Sir Thomas Lipton

Sir Thomas Lipton

A nice cafe and bakery to grab a sweet.

The ♥ Lucy pie kitchen 더루시파이키친/ 동빙고

The ♥ Lucy pie kitchen 더루시파이키친/ 동빙고

Update: 2019 A friend recently visited and wanted to go to the pie shop. We found our way there but it's changed, a lot.  First off, they've changed their name. They're now called 동빙고. The outside looks more traditional Korean and the sign has changed as well. The inside is also different. The giant I [...]

Cookie Time Cookie Bar

Cookie Time Cookie Bar

Cookie time is a shop that specializes in...cookies. It's in the name. They're originally from New Zealand and have been branching out to share their cookies. They deliver cookies all over the world but only currently have two cookie bars, one in Harajuku, the other in Queenstown. My friend and I ended up going for [...]

Dominique Ansel Bakery

Dominique Ansel Bakery

Located about an equal distance from Omote-sando station and Meiji-jingumae (Harajuku) station is the Dominique Ansel Bakery. A cafe/bakery in Tokyo that serves some pretty interesting and unique sweets. It's also insanely popular and thus usually pretty packed. As soon as you arrive grab yourself a seat and then get in line for food. Dominique [...]

4 mellow 포멜로우

4 mellow 포멜로우

After lunch at the New York Grill Nathalie and I wondered around in search of a good place to just sit and catch up. We ended up at 4 mellow which is a bakery/ cafe. We must have picked a weird time since it seemed like all hands on deck to pull out bread from [...]

Buttermilk Biscuit Co.

Buttermilk Biscuit Co.

After finally getting a sim card so I can be reconnected to everyone in South Korea a friend and I went to Apgujeong for a celebratory brunch at Buttermilk Biscuit Co. Their specialty is in their name, buttermilk biscuits that they make fresh daily. The shop is a small shop with limited seating  and no [...]

Missy’s Pies, ect

Missy’s Pies, ect

My sister got a derby pie at one of the restaurants we went to and fell in love. So on our last day she looked up bakeries determined to head home with at least two full pies. The one she decided on was Missy's Pies, ect. Missy's Pies, ect is a bakery that also offers [...]

Sung Sim Dang 성심당

Sung Sim Dang  성심당

If you visit Daejeon a must is Sung Sim Dang. There's no missing it at the KTX station, just look for the bakery with the long line. What's the line for? Red bean paste bread called Twigim Soboro (튀김소보로). Read bean paste bread not exciting you say? Well this one is big and deep-fried. Even if [...]

La Boîte Black Label

La Boîte Black Label

La Boîte Black Label is a gold French bakery/cafe in Gangnam. Mika took me to it to just sit and relax and enjoy the photography friendly atmosphere. La Boîte (The box) is a two-story cafe with beautiful cakes and macaroons and a nice drink menu. I ordered one of the fruit teas, a peppermint lemon tea [...]