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

Le Alaska

르알래스카 Reu Allaeseuka A ciabatta bakery from Garosu-gil, now on Seongsu's pop-up street, opening at eight with a garden terrace hidden at the back

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

Updated 2026-09-24 · Published 2026-09-27

Le Alaska is a bakery cafe on Yeonmujang-gil, the main street of Seongsu. It came here from Garosu-gil in Sinsa-dong, and three of the writers we read had been customers there. It opens at eight in the morning and closes at eight at night, early enough for four writers to remark on it. What it sells is ciabatta — potato, basil, cheese-and-olive, fig — made with a natural starter and Spanish olive oil, as the leaflet in the bag explains. What it is known for drinking is iced coffee under a mountain of shaved ice. Whole loaves are stacked in the window, and four writers say that is what stopped them. The posts we read run from August 2025 to September 2026.

The basics

2 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

• 아이스 아메리카노 — 얼음을 갈아 수북이 올린 커피14 ate it
  aiseu americano₩5,500 · ₩5,800

  **The most-ordered drink, and the thing people photograph**: not ice cubes but a mountain of finely shaved ice, slush-like, heaped over the coffee. Twelve posts mention it; one says first-timers regularly ask whether the order went wrong

  Four call it low-acid and nutty; one finds it dark and bitter, another light and clean. **One says the serving is not large.** Two prices appear, ₩5,500 and ₩5,800 — and the photographed board lists both side by side, so it is probably a size or hot/iced distinction. **One writer was told there is no decaf.**

• 소금빵 · 흑임자 소금빵10 ate it
  sogeumppang₩3,400 · ₩3,800

  Plain ₩3,400, black-sesame ₩3,800 (from a photographed board; two buyers also give ₩3,400 for the plain one)

  **This shop's *sogeumppang* has no butter cavity, and writers divide over it.** Two say so plainly and warn that people who like the cavity may be let down. The texture divides them too: two found it chewy rather than crisp, one even a little dry with less butter aroma than expected, while four call it soft, chewy and clean-tasting. **Two prefer the black-sesame version.** One writer had theirs warmed in the microwave on request

• 치즈 올리브 치아바타8 ate it
  chijeu olibeu chiabata₩3,800 · ₩3,900

  The most-bought of the four ciabattas, the shop's signature bread: black olives and Emmental. **A leaflet about the ciabatta goes into the bag with it**

  Four writers describe it as nutty and lean with olives surfacing as you chew; one traced a funky note they had blamed on the ferment to the Emmental. **One was disappointed** that the olives were chopped too small. **Two prices**: ₩3,800 paid in August 2026, ₩3,900 on a menu board photographed that April. We cannot tell which is current

• 감자 치아바타6 ate it
  gamja chiabata₩3,800

  The ciabatta made with potato

  Four call it chewy and strongly potato-flavoured, and the one writer who ate all three ciabattas ranked it first on the day. One found it unremarkable. Two give ₩3,800

• 마들렌 (레몬 · 초코 · 말차)6 ate it
  madeleine₩3,500

  Large madeleines, in lemon, chocolate and matcha

  One writer expected little and was audibly surprised. Two call them moist and bright. The writer who ate three kinds kept them for breakfast with coffee, and found the matcha one bitter until the chocolate half took over. **One remarks on how big they are.** One gives ₩3,500

• 바질 치아바타4 ate it
  bajil chiabata₩3,900

  Ciabatta with Italian basil pesto

  Two describe it as generously pesto'd and distinctly foreign-tasting. **One writer kept biting something like grit** and, it being a hot day, could not be bothered to go back and say so. A board photographed in April 2026 gives ₩3,900

• 홈메이드 애플티 (사과차)4 ate it
  apple tea₩6,500

  Apple tea made from the shop's own syrup. **One writer ordered it on the owner's recommendation**

  **Three writers single it out over the famous iced coffee** — strong, with ginger, pieces of apple still crisp in the cup, sweet but not cloying, clearly made in-house. One dissents: homemade, yes, but nothing special. Two give ₩6,500

• 빨미까레 (초코 · 황치즈)4 ate it
  ppalmikkare₩5,800

  Layered pastry coated in chocolate

  Two describe a pastry that flakes apart under a rich chocolate coat, and one froze half and found it just as good straight from the freezer. Two give ₩5,800; one adds that it is dear for the size but worth stocking

