This small cute town has some very popular cute cafes, which are often crowded with day trippers visiting from Seoul. These lovely cafes are as much a part of the Korean tourism nowadays, as the photo booths, dressing up in hanboks and taking photos and grabbing various kinds of pastries at the shops.
Please, keep in mind that I tried to give both Google and Naver links, but some of these cafes are not on Google map or only findable by its Korean name on Naver.
This café is known for its views. It is located on the edge of the Hanok village and hence has lovely views over it. I definitely recommend to check it out. We visited in the morning, at about 10am and there were very few people. But either way, they have quite a big space occupying two floors and I doubt you wouldn’t be able to find a table. Their coffee was good.
Laon Cafe (or Raon cafe on Naver )
This is a cafe in a hanok practically. Like in case of Jeonmang, it has gorgeous views.
This has to be the most popular café in Jeonju. On the second floor, they have lovely interior decorations with the cute window, which always has queues of people wanting to pose in front of it. We also had to wait some 5 minutes to snap a picture and while we did it in half a minute, people were taking ages, posing dozen different ways 😀
We tried their most popular special macha rice cake. As I am not a fan of rice cakes or bean sweets, this was just to taste the local cakes and I didn’t expect to like it.
ET café (Kkojitapong on Naver)
This cafe is located in Jaman mural village. It’s a very cute café with a couple of colorful rooms and lovely decorated yard. On the Friday afternoon, when we visited it was almost fully empty. We were one of the only visitors, which was surprising considering that this was a day when Jeonju hanok village was extremely crowded. They had the “one person – one coffee” rule and as we didn’t want more than one coffee, we got a takeaway. The takeaway cup itself was very cute.
Handmade Jeonju chocho pie (Naver link)
Seems these chocolate pies have been around for a while. We visited on a busy afternoon. I tried the traditional one, which was cheaper and it was a tasty treat for the cold day.
I actually lightly fell at the door of the shop, because the threshold was raised and I was only looking at my newly bought cookie 🙂
I loved the interior of this cafe. While Jeonju doesn’t lack beautiful coffee shops in hanok houses, this one stands out.
A Twosome place Jeonju station (Naver link)
This café next to the Jeonju station was a respite for us on a cold evening, when we ended up at the station earlier than our train was scheduled. It has nice environment and good coffee, as Twosome places in other spots.
One more café at the edge of the Hanok village with great views.
This small cafe specializes in bingsu – shaved ice sweets. I personally am not a fan, but you should definitely try them at least once.
Lovely old style café with bingsu – shaved ice desserts
Café Dalgom (Naver link) – is known for its waffles and ice cream
Another beautiful cafe in a hanok house.
Grandma’s best (Oehalmeoni Somssi on Naver)
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