Gilpost · Seongdong-gu, Seongsu-dong 1-ga
ROOM TEMPERATURE
룸템퍼레이처 Rumtempeoreicheo Named for the phrase 'room temperature' — a vegan brunch kitchen in a residential lane.
Western · Seongdong-gu, Seongsu-dong 1-ga
Updated · Published
Room Temperature is a vegan, organic brunch room on the ground floor of a house in a residential lane off Seongsu's main strip. It is ten to eighteen minutes on foot from either Seongsu or Seoul Forest station — not close — and one writer identifies it as the second room opened by a Seongsu wine bar. Nothing on the menu contains meat: a small pizza laid with leek, a French omelette, cold toasts on sourdough, an oven-puffed pancake, Greek yoghurt and a pasta or two, with desserts made from rice flour and low-sugar sweetener. One writer notes the prosciutto sandwich can be swapped to mushroom to keep it vegan. Coffee is filter, from a named local roaster, with decaf from the same beans, and you can drink wine by the glass in the middle of the day. There is no dinner service — five in the afternoon on weekdays, six at weekends, closed Mondays. Dogs are welcome, and there is a terrace in the back yard. The posts we read run from October 2024 to February 2026.
The basics
| Address | 서울특별시 성동구 성덕정9가길 6, 1층 (성수동1가) 6 Seongdeokjeong 9ga-gil, Seongdong-gu, Seoul |
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| Phone | 0507-1483-0246 |
| Typical spend | ₩4,000 – ₩19,000 |
| Floor area | 52 m² |
| Status | In business |
1 posts say it is walkable from the station.
When it opens
| Open | Weekends | 10:00–18:00 6 of 6 posts last seen 2026-02 |
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| Open | Weekdays | 10:00–17:00 5 of 6 posts last seen 2026-02 |
| Closed | 월요일 6 of 6 posts last seen 2026-02 |
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
- There are nine or ten seats. Several writers counted and their numbers agree: four tables for two plus a four-seater in the middle (three posts), four tables and a big dining table (one), room for about five parties (one), about six tables (one). The long wooden table in the centre is the heart of the room — two writers call it the seat to get, for the vase of flowers on it. Two note that spare chairs let three or six people sit. Nobody uses the word small as a complaint; they reach instead for being invited to a friend's house. One writer did have nowhere to put her bag and dragged over a spare chair from the door.
- There is a terrace in the back yard, and some people come only for it. You order and pay inside, then go out to the right of the door: three large tables, one writer reckons enough for six (another describes a four-seater). Two writers had decided on the terrace before arriving and said so at the counter; one went in late October, was warned it might be cold, checked, and sat out anyway. Three say the light is good enough that the photographs come out on their own, and one insists on the terrace in spring or autumn. Another notes the front opens up on fine days. The season decides, though — a writer who took the window seat in midwinter reports that the draught defeated the heating, and tells you to come when it is warm.
- This is where people go when they want quiet in Seongsu. The phrases recur: better for not being frantic; never crowded or loud; calm and peaceful; quiet enough that two friends could actually unwind. The walk out of the pop-up district is the price of that — if you want somewhere near a station this is not it (one writer clocked eighteen minutes from Seongsu; others took a bus or the neighbourhood shuttle). One notes the soft music from the speaker on the coffee bar, another the fresh flowers changed daily on every table. Nobody queued — the writers who came at the end of the weekend lunch rush, at opening on a Saturday, and at three on a Saturday afternoon all sat straight down.
- Filter coffee is four thousand won. It is almost the only place price comes up in these posts, and it comes up as a bargain — one writer can hardly believe a filter, not even an americano, costs that in Seongsu. The beans come from a named local roaster and the decaf is the same bean; you choose between nutty and acidic when you order. A writer who ordered both preferred the regular; another, who says she drinks a lot of decaf, rates this one highly. Some people come only for the coffee — one writer's weekend routine is ten kilometres along the river and then a cup here, and three posts arrive straight from a run.
- One person runs it, and the writers notice. One says it looked like a single owner and that the open kitchen was spotless all the same; another found her pulling shots and baking cookies at once. There is the cold day when she offered hot water before anything else, the flowers she held up to be admired, the patient answers to menu questions, the repeated trips out to the terrace. Two writers were given bread on the house — something like a scone, and a cream bun. One notes she was looked after without a booking. Somebody even records being offered the bin for the Starbucks cup she walked in holding.
