4.8Gongmyeong Mangwon Chaekppang 공명 망원책빵
Gongmyeong's Mangwon “chaekppang” (book-and-bread) branch is a multi-floor dessert café from the Gongmyeong brand, built around seasonal showpiece cakes — a whole-melon cake is the signature — with shelves of books to read over coffee.
₩15–40k3 rating sources
4.7Toasted Club 토스티드 클럽
A small sandwich counter that opened in Seochon in 2025, building its menu on schiacciata bread baked in-house each morning.
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4.6URT 유알티
URT is a fully plant-based bakery and restaurant in Seogyo-dong, roughly midway between Mangwon and Hongik University stations, serving vegan pasta and pad thai alongside a bread and pastry case.
₩15–40k5 rating sourcesShort waits at peak
4.6Nopeunsan 높은산 성수
A Seongsu chai specialist, and only chai: masala, ginger, saffron, malai, a pink chai and a rum version, most of them between 4,000 and 6,000 won.
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4.6Tori Bakery 토리베이커리
A small Seochon bakery-cafe tucked into a backstreet in Oksin-dong, near Gyeongbokgung Palace, best known for its makgeolli (rice-wine fermented) sourdough breads — the signature loaf and baguette come up in nearly every recent visit post.
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4.6Fritz Coffee Company – Jangchung 프릳츠커피컴퍼니 장충점
The Jangchung branch of Fritz Coffee Company, one of Korea's most influential specialty roasters, working as a bakery as well.
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4.5My Name Is 마이네임이즈 신당
A Sindang-dong café that opens in the afternoon and runs to midnight, which is what sets it apart in a neighbourhood that mostly closes early.
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4.5La Farina 라파리나 서촌
A Seochon bagel bakery working out of a wood-fired oven, with the plain salt bagel and the wood-fired bagel as the base of the range and filled versions above it — chive and scallion cream cheese, myeongnan and potato, basil and tomato, jambon.
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4.5Mirabeau Chocolat 미라보쇼콜라
A European-style handmade-chocolate cafe in Chebu-dong, Seochon, run by a chocolatier who melts couverture into hot chocolate to order.
₩15–40k2 rating sourcesShort waits at peak
4.4ETF Bakery Seongsu ETF베이커리 성수
ETF Bakery — short for "Express Trade Farm" — made its name selling a proper salt bread for around 1,000 won, and its Seongsu flagship still draws opening-time queues for cheap-but-serious bakes: salt bread, salted-butter baguettes, potato-cheese and jambon-beurre bagels, and a case of showy seasonal fruit cakes.
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4.4Blur 블러 합정
An afternoon-to-late café above the Hapjeong backstreets, open from 1pm to 11pm.
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4.4Seoul Coffee Ikseon 서울커피 익선본점
Seoul Coffee's Ikseon-dong roastery pours three house blends (Ikseon, Hwigyeong, Cheongnim) inside a multi-room hanok, alongside desserts like injeolmi castella.
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4.3London Bagel Museum Anguk 런던베이글뮤지엄 안국
London Bagel Museum's Anguk location is the original branch of what's become Korea's most searched-for bagel chain.
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4.3Cheongsudang 청수당
Cheongsudang is one of Ikseon-dong's defining hanok cafes, entered across a stone path over water and built around a garden-and-pond interior.
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4.3Pungnyu 풍류 서촌
A Seochon tea room where every drink carries a hanja name — 綠陰, 晩秋, 樂園 — and two signatures, 無名 and 木化, anchor the list.
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4.3Mils 밀스
A two-floor bakery in Seongsu that bakes its own focaccia buns and makes its sausages in house, with pour-over coffee at the counter.
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4.3A Slice 어슬라이스
A sandwich counter tucked into a residential block in Changjeon-dong, close enough to Hongdae to be walkable but hard enough to find that most people arrive with directions open.
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4.3Tui Tui Cookie 튀튀쿠키
A Seochon cookie bakery-cafe near Tongin Market, run by a Le Cordon Bleu-trained pastry chef, known for its handmade butter cookies, gift-box cookie sets, and scone-making classes.
₩15–40k3 rating sourcesShort waits at peak
4.3Kyungin Museum of Fine Art Traditional Tea Garden 경인미술관 전통다원
A traditional tea garden set in the courtyard of Kyung-in Museum of Fine Art in Insa-dong, where outdoor tables sit among a hanok compound that has drawn tea drinkers since the late 1990s.
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4.3NEWLINE ARCHITECTS & LOUNGE 뉴라인 건축사사무소
Café and bakery in Jongno, Seoul.
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4.2Ours Blanc 우스블랑
A bakery near Hyochang Park working mainly in laminated dough — croissants, pastries and hard-crust loaves — with coffee alongside.
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4.2Namusairo 나무사이로
A hanok specialty roastery in Naeja-dong near Gyeongbokgung, roasting its own beans since 2005 and known among coffee people for single-origin hand-drip pour-overs.
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4.2Manufact Coffee Roasters 매뉴팩트커피 연희점
Manufact Coffee Roasters is a Yeonhui-dong neighborhood roastery running its own roasting program since 2013, considered the anchor of the neighborhood's specialty-coffee scene.
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4.2RUFRUF 러프러프 성수
A Seongsu cheesecake bakery — strawberry crumble and apple-cinnamon crumble are the two the shop is known for — with a short coffee list beside them, the RUF latte included.
