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Jerry's Kitchen

제리스키친 Jeriseu Kichin A pizza-and-pasta room on the second floor near Sindang station, where you build the pasta yourself — filling, sauce, then noodles or risotto — and the dough is mixed on the premises. The sign over the door reads not this name but 「피자랑파스타」, "Pizza and Pasta".

Other Asian · Jung-gu, Sindang-dong

Data as of · Published ·

Jerry's Kitchen is a pizza-and-pasta room on the second floor of a new building a hundred metres from exit 3 at Sindang station. It opened in the autumn of 2024. You do not order a pasta so much as assemble one — pick the filling, pick the sauce, then decide whether it comes as pasta or as risotto. The pizza dough is mixed on the premises, and the open kitchen means you watch it happen. Sets run from one person to four, and warm bread with house-made pickles arrives at no charge. There is parking at the building and a lift to the door. The posts we read run from October 2024 to December 2025.

The basics

Address서울특별시 중구 다산로44길 56, 2층 (신당동)
56 Dasan-ro 44-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul
Phone0507-1458-2393
Typical spend₩14,000 – ₩28,900
Floor area82 m²
StatusIn business

2 posts say it is walkable from the station.

When it opens

Of 9 posts: 3 wrote 11:30–21:30, 3 wrote Mon–Sat 11:30–21:30.

Open11:30–21:30 3 of 9 posts last seen 2025-09
OpenMon–Sat11:30–21:30 3 of 9 posts last seen 2024-11
OpenMon–Sat11:00–21:30 2 of 9 posts last seen 2024-11
Last order21:00 5 of 5 posts last seen 2025-07
Closed월요일 3 of 8 posts last seen 2025-09
Closed일요일 5 of 8 posts last seen 2024-11

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

  1. The sign over the door is not the name on the map. Search engines list it as Jerry's Kitchen; the sign on the second floor reads "Pizza and Pasta" in Korean. One writer, following the map, could not find the name and stood looking around, then remembered walking past the sign once and laughing at how literal it was. Another simply writes the two names as one thing. There is only one shop on that floor, by one account, so a single door at the top of the stairs is the right door. One writer went up unsure, because the ground-floor unit stands empty.
  2. A fair amount arrives without being ordered. Warm onion bread with olive oil and balsamic, and house-made pickles brought in their tub — celery, radish, carrot and cucumber, by one account — with tongs so you take what you want. Three writers praise the pickles on their own. Four describe the bread as still steaming, and one warns it is hot enough to burn a child who rushes at it. A self-serve station holds wine glasses, tumblers, side plates, cutlery, Tabasco and children's dishes, by one account, though the table is laid for you when you sit down. Each table keeps its own tub of grated parmesan.
  3. Several writers had their plans overturned by the quantity. Two skipped the set for fear it would be too little, and both came out saying the set would have done for two — one of them recommending it outright, in capitals. Another ordered the regular pizza to avoid the large and thought the large had come anyway. Two took three leftover slices home. And one, told by the owner, reports that the only difference between a set and the same dishes separately is the size of the pizza — which makes the set the better arithmetic for two.
  4. One writer reports being asked how hot she wanted it. The house heat sits a shade above instant-noodle level, she says, and the owner checks and adjusts when you order. Which is why the same spicy rosé draws different verdicts — milder than instant noodles, about the same, or hotter than expected. Two writers who do not take heat well managed it comfortably, and two say the heat is what cuts the richness of the pizza. One, though, reports that the source of it is gochujang rather than peperoncino.
  5. Most of it is made on the premises. One writer reports the board claiming the stock and the sauces are house-made along with the pizza, and another spotted the dough mixer in the back kitchen while paying. Two watched the dough being worked through the glass. Two mention the origin-of-ingredients notice posted where the open kitchen can be seen. One writer arrived on a day the staff member was off and found the owner alone turning out a salad, a pizza and a pasta quickly; another thought it was a mother and son. How many people run it, we could not establish.

What 11 bloggers said

We read all 11 in full. The most common claims are “Large portions” (8) and “Clean” (5).

