The purpose of this study is to explore the daily meal pattern in Seoul families. The informations of this study were obtained from 443 housewives in Seoul during August 20 to September 20, 1994, by using questionaires. The χ^2 test was applied to see the individual data. The following observations were made in this study. 57% of Seoul families had rice with side dish set three times a day, the first choice for rice substitute was bread in breakfast and noodle in lunch, 98% of the subjects had rice in dinner. The change of the meal pattern from boiled rice to bread and noodle was the result of social changes such as urbanization, heightening up of education level of woman and the resulting increase of woman employment. They were consumed 2∼5 varieties of side dishes. The favorite were Kimchi and Cigae` and Guk. The major meal pattern is Seoul is still the traditional one composed of boiled rice and side dishes.