• 식빵 — 우유 · 잡곡 · 호밀 · 통식빵3 ate it
  sikppang

  Whole loaves are stacked in the window, and **four writers say that is what pulled them in** — the display is visible from down the street

  **Both writers who bought the milk loaf praised it** — one rates it above the ciabatta and among the best bread in the district. Nobody records a price

• 레몬에이드3 ate it
  lemon ade₩6,500

  Lemonade under the same shaved ice

  **The writers flatly contradict each other.** One calls it sharp and cooling. **A September 2026 post says it tasted fishy** — two schoolgirls ordered it, decided something was wrong and left it. Another pair, both non-coffee drinkers, ordered the chocolate drink and the lemonade and wrote that the drinks are simply not good. **Four posts note the drinks list is short** for what is really a bakery, and two advise sticking to the americano. A photographed board gives ₩6,500

• 마늘빵 · 마늘바게트2 ate it
  maneulppang

  Baguette under garlic butter

  One calls it heavy, oily and intense, and takes it as proof the bread is the point here; another found it crisp outside and soaked through with garlic. No price recorded

• 깜빠뉴 (호두베리 등)2 ate it
  kkamppanyu

  A large rustic loaf

  A regular who comes once or twice a month names the madeleine, this loaf and the ciabatta as the safe bets, and calls the walnut-and-berry version a favourite. No price recorded

• 아이스 초코 · 초코라떼2 ate it
  aiseu choco₩6,000 · ₩6,500

  A chocolate drink dusted with cocoa

  One buyer paid ₩6,500 and found it comfortingly ordinary in a good way — milk and chocolate rather than raw sugar. Another, who ordered it alongside the lemonade, wrote that the drinks are no good. The photographed board lists a chocolate latte at ₩6,000

• 몽블랑1 ate it
  mont blanc₩6,800

  A baked pastry, crisp outside and moist within

  The one buyer ranks it among the best things they took home and says their mother loved it. ₩6,800 — dear for the size, they add, but worth keeping in

• 올리브 바게트1 ate it
  olibeu baguette

  Baguette baked with green olives

  The one buyer found it moderately crisp rather than hard, with salty, fragrant olives through it. No price recorded

• 초코소라빵1 ate it
  choko sorappang

  A shell-shaped bun filled with chocolate cream. **One writer remembers it being the popular one back at the Garosu-gil shop**

  The one buyer recommends it warmly — soft chocolate, tasting of good chocolate milk. No price recorded

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 can get in. Neither word appears anywhere in the thirty posts — we checked by machine. One party arrived with two children and says nothing about the door either. Getting accessibility wrong sends somebody on a wasted journey, so we leave it as unknown rather than guess.

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

• Someone else paid1 / 281 of 28 posts
• Posts saying they paid themselves4 / 284 of 28 posts
• Posts saying nothing either way23 / 2823 of 28 posts

