Suyeong, Busan brunch café for avocado toast: Famous Benny

A Gwangalli brunch café open from 8 AM

I’d been staying home for a while because of some personal stuff, but I started feeling better and finally came out saying, “Let’s go on a date for once~” I wanted somewhere delicious with a nice atmosphere, and that’s how I found Famous Benny, a Blue Ribbon Survey brunch café in Millak-dong, Gwangalli.

Famous Benny is a Blue Ribbon-selected brunch café built around Australian-style brunch. There aren’t many brunch cafés in Gwangalli that open early, but Famous Benny opens from 8 AM. It is an easy, relaxed meal for a morning meet-up or even before work.

Terrace and second-floor seating atmosphere

There are terrace seats by the entrance for a simple cup of coffee, too, so you can have a leisurely tea time in the natural light.

Famous Benny, a popular Gwangalli brunch café, has two floors. There are around five tables on the first floor. Pets are welcome, too, but the first and second floors are connected by stairs, so guests bringing dogs in strollers seemed to usually sit on the first floor.

The second floor has more tables than the first, with hip yet warm, atmospheric decor. It is one of those cafés with a genuinely good vibe for a relaxed brunch.

Side plates and water are self-serve, and there are blankets for chilly weather and high chairs for children.

Ordering everything from avocado toast to mushroom soup

The menu includes Australian-style brunch, acai bowls, and soup, along with a variety of coffees and drinks. They also have gelato!

[Our order] ✔️ Avocado Toast ₩16,000 ✔️ The Famous Benny (Bacon) ₩18,000 ✔️ Mushroom Soup ₩9,000 ✔️ Apple-Carrot Juice ₩7,000

Toast piled high with avocado

🥑 Avocado Toast (avocado, cream cheese, cherry tomatoes, pickled onions, sourdough, macadamias) I’ve been really into avocado lately, so I ordered the avocado toast. True to its name, it was absolutely loaded with avocado. There were lots of crisp vegetables, too—exactly the fresh flavor I was after.

The Famous Benny on a croissant base

🥐 The Famous Benny – Bacon (croissant, poached egg, avocado, sabayon sauce, macadamias, onion chips) It is a signature menu item, so I expected a typical brunch plate, but I loved that the croissant was the base. There was a poached egg and lots of avocado here, too~ The bacon was nicely salty, and the onion chips added a fun crunch.

Today’s standout: thick, rich mushroom soup

🍄🟫 Mushroom Soup The mushroom soup was today’s standout. It was sweet and nutty. I usually love cream of mushroom soup, and this one was thicker, with the flavor of a wider variety of mushrooms. It normally comes with truffle oil, but I don’t like truffle, so I asked for it without. A baguette comes alongside it, and dipping it deep into the soup is sooo good. We had a lot of food, so I couldn’t finish the baguette, but the soup alone could probably fill you up.

The atmosphere was lovely, but for a café, the food was also fresh overall, with such a good balance of different ingredients. Even the fresh-pressed apple-carrot juice was perfect. Next time, I want to try the acai bowl and French toast, too.

Scraped every last bit clean,, ^_^

Outlets for solo meals and laptop work, too

One thing I loved is that Famous Benny has outlets at every table. You could come alone, have a light meal, and get a little laptop work done. Great for solo dining, too.