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Best Cafés in South Korea (2026)

Coffee shops, bakeries, tea rooms and dessert spots for breakfast, a light lunch or a break between sights.

6 places · Updated October 23, 2026

Our top 3 cafés in South Korea

  1. Onion Seongsu Bakery café in a converted factory, SeongsuThe original branch of the Onion bakery café, set in a stripped-back 1970s building in Seongsu that once housed a factory, known for pandoro and butter breads.
  2. Fritz Coffee Company Dohwa Speciality coffee roaster and bakery, Mapo (Dohwa-dong)The first branch of Fritz Coffee Company, a Seoul roaster and bakery known for its seal logo and retro style, set in a converted house near Gongdeok.
  3. Anthracite Coffee Roasters Hapjeong Coffee roastery in a former shoe factory, HapjeongA coffee roaster and café in a former shoe factory near Hapjeong, one of the venues that set the template for Seoul's industrial-style cafés.

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1. Onion Seongsu

Bakery café in a converted factory$$Seongsu

The original branch of the Onion bakery café, set in a stripped-back 1970s building in Seongsu that once housed a factory, known for pandoro and butter breads.

View details — Onion Seongsu

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5. Suyeon Sanbang

Traditional tea house in a historic hanok$$Seongbuk-dong

A traditional tea house in the 1933 hanok of novelist Lee Tae-jun, a listed folk heritage building in Seongbuk-dong run by his grand-niece.

View details — Suyeon Sanbang