- It is a brunch room where you can have a glass of wine in the middle of the day. The wine of the day goes up on a board and changes daily — one writer simply relays that you read what is written. One drank a white with the leek pizza; the other four only note that it is there. One wishes the place would stay open in the evening as a wine bar and regrets that it shuts early. Even the writer who found the pasta salty allows that wine would have carried it — she had it with an americano on her lunch break.
What 19 bloggers said
We read all 19 in full. The most common claims are “Cramped” (9) and “Quiet” (6).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Things you can check on site
| Wine served | 5 of 19 posts |
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| Coffee served | 5 of 19 posts |
| Outdoor terrace seating | 4 of 19 posts |
| Reachable by transit | 1 of 19 posts |
| Large windows | 2 of 19 posts |
| Dogs allowed | 1 of 19 posts |
| Takeout | 1 of 19 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 19 posts |
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Who came, and with whom
| With a friend | 4 of 19 posts |
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| Group visit | 3 of 19 posts |
| Family visit | 1 of 19 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
Nobody checked whether there is a step at the door. Across nineteen posts the words wheelchair, threshold, ramp and pushchair do not appear once; neither do stairs or lift. The address says ground floor, so there is probably nothing to climb — but that is the address talking, not anyone who went. Whether there is a lip at the entrance, or a change of level on the way out to the terrace, is not in our material; all we know is that you order inside and go out to the right of the door. If you are coming in a wheelchair or with a pram, ring first.
No one mentioned: Second floor · In a basement · 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 they paid themselves3 of 19 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way16 of 19 posts
When the posts appeared
Month by month
| Month | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2024-10 | 2 |
| 2024-11 | 1 |
| 2024-12 | 1 |
| 2025-01 | 1 |
| 2025-03 | 2 |
| 2025-05 | 2 |
| 2025-07 | 2 |
| 2025-08 | 1 |
| 2025-09 | 1 |
| 2025-10 | 1 |
| 2025-11 | 2 |
| 2025-12 | 1 |
| 2026-01 | 1 |
| 2026-02 | 1 |
What we do not know
- Not one post mentions the lavatory. The word does not appear once in nineteen posts — whether it is inside or out in the building, whether it is divided by sex, how many cubicles. In a room of nine or ten seats it may simply be that few people use it and so nobody writes it down, but that is our guess, not a finding.
- The word "ground floor" comes from the address. Seventeen of the nineteen posts contain it, and in every case it is the address line or the check-in widget at the foot of the page. No writer records the floor from their own eyes, and none mentions a basement or an upper storey. Several describe a residential lane where you would not expect a cafe at all, which reads as street-level entry — but we did not confirm it.
- "Dogs allowed" is mostly copied. The line sits in the information block of eight posts and not one writer brought a dog. Only one saw one: a March 2025 post signs off with a photograph of another customer's dog. Another simply urges you to bring yours. With nine or ten seats inside and a separate terrace, it is worth asking which of the two a dog is welcome in before you go — no post says.
- The hours changed in the summer of 2025, and the old ones still outnumber the new. Seven posts from October 2024 to May 2025 give Wednesday to Sunday, eleven to six, closed Monday and Tuesday. Six from August 2025 to February 2026 give Tuesday to Friday, ten to five, weekends ten to six, closed Monday only. The two periods do not overlap, so this is a change, not a disagreement, and our table carries only the later one. Seven posts say it closes on Tuesdays — and all seven predate May — so publishing that number would turn readers away on a day the place is open. A post from the soft-opening in October 2024 describes Friday and Saturday running until eight with a break from three to five; no post since mentions a break. Either way there is no dinner service. No post records a last order.
- The plates are not generous, and some writers planned around it. A party of three who came from a run read the reviews first and ordered "three portions that eat like four", adding that the omelette alone would have looked thin and telling you to add the salad and the sourdough. Another regretted skipping the salad when the omelette went in a few bites. One found the pressed juice small for three to share. Some prices sit correspondingly low — ten thousand won for the omelette, four for the filter coffee. The leek pizza runs the other way: small enough that one is enough for one person. Coming as a group, order one dish more than there are of you.
Sources (19)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
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- 집 같은 편안한 분위기의 성수동 서울숲 브런치카페, 룸템퍼레이쳐(.... 2025-03-01 · Water Lily
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- 성수 애견동반 테라스 브런치카페 룸템퍼레이쳐 강추 후기 2024-10-18 · to. · via Daum
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We opened all 128 candidate posts and kept 19 as evidence.