Solo dining in Seongsu, Seoul: 8 places (October 2026)
8 restaurants in the Korea on a Plate guide for solo dining in Seongsu, ranked Monthly 30 first and then by Google rating. Each has hours, a price per person and what to order.
In this guide: Halmeoni-ui Recipe (Grandmother's Recipe), Minjeong Sikdang Main branch, Damsot Seongsu branch, Ttukdo Sijang Seoul Matjip (Ttukdo Market Seoul Eatery), Songrim Sikdang.
At a glance: Price per person ₩9,800–₩29,000 (middle ₩12,000). Average Google rating ★4.3. 0 of 8 are open late or 24 hours.
Updated 2026-10-05
Tips before you go
Seongsu is a former factory district turned cafés and pop-up stores, around Seongsu station on Line 2.
Soups and noodles come as one-person portions. Barbecue places often ask for at least two portions.
A home-style Korean restaurant near Seoul Forest in Seongsu, listed on DiningCode for jipbap, everyday home cooking. Set meals include lettuce wraps, bibimbap with bulgogi, Korean beef tteokgalbi and grilled fish, alongside spicy stir-fried pork and fire-grilled bulgogi. Reviewers most often call it clean, pretty, casual and down-to-earth.
START WITHSsambap jeongsik · lettuce-wrap rice set with side dishes
Minjeong Sikdang's main branch in Jayang-dong, near Konkuk University, is listed on DiningCode for seolleongtang and boiled-beef hot pot. The menu also has ox-head gomtang, beef knee soup, mixed boiled beef, seafood chive pancake, dumplings and seasonal naengmyeon. Reviewers most often describe it as unpretentious, lively and popular with locals.
Damsot serves sotbap, rice cooked in individual pots, close to Seongsu Station. Toppings include eggplant, spicy eggplant with cheese, steak, beef with bean sprouts, abalone, garlic scapes and shishito pepper with tofu, priced ₩12,000–₩18,000. DiningCode reviewers most often describe it as clean, casual, unpretentious and generous.
START WITHGaji Sotbap · rice cooked in an individual pot with eggplant
A market eatery in Ttukdo Market, Seongsu, known for jeyuk and charcoal-grilled marinated pork bulgogi sold by 600 g, alongside low-priced bean-sprout bibimbap, gamjatang and cockle bibimbap. DiningCode reviewers most often describe it as down-to-earth, under the radar, good value and generous with portions.
Songrim Sikdang near Konkuk University is listed on DiningCode as a gisa sikdang, a diner built around taxi drivers' quick meals, known for pork bulgogi baekban. The short menu adds blood sausage hangover soup, kimchi stew and soybean paste stew. Reviewers most often call it down-to-earth, good value, lively and generous with portions.
START WITHDwaeji bulgogi baekban · pork bulgogi with rice and side dishes
A Korean restaurant near Konkuk University serving a pot-rice (sotbap) set meal, beef-bone kalguksu with a mini barley-rice bowl, spicy flame-stir-fried octopus and crispy seafood pancake, plus house makgeolli. DiningCode reviewers most often describe it as clean, down-to-earth, popular with locals and somewhat formal.
START WITHSotbap Hansang · pot rice with side dishes
Jeongseon Buttumak is a restaurant near Seoul Forest listed on DiningCode for gondeure-bap and kimchi-jjim. The gondeure rice set (₩10,000) sits alongside kimchi-jjim (₩14,000), spicy or sweet pork back ribs (₩24,000 each) and braised semi-dried pollock; DiningCode reviewers most often describe it as clean, casual and down-to-earth.
START WITHGondeure-bap · rice cooked with gondeure thistle greens
Sonyeo Bangatgan near Seoul Forest in Seongsu is listed on DiningCode for jipbap, everyday home cooking, and sannamul bap, rice with wild mountain greens. The menu also offers pollock roe bibimbap, bulgogi rice with pickles, vegetable nutrition rice, chili-flake stir-fried pork and snail doenjang stew. Reviewers most often call it clean, casual, down-to-earth and quiet.
START WITHSannamul bap · rice with wild mountain greens
Which restaurants in Korea are good for solo dining in Seongsu?
In this guide: Halmeoni-ui Recipe (Grandmother's Recipe), Minjeong Sikdang Main branch, Damsot Seongsu branch, Ttukdo Sijang Seoul Matjip (Ttukdo Market Seoul Eatery), Songrim Sikdang.
Which is the cheapest here?
Sonyeo Bangatgan (Girl's Mill), about ₩9,800 per person.
Which has the highest Google rating?
Damsot Seongsu branch: ★4.7 from 130 reviews.
How were these chosen?
Every place is in the Korea on a Plate guide, written by an editor who runs four restaurants in Seoul. The list is filtered from published hours, prices and tags; nobody pays to be listed.
