Location: Apgujeong
Cuisine: Cafe
Price: $$
Reservations: No
Suggested Items: Ddeok Spring Rolls
Get ready y’all. This is the poster child of Apgujeong pretension. Actually, the interior is airy and comfortable if you just want a cup of coffee. But the menu either is a mad experiment from the kitchen, or [...]
Location: Buam-dong (north Seoul)
Cuisine: Cafe
Price: $$
Reservations: No
Suggested Items: Straight up coffee
Korea’s become a coffee-obsessed society very quickly, and the connoisseurs rate this place at the top. Club Espresso in picturesque Buam-dong looks like a Canadian ski lodge at the foot of a mountain. Inside it smells [...]
Location: Itaewon
Cuisine: Pan-Asian, Cafe
Price: $$
Reservations: Optional
Suggested Items: Fish n Chips with Wasabi Mayo, Samosas, Green Curry
Perched on the hill overlooking the entrance to Itaewon, Berlin serves a combination of Pan-Asian dishes in a modern techno atmosphere. The dishes here impress and are a bit [...]
Reviewed by: Laura
Location: Hongdae
Cuisine: Cafe
Price: $
Cafe Sukkara in Hongdae is a cafe and restaurant with a selection of drinks, food, and desserts. They offer an organic selection of both food and drinks. The atmosphere is great, the service is friendly and the prices are right. They offer whole wheat [...]
Location: Chain (Hongdae, Sillim, Gyeongseong University, Ehwa, Busan)
Cuisine: Cafe
Price: Cheap
Reservations: No
Suggested Items: Does it matter? It’s a Charlie Brown cafe.
I’m putting this in for the sake of kitsch. I’ve long been jaded by Hard Rock Cafes. We actually have had one or two in [...]
Cuisine: Cafe
Price: $$
Reservations: None
Suggested Items: Chocolate Choux, Terrines
Okay, now we’re getting into serious territory with Korean bakery-cafes. Passion5, on the Hannam side of Itaewon, is a massive gourmet bakery with a German touch on the first floor. The second floor is a posh cafe that [...]
Cuisine: Cafe
Price: $
Reservations: No
Suggested Items: Waffle Plate
American Plate is a small cozy cafe in the Bisan area of Anyang. The service is slow, but they serve an adequate American style “brunch,” including blueberry pancakes, waffles and French toast. No one has told them that they should heat up their [...]
