Bangi-dong pasta restaurant with citrus feta salad and jazz: Allegro

For a Jamsil date, we went to a restaurant in Bangi-dong, Songpa, that's absolutely bursting with atmosphere. It's a place where you can eat delicious food AND catch a live jazz performance — totally satisfying. Let me share what we ordered, the vibe, and the music~!

Where is Allegro? Songpanaru Station access, parking and hours

Allegro is located in Bangi-dong, Jamsil, a 3-minute walk from Exit 2 of Songpanaru Station. The address is 3F, 57-1 Olympic-ro 32-gil, Songpa-gu, Seoul, and it's open daily 12:00–23:00, with a break time from 15:00–18:00 and last order at 21:30. Closed every Tuesday.

Other details: reservations, high chairs, and men's/women's restrooms are all available. The building's lot is free for up to 3 cars at lunchtime, with valet available; in the evening you'll need to use the paid Two Parking Songpa-Yonsei lot nearby.

What Allegro looks like inside and out

Allegro is a Western-style restaurant on the 3rd floor of a kalguksu (knife-cut noodle) building.

The interior has soft, tasteful lighting and a cozy layout — modern and stylish overall, and I thought, yep, found a good Bangi-dong spot.

It's not just a Western food spot — there's live jazz every day, which makes it perfect for anniversaries or any day you want to set the mood.

You can check the jazz schedule and lineup either at the 3rd-floor entrance or on Instagram.

• Cover charge: ₩10,000 weekdays / ₩15,000 Fri, Sat
• Show times: Daily 19:30–20:10 / 20:25–21:05

Allegro's menu, 15% lunch discount and corkage fee

Allegro's menu is packed with Italian and Mediterranean dishes — various pastas, gnocchi, and steaks, plus fresh salads and wine, all perfectly stocked.

Especially handy: 15% off the entire menu for lunch visits, and corkage is ₩50,000 per bottle, up to 2 bottles.

Citrus feta salad, gnocchi and pork steak with the jazz set

First up, to whet our appetites: bread and the citrus feta cheese salad — a Mediterranean-style salad combining fresh, sweet-tart citrus fruit, salty feta cheese, nutty granola, and olive oil.

Bursting with freshness in every bite — piled on top of the bread, it made a wine snack good enough on its own!

The mushroom cream potato gnocchi was better than expected — the cream sauce was great, and the gnocchi itself was soft and chewy, genuinely delicious.

The generous chunks of mushroom paired so well with the richness of the cream that I ended up scraping the bowl clean to the last bite.

The sous-vide pork shoulder steak was cooked sous-vide then seared, juicy and moist, and the slightly spicy red pepper on top was the finishing touch — officially a Bangi-dong must-eat!!

The pork was tender and the fries, dipped in the steak sauce, were great too haha

Another Season's live jazz performance at Allegro

After we'd eaten a fair amount, the jazz show started — a Brazilian pop band called Another Season.

The lineup is piano, bass, drums, saxophone, and vocals, and the stylish melodies caught my ear right away.