Bakery in South Korea - 78 Restaurant Picks | Page 3

Eat the apple pastry right after buying it; the apple jam inside softens the crust as it sits. The signature mawang pie…

Galettes and quiches have come out of this Hyochang-dong oven for well over a decade, alongside flaky croissants, chewy…

Seasonal strawberry Mont Blanc is heaped with fresh strawberries over whipped cream. The matcha strawberry cake layers…

The salt on top of the salt bread sometimes gathers on one side, so you end up tearing alternately from the salty and l…

Shaped like a purple sweet potato, the Haenam sweet potato bread looks like the real thing all the way through when you…

The salt bread balances moderate salt with butter aroma, and the nurungji version, made with toasted crust rice, adds a…

Plain, fig, blueberry, matcha, spinach, red pepper and olive cheese bagels line the display, all baked in a wood-fired…

The Pohang garlic baguette is split and filled with garlic sauce, and the gorgonzola shio-pan adds cheese to a salt rol…

The Alligator is slightly damp and moist, with sweetness worked through it, yet less sugary than versions elsewhere, a…

Chandeliers, old furniture and a vintage counter keep the feel of a bakery that opened in 1946, right by Dongguk Univer…

The wrapper is thin enough to see through, and inside sits a red-bean filling made with Gyeongju beans that reaches alm…

Dusted with castella crumbs and filled with vanilla cream, the long White Roll is so soft there is almost nothing to ch…

Cut into the fig bread and figs spill out. The shop is stronger on older styles than on trendy pastries like kouign-ama…

At this bagel bakery in Dongbok-ri, Gujwa-eup, a plain bagel with a cream cheese picked on the side makes a snack, and…

The chestnut pie, made by a certified master baker with Gongju chestnuts, wraps chestnut paste and one small whole ches…

On weekends each customer may buy up to 3 of any one kind and 8 bagels in total, though a group can pool its limits. Sa…

This is the Guwol-dong flagship of An's Bakery, opened in 1993; its founder, An Chang-hyun, was named Korea's seventh m…

Baked with rice, the rice cheese castella has a fine, soft crumb, a mild cheese aroma and restrained sweetness. Harehar…

Sweet red bean danpatppang sits right next to the vegetable bread, yachae-ppang, filled with cabbage, onion and carrot.…

This bakery sits wall to wall with Korombang Bakery and has fewer breads and fewer seats than its neighbor. In the shri…

Mashed potato fills the potato cheese bagel, and the cheese flavor comes through strongly. Salt butter bagel gets its s…

A thick chocolate shell wraps marshmallow and jam in the choco pie, and a mini version without the jam is sold separate…

Bread is picked from the ground-floor cases and paid for in line, then carried up to a broad second-floor cafe that loo…

Among the neatly shaped pine trees in the garden stand a Godzilla figure and animal statues, so out of step with the po…