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4.2London Bagel Museum Yeouido-dong 런던베이글뮤지엄 여의도 지하
Café and bakery in Yeongdeungpo, Seoul.
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photo: catalinamo (CC BY-SA 2.0)4.1Chamasineun Tteul 차마시는 뜰
A century-old hanok teahouse in Samcheong-dong serving traditional Korean tea and desserts — ssanghwa-tang, omija patbingsu, and jujube tea — around a central courtyard garden, with seating arranged U-shaped indoors and out.
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4.1Joseph's Coffee Tree 조셉의 커피나무
A hillside hand-drip coffee cafe on Seongbuk-dong's ridge road, known for its panoramic city view and self-roasted specialty beans.
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4.1Portrait Coffee Bar 포트레이트 커피바
Portrait Coffee Bar is a specialty coffee bar in Mangwon-dong, running since 2020, that pairs its coffee program with seasonal shaved-ice desserts — the pea-and-hojicha bingsu among them.
₩15–40k3 rating sources
4.1Pajama Deli (Hyochang Park) 파자마델리 효창공원점
A morning-only sandwich shop by Hyochang Park, building everything on focaccia and changing fillings with the season.
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4.1Fritz Coffee Company – Dohwa 프릳츠커피컴퍼니 도화점
The flagship hanok-courtyard cafe of Fritz Coffee Company, one of Korea's most influential specialty roasters, doubling as a bakery.
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4.0Coffee Libre Yeonnam 커피리브레 연남점
Coffee Libre helped pioneer Korea's specialty coffee scene, and this Yeonnam-dong location — expanded into a larger multi-floor building in 2023 — is one of the brand's flagship roasteries, known for its blue-mask logo, meticulous hand-drip pour-overs, and rotating single-origin beans.
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4.0Gyedong 107 계동107
Gyedong107 is a small roastery café at the mouth of Gyedong alley near Anguk Station, roasting its own beans on-site and known for the Gyedong Spuner — espresso poured over black sesame milk and topped with black sesame ice cream.
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4.0Cafe Onhwa Ikseon 카페온화 익선점
Cafe Onhwa's Ikseon branch is a hanok converted into a souffle-pancake specialty cafe, known for its dessert well before it appeared on the broadcast food show Sooyoomisikhoe (수요미식회).
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3.9Andmeal Seongsu 앤드밀 성수점
A third-floor sandwich and brunch room in the Yeonmujang stretch of Seongsu, with a menu that runs from shrimp-and-egg and salmon sandwiches to hot panini and a basil chicken salad.
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3.9Onion Anguk 어니언 안국
A landmark hanok-conversion cafe by the Onion coffee brand, filling a restored 1920s hanok near Anguk Station with courtyard-facing seating split between shoes-off floor tables and regular seats.
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3.9Felt Coffee Cheonggyecheon 펠트 청계천점
Felt Coffee's minimalist Cheonggyecheon branch is a benchmark for Seoul's third-wave espresso and pour-over scene, a short walk from Gwanghwamun along the Cheonggyecheon stream.
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3.8Daelim Changgo Gallery 대림창고 갤러리
Daelim Changgo Gallery occupies a former rice mill turned into one of Seongsu's largest cafe-and-gallery spaces, pairing bakery items and single-origin coffee with rotating exhibitions and brand pop-ups.
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3.8Nakwonyeok 낙원역
An Ikseon-dong hanok cafe built around an old train-platform concept, with railway track running from the entrance through the seating alleys inside the hanok.
₩15–40k3 rating sourcesShort waits at peak
3.8Onion Seongsu 어니언 성수
Onion's Seongsu location, set inside a converted warehouse, is one of the neighborhood's defining bakery-cafes — search interest around it runs consistently high even as Seongsu's cafe scene has grown crowded with newer openings.
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3.8Seongbukdong Kongjip 성북동 콩집
A long-running neighborhood hand-drip coffee house near Hansung University that locals in Seongbuk-dong treat as their regular spot, despite its bean-shop-sounding name.
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3.7Suyeon Sanbang 수연산방
A traditional teahouse set in novelist Yi Tae-jun's 1930s hanok residence in Seongbuk-dong, serving herbal teas and bingsu in a preserved literary landmark.
₩15–40k2 rating sourcesShort waits at peak
3.7MK2 엠케이투
A modern glass-walled cafe in Changseong-dong (Seochon) known for Italian-style granita and mid-century vintage furniture — popular since 2015.
₩15–40k2 rating sourcesShort waits at peak
SEVENTEEN Mingyu·DK·The83.6Queens Park 퀸즈파크 청담점
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A Cheongdam brunch room with a planted terrace, serving the full English end of the menu rather than café toast: eggs Benedict at ₩29,000, a full English breakfast at ₩27,000, blueberry pancakes and a mascarpone open omelette at the same price, and the house waffle brunch at ₩25,000.
₩15–40k3 rating sourcesShort waits at peak
3.5Dongbaek Yanggwajeom 동백양과점
Dongbaek Yanggwajeom is widely credited as the original souffle-pancake cafe that put Ikseon-dong's hanok-alley dessert scene on the map, and it still draws a standing line most evenings years after opening.
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3.2Line Ikseon 라인 익선
Line Ikseon is a two-floor hanok bakery-cafe just off Ikseon-dong's main alley, with a hanok-style ground floor and a rooftop-facing upper level.
₩15–40k3 rating sourcesShort waits at peak
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