[Cafe Hopping] Cafe Comma (Book Cafe) @ Hongdae, Cafe the Puzzle @ Edae

Yayyyyy posting about a book cafe I wanted to visit for a long time!!!!

Cafe Comma @ Hongdae

I had been seeing reviews of this for a while but was lazy to venture out to Hongdae. By chance, while trying to find our hostel, the BF and I walked past this cafe and I fell in love.

I’m usually not for totally open concepts because it makes me feel like the world is watching, I usually like little corners of a cafe, but this was really an exception!

They also have an area that looks a lot like a library! Actually the whole place resembles a huge library and that’s what makes it so charming~

I just realized they placed ladders against the bookshelves for people to retrieve books. It’s so tall though I’m not sure I can see the books at all, much less go up there to fetch it… I also love that shelf/door concept they did there ❤

The cafe was deathly quiet when I entered the extended area of the cafe. It’s pretty conducive because the noise level is extremely low, but it is pretty crowded as well so it might be easy to get distracted. Not to mention the sheer amount of books!

Super love the ladder although it kinda fell smack in the center of this area haha. I suspect that I’l be visiting this more than once~ the coffee is a bit more pricey than usual (5300won for a cafe latte), but it’s a book cafe so i’d go if i plan to stay a long time. Also I have this desire to go there when I’m done with studying, just to grab a nice book off those shelves and read the entire day. Been having the desire to do something like this for a long time so I hope I’ll get the chance to do it soon!

How to get to Cafe Comma: Hongik Univ. Station Exit 3 – the cafe is right outside the subway!

Cafe the Puzzle @ Edae

As soon as the BF left i had a group meeting which left me very sian. Luckily Jas suggested going cafe after that to do some work so we decided to go to a cafe in Edae that we saw quite some time ago. It’s called Cafe the Puzzle, on the second floor of a building. It was cosy upon entry and we were the only ones in the cafe on a chilly rainy Sunday night~ ^^

 

 

Love the decor of the cafes. Everything feels so personalized with the charming, rather uncoordinated manner of decoration.

Of course, the theme of this cafe was a puzzle cafe so they have plenty of puzzles you can take from the counter or shelves, with all kinds of difficulty. A couple that came in a while after us were doing this puzzle on a patterned canvas and we were like lmfao omg every piece looked the same.

while waiting for coffee, I picked up a cute set to cheer myself up from the sianness.

Didn’t even manage to complete the external perimeter of the jigsaw before our drinks were served~

I got Jasmine to move out of the way for this shot lmao. Feat. Totoro at the back omg so adorbs ❤

The drinks were slightly less pricey than usual, this ice blended drink was 5000 won. Iced cafe latte is about 4000 won if i’m not mistaken, while a warm one is 3,500 won. I use lattes as the benchmark because it’s what I always drink LOL. As a general rule of thumb, typically an Americano would be 300-500won cheaper than a latte, flavored drinks would be 500-1000won more expensive, and ice blended drinks would be 1200-2000won more expensive. Very general range haha but when I state the latte price you can more or less guess the other drinks on the menu~ Standard price for a latte for most cafes is 4500 won.

How to get to Cafe the Puzzle: From Ewha Womans University station exit 5, walk straight and keep a lookout on your right.

 

[Cafe Hopping] Book Cafe: 후마니타스책다방 @ Hapjeong, Cafe Noriter @ Edae

Two cafes this week! Visited my first book cafe in Korea with Jasmine~ it’s a korean name and not really obvious, so i took a picture of how it looks at the exterior for reference.

후마니타스책다방 @ Hapjeong:

Once in, you’d notice it’s reallllllly quiet haha, clearly a book cafe for a reason. It’s rather small and actually not the main book cafe i wanted to go to the most, the other one i wanted to go to was in Hongdae and is huge like a library, Cafe Comma if I’m not wrong? but anyway!!

  

Shot from the entrance with Jasmine unglamming

The drinks were a little on the pricey side. A cup of latte costs 5500 won~

You could get free refills for Americanos i think, that’s what i read anyways. We sat near the printing room so it was a little noisy – i think they have an office in the cafe so people were printing stuff. But aside from that it was almost deathly quiet and one lady even walked in to ask the staff if they can have meetings in the place, and the staff said they can only speak quietly. Haha.

THey have everything there, wifi, power plug etc. They also have some useful books like Finance etc if you’re interested haha. The toilets are also behind the counter which I found fascinating for some reason lmao.

How to get to 후마니타스책다방: From Hapjeong Station exit 6, keep going straight and keep a lookout on your left. You’ll see the cafe pretty soon.

 

Cafe Noriter @ Edae:

One of the few branch cafes in Korea that I adore!! This was a really beautiful place and I liked it.

Second floor~

Third floor~

some of their pretty decos

Individual booths on the second floor~

individual booths on the third floor~

It was a really nice cafe! Each booth has power points for you to charge all your devices, and two open cafes. Drinks cost 4500won for a hot latte, 5000 for an iced one.

It was a cosy place and we studied quiet a bit until the cafe closed ❤

How to get to Cafe Noriter @ Edae: Head out from Ewha Womans University Exit 1 and walk straight until you see the road forking right. Turn right and walk into Edae area, you would see Cafe Noriter. You can also walk via Exit 2. Check the map below for a clearer reference~