Gilpost · Seongdong-gu, Seongsu-dong 1-ga
The Lemonade Seoul
레모네이드 서울 Lemonade Seoul a lemon-only drinks shop; it opened as The Lemonade and renamed itself Lemonade Seoul
Other · Seongdong-gu, Seongsu-dong 1-ga
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At the far end of the Seoul Forest café strip, down half a flight of stairs beside the Galleria Foret: a shop that sells lemon and almost nothing else. Barely a drink on the menu is lemon-free — classic, sparkling and frozen lemonade (₩7,000, ₩8,000 large) at the centre, fusions blended with strawberry, orange, blueberry, ginger ale or omija, lemon tea, bottled lemon shots, and lemon oil for sale. In summer the shaved ice is half the trade: watermelon, peach, shine muscat and mango over ice made from A2 organic milk (₩24,000 for the watermelon). The room is small — a bar counter and a few tables, which three writers note — you order at a kiosk, and many carry the cup out into the park. Dogs are welcome, with a parking spot outside and, two writers say, indoors as well. It opened in summer 2025 as The Lemonade and has since renamed itself Lemonade Seoul. There is no parking.
The basics
| Address | 서울특별시 성동구 서울숲2길 11, 지하1층 (성수동1가) 11 Seoulsup 2-gil, Seongdong-gu, Seoul |
|---|---|
| Phone | 0507-1424-3030 |
| Typical spend | ₩3,400 – ₩24,000 |
| Floor area | 64 m² |
| Status | In business |
1 posts say it is walkable from the station.
When it opens
| Open | Weekdays | 11:00–21:00 4 of 4 posts last seen 2026-08 |
|---|---|---|
| Open | Weekends | 10:30–22:00 3 of 4 posts last seen 2026-08 |
| Last order | Weekdays | 20:30 3 of 3 posts last seen 2026-08 |
| Last order | Weekends | 21:30 3 of 3 posts last seen 2026-08 |
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
- This is a cup-to-go café, not a sit-down one. The room is small: a bar counter and a few tables, an L-shaped space one writer calls snug, and so few tables that another expected weekend queues and a time limit. So people carry it into the park. One picked hers up on the way in; another sat out on a Friday night among the garden festival's chairs with the lemonade and thought it perfect. The shop knows this: its review-event gift is a bottle of water and a shot of pure lemon juice — for a detox drink on the walk, as one writer puts it — or, another day, water and a lemon stick. One writer notes you may keep the cup. Straws, cup holders, napkins and wipes are on a self-serve counter.
- You can bring a dog in — and the two writers who say so use the place differently for it. One came over from lunch nearby with two dogs and a group of mothers, and left saying the staff made a fuss of hers and that she would come back two hundred times. The other spotted dog parking spots at the front and side, then added a line after a second visit in September: indoors is fine too. It belongs to the walk in the park — vitamin C, as she puts it, for dog owners who cannot stop walking even in this heat. That it suits people passing through and that it takes dogs are the same fact. Both mention the staff in the same breath: they were kind to the dog.
- You order at a kiosk — five writers say so, and two of them flag the same trap: the printed menu on the wall and the kiosk do not match, one noting that the ice cream is missing from the illustrated board. Choose from the wall and you will be choosing again at the screen. You can still ask — one writer did, and was pointed to the classic and the sparkling. Things sell out: the butter tteok was gone and then back within one visit. The toilet is to the right of the entrance, per one writer. Another, though, was handed a key for it, with a charm hanging off it. Whether it is the shop's own or the building's, the two accounts do not settle.
- You go down half a flight — and that is what makes it easy to miss. The address is the basement, the stairs a half-level, and one writer assumed it was shut until she saw the lights on. What it has instead is a yellow front. Lemons at the door, a yellow façade one writer calls European enough that people come just to photograph it, blue tiles against the yellow, and a mirror at the entrance that another coveted. Three writers reach for the Mediterranean or Positano. It sits at the end of the Seoul Forest café strip, beside the Galleria Foret — nine minutes on foot from Seoul Forest station exit 4, ten from Ttukseom exit 8, per the one writer who measures it.
What 10 bloggers said
We read all 10 in full. The most common claims are “Cramped” (3) and “Returning customer” (1).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Things you can check on site
| Self-order screen | 5 of 10 posts |
|---|---|
| Takeout | 2 of 10 posts |
| Review event | 2 of 10 posts |
| Dogs allowed | 2 of 10 posts |
| Toilet inside | 1 of 10 posts |
| Foreign customers in the room | 1 of 10 posts |
| Reachable by transit | 1 of 10 posts |
| In a basement | 1 of 10 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
1 posts say you cannot park. None say you can.
| Posts saying you cannot | 1 of 10 posts |
|---|
There is no parking. One writer puts it as a question — you do know you cannot park round here? — and tells you to use a public car park; another simply records no parking. Nobody says they drove, and nobody names the car park they used. At the end of a café lane and half a level underground, this was never going to have one. Walk from Seoul Forest or Ttukseom station — nine and ten minutes, per the one writer who measures.
