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Red Brick Smoke House

레드브릭 스모크 하우스 Redeuberik Seumokeu Hauseu Texas barbecue from a three-table room, and half of it goes out the door

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

Updated · Published

A Texas-style low-and-slow barbecue house down a lane by Ttukdo market. The room holds three or four tables — ten writers say so — which is why takeaway and delivery carry half the trade. The menu is effectively one plate: pulled pork smoked fourteen hours, brisket eighteen, baby back ribs four, with a house sausage, buns griddled in butter, coleslaw, pickles, jalapeños, sauces and strawberry jam. The shop tells you how to eat it — meat and slaw piled on a bun — and four writers name that jam as the thing that makes it. It is a walk from the station: ten to fifteen minutes from Seoul Forest, and six writers tell you to take the bus. Three thought it was closed because the frontage is so dark, and not one writer ever queued.

The basics

Address서울특별시 성동구 성덕정길 52-1, 1층 (성수동1가)
52-1 Seongdeokjeong-gil, Seongdong-gu, Seoul
Phone02-464-7977
Typical spend₩2,500 – ₩57,000
Floor area35 m²
StatusIn business

0 posts say it is walkable from the station.

When it opens

Last orderDaily20:30 2 of 2 posts last seen 2024-09
Closed화요일 7 of 7 posts last seen 2025-05
Closed수요일 4 of 7 posts last seen 2025-05

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. The thing most writers agree on is that it is small — ten of them say so, counting two, three or four tables and calling it a neighbourhood place. That size explains nearly everything else. First, book. One writer puts it plainly: there are barely any tables, so reserve. Naver takes bookings and five writers used it. Though one says you probably do not need to — it is tucked away and rarely full. Second, there is no queue. One regular has never waited; another found the room nearly empty on a holiday; a third walked in to find not a single other customer and briefly wondered whether her friend had recommended a famous place or merely a barbecue place. Four writers count being off the main drag as the point — a quiet room after a day in the crowds. Third, takeaway and delivery carry half of it. Writers report most of the trade going out the door, and one deliberately ordered a two-person platter as delivery so she could eat it alone. One post claims capacity for twenty, but that post copies the shop's own Naver description at length — read rather than seen, so we did not count it.
  2. The thing to know before you go is that it is a walk from the station — six writers say so and not one calls it close. Ten to fifteen minutes from either Seoul Forest or Seongsu, and four of them tell you to take the bus instead; one regular notes the bus stops right outside. Two give the distance as 833 and 844 metres from exit 2. It is also hard to spot — the frontage is dark enough to read as closed. Three writers say so, one nearly walking past, one hunting for the door while a black car parked in front of it blocked the entrance. Driving is no easier. There is no car park: one writer left hers at the riverside public lot and walked two or three minutes, another pulled up outside only to collect a takeaway, while one had a cold walk from the public lot and another spent thirty minutes finding a space. The bus looks like the answer.

What 19 bloggers said

We read all 19 in full. The most common claims are “Roomy” (0) and “Large portions” (6).

What they liked

Roomy10 of 19 posts
Large portions6 of 19 posts
Returning customer4 of 19 posts
No wait4 of 19 posts
Not expensive2 of 19 posts

Things you can check on site

Takeout10 of 19 posts
Hard to reach by transit7 of 19 posts
Takes reservations5 of 19 posts
Beer served3 of 19 posts
Free refills2 of 19 posts — saying it is not
Origin labelling posted1 of 19 posts
Toilet inside1 of 19 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

3 posts say you can park; 2 say you cannot. We leave the disagreement standing rather than picking a side.

Posts saying you can park3 of 19 posts
Posts saying you cannot2 of 19 posts

Who came, and with whom

Group visit5 of 19 posts
Date3 of 19 posts
Came with children2 of 19 posts
Solo visit1 of 19 posts

Getting there

Map showing where Red Brick Smoke House 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

Toilet inside1 of 19 posts

Nobody writes about wheelchair or pushchair access. None of the nineteen mentions a ramp or a step. It is on the ground floor and appears to be entered straight from the lane — one writer notes camping gear set out in front — but whether there is a step, we do not know. What ten writers do agree on is that there are only three or four tables, so you may reasonably expect little room to move inside; that is our inference rather than a record. Call 02-464-7977.

