Springing along Samcheongdong-gil

I recently had the opportunity to walk along Samcheongdong-gil during the day. I normally go there at night to check out a restaurant along that street. It was a warm weekend in April and the flowers were starting to bloom.

I just like the name of this shop: Coolgirls Room

After months of seeing bare and scrawny trees, I was seeing bursts of colour everywhere. I met up with some friends at Angkuk station near Insadong and we walked to Samcheongdong. The road that we walked along (and where all these photos are taken) is across the road from the main entrance to Geongbukgung/Geongbuk Palace and 100m down the road.

Some of the stores set up their displays outside so there was a bit of a market feel to it too.

There were plenty of people out enjoying the sunshine and the pleasant scenery around the palace. There are variety of cool boutiques and an extensive choice of eateries. There are bistros, cafes, restaurants with a mixture of specialties ranging from waffles, pizza’s, burgers to coffee and ice cream.

This place is quite famous for their waffles, I'm told.

This place is so cool! Designed to look like it just popped out from a Wizard of Oz story book. They serve Italian food here. Mainly pizza and a small selection of pasta.

If you are looking for ‘real food’... you’ll be spoilt for choice. High end Chinese, home style Italian, traditional Korean with specialized dishes, French with a twist and many more are found on this street.

Chinese Restaurant called Gong Li that looked promising.

We ended up in a cafe/restaurant that I saw awhile back that served a nice looking brunch menu. I will review it next.