Jung Ji-ho (Ko Gyung-pyo) and his team come here for a work dinner to celebrate Prosecutor Kim Yoo-mi’s (Park Kyung-hye) in episode 12 of Love in Contract (월수금화목토) (tvN, 2022) and Choi Sang-eun (Park Min-young) joins them to Ji-ho’s surprise.

Choi Woong (Choi Woo-shik) and Kook Yeon-soo (Kim Da-mi) meet up at this restaurant in episode 11 of Our Beloved Summer/That Year We (그 해 우리는) (SBS/Netflix, 2021-22).

Jung Da-jung (Kim Ha-neul) comes to the restaurant for a drink in episode 8 of 18 Again (18 어게인) (JTBC, 2020) and breaks into tears when she thinks about all the sacrifices that Hong Dae-young (Yoon Sang-hyun) has done for their family.

Yoon Ji-soo (Lee Bo-young) and Joo Young-woo (Lee Tae-sung) come here for a late night meal in episode 3 of When My Love Blooms/The Most Beautiful Moment in Life (화양연화 – 삶이 꽃이 되는 순간) (tvN, 2020).

Lee Hyun-ji (Go Min-si) and Yoon Sun-woo (Kim Jae-young) eat dinner together at this restaurant in episode 16 (full episode 8) of Secret Boutique (시크릿 부티크) (SBS, 2019) and he confesses that he secretly likes Jenny Jang (Kim Sun-A) and that she stood him up just before.

Gil O-sol (Kim You-jung) and Jang Sun-gyeol (Yoon Gyun-sang) come here after his two-year stay in the States and she let’s him know that it is over for her since a long time in final episode 16 of Clean With Passion For Now (일단 뜨겁게 청소하라) (JTBC, 2018-19).

This is the restaurant owned by Cha Joo-hyuk’s (Ji Sung) friend, Oh Sang-sik (Oh Eui-sik) in Familiar Wife (아는 와이프) (tvN, 2018). In episode 1, Joo-hyuk comes here to eat after a fight with his wife and tells his friends that he wants a divorce. In episode 2, after another fight, Joo-hyuk comes here again but finds it closed.

Siwoo Sikdang [시우식당], opened in 2018, is a Korean cuisine restaurant that also serves Italian dishes and especially pasta. The resultant, which has about 8 tables, is located in Seoul’s neighborhood Pirun [Pirun-dong/필운동] —overseen by the administrative neighborhood Sajik [Sajik-dong/사직동]— in the Jongno District [Jongno-gu/종로구]. Cafe Nuha191 [카페누하191] is situated just a little walk up the same road. To open this restaurant, the car wash ‘Speed Mate’ was transformed, which closed down at this address in 2015-16 and the short-life restaurant Kkurine [꿀이네] was located here before Siwoo Sikdang opened doors.

Address
18 Pirun-daero, Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea
서울특별시 종로구 필운대로 18
(필운동 171)
Geolocation: 37.577713, 126.969517

Getting here
Gyeongbokgung Station [경복궁역], Seoul Subway Line 3, Exit 2
(6 min. walk)

— submitted by Toni; last updated 29/10/2022
— Photos taken by © Thom Musni, August 2018
— When My Love Blooms added by Mich KDL
— Our Beloved Summer; 18 Again added by Marion KDL