Gilpost · Seongdong-gu, Seongsu-dong 1-ga
GUFEL
구펠 뚝섬 Gupel Ttukseom The shop writes itself GUFEL in roman letters and 구펠 in Korean, said roughly goo-pel; Ttukseom is the subway station it stands beside. One regular guesses the name comes from the Spanish gusto feliz, but nothing we read confirms it.
Other · Seongdong-gu, Seongsu-dong 1-ga
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Gufel is a brunch café and roastery that has the whole of a red-brick building to itself, in a lane by exit 2 at Ttukseom. Ciabatta sandwiches, pasta, and coffee they roast themselves; the bread is sold over the counter too. There is nowhere to sit on the ground floor — that is where you order, collect and return your plates — so the seating is one floor down and two and three floors up. Outside there is a small walled terrace. Weekdays eight in the morning to eight at night, last orders half seven; Saturdays half ten to seven; closed Sundays. No bookings. The posts we read run from August 2025 to September 2026.
The basics
| Address | 서울특별시 성동구 왕십리로14길 30-1, 지하1,2층 (성수동1가) 30-1 Wangsimni-ro 14-gil, Seongdong-gu, Seoul |
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| Phone | 0507-1445-1430 |
| Typical spend | ₩3,500 – ₩16,500 |
| Floor area | 81 m² |
| Status | In business |
11 posts say it is walkable from the station.
When it opens
| Open | Weekdays | 08:00–20:00 13 of 13 posts last seen 2026-09 |
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| Open | Saturday | 10:30–19:00 12 of 13 posts last seen 2026-09 |
| Last order | Weekdays | 19:30 5 of 5 posts last seen 2026-09 |
| Last order | Saturday | 18:30 4 of 5 posts last seen 2026-09 |
| Closed | 일요일 14 of 14 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
- Having the whole building means stairs. Sixteen posts describe the layout: the ground floor is for ordering, collecting and returning only (nine say so), and you sit one floor down or two and three floors up. One writer reports that the fourth floor is offices and closed to customers. Not one post mentions a lift; six mention the stairs — spiral, winding, and narrow and steep enough that one writer tells you to take care. The tray is what people keep coming back to: you carry your food and drink up, and your empty plates down. One admits to being tense the whole way in case she tipped it, and warns that at a busy hour it is worse. On what the floors are like the posts agree: the basement is dark and enclosed — three mention a piano and a serious pair of speakers — and the second and third are glass and light. Three say that when the second floor is full, go up one more.
- You can sit outside. Eleven posts mention the terrace — a small walled yard in front, which two of them call a garden. On a fine day it fills first: one writer found every outside table taken on a bright afternoon, another says those seats were the popular ones. Against that, one was rained indoors, one gave up on it in the heat, and four write some version of *it is too hot now, but in autumn I want to sit out here* — the same advice, four times over, to aim for spring or autumn and forget summer and winter. Dogs are allowed on the terrace and not inside — though only one writer says so.
- This place wins coffee prizes, and nine posts say so. Four describe the plaques lined up by the counter; one counted the same award three times over. Named between them: a Golden Coffee Award, gold in the GCA single-origin Asia class and bronze for cold brew, fourth in the world for a dark roast, and the Columbus Guide. How many years running, nobody agrees on — two say three, one says four, one writes the span as 2023 to 2026. One explains the Columbus Guide as a coffee Michelin, run by a food-analysis outfit called Scentone. We have checked none of it — only that nine people wrote the same thing. What is worth more: nobody came because of the plaques. One writer walked in off the street, saw the wall, expected nothing from it, and was startled by the coffee.
- Some call it roomy and some call it cramped, and they are looking at different things. The two who call it roomy mean the building — four floors, so there is always somewhere. The four who call it cramped mean one floor at a time: four or five tables on the second and third (two posts), a small footprint overall, and above all the ground floor. That is where the complaints land: barely room to stand and only a till; nowhere to wait for your food; pickup and return in the same spot, so you edge past the queue with your dirty plates. Hence the advice, from two writers, to find a seat before you order. Two call the place clean. One says the opposite: a bad smell at the bottom of the stairs, and corners of a four-floor building that were not being kept up. She adds that it had been cleaned by the time she left, and supposes she came at a bad moment.