Who came, and with whom
| Date | 1 of 10 posts |
|---|---|
| Group visit | 1 of 10 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
| In a basement | 1 of 10 posts |
|---|---|
| Toilet inside | 1 of 10 posts |
Nobody writes about wheelchair or pushchair access — and this is a shop where you would want to ask. The address is the basement, and one writer describes going down half a flight. How many steps, whether there is another way in, whether there is a lift: no post says. In eleven posts the words ramp, threshold and step count never appear. Half a flight is still stairs, and we know only that they exist — not even how many. Two writers brought dogs in, so a pushchair may well manage, but that is our inference and not a record. Ring 0507-1424-3030 and ask.
No one mentioned: Second floor · Lift to the floor · Ramp at the door · Step at the entrance · Step-free access · 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 of 10 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way6 of 10 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 11 posts we gathered, 1 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 |
|---|---|
| 2025-08 | 2 |
| 2025-09 | 1 |
| 2025-10 | 1 |
| 2026-06 | 1 |
| 2026-07 | 1 |
| 2026-08 | 3 |
| 2026-09 | 1 |
What we do not know
- Eight of the nineteen posts were not about this shop, because its name is the name of a drink. Five were one line on another shop's menu: a bakery café in Seongsu, a sausage bar in Sangwangsimni, a pasta place, a Jeju-Italian kitchen, and a 2022 pop-up restaurant by Ttukseom station. In all five, lemonade is merely something they sell, and our shop's name never appears. Two were pop-ups elsewhere — an outlet mall in Incheon and a department store in Daegu. Both carry our Seongsu address in the check-in widget, so an address check does not separate them. The Incheon writer refers to "the Seongsu branch, apparently already popular" — she knows this shop only by report. Another post mentions a pop-up in Pangyo too. One writer got in but found every seat taken and ate nothing, so she is out of the count (see the queue note below). Eleven remain, from August 2025 to September 2026. That is not many. The name has changed once. It opened as The Lemonade and became Lemonade Seoul; one writer, unable to find the old name, assumed it had closed. Posts call it four different things. Search both names. There are two phone numbers: five posts give 0507-1424-3030, and a September 2026 post gives 0507-1358-8532. We published the first; the later record is the second. The hours changed between 2025 and 2026. Three 2025 posts give 11:00–21:00 daily; four 2026 posts give 11:00–21:00 on weekdays and 10:30–22:00 at weekends — half an hour earlier and an hour later at the weekend — so we published only the later figures. But one September 2026 post gives 11:00–22:00 daily, which may mean the weekday close has moved again. One witness, so not in the table. Check before you go. No post records a closing day. We did not count the shop's own claims. Mediterranean sweet lemons pressed and flash-frozen at source, a Turkish base, unrefined sugar, A2 organic milk — all of it is printed on the menu and the shop's Instagram. One writer copied it and added her own question: does that mean they thaw it daily? We do not know either.
- Two posts disagree about whether the toilet is inside. One places it to the right of the entrance beside the kiosk; the other was struck by the charm hanging off the toilet key. A key usually means the building's shared facility — yet the first writer points to a spot inside the shop. Both looked, so we discarded neither. Whether it is separated by sex, or how many stalls, nobody says. For a half-basement unit, sharing the building's may well be the answer; that is as far as we can go.
- At the weekend you may not get a seat — though that record comes from a post we left out of the count. A writer working through three shaved-ice places around Seoul Forest reached our door, liked the look of it, went in for the bingsu and found every seat taken. She went elsewhere. She ate nothing, so she is out of the denominator; but the full room on a weekend afternoon is something she saw. None of the eleven who did eat reports waiting. One found the room fairly full; another, counting the tables, expected weekend queues and a time limit — and remembered a queueing terminal outside the door, which is an observation, not a guess: this is a shop that takes numbers. Most people carry the cup out. If you want a seat, avoid weekend afternoons.
Sources (10)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- 서울숲 카페 추천, 채광이 이쁜 과일빙수와 음료 맛집, 더 레모네이.... 2026-09-12 · 영쯔라이프 (youngzzu life)
- (성수동) 레모네이드 서울 내돈내산 후기｜상큼달달한 프로즌 레모.... 2026-08-21 · 특별하지 않은 하루
- [서울숲] 무더운 여름 제대로된 레모네이드를 맛보고 싶다면 '레모.... 2026-08-08 · 미수의 그밥에 그음악
- 성수 애견동반 식당 - 미쁘동 성수 (근처 레모네이드 서울까지 애견 .... 2026-08-03 · 드보라월드
- 서울숲 상큼한 지중해 레몬 빙수 디저트 카페 :: 레모네이드 서울 / .... 2026-07-07 · busyguy
- 성수 디저트카페 추천 레모네이드 서울 성수 빙수 맛집 2026-06-25 · 굥굥이 블로그
- [서울/성수] '픽베이크' 성수 서울숲 줄서는 에그타르트 맛집? 내돈.... 2025-10-17 · 나의 작은 세계
- 상큼함과 시원함 한스푼, ‘더레모네이드 서울숲’ 후기 2025-09-25 · ღ곽로그ღ
- 상큼한 레몬음료 전문점더레모네이드 2025-08-21 · 눈누
- 서울숲 카페 더레모네이드 | 레몬 착즙 전문점 · 반려견 동반 가능 .... 2025-08-18 · mongjahome
Of 369 candidate posts we opened 120 and kept 10 as evidence. We have not seen them all yet; another pass would add more.