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 · 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 themselves2 of 19 posts
  • Posts saying nothing either way17 of 19 posts

When the posts appeared

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Month by month
MonthPosts
2021-031
2021-041
2021-052
2021-081
2022-082
2023-071
2023-111
2024-032
2024-051
2024-071
2024-092
2024-121
2025-052
2025-111

What we do not know

  • Eleven of the thirty posts we read were not about this restaurant. The name is three common words, so anything sharing one of them came along — red velvet, red wine, a smoke factory, a guesthouse, another café called Greenery House, a tea house — and in those ten the shop's name never appears once. A restaurant-jobs listing and an article on Seoul's lodging trade were among them. We counted the remaining nineteen. The hours changed substantially across five years, and we put no opening times in the table. Three posts from 2021–22 give closing at 1am with Tuesdays off; two from 2024–25 give closing at 21:00, last orders 20:30, with Tuesdays and Wednesdays off. Closing moved four hours earlier and a second rest day appeared. The older figures outnumber the newer ones, so publishing by count would send you there at ten at night to a locked door. We therefore kept only the rest days and the last order, both from the later posts and neither contradicted by the earlier ones. Check before you go. The price rose while the sizing shrank: the platter was ₩49,000 for two to three in 2021, ₩51,000 in 2022, and ₩57,000 for two in 2024. Read the two together. Refills cost. The buns were topped up for one writer, but the coleslaw is ₩2,500 — a surprise to the writer who expected about a thousand. A takeaway customer paid for a second one too. Small things. The meat is not Korean — one writer read the origin notice and says so. The toilet is inside, per the one writer who used it. One believes it is run by a couple; several remark on the clutter of objects. You cannot watch the barbecue being cooked — the room is too small for the pit to be on show, which one writer missed.
  • Nobody writes about floors or stairs. The address is the ground floor and all nineteen posts leave it there. What is recorded of the room: three or four tables; a glimpse of the kitchen with a large smoker in it; a dark red-and-black fit-out hung with posters; and window glass that mirrors so well that people waiting for the bus outside use it to check their reflection. No post mentions an upstairs or a private room.
  • Not one writer queued. One regular has never waited; another found the room quiet on a holiday; a third arrived early to an uncrowded house; a fourth walked in to find nobody there at all; a fifth found one other table occupied. With only three or four tables, the reason there is no queue seems to be that it sits off the main drag and a long walk from the station. Five writers still recommend booking — with so few seats, one party fills the place. Naver takes reservations, and one writer booked for a Thursday evening rather than risk it. Another says you probably do not need to, tucked away as it is. Book if there are several of you: there is a four-person platter, and one post puts the group limit at eight.

Sources (19)

Every number above was counted from the posts below.

  1. 성수 노아베이커리, 레드브릭스모크하우스 (케이크, 바베큐) 2025-11-26 · 니나뇨나뇨
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  12. 성수 숨은 맛집..여기 뭐야.. 바베큐 폭식했음 ㅎㅎ 레드브릭 스모크.... 2023-07-16 · Do what you love.
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  14. 성수동 바베큐 플래터 맛집 레드브릭스모크하우스 맥주 와인 서울.... 2022-08-02 · 로라맘 블로그 ꯁ
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  16. 성수동 맛집 레드브릭스모크하우스 바베큐 플래터 내돈내산 2021-05-26 · 몽몽
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  18. 성수동 맛집 레드브릭 스모크하우스 포장 후기 2021-04-24 · 행복한 엄마!!!
  19. 성수동 레드브릭 스모크하우스 ; 바베큐 메뉴와 가격, 플래터 ( 폴드.... 2021-03-23 · 물개 블로그 by맨드리

Of 192 candidate posts we opened 62 and kept 19 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.