Survive & Thrive in Korea
Located on Itaewon’s well traveled Gyenidan street, this lovely cafe provides an ideal spot to sit a spell and let it all hang out. The decor is sky blue with whites and yellows. The rabbit motif almost goes overboard but the rabbit with the cigarette offers just the perfect smidgen of cynicism to counteract any flights of […]
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Tucked away along a side street on garousu-gil in Sinsa I found bread & Burger Look at Me. They’ve been at their new location for about the past ten months. The space is down a small flight of steps below the ground floor. aA series of windows allows for a view of the outside area […]
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I never thought I’d eat a burrito I didn’t like, but I was wrong. I should have known better. I’ve had the best Mexican food in Seoul at Taco Rico, but that wasn’t good enough for me. Well, yeah it is, but at the time I didn’t think it was good enough to travel half […]
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Charlie Brown Café For something truly random in the way of cafes I suggest popping into the Charlie Brown Café. Yeah, I’m not kidding. It’s one of those eyebrow raising experiences when you first see it. Who even knew that Charlie Brown had a café? Does the Charles Schultz estate know that Snoopy and Woodstock […]
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Haejangguk One thing I’ve learned about Korea is that it’s definitely the land of hangovers. No matter if its expats partying in Hongdae or Korean businessmen on a binge in Jongno the soju pours freely in a never ending culture of shot after shot after shot. Eventually, though, the drinks run out, the music stops, […]
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In hannam-dong there’s a building with a glassy obsidian sheen that draws the gaze of everyone who comes near. Though, possibly, its their noses that are being drawn since this looming tower of black steel and glass houses the gossamer delicate baking goods of Passion Five. From the outset you know its not going to […]
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