What they liked

Large portions8 of 11 posts
Clean5 of 11 posts
Friendly staff5 of 11 posts
Not spicy3 of 11 posts
Would return2 of 11 posts
Food comes quickly2 of 11 posts
No wait2 of 11 posts
Quiet1 of 11 posts

What they struggled with

Cramped2 of 11 posts

Things you can check on site

Complimentary starter10 of 11 posts
Second floor6 of 11 posts
Open kitchen5 of 11 posts
Lift to the floor5 of 11 posts
Independent, not a chain4 of 11 posts
Takeout4 of 11 posts
Takes reservations4 of 11 posts
Large windows3 of 11 posts
Toilet inside3 of 11 posts
Reachable by transit2 of 11 posts
Origin labelling posted2 of 11 posts
Parking capacity2 of 11 posts
Cooked to order1 of 11 posts
Hand-wash sink in the dining area1 of 11 posts
Seasonal decorations1 of 11 posts

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

The most ordered dish is sikjeonppang, pickle (식전빵과 피클 (값 없이 나오는 것)) — 10 of 11 posts.

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

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

Posts saying you can park4 of 11 posts

Arriving by car genuinely works, with one trick to it. There is free space in front of the building, blocked off with a steel post — the owner explained why to one writer: ring and someone comes down to move it. It is kept blocked because cars with no number on the dashboard keep using it, and, the owner added, ringing the ones that do leave a number tends to make the driver angry. Counts of how many cars fit differ: three, or four to five. One writer says the public car park nearby takes the overflow. Only one actually parked and walked up, and she makes it the best thing about the place — that in this district, of all places, you can drive.

Who came, and with whom

Family visit3 of 11 posts
Came with children2 of 11 posts
Solo visit1 of 11 posts
With a friend1 of 11 posts
Date1 of 11 posts
Came by car1 of 11 posts

Getting there

Map showing where Jerry's Kitchen is

We could not find this shop’s own listing on Naver Map, so the link searches for the address instead.

Naver Map has a full English mode — Settings → Language → English. In Korea it gives better walking and transit directions than Google Maps.

Getting inside

Second floor6 of 11 posts
Lift to the floor5 of 11 posts
Toilet inside3 of 11 posts

There is a lift. Nobody wrote about the threshold. Five posts record a lift to the second floor, and one notes that in a building this new both the stairs and the lift are spotless. One writer mentions a pushchair — with the lift there, she says, bringing a child in one would be no trouble at all — but she walked up herself, and there is no account of a pushchair actually going through the door. Not one post says whether there is a step at the entrance, how wide the door is, or whether there is room to turn inside. The word wheelchair appears nowhere in the twelve posts. We will not let the presence of a lift stand in for an answer.

No one mentioned: In a basement · 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 disclosing payment3 of 11 posts
  • Posts saying they paid themselves1 of 11 posts
  • Posts saying nothing either way7 of 11 posts

Posts that followed a TV spot

Of the 12 posts we gathered, 1 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.

