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title: 'Onjium, Seoul: A Korean Court-Cuisine Lunch near Gyeongbokgung Palace'
description: 'Onjium (온지음), a Korean royal court cuisine restaurant in Seochon, Seoul: photos of a March 2022 lunch, how the menu changes, prices and booking.'
lang: en
canonical: https://quidafoodie.blog/onjium-seochon-seoul/
shop_name: Onjium
shop_name_local: 온지음
address: 4F, 49 Hyoja-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul
address_local: 서울 종로구 효자로 49 4층
country: kr
phone: +82-2-6952-0024
hours: Tuesday–Saturday 12:00–15:00 and 18:00–22:00 (Taste of Seoul 2024 listing, read on Nov 14, 2026). A March 2025 blog review lists Tuesday–Friday 12:00–22:00 with a break from 15:00 to 18:00, and Visit Seoul gives 12:00–22:00, so call or check the booking page first.
closed: Sundays and Mondays (Taste of Seoul 2024 listing). A March 2025 blog review also lists Saturday as closed.
price: Lunch ₩170,000 and dinner ₩250,000 in a March 2025 blog review. The Polle listing read on Nov 14, 2026 shows lunch ₩200,000 and dinner ₩300,000. Both list wine and traditional-liquor pairings separately.
getting_there: On the 4th floor of 49 Hyoja-ro in Seochon. Visit Seoul describes the approach as a stone-walled path between Gyeongbokgung Palace and modern buildings.
visited: 2022-03
details_checked: '2026-11-14'
region: Seoul
---

# Onjium, Seoul: A Korean Court-Cuisine Lunch near Gyeongbokgung Palace

![A purple-lined shell holding a chopped filling topped with fine yellow and white threads, set on a pale green plate pressed with overlapping petal shapes, on a round red board.](https://quidafoodie.blog/img/onjium-seochon-seoul/onjium-seochon-seoul-06-1440.jpg)
*A purple-lined shell with a chopped filling and fine yellow and white threads, on a pale green plate pressed with overlapping petal shapes. March 2022.*

Onjium (온지음) is a Korean fine-dining restaurant in Seochon, Seoul, near Gyeongbokgung Palace. It serves a modern take on Korean royal court cuisine (궁중음식, *gungjung eumsik*, the cooking of the Joseon royal court), according to Wikipedia, and Visit Seoul, the city's tourism site, describes it as a culinary studio that brings traditional cooking back for future generations.

## What Onjium served in March 2022

I photographed a lunch at Onjium in March 2022, and the tableware changes from dish to dish. A wide plate holds five groups of bite-size pieces, one of them a dark piece topped with a lacy chip.

![Five groups of bite-size pieces on a wide pale green plate: a dark piece topped with a lacy chip, two green pieces, two orange-dusted squares, two stacked slices that look like pressed meat and two glossy brown slices, on a pale wooden counter.](https://quidafoodie.blog/img/onjium-seochon-seoul/onjium-seochon-seoul-01-1440.jpg)
*Five groups of bite-size pieces on a wide pale green plate, March 2022.*

Another dish sits in a cream bowl with a ruffled rim. Its pieces look like crab, scallop, octopus and thin slices of pear, scattered with red seeds that look like pomegranate.

![A cream bowl with a ruffled rim holding pieces that look like crab, scallop, octopus and pear, scattered with small green leaves, dark flakes and red seeds that look like pomegranate, with a white dome at the center.](https://quidafoodie.blog/img/onjium-seochon-seoul/onjium-seochon-seoul-02-1440.jpg)
*A ruffled cream bowl with pieces that look like crab, scallop, octopus and pear, March 2022.*

Visit Seoul says the menu at Onjium changes monthly with the seasons, while a March 2025 reviewer on Tistory, a Korean blog platform, understood it to change every two months. Either way, Onjium's dishes today are likely to differ from these photos.

## Bibimbap-style rice at Onjium

Bibimbap (비빔밥) is rice with seasoned vegetables and other toppings that you mix before eating. In my photo, someone in a white jacket holds a wide pale bowl of rice with the toppings in separate patches. The March 2025 review covers a November 2024 dinner and shows a menu card listing goldongban (골동반), translated on the card as old-fashion bibimbap. The reviewer says Onjium served it with radish kimchi (무김치) and a seaweed soup.

