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RABBIT CASTLE

래빗캐슬 서울숲 Raebitkaeseul Seoulsup A storybook basement off Seoul Forest serving pasta, pizza and steak, with rabbits hidden in the room and on the plates

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

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Rabbit Castle Seoul Forest is a western restaurant one floor below ground at 18-10 Seoulsup 4-gil, a walk from exit 5 of Seoul Forest station or exit 8 of Ttukseom. Through a green arched door and down the stairs there are wooden tables, stone walls and low light — and, as the name promises, rabbits hidden all over: at the windows, on the walls, among the objects, and drawn small on the plates. Pasta, gnocchi, risotto, pizza and steak, and for two or more the house way to order is a set (the pizza set is 56,000 won). The gnocchi and the sauces are made here. Half past ten to half past nine every day, closed on weekdays between three and five. No parking, and you can book through Naver.

The basics

Address서울특별시 성동구 서울숲4길 18-10, 지하1층 (성수동1가)
18-10 Seoulsup 4-gil, Seongdong-gu, Seoul
Phone0507-1433-5528
Typical spend₩7,000 – ₩68,000
Floor area97 m²
StatusIn business

7 posts say it is walkable from the station.

When it opens

OpenDaily10:30–21:30 8 of 8 posts last seen 2026-09
BreakWeekdays15:00–17:00 2 of 2 posts last seen 2026-08
Last order20:45 2 of 2 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

  1. It is a basement, and here that is the point. Twenty-one writers place it underground and not one of them calls the room close. Three reasons. First, the entrance announces itself: a green arched door in a red brick building, which one writer could tell was something from a distance, and another found like walking into a small European village before she was even inside. Second, the way down tells you where you are going — follow the B1 sign, and photographs of the dishes are pinned along the stair wall. Third, you can see in from outside: the rabbits and the objects are visible through the glass, which is how one writer worked out the name. And the room is larger than they expect — five say so, two of them in the same words.
  2. A basement restaurant you can take a baby to — and this is the most valuable thing in the whole corpus. Two writers record high chairs, and one of them came with her parents and a child just past a year old, on Parents' Day. Her post contains the sentence we most want from a basement: she had wondered how she would get the pushchair down, and then found there were only a few steps and she simply carried it. So the stairs are short — though because she could not roll in, the table counts this as *no wheelchair or pushchair access*. She records more: the high chair was clean and sturdy, and there were a child's tray, spoon and fork. She ordered the shiitake burger, not yet on the menu, and shared the roast beans and carrot. And she notes the staff — kind, she says, even with a baby in tow. Two writers came as families; two note tables for groups.
  3. Six writers praise the staff, and one explains why it registered: the objects are charming, she says, but what struck her was that every member of staff was kind — which she has come to find rare around Seoul Forest. Another writes that they were kind enough that she left a receipt review for the first time in her life. They also tell customers what is made in house: three separately report being told that the sauces are made there, that the gnocchi is kneaded there, and which pasta is the best seller. Nobody writes the opposite.
  4. Four writers say it is a room you can talk in. Not loud enough to be a strain; quiet enough to hold a conversation without raising your voice; the light low enough that lunch is pleasant and dinner would be better. So it gets used for particular occasions: one writer handed out wedding invitations here and rates it among her three best rooms for it, one came with colleagues at lunch, several call it a place for a date or a first meeting, and one brought her parents and her baby. Three mention how many corners there are worth photographing — it manages to be quiet and photogenic at once.

What 23 bloggers said

We read all 23 in full. The most common claims are “Friendly staff” (6) and “Roomy” (5).

What they liked

Friendly staff6 of 23 posts
Roomy5 of 23 posts
Clean and spacious5 of 23 posts
Quiet4 of 23 posts
Not expensive3 of 23 posts
No wait2 of 23 posts

Things you can check on site

In a basement21 of 23 posts
Reachable by transit7 of 23 posts
Takes reservations3 of 23 posts
High chairs2 of 23 posts

These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.

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

5 posts say you cannot park. None say you can.

Posts saying you cannot5 of 23 posts

There is no parking. Six writers say so, and one adds the reason — the alley is too narrow — though that post is one of the four written without going, so it is not counted. The five who worked it out themselves agree: no space of its own, and the paid car parks around Seoul Forest are the practical answer. Nobody names one, and nobody says what parking cost. Seven describe the walk instead: exit 5 at Seoul Forest, exit 8 at Ttukseom, in the café street beside the park. Four treat it as the meal at the end of a walk in Seoul Forest.

Who came, and with whom

Group visit6 of 23 posts
Date3 of 23 posts
Family visit2 of 23 posts

Getting there

Map showing where RABBIT CASTLE is

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 basement21 of 23 posts
Step-free accessyes 0 · no 1

No post says whether you can get in with a wheelchair. One says what happened with a pushchair. Twenty-one establish that it is a basement down a flight of stairs. The writer who brought a pushchair carried it — she had worried about the descent and found there were only a few steps. The table therefore records no access, because she could not roll in. Nobody counts the steps, mentions a handrail or measures the width, and nobody mentions a lift. One of the posts we removed does quote a review saying a pushchair goes in easily — but that review was copied from elsewhere, so we have not counted it. If you are coming in a wheelchair, ring and ask; what we can confirm from someone who was there is only that the stairs are short.

No one mentioned: Second floor · Lift to the floor · Ramp at the door · Step at the entrance · 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 they paid themselves6 of 23 posts
  • Posts saying nothing either way17 of 23 posts

Posts that followed a TV spot

Of the 29 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.

2026-04-212 posts in one day
2026-04-202 posts in one day

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

040506070809
Month by month
MonthPosts
2026-042
2026-057
2026-061
2026-072
2026-086
2026-095

What we do not know

  • The queue is the blurriest thing here: nobody waited, and yet three writers warn that weekends might mean waiting. All three are guessing — leave yourself time, it could be long, book ahead or come on a weekday. The two who report the fact both walked in. One put *no wait* in her title. The other writes that she had passed the place often, always busy, and went in on the day it happened to be quiet — both halves in one sentence. Booking looks like the answer: three of them reserved through Naver, and one is glad it needs no separate app. Nobody wrote from a Friday or Saturday evening, so about those we do not know.
  • Six of the thirty posts a search returns were written without going — a fifth of everything. Four of them landed in two days just after the restaurant opened, in April 2026. None carries a price, and all four repeat a Naver map link two to four times in the body — we have not seen that anywhere else. One of the four describes a different restaurant altogether, calling this a dessert café known for its cakes and drinks, with coffee, non-coffee, ades and desserts. It is a western restaurant that serves pasta, pizza and steak. The other two run past six thousand characters without anyone eating, counting other people's reviews instead — 1,591 of them, 1,364 with photographs — and one goes so far as to explain that the average rating shows as zero because of a system fault. That post also prints a telephone number that does not exist: 02-1234-5678 — and the same blog has stamped the same placeholder into posts about four different restaurants in our ledger. Our figures count only the remaining twenty-four.
  • Not one post mentions the toilet. Two of the twenty-four contain the word, and both belong to other places in the same diaries — a concert hall in one, a friend's shop opening in the other — so we have not counted them. In a basement this is a gap worth naming: whether the toilet 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. If you are bringing a baby it is worth asking first: the high chair and the child's cutlery are confirmed, but nobody mentions a changing table either.

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Every number above was counted from the posts below.

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Of 369 candidate posts we opened 58 and kept 23 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.