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

10110307091012
Month by month
MonthPosts
2024-101
2024-114
2025-031
2025-071
2025-091
2025-102
2025-121

What we do not know

  • The closing day changed. All five posts from October and November 2024 give Monday to Saturday with Sunday off; all three from March, July and September 2025 give Tuesday to Sunday with Monday off. Neither set looks like a transcription error — the dates divide cleanly, and a June 2025 post that copied the listing wholesale also has no Monday in it. The change appears to fall between late 2024 and early 2025. The opening time moves too: 11:00 in two of the 2024 posts, 11:30 in the rest. One October 2025 post says "daily," which contradicts its contemporaries. Last orders at 21:00 hold across both years. Ring before you go — we will not declare which of Sunday and Monday is the closing day now.
  • The posts disagree about how big the room is, and the disagreement falls in a suggestive direction. The sponsored post from October 2024 calls it large and airy and thinks a party could be accommodated. Two unsponsored posts from 2025 say the opposite: small for the size of the building, better for two to four than for a group; not many seats, around twenty. The seat counts themselves agree — five four-tops, or five tables, or three two-tops and two larger ones. By the arithmetic it is under twenty seats, which leaves the "fine for groups" reading alone. One writer does note that the tables are well spaced.
  • Three posts declare a sponsorship, and all three cluster in the shop's first weeks — October and November 2024, each ending with the same line naming the agency. One post declares the opposite, that it paid its own way. And an October 2025 writer, who declares nothing, points out inside her own post how many sponsored reviews this place has: she had stayed away for that reason, and after going concluded that the shop advertises because too few people know it. We did not exclude the sponsored posts — each has its own text, its own order and its own prices. But the readings on room size and on service split a little along that line, and that is worth knowing.
  • On queueing we know little. Two posts address it and both say there was none — and both come with conditions: one arrived around four on a weekday to an empty room, the other had booked and found a table laid for her. No post describes waiting at lunch or dinner. Since the place takes bookings (four posts say so) and holds under twenty seats, a group is safer reserving. Nobody complains the food was slow; two say the opposite.
  • The toilet is inside the shop, and everyone who mentions it praises it — very clean and pleasant; thoughtfully done and hygienic; one writer startled first by the finish and again by the cleanliness. Two note that the way to it is hidden behind a curtain, so a first visit may not find it: to the left of the plate display, by one account, with a mirror facing you once you are through. One writer records a hand basin separate from the toilet itself, with soap and paper towels. Whether it is separated by sex, whether there is an accessible cubicle, and how many stalls there are: unwritten.
  • One of the twelve was not a visit, so we left it out of the count. That June 2025 post lists the opening hours day by day in the order a listing page shows them, carries the amenities line verbatim, numbers twenty-eight products with their prices, and even reproduces the visitor-keyword tallies — sixty-six people said the food was good, and so on. There is not one line about eating anything, and it closes with a promotional passage about digital marketing that has nothing to do with the shop. So the denominator here is eleven, not twelve. We did keep its price list, and the menu notes mark which prices came from it — the only prices we have seen someone actually pay are the prawn pasta, the combination pizza, the cheese crust and the sets.

Sources (11)

Every number above was counted from the posts below.

  1. 25년 마지막 주차 기록하기 _ 대단한 사람일 필요도, 대단한 인생일 필요도 없습니다! 2025-12-28 · 식품회사 구매 담당자의 먹는게 좋아서 쓰는 이야기 · via Daum
  2. 💫251016 🍝 신당 제리스키친(피자랑파스타) : 한국식 이태리 음식 2025-10-26 · 유자의 싱그러움이 평원으로 · via Daum
  3. ::신당동 맛집:: 신당역 분위기 있는 데이트 장소 파스타 피자 맛집, 제리스키친 신당점 2025-10-11 · 미미로그 · via Daum
  4. 힙당동에 새로 생긴 피자와 파스타 집, [제리스키친]_솔직 후기 2025-09-23 · Inspiring Dragon
  5. [서울 신당역] 정통 이탈리안 파스타 & 피자 :: 제리스키친 2025-07-04 · 조각들
  6. [신당 맛집] 피자 먹으러 왔다가 파스타를 마셔버린 ‘제리스 키친.... 2025-03-15 · In my heyday ㋡
  7. 주차가능한 신당동 연말모임 데이트 추천 피자 파스타 제리스키친 2024-11-25 · 짠언니의 짠테크라이프
  8. 신당 가성비 피자 파스타 맛집 제리스키친 2024-11-22 · 시니로그
  9. [신당] 신당역파스타 제리스키친 2024-11-17 · Paul_Rosa
  10. 신당역 [제리스키친] 피자 파스타 단 두 메뉴로 배 터지는.. 2024-11-13 · 깝죽이의 맛집탐방
  11. 신당역 맛집 소개팅장소로 추천하고 싶은 ‘제리스키친’ 2024-10-11 · 헬의 소소한 일상

We opened all 122 candidate posts and kept 11 as evidence.