Gilpost · Seongdong-gu, Seongsu-dong 1-ga
GONY'S
고니스 Goniseu The sign reads GONY'S BUTTERMILK CHICKEN; in Korean it is said go-ni-seu. Two customers have guessed at the name in print — one reading it as GO NY, for New York, whose burgers the shop's owners say they toured before opening; another supposing the owner's surname is Go, which is common in Korea. The shop itself does not explain it.
Other · Seongdong-gu, Seongsu-dong 1-ga
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Gony's is a fried-chicken and burger shop at the top of the café street between Seoul Forest and Ttukseom stations. Its full name is Gony's Buttermilk Chicken: chicken thigh soaked in buttermilk and fried, then put into burgers, tacos, burritos and rice bowls. It opened in the autumn of 2025, taking over from Yunkyung, the western-style diner that had the address before — and two writers note that Yunkyung's pork cutlet is still on the board. You order from a tablet at the table. A bar runs along the window, there are larger tables at the back, seats outside, and a stand by the door where you sauce your own chicken skewer. The posts we read run from 1 October to 29 December 2025.
The basics
| Address | 서울특별시 성동구 서울숲2길 40, 1층 (성수동1가) 40 Seoulsup 2-gil, Seongdong-gu, Seoul |
|---|---|
| Phone | 0507-1441-2408 |
| Typical spend | ₩2,000 – ₩20,000 |
| Floor area | 49 m² |
| Status | In business |
3 posts say it is walkable from the station.
When it opens
| Open | Daily | 11:00–21:00 6 of 7 posts last seen 2025-12 |
|---|---|---|
| Last order | 20:30 5 of 5 posts last seen 2025-11 |
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
- You sit down and order from a tablet on the table — five posts say so, and one adds that a server brings the food out. When orders stack up, though, the wait stretches: one writer, ordering two things at once, got tickets one and two and found the gap between them long enough to advise arriving at opening time. Two dishes from the same table, in other words, may not land together. The other eight posts say nothing about waiting. Two note a separate spot by the entrance for people who only want a skewer and are not sitting down.
- Three kinds of seat. A bar runs along the window (four posts), there are tables for two and four, and larger tables for groups in the middle and at the back (five posts), including one for six. Four writers call the window bar good for eating alone — and not one of the nine came alone. One of them is reporting what she saw, a fair number of solo diners; the other three are looking at the seats and inferring. One notes the gaps between tables, one an open kitchen. There are seats outside, say two — and both of them ate indoors anyway, one because she had dressed too lightly. Every post we read is from October or later, when it was cold.
- The shop is built around carrying food into Seoul Forest. Two posts describe a dedicated takeaway counter inside; four describe a picnic box of boneless chicken sold by the piece. The skewer comes upright in a paper cup and you sauce it at a stand on the way out. Two report a steady stream of collection orders. And yet not one post describes eating in the park. Four say they will when it warms up; one meant to and went back indoors because she was cold; the one who did take food away ate it at home. All nine of our posts fall between October and December. How any of this holds up on the grass in spring, we do not know.
- All four people who ate the fries wrote the same thing: thin, and crisp. Very thin and very crisp, says one; salty, slender and crisp, says another; fried to order, still hot, says a third; thin but enormously crisp, says the fourth. Two note they are sold as Mega Crunch fries, and one was reminded of the curly fries of her childhood. One of the four adds, in confidence, that this is secretly a chip shop. A fifth writer skipped the fries entirely for boneless chicken, and describes that batter instead — crisp over a thigh that stayed juicy. One more contrasts the coating with Korean fried chicken, calling it crisp in a different register, and two who feared a dry patty in the burger report that it was not.
- Three writers call it good value, and nobody calls it expensive. The figures across the posts: a burger on its own ₩9,800–13,800, a set ₩13,800–17,800, the skewer ₩6,000, the burrito ₩12,800. One writer, collecting chicken and a rice bowl for two, was startled at how much food came for a little over twenty thousand won. It is a good deal dearer than the old Gony's — 2019 posts put a chicken burger at ₩7,900 and a whole set at ₩6,800 — but that was a different shop at a different address, so the two columns do not belong side by side.
- Three of the nine came with children. One family of four ordered the taco burger, the taco, a skewer and the rice-cake broth, and report the younger child spearing chicken with a fork and asking for coriander. One mother's son finished a whole burrito on his own. A third writer asked the owner whether a baby was all right and was waved in warmly — which is a welcome, not a high chair. No post mentions a high chair, a place to change a nappy, or child-sized cutlery. One does warn that the skewer is spicy enough to be too much for a small child.
- Write a Naver receipt review and you get two pieces of chicken — two posts say so. None of the nine declares a sponsorship and none says they paid their own way either, but a review earning something on the spot is worth knowing while reading anything written about this place. So is the fact that four of the five posts we set aside come from a single blog running the shop's product announcements verbatim, with no disclosure attached.
What 9 bloggers said
We read all 9 in full. The most common claims are “Clean and spacious” (5) and “Crispy batter” (5).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Things you can check on site
| Self-order screen | 5 of 9 posts |
|---|---|
| Large windows | 5 of 9 posts |
| Seats to sit and eat | 5 of 9 posts |
| Reachable by transit | 3 of 9 posts |
| Takeout | 3 of 9 posts |
| Beer served | 2 of 9 posts |
| Review event | 2 of 9 posts |
| Open kitchen | 1 of 9 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
Who came, and with whom
| Came with children | 3 of 9 posts |
|---|---|
| Family visit | 3 of 9 posts |
| Group visit | 2 of 9 posts |
Getting there
We could not find this shop’s own listing on Naver Map, so the link searches for the address instead.
