Baker Ondo in Songridan-gil
I’d heard Songridan-gil was the up-and-coming spot, so I went to check it out. Going with no goal at all felt a bit aimless, so I picked a bakery that looked reasonably good as my target. This is the pla…
I’d heard Songridan-gil was the up-and-coming spot, so I went to check it out. Going with no goal at all felt a bit aimless, so I picked a bakery that looked reasonably good as my target. This is the pla…
Gongdeok, and especially the area around Gongdeok Xi, keeps getting new places to eat. One of them is a bakery specialising in shokupan (Japanese-style milk bread), so I went to check it out. Takumiya Taste o…
Hwaseon Bakery was opened by a baker I used to know. Yeonsinnae isn’t exactly easy to get to, so I dropped by on my way back from Ilsan. Front entrance I never expected him to open such a smart-looking …
Pain de Papa has been around since the early days of independent artisan bakeries in Korea. I went to stock up on carbs. The front entrance Their opening hours overlap with my working hours, so it was always …
I heard a rumor that a place called Dessert Cinema sells croissants made by someone who trained at Old Croissant Factory, so I made a special trip. The weather.. Every time I come to Busan, I remember the wea…
A bunch of bakeries have been popping up along Garosu-gil, and one of them looked pretty promising. Front entrance It’s quite big. Bread You can tell they know what they are doing just from the display…
I was walking past and Kim Jinhwan Bakery happened to be open, so I picked up some bread. The front entrance The trendy bakeries these days sell out on pre-orders and you can’t buy anything, but this pl…
I stop by here so often that I’ll keep this short. Baguette This is what a proper crusty loaf should be like. Bread White bread The white bread got better ingredients, and the price went up quite a bi…
Baguette K in Yeoksam is a bakery I went looking for when I was craving some hard-crusted bread. It has a bit of a reputation. Here’s the place Being in Yeoksam, it’s not hard to find. Baguettes&#…
Every so often I get a craving for bread so hard it feels like it could break a tooth. Once I get older and my teeth give out I might not be able to eat it anymore, so I’d better eat plenty while I’…
I think it was Chuseok. Hardly any places are open on Chuseok day itself. I checked the Bread Fairy (Ppang Yojeong) blog, and it turned out Tartine Bakery was open. Thinly sliced beef brisket banh mi Definite…
There’s a cafe-slash-bakery called Onion near Kondae that’s big on Instagram, so I went to check it out.. I’m a bit of a trend-sensitive guy, you see. Main entrance Not your average place, r…