Filter coffee bars in Seoul
Where Seoul takes pour-over and batch brew seriously. Single origins, careful extraction, beans that change with the season.
27 cafés · South Korea
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Anthracite Coffee Hapjeong
Anthracite roasts in an old shoe factory and the Hapjeong café is housed in the same building. Industrial, quiet, the…
Fritz Coffee Company Mapo
Fritz is a Seoul institution, distinguished by the cartoon seal logo and an obsessive focus on lot-level…
gml seoul
At any given visit, gml's filter-only menu lists more than 20 single-origin coffees drawn from leading roasters…
mtl cafe Hannam
More Than Less operates as Seoul's exclusive distributor for Berlin's Bonanza Coffee Roasters, one of the roasters…
Namusairo
Operating since 2002 inside a restored traditional hanok near Gyeongbokgung Palace, Namusairo is one of Seoul's…
Terarosa POSCO Center
Korea's most celebrated specialty roaster since 2002, Terarosa occupies the ground floor of the POSCO Center at 440…
The Barn Seoul Seongsu
Berlin's most acclaimed specialty roaster opened its Seoul outpost in a two-storey building tucked down a calm…
Better Roasting Lab
A few blocks east of Ttukseom Station, Better Roasting Lab looks more like a micro-factory than a cafe: a matte white…
Coffee Hanyakbang
Tucked in a narrow Euljiro alley inside a former Korean medicine pharmacy, this hand-roast shop pairs single-origin…
Felt Coffee Jongno
Felt is a small specialty café tucked away in Jongno-gu. The roaster is meticulous about traceability and the staff…
Green Mile Coffee Bukchon
Green Mile Coffee at 64 Bukchon-ro sits alongside the traditional rooftops of Bukchon Hanok Village and specializes…
Mesh Coffee
Founded in 2015 by two former fair-trade coffee professionals, Mesh works from a small warehouse space near Seoul…
Travertine
Situated in a 1920s residential building at 18-7 Hangang-daero 7-gil, Travertine fuses traditional wooden hanok roof…
Anthracite Coffee Hannam
Housed in a converted shoe warehouse at 240 Itaewon-ro, Anthracite Hannam marries unpainted industrial walls and…
Center Coffee Seongsu
Center Coffee anchors the Seongsu specialty corridor. Bright, industrial space with a long bar. The pour over flight…
Coffee Libre Yeonnam
Coffee Libre opened the first specialty roastery in Seoul in 2009. They still set the bar. The Yeonnam location is…
Fritz Coffee Company Wonseo
Fritz's Wonseo branch at 83 Yulgok-ro occupies a handsome hanok-style building adjacent to the Arario art gallery,…
Lowkey Coffee Seongsu
Roasting since 2010 and rebranded in 2016, Lowkey has grown to six Seoul locations while maintaining small-batch…
Milestone Coffee Roasters Hannam
Milestone has earned a devoted Seoul following since 2014 by treating both espresso and filter with equal…
Brewing Ceremony
A quietly focused shop in a residential Seongsu alley with no loud signage, Brewing Ceremony keeps its menu to four…
Camouflage Coffee
A stark-white minimalist space near the Seoul Forest entrance, Camouflage serves expressive single-origin filter…
Coffee Nap Roasters
At 453-32 Yeonnam-dong, Coffee Nap Roasters is instantly recognizable for its 7,000-brick tiered seating structure,…
Deep Blue Lake Coffee
Established in 2016 behind a distinctive blue brick facade in Mangwon-dong, Deep Blue Lake roasts on a Loring machine…
FELT Coffee Dosan Park
Born in 2015 as a direct-trade roasting operation, FELT's Dosan Park outpost at 23 Eonju-ro 164-gil is housed in an…
Felt Coffee Sinchon
A service-forward Felt location running a Slayer espresso machine alongside single-origin pour-overs. The roastery's…
Terarosa Gwanghwamun
Terarosa's Gwanghwamun branch at 50 Jong-ro 1-gil opened in 2013 inside the Gate Win Tower and brings the Gangneung…
Tremor Coffee Works
Hidden in Hongdae's basement level, Tremor runs one of Seoul's most technically precise operations on a Decent DE-1…
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