Gilpost · Songpa-gu, Sincheon-dong
Korean
Bicena
비채나 Bichaena Bicena is a contraction of the Korean words for emptying, filling and sharing (bium, chaeum, nanum), which the restaurant gives as its philosophy.
Compiled from 13 blog posts read in fullSources →
Bicena is a Korean tasting-menu restaurant on the 81st floor of Lotte World Tower in Jamsil, inside Signiel Seoul. There is one lunch course (Sancheon, 170,000 won) and one dinner course (Guhak, 280,000 won), with wine pairings, caviar, truffle and braised abalone as extras. A meal opens with a small welcome drink such as omija or green-grape juice, moves to a rice-pot-and-soup spread, and ends with a persimmon punch. Four posts say dinner ran three hours or more. We read 30 posts from September 2025 to October 2026; 13 are first-hand meals. Fourteen are list posts (Seoul's top-100, Michelin roundups) or previews by people who hadn't been yet, and three turned out to be about other businesses and were set aside.
Data as of · Published ·
Location & hours
- Address서울특별시 송파구 올림픽로 300, 81층 (신천동, 롯데월드타워 시그니엘서울호텔)300 Olympic-ro, Songpa-gu, Seoul
- Typical spend₩6,500 – ₩310,000
- From the station1 posts say it is walkable from the station.
- Floor areaFloor area 541 m² · Status In business
When it opens
Of 7 posts: 3 wrote 12:00–15:00.
| No day given | 12:00–15:00 | 3 of 7 posts |
|---|---|---|
| Break | 15:00–18:00 | 4 of 4 posts |
| Last order | 13:00 | 2 of 2 posts |
3 other values
| Open | 18:00–22:00 3 of 7 posts last seen 2026-10 | |
|---|---|---|
| Open | 12:00–22:00 2 of 7 posts last seen 2026-09 | |
| Last order | 19:00 2 of 2 posts last seen 2026-10 |
The values differ, but the periods they were written in do not overlap. This looks like a change over time rather than a disagreement, and the top row is the most recently reported. We did not confirm it with the restaurant.
What sets it apart
- The view is a big part of the draw: ten of the 13 first-hand posts describe a window seat or the city through floor-to-ceiling glass. One says window tables go in booking order, so book early, and that you get a text in advance if you won't get one. A diner moved into a private room noted it faced the city toward Seokchon Lake and was not the best direction.
- Seven posts praise the staff, and they say what was done: cutlery moved to the left for a left-handed diner, the makgeolli left out of the sorbet for a pregnant guest, a dessert swapped for someone who dislikes corn. Four posts say birthday guests get a separate bowl of seaweed soup if you tell them ahead.
- Seven posts went with a reservation. Two first-hand posts say CatchTable opens the next month's tables all at once on the 1st. One who booked a weekday 1 p.m. lunch found it easy to get. Five say the message you leave when booking is printed on your menu card.
- Four posts mention private rooms: a first-birthday party in the twelve-seat Ilwol room, a mother's 60th birthday with family, a couple upgraded from the hall for an anniversary, and one who saw the group room in passing. The per-room minimum-spend table that some posts show is copied from the restaurant's site.
3 more
- Seven posts mention wine and four ordered the pairing; all four say the wines matched each dish well. Two name sommelier Lee Gwang-yeol as the one who explained them.
- Three posts say the seasoning is light, closer to mild than salty; none found it salty. Two found the desserts not very sweet, while one thought the fresh kimchi was sweeter than expected.
- Five posts went as a couple for a birthday or anniversary, two were family meals with grandparents or parents, and one was a guest at a first-birthday party. One writer says he comes with his wife twice a year.
What 13 bloggers said
Gotgam Sujeonggwa
Friendly staff
We read all 13 in full. The most common claims are “Friendly staff” (7) and “Quiet” (3).
What they liked
What they struggled with
Things you can check on site
- Large windows 10 of 13 posts
- Wine served 7 of 13 posts
- Takes reservations 7 of 13 posts
- Private room 4 of 13 posts
- Lift to the floor 3 of 13 posts
- In a basement saying it is not 2 of 13 posts
- High ceiling 2 of 13 posts
- Origin labelling posted 2 of 13 posts
- Reachable by transit 1 of 13 posts
- Outside food allowed 1 of 13 posts
These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.
Who came, and with whom
- Date 5 of 13 posts
- Family visit 2 of 13 posts
- Came with children 1 of 13 posts
- Group visit 1 of 13 posts
Where it is
We could not find this shop’s own listing on Naver Map, so the link searches for its Korean name around this spot instead.
From the station
1 posts say it is walkable from the station.
Getting inside
| In a basement | yes 0 · no 2 (of 13 posts read) |
|---|---|
| Lift to the floor | 3 of 13 posts |
Three posts took the hotel elevator from Signiel's ground floor up to 81, and one says Bicena is right in front of you when the doors open. The note that no elevator runs straight from the underground car park, so you change at the lobby, is copied from the restaurant's own directions.
