Metro Travels: 5 Cool, Must-Visit Cafés In Seoul
Traveling to Korea? Put these hip, trendy cafés on your bucket list!
Cafe culture in Seoul is hip, vibrant, trendy. The city is teeming with coffee enthusiasts who want really good drinks and great design, too. Traveling to Seoul? Put these cafés on your bucket list.
Seoul's Cool Cafés
Seoul's Cool Cafés
Flash Coffee
With a flagship two-storey café in fashionable Gangnam district, this tech-enabled coffee chain from Singapore makes it so easy to grab your favorite drink without the long queues. IG: @flashcoffee_kr. Website: flash-coffee.com.
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Flash Coffee
They use 100 percent specialty-grade arabica and also have unique drinks like nutella latte and lemon expresso soda. Plant-based options are available like oat milk. With multiple branches, its a good place for snacks and sandwiches, offering a wide variety of lattes. I tried the Avocado Latte (3/5). Perfect for people on the go.IG: @flashcoffee_kr. Website: flash-coffee.com.
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Tongue Planet Café
This aesthetic cafe in Garosugil area is located inside Ader’s flagship building. Everything here is themed around the tongue, from the decor, to the drinks and desserts. This is where the cool kids go. Lol. IG: @tongue_cafe.
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Tongue Planet Café
The cakes are good (4/5). I had the Emoji cake with whipped cream and seasonal fruit filling. Plus I ordered the unsweetened latte (4/5), a nice balance of espresso blended with flavorful milk. IG: @tongue_cafe.
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Cheon Su Dang
Found in Ikseon-dong Hanok Village, this is one of the most beautiful cafés in Korea with its traditional architecture and pretty garden. One enters through a stone path set across a small pond surrounded by lush bamboo. Charming! IG: @cheongsudang_
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Cheong Su Dang
There are two kinds of seating. The traditional set up with a tranquil view of the garden…
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Cheong Su Dang
And the main table where diners gather around the vibrant plant centerpiece.
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Cheong Su Dang
The Matcha Cream Milk (3/5) made from single origin beans, fresh milk and sweet milk cream. And their signature Egg Coffee (4/5) made with custard cream. They’re also known for their cakes but we didn’t order. Too many people because it’s in a touristy area. IG: @cheongsudang_
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Arabica
This newly-opened café is located in Starfield Library in the center of beautiful CoEx Mall. Books and coffee are a perfect together. IG: @arabica.journal.
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Arabica
Arabica Coffee’s philosophy is very simple: to let you experience different cultures through coffee. Their approach to everythig is simple, clean and clear, from their drinks to design. IG: @arabica.journal.
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Arabica
I tried their famous Spanish Latte (4/5), which leans on the sweeter side of the coffee spectrum. But drinking it cold knocks down the sweetness a bit. IG: @arabica.journal.
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Coffee Nap Roasters
Located in Hongdae area, this quaint and quiet cafe is so instagrammable. The unusual interior features white walls, floor to ceiling windows, and an artificial “hill” made of bricks. IG: @coffeenap_roasters.
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Coffee Nap Roasters
The design caused Coffee Nap Roasters to go viral when it opened in 2018. The intention is for people to experience the feeling of drinking coffee while sitting on a hill, with the moon (aka this mirror) in the distance. IG: @coffeenap_roasters.
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Coffee Nap Roasters
The coffee menu is limited, so I tried their Vanilla Latte (3/5/5). If you don’t want to sit on the “hill”, there are other seating options. A nice place to just chill and read a book. IG:@coffeenap_roasters.
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