Tartine Bakery Seoul (Hannam) ★ 4.7
The Seoul outpost of Chad Robertson's San Francisco bakery, in Hannam-dong since 2018, quickly setting the standard for open-crumb sourdough in Korea.
Worth the queue: Country loaf sourdough and morning bun
Passion5 is a bakery in Itaewon And Hannam, Seoul.
Passion5 is the patisserie arm of Paris Baguette's parent company SPC, but it operates on an entirely different level from the parent chain.
Address: 272 Itaewon-ro, Yongsan-gu, Seoul
The Seoul outpost of Chad Robertson's San Francisco bakery, in Hannam-dong since 2018, quickly setting the standard for open-crumb sourdough in Korea.
Worth the queue: Country loaf sourdough and morning bun
Cafe Onion's Seongsu warehouse space runs a bakery counter with honey butter thick-cut toast that draws a pre-opening queue on weekend mornings.
Worth the queue: Honey butter thick-cut toast
Weirdough in Seongsu is a small-batch vegan bakery renowned for seaweed sourdough and plant-based pastries, rated 5.0 on HappyCow across 28 reviews.
Worth the queue: Seaweed sourdough loaf
Ma Pause in Hongdae is a French-trained baker's response to Seoul's generic patisserie scene, producing black sesame canele and laminated pastries.
Worth the queue: Black sesame canele
For Four Bread in Hongdae specialises in dairy-free and egg-free Korean bakery classics, with vegan tangzhong milk bread that rivals any conventional version.
Worth the queue: Vegan tangzhong milk bread
Paris Baguette is the ubiquitous Korean bakery chain that appears on every high street, but the Gwanghwamun branch is the right flagship to experience.
Worth the queue: Cream-filled sweet bun (soborobang)
The Seoul outpost of Chad Robertson's San Francisco bakery, in Hannam-dong since 2018, quickly setting the standard for open-crumb sourdough in Korea.
Worth the queue: Country loaf sourdough and morning bun