We don't know whether a wheelchair or stroller gets in easily or whether there is a step. Wheelchair access appears only in one post copying the listing; none of the first-hand posts mention it, which means no one wrote about it, not that it is lacking.
We don't know whether the restrooms are inside the restaurant or separated by gender. One post only mentions a great view on the way there; the gender-separated note is copied from the listing.
No one mentioned: Second 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 themselves4 of 13 posts
- Posts saying nothing either way9 of 13 posts
Posts that followed a TV spot
Of the 27 posts we gathered, 14 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.
| 2026-10-12 | 2 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
Month by month
| Month | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01 | 1 |
| 2026-03 | 1 |
| 2026-06 | 1 |
| 2026-07 | 1 |
| 2026-08 | 3 |
| 2026-09 | 2 |
| 2026-10 | 4 |
What we do not know
- Prices went up. The Guhak dinner was 270,000 won in December 2025 and January 2026 posts and 280,000 won from June 2026; the seven-glass pairing went from 240,000 won in January to 250,000 won by July. The Sancheon lunch stayed at 170,000 won throughout. Three posts call it expensive.
- The courses change with the season. January 2026 posts had pear punch, yellowtail and snow-crab salad; a spring visit had wild greens, maekjeok pork and a fatsia-shoot rice pot; July to early September brought green-grape juice, pressed beef salad, croaker skewers and eel; from late September it was omija, crab salad, duck and tilefish. Dishes listed above only appear in posts from their season.
- One post, from a first-birthday party, says the courses came very slowly: even after asking them to hurry, lunch took about two hours and the children got restless. Others describe three-hour-plus dinners as relaxed, so plan for the time if you are bringing children or older relatives.
- Only one post says from experience that it is easy by subway, with the tower right outside Jamsil Station exit 2. Exit numbers and walking distances elsewhere are copied from listings.
- No one wrote about queuing; every first-hand visit appears to have been booked, and one post notes you can't go in before your reservation time.
- Hours: two first-hand posts agree on lunch 12:00 to 15:00 (last order 13:00), dinner 18:00 to 22:00 (last order 19:00), with a break from 15:00 to 18:00. One post alone gives an 11:30 opening. No first-hand post mentions a closing day; only list posts copy 'open every day'.
- Phone: many posts give 02-3213-1261. Reservations are via CatchTable. One post says an outside cake can be left with staff and is brought out at dessert. One post copies a corkage fee of 100,000 won per bottle of wine, which we could not confirm.
Sources (13)
Every number above was counted from the posts below.
- 시그니엘 서울 81층 비채나｜미쉐린 1스타 한식 파인다이닝 코스·와.... 2026-10-06 · 설레는 여행, 맛있는 기록
- 시그니엘 서울 호텔 비채나 한식 디너 코스 요리 미쉐린 파인다이닝 2026-10-04 · 젊은 날의 기록 · via Daum
- 시그니엘 비채나 미쉐린 원스타 가격 메뉴 주말 산천코스 와인페어.... 2026-10-02 · 유월 | 맛집 여행 뷰티✨
- 서울 기념일 레스토랑 | 비채나, 롯데월드타워 한식 파인다이닝 평.... 2026-10-01 · My lovely day!
- 잠실 시그니엘 비채나 일월룸 돌잔치 참석 후기 with 미쉐린 1스타 비.... 2026-09-29 · Lucky한 Choice
- 잠실 비채나 서울 한식 파인다이닝｜시그니엘 81층 미슐랭 1스타 런.... 2026-09-06 · 가지러 태어난 것처럼
- [서울 잠실 미슐랭 (미쉐린) 1스타 한식 레스토랑] 비채나 (Bicena) 구.... 2026-08-18 · 와인과 커피 엔지니어
- [잠실] 롯데월드타워 시그니엘 81층 한식 파인다이닝 비채나 2026-08-17 · Masion de young
- 잠실 시그니엘 서울 81층 점심 한식 파인다이닝 미슐랭 1스타 비채나 런치 산천 코스 리뷰 2026-08-16 · 일단시작해봄 · via Daum
- 서울 환갑 식사장소 추천 시그니엘 한식 파인다이닝 '비채나' 2026-07-16 · 감자의 하루 · via Daum
- 롯데월드 시그니엘 81층 미쉐린 맛집 한식 다이닝 비채나 2026-06-26 · 나? 쮸찌인데?
- [비채나] 잠실 시그니엘 미슐랭1스타 한식 파인다이닝 비채나 내돈내산 후기 2026-03-23 · 결이 고운 하루, 헤이유 뷰티+맛집+솔직템 · via Daum
- [서울/잠실] 시그니엘 비채나 디너 이용 후기 #구학코스 #Bicena #미슐.... 2026-01-25 · 와인과 커피 엔지니어
Of 381 candidate posts we opened 95 and kept 13 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.