![Someone in a white jacket holds a wide pale bowl of rice topped with dark greens, yellow shreds, brown shreds and dark flakes in separate patches, over a stainless-steel surface.](https://quidafoodie.blog/img/onjium-seochon-seoul/onjium-seochon-seoul-12-1440.jpg)
*A wide pale bowl of rice held over a stainless-steel surface, with toppings in separate patches, March 2022.*

## Onjium's window view and dining bar

Visit Seoul's Korean-language page, edited in January 2022, says the windows at Onjium look out over the greenery of Gyeongbokgung. The same page says Onjium added a dining bar beside its open kitchen, so one person can have lunch there. My photos show dishes on a pale wooden counter with a stainless-steel surface behind it, which looks like that bar.

![Windows of the dining room in March 2022 looking onto bare trees, a drooping yellow-green tree and, far off, a tiered tower roof, with white-clothed tables and black chairs beyond a pale wooden counter in the foreground.](https://quidafoodie.blog/img/onjium-seochon-seoul/onjium-seochon-seoul-15-1440.jpg)
*The dining room windows in March 2022, with white-clothed tables and black chairs beyond a pale wooden counter.*

## Onjium prices and booking

Onjium's lunch cost ₩170,000 in the March 2025 review, and the Polle app listing read on November 14, 2026 shows ₩200,000. Onjium's dinner is ₩250,000 in the review and ₩300,000 on Polle. Both sources list Onjium's wine and traditional-liquor pairings separately. Wikipedia links to Catchtable, in English and Korean, for Onjium reservations.

## How to order

| Korean | Reading | Meaning |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 점심 코스로 예약했어요. | jeomsim koseuro yeyakaesseoyo | I have a lunch course reservation. |
| 알레르기가 있어요. | allereugiga isseoyo | I have an allergy. |
| 전통주 페어링도 부탁드려요. | jeontongju peeoringdo butakdeuryeoyo | I'd also like the traditional-liquor pairing, please. |

A photo in the March 2025 review shows a printed menu card with each dish in Korean and English.

## Plan your visit

- Address: 4F, 49 Hyoja-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul / 서울 종로구 효자로 49 4층
- Phone: +82-2-6952-0024
- Hours: Tuesday–Saturday 12:00–15:00 and 18:00–22:00 (Taste of Seoul 2024 listing, read on Nov 14, 2026). A March 2025 blog review lists Tuesday–Friday 12:00–22:00 with a break from 15:00 to 18:00, and Visit Seoul gives 12:00–22:00, so call or check the booking page first.
- Closed: Sundays and Mondays (Taste of Seoul 2024 listing). A March 2025 blog review also lists Saturday as closed.
- Price: Lunch ₩170,000 and dinner ₩250,000 in a March 2025 blog review. The Polle listing read on Nov 14, 2026 shows lunch ₩200,000 and dinner ₩300,000. Both list wine and traditional-liquor pairings separately.
- Getting there: On the 4th floor of 49 Hyoja-ro in Seochon. Visit Seoul describes the approach as a stone-walled path between Gyeongbokgung Palace and modern buildings.
- Map: [Open in Naver Map](https://map.naver.com/p/search/%EC%98%A8%EC%A7%80%EC%9D%8C%20%EC%A2%85%EB%A1%9C%EA%B5%AC), [Open in Kakao Map](https://map.kakao.com/?q=%EC%98%A8%EC%A7%80%EC%9D%8C%20%EC%A2%85%EB%A1%9C%EA%B5%AC), [Open in Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=%EC%98%A8%EC%A7%80%EC%9D%8C%20%EC%A2%85%EB%A1%9C%EA%B5%AC)
- Details checked: 2026-11-14

## Sources checked

- [Visit Seoul — Savouring History One Bite at a Time (Onjium)](https://english.visitseoul.net/partners-en/luxurytour/Onjium-/ENN039472) — 2026-11-14
- [Visit Seoul (Korean) — 온지음](https://korean.visitseoul.net/partners-kr/premiumtour/%EC%98%A8%EC%A7%80%EC%9D%8C/KON039472) — 2026-11-14
- [Taste of Seoul 2024 — Onjium](https://2024.tasteofseoul.visitseoul.net/eng/restaurants/view?wm_id=335) — 2026-11-14
- [Wikipedia — Onjium](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onjium) — 2026-11-14
- [Tistory review (March 2025) — 온지음레스토랑](https://loveyul.tistory.com/18) — 2026-11-14
- [Polle — 온지음 레스토랑](https://polle.com/place/34RT0I/%EC%98%A8%EC%A7%80%EC%9D%8C%20%EB%A0%88%EC%8A%A4%ED%86%A0%EB%9E%91) — 2026-11-14
- [Onjium official site — 온지음](https://www.onjium.org/) — 2026-11-14