When the posts appeared

What we do not know

• We collected thirty posts and counted twenty-eight. The two we dropped are about other places. One walks Garosu-gil in Sinsa-dong explaining the origins of shop names and mentions us in a single line, as the *former* bakery there that now trades only in Seongsu — the premises it is actually about are the old ones. The other reviews a gelato shop in a basement further along our own street; our name appears only in a "more from this blog" link card at the foot of the page. That link points to the same blogger's review of us from the day before, which we were already counting — counting this one too would count one person twice.
• Nobody says anything about floors or steps. Across all thirty posts the words for stairs, lift, threshold, level change, ramp, wheelchair and pushchair appear not once, and "ground floor" appears twice, both times about something else. That this shop is at street level is what the registered address says, not what any visitor says. So whether there is a step at the door, or a change of level along the passage to the back room and the terrace, we do not know — eight writers describe that passage, and none of them describes its floor.
• Do not be fooled by the word "waiting" here. It appears seven times and only once is it our queue. Twice it is the queue for a Toy Story pop-up nearby — two writers put their names down, came in here to wait, and left at a run when the text came, after forty and thirty minutes. This place works as the waiting room for the pop-ups on the street; six posts mention one. Our own queue appears once, and it is at the counter, not for a table: one writer, watching customers filing past the open bread, worried about dust settling on it. Against that, one writer found the turnover quick enough to sit down straight away. Nobody records waiting for a seat.
• Three posts mention the toilet and only one describes it. That one places it at the far right end of the terrace, a single unisex cubicle you queue for outside, one at a time, with a wait possible at weekends. The same writer saw the basin and a hand dryer and found it well kept; a second writer also calls it clean. That it is not separated by sex rests on that one account. A third post's header says only "toilet: ask the shop".
• Three different things are said about the service. One writer found it a bonus on top of the rest; one did not find it friendly at all. The telling account divides against itself: the owner was kind, this writer says, but not every member of staff was, so go at a quiet hour. The same writer adds that other reviews describe chaos at busy times, and that opinion of the place splits clean between glowing and sour. One writer met a foreign member of staff and was startled by how fluent their Korean was. Two writers advise avoiding the rush.
• Eight writers say who they came with — five with friends, two with family (a husband; two children), one alone. Only one party was larger than two: an adult and two primary-school children. The other twenty say nothing. Two posts touch on seating for a group: one guesses the wide terrace seats would take a crowd, and one watched another table push two tables together. The second is an observation; the first is a guess. Three writers note the front room is mostly two-seaters.
• Two writers call it dear, two call it fair. The first two count: two coffees and two pieces of bread came to the middle twenties of thousands of won, coffee now costing what a meal cost a few years ago; and the mont blanc at ₩6,800 and the chocolate palmier at ₩5,800 are dear for the size, though both worth stocking. On the other side, one finds the prices easy by Seongsu standards, and one weighs the size in: not cheap, but the loaves are large and the milk bread moist enough to make it good value. Bread runs ₩3,400–3,900, baked sweets ₩3,500–6,800, drinks ₩5,000–6,500, from the posts that record prices.
• Six writers call themselves regulars — once or twice a month, more visits than they can count, a second visit already, a bookmarked bakery. Three of them have been coming since the Garosu-gil days, one for six or seven years. One writer says they will not come back, and gives a clear reason: they do not like bread with nothing inside it, and that is most of what this shop makes. This is a shop for eating bread with a meal, not for cream and fillings — and that writer also came in the afternoon, when much of it had gone.
• Come in the afternoon and what you wanted may be gone — five writers say so. At three in the afternoon one found the cases thinned to madeleines and basil ciabatta; another found the salt bread sold out; a regular deliberately comes early. One writer lost out inside a single visit: they paid for what they would eat there, meant to buy more on the way out, and found the case empty by then. Two morning visitors found the cases full. But one adds that too early is also wrong — nothing much is out yet, and around eleven is the moment.
• There is almost nothing to disagree about in the hours. Sixteen posts give eight in the morning to eight at night, eleven of them saying "every day". Three depart from that: one has a truncated closing time, one says ten at night, one says it opens at eleven. The last is the opposite of what this place is — the eight o'clock opening is its signature: it is in one post's title, stamped on the paper bags, and the reason one writer comes for a quiet early coffee. We left all three out of the table. Nobody names a closing day — eleven say "every day" and none says outright that it never closes, so the table stays empty there. No post mentions a break or a last order.
• Not one post declares a sponsorship or a fee — none of the usual words appears anywhere in the thirty. Four say they paid their own way, and one says the company did: it opens by announcing that this is not their own money but a corporate card, explains how a departmental dinner budget became bread, and enjoys pointing at the trays and saying "this to here, all of it" without checking prices. That is why this one post is the only one that tasted all three ciabattas alongside the salt bread, the baguette, the mont blanc, the palmier and three madeleines. The shop paid nothing, so we did not count it as sponsorship. And twenty-eight posts are twenty-eight people — nobody wrote twice.
• Almost nobody says they came by subway. Eight posts carry a line about the distance from Seongsu station exit 4, and nearly all of them are header information — the most detailed even hedges that your own walking speed may differ, which is the mark of a copied line. Two writers say it in their own voice: a regular who finds it a good walk from either station, and one who simply calls it easy to reach. A third says it is a bit of a hike from the station. What actually brought people here was walking past — nine were pulled in by the frontage or the loaves in the window, two came in to wait for a pop-up nearby, and two work on the same lane. This is not a place you travel to; it is a place you walk into.

Sources (28)

Every number above was counted from the posts below.

