Waffles & Coffee

I was suppose to review this restaurant after my Samcheongdong post but forgot about it. But it was too good to not write about it at all.

I don't know what the name of the place was as I couldn't actually find a signboard but it does write Coffee & Waffles on the side of the building so I am just going to call it the coffee and waffles place. There is in fact many cafes that serve waffles in Samcheongdong-gil but I saw this one some time ago when I went to 8 Steps for dinner. What interested me was their brunch menu which looked pretty good and was reasonably priced. Ranging from KRW9,000 to KRW12,000.

It's easy to find, basically walk up Samcheongdong-gil from Geungbukgung. It's a bit of a walk as it's all the way in and slightly uphill. I would say its a good 15 minute walk at a leisurely pace. It's on the left side of the street and further up from Oz Kitchen.

Their menu is pretty limited but tastes good, probably why there was a decent crowd there at 12.30pm. The place is large with an alfresco area, inside dining and a sort of green house type dining area sans the plants.

The standard dish is the brunch set which is salad, a fried egg, sausage and choice of either waffles or french toast. As there were four of us we ordered 2 of each and gobbled it down as it was yummy. The salad was fresh and crunchy, the sausage is your korean style franks and the egg was nicely fried but not runny : ( The strange thing was they put some condense milk on the waffles but it tasted good!

You can see the chefs in the kitchen preparing the salad and cooking these by bulk. The wait was a little long, about 15 mins but it was a cozy atmosphere and comfortable place to just sit and chat. Here are some pics of the place and our dishes.

Back entrance

Brunch set plus French Toast

Brunch set plus Waffles which were soft and fluffy

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.