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 can get in. None mentions a step, a threshold or a ramp, and none mentions the toilet at all — not even whether it is inside. The address ends in "ground floor", but that comes from the check-in widget, and nobody looked at the door and wrote down what they saw. Three of the nine came with small children and still say nothing about getting in. Two mention seats outside, so eating out there is evidently possible; how you reach them, we do not know.
No one mentioned: Second floor · 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 nothing either way9 of 9 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 14 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.
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 |
|---|---|
| 2025-10 | 4 |
| 2025-11 | 3 |
| 2025-12 | 2 |
What we do not know
- Fifteen of the thirty posts that came in under this name turned out to be about a different Gony's, at a different address, and we removed them. The original was a burger shop that opened around 2019 on Wangsimni-ro, built on beef patties and a house chilli, with chicken burgers at ₩7,900 and cheeseburgers at ₩8,900. It closed in early 2020 — one writer reports it gone by that May — reopened that November a few streets away, and a customer from the new room wrote that the food tasted the same but wondered whether the owner had changed. A 2021 post gives a third address, where another shop now stands. The place you can visit today opened in the autumn of 2025 at 40 Seoulsup 2-gil. The name and probably the people carry over, but the address, the menu and the prices do not, and counting the old figures alongside the new ones would make every number false. One post says the shop belongs to the same family as Yunkyung, the diner that was here before, and that it is named after a husband — which we could not verify.
- Five of the remaining fourteen are not accounts of a visit, which leaves us nine posts by nine people. Four come from one blog and are new-product announcements — three burritos, five chicken boxes, the taco, the ramen and rice bowls — listing prices and ingredients without ever saying anyone ate anything, and closing with an instruction to go and click the shop's listing. None of them declares a sponsorship. The fifth is a week in somebody's diary that also takes in a café in Bukchon, a samgyetang house and a shopping mall; the two lines about this shop record walking in and guessing at the meaning of the name from the napkin, and nothing about the food. Of the nine we did count, one only collected a takeaway order, so we counted what she saw of the room and not a meal eaten there.
- Coriander turns up across the menu — in the taco burger, the burrito, the taco and the taco rice bowl. Whether you can have it left out depends on who you ask. For the burrito, two posts say it is a tick-box at ordering, and one asked for extra. For the burger, one writer had it left out; another could not remember seeing the option and met the coriander mid-burger. If it matters to you, ask when you order. In one family's case it was the child who insisted on having it.
- The eight posts that give opening hours give exactly the same ones — every day, eleven to nine, last orders at half eight, and one phone number. Usually these disagree; here they do not. But that is also a sign that eight people copied one notice rather than eight people checking. No post names a closing day, and only one says "Mon–Sun" in support of the shop opening daily, which is not the same as knowing it never shuts. One December visitor says only that it was quiet late in the evening.
- One visitor did not get what she came for. Arriving on 29 December to collect an order, she found the burrito — the thing she most wanted — sold out, and left saying she would come back. It is the only post that mentions anything running out, so whether that is usual or a consequence of arriving late, we cannot say. Nobody among the nine ate the chicken ramen either; one writer promises to next time and asks her readers to report back. Nobody bought a picnic box. The board runs to more than twenty items, and these nine people between them ate about ten of them.
- Not one post mentions the toilet — whether it is inside the shop or out in the building, whether it is split by sex, nothing. That is not the same as there being none: it means none of the nine wrote it down. Three of them came with small children and the shop sells beer, and still nobody says. One calls the dining room clean, but that is the dining room. For a shop people drop into on a walk through the park this is worth knowing, and our posts cannot tell you.
- Nobody looked at the entrance and wrote down what they saw. The address ends in "ground floor", but that string comes from the check-in widget and is identical in every post; whether there is a step up, or a lip at the door, no one records. Three describe a white building with red trim and a glass front you can see into, and two mention seats outside, which makes a level entrance off the street likely — but that is us guessing, not anybody reporting.
Sources (9)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- 성수 고니스ㅣ서울숲 타코치킨 수제버거 맛집 치즈치킨라이스 추천 2025-12-29 · Super J · via Daum
- 서울숲 맛집 수제버거ㅣ고니스 [GONY'S] 2025-12-26 · 절망의 나라, 행복한 젊은이
- 서울숲 맛집 수제버거 고니스 야외테라스 즐기기 좋은 GONY'S 2025-11-10 · 예쁨 한 스푼, 맛 한 입:
- [서울숲 맛집] 고니스, 서울숲 피크닉엔 치킨 수제버거 치킨꼬치 필수 2025-11-09 · 꾸니맘의 일상생활 · via Daum
- 서울숲 [고니스 GONY'S] : 버터밀크 치킨 버거, 스트릿닭꼬치, 마라국물떡볶이 맛집 수제버거 2025-11-06 · 촤콜맅의 식도락 여행로그 · via Daum
- 서울숲 / 고니스(GONY'S), 서울숲 피크닉 도시락 2025-10-30 · i am pine · via Daum
- 성수동 맛집 수제버거 고니스에서 즐긴 서울숲 맛집 수제버거 타코.... 2025-10-19 · 햄톨이의 여행
- 뚝섬 데이트 핫플 고니스(GONY’S) | 맛있는 서울숲 피크닉 도시락, 성수 수제버거 맛집 후기 2025-10-10 · 도시의 식탁 · via Daum
- [서울숲/뚝섬] 신상 버거집 고니스에서 타코 치킨 버거 먹었읍니다.. 2025-10-01 · 혀끝기행 · via Daum
Of 310 candidate posts we opened 66 and kept 9 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.