Gilpost · Seongdong-gu, Seongsu-dong 1-ga
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로그 성수 Rogeu Seongsu A basement dining room off Seoul Forest built on fresh pasta and a wood-fired grill
Other · Seongdong-gu, Seongsu-dong 1-ga
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Log Seongsu is a western dining room one floor below ground at 36 Seoulsup 2-gil, five or six minutes' walk from exit 5 of Seoul Forest station. A brick and white building on the café street carries the sign; down the stairs, the wine is racked at the door. Fresh pasta and a wood-fired grill are the point — sweet shrimp tagliatelle (23,000–24,000 won) with bisque and roast pepper under raw shrimp, an ikura carbonara (24,000) with seaweed and salmon roe, and octopus with romesco (21,000) off the wood grill. Noon to half past nine, closed between half past three and five. Shut on Tuesdays — and on Wednesdays, though that seems to be changing. Tables, a counter and a private room, with space to book out for up to fifty. No parking; reserve through Naver or Catch Table.
The basics
| Address | 서울특별시 성동구 서울숲2길 36, 지1층 (성수동1가) 36 Seoulsup 2-gil, Seongdong-gu, Seoul |
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| Phone | 0507-1391-5612 |
| Typical spend | ₩8,000 – ₩24,000 |
| Floor area | 186 m² |
| Status | In business |
4 posts say it is walkable from the station.
When it opens
| Open | 12:00–21:30 5 of 5 posts last seen 2026-09 | |
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| Break | 15:30–17:00 6 of 6 posts last seen 2026-09 | |
| Last order | 20:00 3 of 3 posts last seen 2026-09 | |
| Closed | 화요일 4 of 4 posts last seen 2026-09 | |
| Closed | 수요일 3 of 4 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 a basement and it is not hard to find — all six place it underground and none of them got lost. One writer leaves directions: look for brick, a white wall and the sign, then take the stairs down; the shop's name and photographs of the dishes are posted at the top, which is how she knew. The others simply say it is in the middle of the main street through Seoul Forest, on the café strip. The way down is already part of the room — posters along the stairwell, wine racked at the door, which one writer read as a promise and another as a sign of money. Inside it is large: five say so, and one puts it exactly — bigger than she expected, so it never closes in.
- One room holds four kinds of seat, and that is what this place is for. Tables for four, set far enough apart that two writers recommend it for a first meeting. A counter along one side — not a counter-only restaurant, but somewhere you can eat alone. Half-private tables divided by low walls, which one writer thinks the best seats in the house for a blind date. And a room with a long table for a work dinner or a crowd. They will book the whole place out: one writer records fifty people, another fifty to sixty. Three of the six name it as a room for handing out wedding invitations, and one adds birthdays. Two mention the coat rail — useful in winter.
- Write a review and they give you a tiramisu — three of the six record the offer. Two copy it down, one specifying pistachio; one collected hers and found it sharp enough to finish on. We keep this here because it touches our own denominator: none of the six declared sponsorship, but three knew about the offer and at least one took it up. So six people's words here are not paid, and not quite disinterested either, and a reader is better off knowing that. Nobody says whether you can simply order the dessert.
What 6 bloggers said
We read all 6 in full. The most common claims are “Roomy” (5) and “No wait” (3).
What they liked
Things you can check on site
| In a basement | 6 of 6 posts |
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| Reachable by transit | 4 of 6 posts |
| Review event | 3 of 6 posts |
| Wine served | 2 of 6 posts |
| Takes reservations | 2 of 6 posts |
| Self-order screen | 2 of 6 posts |
| Open kitchen | 1 of 6 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 6 posts |
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There is no parking — but this is the one place in our reading that answers the question properly. Three writers raise it, and one of them actually parked and wrote down the price: the Seongdong District Sports Centre, four minutes' walk, 4,200 won an hour. That is the first time anyone has given us a car park by name and a price together. A second writer used the same one. A third points instead at the discounts available in D-Tower and Galleria Foret. Four describe the walk: 393 to 400 metres from exit 5 at Seoul Forest, five or six minutes; under 500 from exit 8 at Ttukseom, about eight — and one adds the direction, towards the Atelier road.
