The Baker’s Table 더베이커스테이블

The Baker’s Table 더베이커스테이블

A nice bakery with limited seating in Itaewon.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Tarte and Tea Room

Tarte and Tea Room

When we'd been searching for the bbq road we walked past a Tarte and Tea room and decided to go after dinner. Surprisingly we didn't end up with any tea, choosing instead to try some of their specialty drinks, like rose ade and a chocolate cereal milkshake called Choco Crush. I also got a chocolate [...]

Plant

Plant is a popular vegetarian/vegan restaurant/bakery in Itaewon. I spent a weekend in Seoul with a friend from Chicago whose vegetarian which made picking restaurants easier. In other words I just had to google search for any vegetarian restaurants in the area and head off that way. Plant was nice, we had a bit trouble [...]