Cafe Onion Anguk

Cafe Onion, the Seongsu-born bakery brand, turned a hanok dating from around the 1920s into its Anguk branch on Gyedong-gil. You walk in through a large wooden gate with the white onion sign above it, past a pine tree and along a stone path into the main house, where bread is laid out on long tables beneath exposed rafters. The signature is the pandoro, a tall star-shaped bread buried in powdered sugar, served with a knife so you can tear it apart; salt-topped rolls, croissants and fruit danishes fill the rest of the spread. For drinks, the vanilla bean latte is the house pick, alongside coffee from the brand's own roastery. Seating is spread across the wood-beamed rooms and the courtyard. The roofline framed by the gate is the shot most visitors take, and the pandoro plate against the dark wood is the other. It sits right at the foot of Bukchon, so it makes an easy first stop before the hanok lanes.