Traditional Tea in Jongno: Osulloc Tea House Bukchon & More - 8 Local Picks

A remodeled hanok rises three floors: tea and gift products on the ground floor, a cafe on the second, and from late af…

Sweet red bean porridge (danpatjuk) dusted with cinnamon hides large glutinous rice dumplings, chestnuts, kidney beans…

From the hanok windows in Bukchon you look out at the mountains while drinking omija tea made with house-made five-flav…

High hanok ceilings keep the small Ikseon-dong tea house from feeling cramped, and the heated ondol floor makes it a wa…

Inside this hanok off Insadong-gil, guests take off their shoes and sit on a heated ondol floor beside a small garden,…

Dark wooden beams under a tiled roof, antique furniture, vintage odds and ends and a wood-burning fireplace give this I…

Guests brew their own leaf tea here, refilling the pot as often as they like in a Gyedong-gil hanok split into main, gu…

Tea gets explained at the table here, which helps with names like vanilla-bean tonka matcha or lemon myrtle matcha soda…