- Exit 2 at Ttukseom. Eleven posts name that exit. On the distance they scatter — fifty metres, ninety-four metres, "right outside", and one, two, three and five minutes on foot. Either way it is a short walk, and one puts it at ten minutes from Seongsu station or Seoul Forest. The address says Seongsu-dong but this is not Seongsu station, which turns out to matter: one writer found there were fewer brunch places around Ttukseom precisely because of it, and another counts it a virtue — none of the Seongsu crowds, and none of what the crowds take out of you.
- Order food and a drink together and a thousand won comes off. Five posts mention it, in four different wordings, all pointing at the same thing. One writer confirms the thousand came off each drink at the till. A sandwich and a coffee is what nearly everyone orders here anyway, so there is no reason to ring them up separately.
- One item a head is enough, and it does not have to be a drink. Two posts say so — one copying the line off the menu board, the other relieved not to have to force a coffee on everyone at the table. Which means bringing someone who does not drink coffee costs you nothing extra: two writers ordered the caffeine-free herb tea instead because their stomachs were off, and one had an ade with her sandwich.
What 24 bloggers said
We read all 24 in full. The most common claims are “Returning customer” (5) and “Would return” (0).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Where they disagree
| Clean and spacious | yes 2 · no 4 |
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Things you can check on site
| Second floor | 16 of 24 posts |
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| Outdoor terrace seating | 11 of 24 posts |
| Reachable by transit | 11 of 24 posts |
| Chef credentials | 9 of 24 posts |
| Discount offered | 5 of 24 posts |
| Toilet inside | 4 of 24 posts |
| Large windows | 3 of 24 posts |
| One dish per person | 2 of 24 posts |
| Waiting area | 1 of 24 posts |
| Takeout | 2 of 24 posts |
| Dogs allowed | 1 of 24 posts |
| Separate restrooms | 1 of 24 posts |
| Time limit on the table | 1 of 24 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
3 posts say you cannot park. None say you can.
| Posts saying you cannot | 3 of 24 posts |
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Two people brought a car. Plenty of posts carry a "no parking" line at the top, but that is lifted from the shop's listing — one writer says so outright, citing Naver as her source, and another labels the whole block as such — so we have not counted it. Two wrote from experience. One found nothing in front of the shop and used a municipal car park, five minutes' walk, and did not mind. The other had gone to the trouble of pricing four nearby car parks by the hour — ₩1,800 at the municipal one, ₩1,500 at another, ₩3,000 at two private ones — and still concluded that the train was the better idea. How many cars fit, or whether you can stop outside for a minute, nobody knows; one writer says only that she sometimes sees cars parked there.
Who came, and with whom
| Family visit | 4 of 24 posts |
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| Date | 2 of 24 posts |
| Came by car | 2 of 24 posts |
| Came with children | 1 of 24 posts |
| Group visit | 1 of 24 posts |
| Solo visit | 1 of 24 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 | 16 of 24 posts |
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| Toilet inside | 4 of 24 posts |
| Separate restrooms | 1 of 24 posts |
Not one post says whether a wheelchair or a pushchair can use this place. Nobody mentions a step at the door or a ramp, and nobody mentions a lift. What is certain is only this: there is no seating on the ground floor, every seat is up or down a flight, six posts describe those stairs, and one of them calls them narrow and steep enough to need care. The toilet is on the third floor. This is an absence of reports rather than an absence of access — but no post describes a way round the stairs either.
