephone, one through another app. They disagree about the deposit: one paid ₩10,000 a head, refunded against the bill; another paid ₩30,000. Which is current, we do not know. Parties of five or more are told to ring. Walk-ins do get in: one rang at two o'clock and was seated at once, another rang while walking over. One writer advises ringing before you arrive near the three o'clock break.
- Two waited, two did not. One arrived for a two o'clock booking on a Saturday and still had to wait; another, in at opening, watched a queue form while she ate. The two who walked straight in came at weekday lunchtime. Four more found the room full — half six on a weekday, Saturday afternoon, early evening — but none of them waited, because all four had booked or rung ahead. Full and waiting are not the same thing. Two mention the board by the door where you write your name.
- Writers disagree about the gnocchi's texture, and the reason is written down inside their own posts. Four call it chewy and springy; three say it is nothing of the kind, more like floury potato — and those three add that the menu explains why: the kitchen pushes the potato and cheese up and the flour down. One writer spells it out as a warning: if you like the elastic, flour-heavy sort, this is not that. So it is less a disagreement than two names for the same thing — and not one writer says they were disappointed.
- The menu turns with the season. In the five months we read: a June-only gnocchi run with a New Zealand trade body; a summer salad built on nectarines; an aglio e olio described as limited; and dishes listed only as Today Special. One writer was told that the dish she came for is not served at this branch at all. So take the prices and dishes here as belonging to the day each post was written. The core — the two gnocchi, the bolognese, the octopus aglio e olio, the Mediterranean salad — runs through all five months.
- On one day the food came very slowly. A writer lunching with two friends finished the salad before a main appeared, and finished the gnocchi before the next pasta did — a tasting menu by accident. The kitchen seemed to know: a soft drink arrived on the house, and a discount voucher good for a month. Two others report the opposite, including one who braced for a wait in a full room and got none. One post notes that the chef cooks each order himself from scratch, which would explain both — though that inference is ours.
- The address says ground floor and everyone climbs stairs to get in — nine writers say so, and no two call it the same thing: three say the second floor, two say the floor and a half, one writes that it is "a ground floor that feels like a first floor — you go up one flight, and no, it isn't a basement." One warns that the building does not look like a restaurant and she walked past it. Another noticed the board by the door listing Gnocchi Room on the ground floor and another business above. Landmarks: red brick, a chalkboard sign at street level, an orange sticker on the glass. Nobody mentions a lift.
- One post mentions the lavatory: it is inside the restaurant, clean, and shared between men and women. That was May 2026. The other twenty-eight say nothing at all — no cubicle count, nothing about an accessible one. The same writer is the only one to give the corkage terms: one bottle per table, ₩30,000.
- Not one of the twenty-nine declares a sponsorship, and six state plainly that they paid. One pattern is worth flagging, though: four posts from June 2026 all cover the same limited-run dish, made with a New Zealand trade body, and two of them name the body and the wine discount that came with it. Four people writing up the same promotion in the same month may well have been invited. We could not check it. What those four say about the room, the kitchen and the stairs matches everyone else, so we have counted it.
- There is more than one branch. One writer was told so, and in the same breath that the dish she wanted is not served at this one — the branches differ a little, she gathers. Nobody names the others or says how many there are. Three posts give the Instagram account, which covers all of them. So take care not to read another branch's review as this one's: check the address before you trust it.
Sources (28)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
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Of 369 candidate posts we opened 79 and kept 28 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.