1. 성수동 빵집 성수 치아바타 르 알레스카 2026-09-26 · 전국 맛집 카페 뚝따그의 일상 · via Daum
2. 성수 카페 일찍 문여는 르알래스카 베이커리 찐한맛 마늘빵 레모네이드는 별로 2026-09-25 · 평범하지만 특별한 매일 · via Daum
3. [성수/연무장길 카페] 성수동 베이커리 핫플 ‘르알래스카’ 얼음산.... 2026-08-31 · Never Alone Diaries
4. 성수역 카페 추천 '르 알래스카' 빵 종류 다양한 베이커리 맛집 2026-08-28 · 알차게 다녀온 하루ㅣ전세계 여행 및 맛집
5. 르알래스카 | 성수 베이커리 카페, 인생 치아바타를 만나다! (재방문의사 O) 2026-08-20 · na tmi · via Daum
6. 성수동 카페 추천 르 알래스카 베이커리 맛집 내돈내산 후기 2026-08-13 · 졔미있는 여행일기 ʕتʔ
7. 성수 힙한 카페 르 알래스카, 치아바타&케이크 보면 저절로 지갑 열게 됨 2026-07-27 · ₊ ₊˚⊹ .⁺화이팅 세상⁺. ⊹˚₊ ₊ · via Daum
8. [서울 성수] 베이커리 카페 맛집 르알래스카 / LE ALASKA 2026-07-23 · Frame Diary · via Daum
9. LE ALASKA 르알래스카 성수 2026-06-17 · 똑똑한 제안
10. 성수동 카페 • 유럽 감성 베이커리 카페 맛집 르 알래스카(LE ALASKA) .... 2026-06-11 · 기록 보관함
11. [성수동] 르알래스카 | 숨겨진 반전! 취향저격 테라스가 예쁜 성수 .... 2026-06-11 · 브라이트옌
12. 서울 카페 - 성수 베이커리 카페 유럽감성 르 알래스카 LE ALASKA 2026-06-08 · ARTRAVING:일상과 여행.
13. 성수 빵집 르알래스카 치아바타 레몬파운드 2026-05-23 · 평양냉면은 어려워요 · via Daum
14. 성수동 데이트 코스 / 르 알래스카 베이커리 맛집 / 아이스커피와 치.... 2026-04-30 · 슬기로운 여행 생활
15. [성수동 빵집] 빵순이의 찐 단골집! 여긴 진짜 못 참는 '르알래스카' 🥖✨ 2026-04-15 · 슬리퍼's 테이블 & 트래블 · via Daum
16. 성수 식빵이 맛있는 빵집 르알라스카(LE ALASKA)[성수맛집/성수빵집] 2026-04-07 · 성수어학원 · via Daum
17. 성수 베이커리카페 르알래스카 LE ALASKA 성수빵집 2026-03-22 · 진짜를 찾아서
18. [성수] 성수동 연무장길 우드 톤 베이커리 카페, 르 알레스카(Le Alaska.... 2026-03-19 · urban chill ✨
19. 성수동 베이커리 카페 르알래스카 치아바타 맛집 2026-03-05 · 낮술의 느리게 걷는 여행 · via Daum
20. 성수동 카페, '르알래스카(Le Alaska)': 유럽 노천카페 감성 그대로! 따.... 2026-02-23 · 사랑 가득 담아✨
21. 르알래스카 성수, 가로수길 추억의 베이커리 2026-01-30 · 소비인간의 저장소 · via Daum
22. [베이커리] 성수 빵집 르 알래스카 내돈내산 2026-01-24 · 2020 · via Daum
23. 성수카페[르 알래스카 LE ALASKA]성수 사과차가 맛있는 집,성수동카페,.... 2026-01-19 · 놀고먹고육아하기
24. 테라스에서 즐기는 여유로운 한때, 성수 르 알래스카(LE ALASKA) 2025-11-29 · 지니허스 · via Daum
25. Le Alaska 르 알래스카 성수/크리스마스 분위기/치아바타 맛집 2025-11-25 · 모여봐 | little gatherings ✨
26. 성수동 유럽풍 카페 르 알래스카 LE ALASKA 2025-09-16 · 아 오늘도 잘 보냈다
27. 성수동 핫플 카페 소금빵 맛집 추천 르 알래스카 유럽 감성 카페 2025-08-30 · 블리지은
28. 성수동에서 킷사텐이 생각나는 르 알래스카 LE ALASKA 2025-08-20 · Rangni:랑니=너를

Of 275 candidate posts we opened 58 and kept 28 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.

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