Blue Bottle Hongdae Cafe — Restaurant in Seoul

Blue Bottle is a touch of home for me since I’m from San Francisco. The original store is just minutes from my home, so their pour-overs were common purchases for me. The hipster haven of Hongdae is the ideal location for Blue Bottle, and the cafe’s cool stepwise platform design in the ultra-hip RYSE Hotel is most conducive to socializing and caffeinating. The odd anomaly though is that they don’t do pour-overs here, just espressos and lattes mostly, but they compensate by offering a dessert menu. My husband and I came here after a long day of sightseeing. We shared the refreshing KRW 7,100 Iced Latte served in a laboratory beaker and indulged in not one but two desserts - the KRW 8,500 Wafflegato, a decadent combination of a chocolate-dipped Belgian waffle and an affogato with coffee and whipped cream, and the simply pleasurable KRW 4,600 scoop of Coffee Ice Cream. We enjoyed our little sojourn amid the fashionable...

Came here on a daily basis during my stay at Ryse 🫶! The coffee and ambience are both amazing! Love the layout of this place, so colorful and cozy with tons of cushions available. I could just sit here for hours and people watch, while sipping on my oat latte ❤️☕️.

Latte art is also consistently AMAZING - will you look at those pouring videos and see how amazingly talented the baristas are and how well poured the lattes are, ugh 🥰🙂‍↔️.

It can get quite busy during the late morning to afternoon though! Great place to chill...

Located at the main lobby of RYSE hotel, along the main road of Hongdae, Blue Bottle has historically been consistent with their standards, and offers robust high quality coffee (both with and without milk). The cute iconic blue bottle logo is what you'd be looking out for, very much like a IYKYK thing. Once inside, everything was smoothly managed, with exceptional service.

Got their Nola iced coffee with oat milk, and decided to return for our daily coffee fix, each time before...