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Momos Coffee Oncheonjang

  • ★ 4.7
  • Hand drip of the day
  • Dongnae and Oncheonjang
  • Busan

Momos Coffee began at this Oncheonjang corner of Busan in 2007 and grew into the roaster whose barista Jooyeon Jeon won the 2019 world title.

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Momos Roastery and Coffee Bar

  • ★ 4.7
  • Single-origin filter flight
  • Yeongdo
  • Busan

Momos turned a Yeongdo boat marina into its roastery and coffee bar in 2021, where Busan's world-champion team roasts, cups and brews in full view.

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Anthracite Coffee Hapjeong

  • ★ 4.6
  • Hongdae and Yeonnam
  • Seoul

Anthracite Coffee Hapjeong is a cafe at 10 Tojeong-ro 5-gil, Hapjeong-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul, open Monday to Sunday 09:00-22:00 with 6 parking spaces.

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Center Coffee Seoul Forest

  • ★ 4.6
  • Seongsu and Dongdaemun
  • Seoul

Center Coffee Seoul Forest is a cafe at 28-11 Seoulsup 2-gil, Seongdong-gu, Seoul, open Tuesday to Sunday 10:00-21:00, closed Monday.

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Werk Roasters

  • ★ 4.5
  • Gesha filter tasting set
  • Gwangalli
  • Busan

Werk Roasters pours its own roasts at a pared-back showroom near Gwangan Station in Busan, one of the names that built the city's specialty scene.

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Cha Masineun Tteul

  • ★ 4.5
  • Bukchon and Samcheong
  • Seoul

Cha Masineun Tteul is a cafe at 26 Bukchon-ro 11na-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul, open Monday 10:00-19:00, Wednesday to Sunday 10:00-19:00, closed Tuesday.

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Blackup Coffee Seomyeon

  • ★ 4.4
  • Hae Suyeom cream coffee
  • Seomyeon and Jeonpo
  • Busan

Blackup Coffee has roasted in Busan since 2006 and runs this Seomyeon main room on brick, stone and its salty-sweet Hae Suyeom signature cup.

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Cafe Layered Anguk

  • ★ 4.4
  • Bukchon and Samcheong
  • Seoul

Cafe Layered Anguk is a cafe at 2-3 Bukchon-ro 2-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul, open daily 08:00-22:00.

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Cafe Onion Seongsu

  • ★ 4.4
  • Seongsu and Dongdaemun
  • Seoul

Cafe Onion Seongsu is a cafe at 8 Achasan-ro 9-gil, Seongdong-gu, Seoul, open Monday to Friday 08:00-22:00, Saturday and Sunday 09:00-22:00.

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FM Coffee House

  • ★ 4.3
  • Today's hand drip
  • Seomyeon and Jeonpo
  • Busan

FM Coffee House roasts for its own Jeonpo counter in Busan, a steady neighbourhood coffee room where the daily hand drip outsells everything else on the card.

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Aery Coffee

  • ★ 4.3
  • Single-origin latte
  • Nampo and Jagalchi
  • Busan

Aery Coffee pours competition-series filters by Jungang Station in Busan's old downtown, known for concentrated milk drinks in limited daily runs.

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Tea Therapy

  • ★ 4.3
  • Jongno and Insadong
  • Seoul

Tea Therapy is a cafe, clinic and school in Insadong run by a certified Oriental medicine doctor, with a Weight Loss blend of tangerine peel and buckwheat.

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Tide

  • ★ 4.2
  • Hand-drip single origin
  • Haeundae
  • Busan

Tide brews hand drip on Dalmaji Hill above Haeundae in Busan, a small roastery cafe where the sea fills the window and the menu stays short.

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Waveon Coffee

  • ★ 4.2
  • Brewing coffee with the pavlova
  • Gijang and Songjeong
  • Busan

Waveon Coffee stacks glass terraces over the open sea at Imnang in Gijang, Busan's most photographed coastal cafe and a drive-out ritual at sunset.

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Little Aus

Little Aus plates Australian brunch near Geumnyeonsan Station in Busan, a small Gwangalli room with proper flat whites and a gluten-free bread option.

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Prahran

  • ★ 4.2
  • Batch brew with the big breakfast
  • Haeundae
  • Busan

Prahran runs a Melbourne-style brunch room on Haeridan-gil in Busan, with an adjoining deli counter and sourdough loaves baked for the toast plates.

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Coffee Front

  • ★ 4.1
  • White, their flat-white style cup
  • Haeundae
  • Busan

Coffee Front keeps a San Francisco accent in Centum City, Busan, pouring Black and White menu staples with plant milks for the convention crowd.

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P.Ark

P.Ark fills a shipyard-scale building on Yeongdo's waterfront in Busan with a bakery floor, harbour-view terraces and a rooftop over the cranes.

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Vintage 38

  • ★ 4.0
  • Einspaenner over cold brew
  • Seomyeon and Jeonpo
  • Busan

Vintage 38 runs nearly around the clock on Jeonpo's cafe strip in Busan, an industrial room of collectibles where espresso flows past midnight.

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Your Type

  • ★ 4.0
  • Long black with the ricotta toast
  • Gwangalli
  • Busan

Your Type serves a compact brunch card up a Gwangalli staircase in Busan, a second-floor cafe room that locals quietly keep for slow weekday mornings.

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Or Whatever

  • ★ 4.0
  • Seomyeon and Jeonpo
  • Busan

Or Whatever cooks casual Australian breakfasts in Jeonpo, Busan, an easygoing corner cafe with proper vegetarian options and soft mid-morning light.

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Thanks Nature Cafe

  • ★ 3.9
  • Hongdae and Yeonnam
  • Seoul

Thanks Nature Cafe is a cafe at B1-121 Seogyo Prugio Shopping Mall, 10 Hongik-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul.

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Cafe Pokpo

Cafe Pokpo is a waterside open-air cafe at 262-24 Yeonhui-ro in Seodaemun-gu, around the Hongjecheon artificial waterfall, 25m-high and 60m-wide.

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Ginkgo Seoul

Ginkgo Seoul is a hanok cafe built in 1956 beside a ginkgo tree in Sangsamaeul Village, designated a preserved house by Seoul Metropolitan Government.

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Heritage Club

Heritage Club is a hanok cafe on Seosulla-gil that serves coffee by day and becomes a bar after 7:00 PM, with Jongmyo Shrine beyond its courtyard.

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Cafe Sasa

Sasa is a hanok cafe on Seosulla-gil that reinterprets traditional and modern flavors with Korean-inspired desserts and drinks, with a seasonal menu.

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LOW ROOF

LOW ROOF is a large cafe at 46-1 Bukchon-ro in Bukchon Hanok Village where you drink coffee looking out at a hanok view through large windows.

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