Best Cafes in Seoul
7 places Korean women actually go to, checked on 2026-09-28.
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Cafes
Anguk / Bukchon
Cafe Onion Anguk
A hanok (traditional house) café with a courtyard and wooden-floored hall, famous for its pandoro buried in powdered sugar.
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Cafes
Seongsu-dong
Cafe Onion Seongsu
The original Onion: a converted factory with raw concrete walls, popular for bakery items like pandoro and salt bread.
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Cafes
Anguk / Bukchon
London Bagel Museum Anguk
A London-themed bagel shop famous for its potato cheese bagel and bacon potato sandwich — and for very long queues.
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Cafes
Apgujeong / Dosan Park
NUDAKE Haus Dosan
Gentle Monster's dessert brand, famous for the jet-black 'PEAK' cake — squid-ink pastry filled with matcha cream (about ₩45,000).
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Cafes
Yeonnam-dong
Cafe Layered Yeonnam
A red-brick, English-country-style bakery café known for scones (basil is the favorite) and puppy-shaped cakes.
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Cafes
Ikseon-dong
Seoul Coffee Ikseon
A courtyard hanok café with a retro 1980s–90s Seoul theme, known for Korean-style desserts like injeolmi (roasted soybean) bingsu.
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Cafes
Changsin-dong / Naksan
Tertre
A hilltop café whose three floors and rooftop look across Seoul to N Seoul Tower and Lotte World Tower — especially popular for the night view.