Cafes in Seogwipo: Vadada & More - 40 Local Picks

Coffee and cocktails share one menu here, so an afternoon of coffee and a cookie or cake by the sea can turn into a coc…

Seongsan Ilchulbong is close by but out of sight; what fills the windows is Udo and water of a deep jade green. The hal…

A red-brick building sits behind a garden of tangerine trees, with sunlight falling across worn, glossy wooden floors u…

A broad garden with a pond, fountain and pavilion, even swings and a Korean seesaw, fills the ground in front of the ha…

Low tables near the glass and higher ones farther back mean every seat across three floors keeps a view of the sea off…

Of the old Honeymoon House hotel, once President Syngman Rhee's villa, only one wing is still in use, now a bakery cafe…

A mug painted with the owner's face and mustache sets the tone in a small room of antique furniture and steampunk detai…

Out on the open grassland of Jeju's mid-mountain area, visitors ride horses, drive go-karts, try target shooting and fe…

This two-story house played Seoyeon's home in the film Architecture 101. The Myung Films Cultural Foundation, tied to t…

The music is kept so low it is barely there, and the waves come through even from inside. The Baksugijeong cliffs stand…

When the coffee arrives, a barista walks you through its origin, processing and flavor, in English as well as Korean. S…

Built low and solid like a bunker below the road, the building faces the sea off Beophwan. Past the big glass doors, ou…

One building holds both big windows on the sea and a bamboo garden set up like a glasshouse, and depending on where you…

Phone the day before and you can get the breakfast set: a sandwich, yogurt and a drink, which is a lot for one person.…

Rare flowers, trees and mosses, some seldom seen even in Jeju's gotjawal forests, grow between stone walls in the garde…

Volcanic rock shelves run along the shore right in front, and second-floor glass walls take in Sagye Beach behind them.…

Oedolgae and the rocky sea stacks around it stand straight ahead of this cafe, and the Olle Route 7 path runs right pas…

No flour goes into the cakes here. The signature pumpkin cheesecake tastes deeply of nutty pumpkin, not very sweet, wit…

Three sisters run the dairy, and the milk comes from their own pastured cows; it shows most clearly in the milkshake, r…

If you only try one thing, make it the pumpkin pie: crisp shell, moist filling. The egg tart is far softer, almost melt…

A small cup topped with thick, sticky cream and Udo Island peanut flavor makes Nutty Cloud closer to dessert than to a…

Rocher, the signature, takes the taste of a Ferrero Rocher and turns it into a dirty-coffee-style drink you will not fi…

A broad meadow garden with two large ponds looks toward Hallasan, and a family of ducks sometimes turns up by the water…

It sits right beside the entrance to Yongmeori Coast, and the windows look out to Hyeongjeseom, the twin islets offshor…