Seocho Spanish restaurant pulpo and paella lunch: Comedor16

Today I'm introducing Comedor16, located near Yangjae Citizen's Forest Station✨

How to get to Comedor16, and is there parking?

Comedor16 is located about a 15-minute walk from Yangjae Citizen's Forest Station. Parking is available for 1 car in front of the restaurant, and when that's full you'll need to use a nearby public parking lot.

For other closed days, check the notices on Naver Place.

Inside Comedor16: 14 seats and a calm mood

The restaurant seats up to 14 people and is on the cozy side. Overall it's dark-toned with lighting emphasized over each table, which looks great for focusing on the food. It has a cozy, calm atmosphere, so apparently people come here a lot for dates, blind dates, family gatherings, birthday parties, and wedding invitation meetups.

Water and cutlery are set on the table, and

once you sit down, they bring you pickles and hand sanitizer.

Comedor16 menu and prices

• STEAK — Spanish-style octopus steak (pulpo) ₩42,000 / sirloin flap steak ₩40,000 / Spanish home-style meat pie ₩35,000
• PAELLA — signature paella ₩17,500 (₩16,500 lunch discount) / squid ink paella ₩17,500 (₩16,500 lunch discount)
• PASTA — sirloin cream mafaldine ₩17,500 (₩16,500 lunch discount) / ragu spaghetti ₩16,500 / Italian-style carbonara ₩15,500 / shrimp butter cheese spaghetti ₩16,500 / aglio olio spaghetti (flavored with octopus confit oil, lunch only) ₩14,500
• COLD TAPAS — shrimp avocado salad ₩19,000 (₩18,000 lunch discount) / endive jamón salad ₩16,500 (₩15,500 lunch discount) / chorizo plate ₩21,000 / Spanish-style focaccia (90g) ₩3,500
• HOT TAPAS — gambas cazuela ₩18,500 / brandada X focaccia ₩23,000 / potato cake ₩14,500 / signature nachos ₩16,500 / mini casserole cream cake ₩9,000

At lunch, selected menu items get a ₩1,000 discount and pre-meal bread is included.

Please refer to the sign above for ingredient origins! Info on drinks, alcohol, extra bread, corkage, and whether outside food is allowed is also written below.

Lunch starts with pre-meal bread

We visited for lunch, so the pre-meal bread came out first with a dipping sauce. Eating it while still warm, it was crispy outside and soft inside, and the sauce was sweet — really good.

The main dishes we ordered were the Spanish-style octopus steak (pulpo) and the signature paella✨

Spanish-style octopus steak (pulpo), 42,000 won

First up, the Spanish-style octopus steak😽 (about 300g of domestic raw octopus). It's a traditional Spanish octopus dish where the octopus is gently confit-cooked in olive oil, then baked once more in the oven together with French baby potatoes. Confit, they say, is a cooking method where octopus is slow-cooked at low temperature in olive oil with various spices for a long time, bringing out a tender texture. You dip the octopus and baby potatoes together in the olive oil to eat. Note that during the octopus fishing ban period from May 16 to June 30 (46 days), supply may be limited and it could temporarily sell out!

It's cut into bite-sized pieces like this,

and when you spear the olive-oil-soaked baby potato and octopus together with a fork and eat them in one bite, it tastes even better.

Signature paella at the 16,500 won lunch price

Next up is the signature paella🔥 It's the restaurant's representative paella, made with rice on a tomato sauce base topped with shrimp, egg yolk, olives, and green peas. The tomato sauce was sweet and tangy, and scraping up the crispy rice crust at the bottom with the serving spoon was savory and crunchy — really tasty><

They told us it's better not to mix the yolk in but instead to pop it and let it spread like a sauce, so I popped the yolk and ate it together with the plump shrimp and fluffy rice grains — it was rich and went really well together.

Is lunch at Comedor16 worth it?

If you're looking for a Spanish restaurant near Yangjae Citizen's Forest Station in Yangjae-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul, I recommend Comedor16. All the sauces and stocks are made in-house, and they cook with Spanish olive oil, so it's a great spot for tasty yet healthy home-style Spanish food. It looks great for people who want a quiet, calm atmosphere, especially those looking for a place for a date or a small gathering.