Coffee in South Korea - 142 Restaurant Picks | Page 2

Shaped like roof tiles, the Sinan salt rice financiers use rice flour for a dense, chewy crumb. The Icheon rice chestnu…

Sandwiches dominate the case at this compact Donggyo-ro shop: rucola, BLTE with bacon, lettuce, tomato and egg, and a b…

Set right on the Gujwa shoreline, this small cafe has sea on three sides, with Jimibong and a harbor to the south and w…

Every drink starts from a shot of espresso, and what goes on top sets the menu apart. Al Capone adds caramel cream and…

Baked meringue that shatters outside and stays chewy within, heaped with cream and fresh fruit: the pavlova is eaten in…

Waves break right in front of this small roastery on the Jocheon shore in Jeju. The husband pours hand-drip coffee with…

Ethiopia Sidama Bensa and Yirgacheffe, Kenya Kiambu Peaberry, Yemen Mocha Mattari: the beans are listed by origin and b…

In a small shop tucked into a Jayang-dong side street, the owner brews every cup and talks customers through the beans.…

A plain door in a Huam-dong alley, easy to miss from the road, opens onto a cave-like interior of stone, wood and expos…

Built into a 1960s cinema inside Gyeongdong Market, the cafe keeps the old raked floor, so seating climbs in tiers like…

Doughnuts are picked from the ground-floor display and carried up to seating spread over several floors. The dough is c…

There are no chairs at this espresso bar near Yaksu Station, where about eight people stand at the counter, drink and m…

The ridge of Seongsan Ilchulbong shows head-on only from the window seats, and there are just a few, so it pays to clai…

Once a bookstore, this two-floor space near Yeouido Station still holds shelves of new releases and children's books, a…

Sugar goes under the coffee grounds during extraction, so the espresso carries a light sweetness from the first sip. Th…

The C-flat uses less milk than a flat white and adds crystals of raw cane sugar. Lattes can be made with a choice of be…

Tucked into the ground floor of the Ryse Hotel, this compact Blue Bottle uses the building's staircase to break the roo…

Parody versions of famous paintings, redrawn in the Risar style, hang around the room and give the Cheongdam branch its…

The timber frame of a traditional hanok stays exposed, wrapped in a contemporary interior, in an Ikseon-dong alley a sh…

On cold days buckwheat tea is left warming on the stove for guests to pour themselves. Upstairs is floor seating, where…

Cappuccino arrives in a soba cup rather than a mug, its firm, silky foam sitting as a separate layer over the espresso.…

Down an alley near Hansung University Station, a converted hanok with a small courtyard holds a bar lined with bags of…

The first sip of the Black Bronze Cappuccino is sweet from dark chocolate shavings on its fine milk foam, and the finis…

The stairs down to a basement cafe beneath an apartment shopping arcade in Yeongdeungpo already set the scene: antique…