Cafe Dokoro 카페 도코로 所

Cafe Dokoro 카페 도코로 所

A cute cafe in Itaewon.

Itaewon Global Village Festival 이태원지구촌축제

Itaewon Global Village Festival 이태원지구촌축제

Every year on the main road of Itaewon there's a global village festival. Restaurants from throughout the neighborhood set up booths so you can walk down the street and try food from all over the world. There's performances, cultural events, a parade, and an insane amount of people, more so then even usual, in Itaewon. [...]

Braai Republic

Braai Republic

Braai Republic is a South African restaurant that I went to with some friends I made from Epik Training. It was cold and snowing for the first time of the year so we cancelled most of our other plans and went to Itaewon for lunch. Braai means barbecue and the Braai Republic serves mostly meat. [...]

Soul Train Vintage Music Lounge

Soul Train Vintage Music Lounge

After dinner we headed out to Soul Train Vintage Music Lounge at  54-4 Itaewon-ro 27ga-gil. It wasn't what we were expecting which was a relaxed lounge with music and an opportunity to dance or sit and talk. Instead we found a small crowded space with limited seating and more people dancing drunkenly to the point [...]

Left Coast Burgers

Left Coast Burgers

Nathalie's birthday was recently so I met up with her and some of her friends to celebrate in Itaewon. Our first stop was Left Coast Burgers at 130-43 Itaewon-dong. I ordered the classic burger with a half side of fries. The classic comes with American Cheese, pickles, lettuce, tomato, onion, ketchup and mustard. Which was [...]

What the Book? (closed Oct 2019)

A friend of mine met up with me in Seoul and wanted to check out a bookstore. He suggested What the book? in Itaewon. It's up on the 2nd floor. The entire store sells English books, children's books, comics, language study books, adult coloring books and used books. It was terrible. I was hoping after spending [...]