Jongno · Gwanghwamun / Modern Korean noodle restaurant
사발
Sabal is in Naesu-dong near Gwanghwamun and is listed on DiningCode for Korean food and noodles. The menu has chicken noodles, a perilla soup noodle with oysters and mushrooms, rice bowls and a pork jowl grill at dinner, and reviewers most often call it clean, upscale and quiet.
Listed in the Korea on a Plate guide
Dak-guksu · noodles in chicken broth
Order the dak-guksu (₩16,000), or the neungi mushroom chicken gomtang with rice or noodles (₩17,000).
What a visitor needs to know before going. Google Maps listing checked 2026-10-04; prices and stations from our own records.
Open 11:30–20:50 with a break from 14:50 to 17:00; the pork jowl grill is dinner only. There are terrace seats and private rooms; parking information is mixed.
For allergies or dietary restrictions, ask the restaurant about ingredients and preparation before ordering.
FROM OTHER DINERS
Wife found this place and suggested it as she knows I love noodle soups. The decor was cozy, not that large of a seating area, but comfortable. The appetiser squash soup was delicious. Loved my shrimp dumpling and egg soup. It had soft today as well. Not heavy and left me satisfi
☆Noodle& bowl rice place☆ Modified Korean style noodle/ soup bowl rice available. Soup Noodle with spicy flavor, with sesami flavor, and salad-fish cold pasta noodle was excellent! If you cannot tolerate spicy one, You should ask and adjust the degree of spicy flavor before order
Korean traditional&Fusion noodle restaurant. Usually almost all the menus are up to 11000, But worth it. Color of the Noodle is red, they have their own recipe for making it. They have lots of menus not only noodles but also rice, you can try them. Strongly recommand for foreig
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NEAR YOU
Other guides close to this restaurant, by straight-line distance.
Order the dak-guksu (₩16,000), or the neungi mushroom chicken gomtang with rice or noodles (₩17,000).
Expect about ₩16,000 per person. Dak-guksu (chicken noodles) ₩16,000; Neungi-beoseot dak-gomtang (mushroom chicken soup, rice or noodles) ₩17,000; Gul-beoseot heugimja deulkkae-tang guksu (oyster mushroom black sesame perilla noodle soup) ₩17,000; Chamnamul hangjeongsal-gui (pork jowl grill, dinner) ₩35,000 (DiningCode menu, Oct 2026).
11:30–20:50. Open daily.
Sabal (Bowl) is at 34 Sajik-ro 8-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul in Seoul. In Korean the address is 서울특별시 종로구 사직로8길 34 경희궁의아침 3단지 사발 142호. The nearest station is Gyeongbokgung Station — about 230 m.
Sabal (Bowl) suits Near the sights, Not spicy.
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