Who came, and with whom
| Date | 2 of 6 posts |
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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 | 6 of 6 posts |
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Not one post says whether you can get in with a wheelchair or a pushchair. None of those words appears in the six, and nor does a lift. All we know is that it is a basement reached by stairs, which two writers describe walking down. Nobody counts the steps, measures them, or mentions a handrail. Nothing is said about the toilets either — in a basement it matters whether they are inside, or up the stairs again. And the six matters: this is the silence of six writers, not of twenty-five. If it matters to you, ring and ask.
No one mentioned: Second floor · 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 way6 of 6 posts
When the posts appeared
Month by month
| Month | Posts |
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| 2026-08 | 3 |
| 2026-09 | 3 |
What we do not know
- The name of this restaurant is close to useless in a search, and that comes first. The two syllables that make it are also the middle of the Korean word for *blog* — and since almost every Naver post carries the words "this blog's check-in", searching the name catches almost every post written in Seongsu. The crawl returned 367; thirty passed verification; six of those thirty were written by someone who ate here. In the other twenty-four the syllables belong to the writers' own blog names, to title prefixes they put on every local post, to another shop entirely (a vintage photo booth), to ordinary words — analogue, hologram — and, in one case, to logging in and logging out. One post came from the same building: we are in the basement of 36 Seoulsup 2-gil, and that writer was shopping in the clothes shop on the ground floor. Every number on this page is six people's.
- Not one of the six waited — and all three who explain why had a reason. One booked through Catch Table and recommends it. One arrived between lunch and the afternoon break, at two on a weekday, and found the room nearly empty. One got there as it opened, having booked through Naver, and was first in. Both booking systems work — Naver and Catch Table, each used by one of them. None of the six came in the evening, so about the evening queue we know nothing: the writer who imagines it as a room for a glass of wine after dark was there at lunch.
- Two things only one writer records, and both are worth keeping. The first is the open kitchen: you can watch the chef work, which she thought lifted the room, and she watched her own food being cooked. The second is the wood-fired grill — she copies down a slow-cooked prime T-bone and sirloin rested off that grill, and tasted the smoke in the octopus. She also noticed a barbecue space beside the entrance and admits she does not know whether the steaks are cooked there. Neither do we. None of the six ate a steak, so the expensive end of this menu is a part we have not read.
- Not one of the six mentions the toilet. The word does not appear. In a basement that is a gap worth naming: whether it is inside the restaurant or belongs to the building, whether it is separated by sex, and whether you have to climb the stairs again, we do not know. The only thing the six let us infer is the size of the place — a room that books out for fifty, with a private room, a counter and tables for four, is likely to have its own; but that is our inference and nobody's account. It matters more here than elsewhere, because this is a room people sit in for a long evening.
- Of six posts, only two say who they came with — and both came with a spouse or partner. One writer spent a long weekend walking in Seoul Forest with her husband; another describes a Seongsu date with hers. The remaining four give away only that there was more than one of them ("we started with the arancini") and never say who. Nobody came alone. One post notes that the bar seats would work for eating solo — but that is a remark about the furniture, not a report of doing it. She ordered one pasta and a glass of white wine and never says she was by herself. Nobody came as a group, either. Two posts state that the room can be booked out — for fifty people in one and for up to sixty in the other — but both lines are lifted from the restaurant's own blurb, and they do not even agree. Four writers look at the private room and the long table and suggest it for an engagement lunch, a work dinner or a birthday; all of that is suggestion. How it actually goes with a group, we do not know — if you are thinking of booking it out, ask the restaurant.
Sources (6)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- 서울숲데이트코스 서울숲맛집 서울숲점심 추천 로그 서울 2026-09-24 · 미지수가 사는 세상 · via Daum
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- 서웊숲 분위기 있는 양식 맛집, 로그 성수 2026-09-14 · Serenity
- 성수 데이트 다이닝 로그성수 단새우 딸리아뗄레, 이쿠라 김 까르보.... 2026-08-30 · 매일 맛집 리뷰 쓰는 빵순이
- 서울숲 맛집 성수 다이닝 추천 로그성수 2026-08-24 · 일상의 소중함
- 서울숲 분위기 좋은 성수 데이트 파스타 맛집 로그 성수 2026-08-17 · 오늘 뭐하지
Of 367 candidate posts we opened 58 and kept 6 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.