No one mentioned: 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 themselves9 of 24 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way15 of 24 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 30 posts we gathered, 6 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 |
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| 2025-08 | 2 |
| 2025-09 | 2 |
| 2025-10 | 1 |
| 2025-11 | 1 |
| 2025-12 | 1 |
| 2026-01 | 2 |
| 2026-02 | 2 |
| 2026-03 | 2 |
| 2026-04 | 1 |
| 2026-05 | 1 |
| 2026-06 | 3 |
| 2026-07 | 1 |
| 2026-08 | 3 |
| 2026-09 | 2 |
What we do not know
- Four posts that are really Naver reviews in disguise are left out of the count. One copies the shop's listing wholesale — facilities, the entire price list, and the customer reviews underneath. Two rewrite Naver's own tallies into prose (876 reviews, 4.56 average, 320 people saying the coffee is good). The fourth gives an address and a station exit that match nothing else we have. Three of them reproduce the same two customer complaints — a burnt ciabatta, a hair in the pastry — which could easily read as three separate incidents. They are Naver reviews, not blog posts, so we have not counted them and cannot vouch for them. Two more posts are day-trip write-ups: in one, this place gets a single line and the queue and car park described in it belong to the pho restaurant round the corner; in the other it is one line of a week's work diary. That leaves twenty-four posts — and twenty-four posts here means twenty-four different people. None declares a sponsorship; nine state they paid their own way.
- There is no queue to stand in, but three people could not get a seat. The place takes no bookings. One came a month earlier, saw there was nowhere to sit, and went elsewhere; one had tried before and failed the same way; one arrived at weekday lunchtime, found every floor full, and took her sandwiches home. Three people, three different days, the same outcome — and all three on a weekday. Nine posts mention the office lunch crowd. Three others found the second floor full and went up to the third, which was empty. What a weekend looks like here, nobody writes.
- The toilet is on the third floor. Four posts place it inside the building and two of those give the floor; one adds that it was clean and a relief to have. Which means that if you are sitting in the basement or on the second floor, it is a climb. Three posts say the toilets are split by sex, but two of those are copying the shop's listing and only one wrote it from looking — and even that one is a single line in a summary block, so how much of it she checked is anyone's guess. Whether there is an accessible toilet, or how many cubicles, nobody says.
- The sandwiches got more expensive. Posts from August and September 2025 price the teriyaki chicken and the apple ham at ₩8,200; four posts between January and September 2026 put the apple ham at ₩8,700. The aussie beef holds at ₩9,800 through 2026. When the change happened we cannot say — a February 2026 post has the Mexican chicken at ₩8,200, and we cannot tell from these posts whether that sandwich was simply cheaper or whether the rise came later. For coffee we have one figure, ₩4,300 for an americano in August 2025, and no way to know if it still holds. One post carries the full price list, but it was copied from the shop's listing, so we have not used it.
- If you are bringing a laptop, there is a two-hour limit. One post records it: an August 2025 writer read the notice by the door — no outside food, and two hours on a laptop — and copied it down. Yet five posts are about people working here: one counted a roomful of women her own age with laptops and tablets, one recommends it for reading or working alone, and one writes in her weekly diary that Friday mornings are for coming here to draw with her work partner. Whether the notice is still up, or enforced, we could not check — only one post mentions the limit, and the other four say nothing about it.
- They do takeaway and delivery. The line saying so sits at the top of several posts, copied from the listing, so we have not counted it. Three people did it themselves: one found every floor full at weekday lunch and took two sandwiches home (each in its own box, and they will halve them if you ask); one picked up two on her way back from voting; and one had been ordering delivery for ages and was visiting the shop itself for the first time. One writer notes that an eight o'clock opening would suit a commuter buying breakfast — but that is a thought, not something she did.
- It closes on Sundays — fourteen posts say so. Not one of the writers we read went on a Sunday. Saturday is its own day: eight in the morning to eight at night on weekdays (thirteen posts), half ten to seven on Saturday (twelve). Last orders are half seven on weekdays and half six on Saturday, per five and four posts; two more give it as thirty minutes before closing, which comes to the same thing. Only one post mentions public holidays, and it puts them on Saturday hours. One writer who came during the Chuseok and National Foundation Day stretch copied that week's notice instead — open 11 to 5 on the Friday, shut on the 6th and 7th — so check ahead around a long weekend. No post mentions an afternoon break.
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Every number above was counted from the posts below.
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Of 339 candidate posts we opened 53 and kept 24 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.