Danyang café for fresh garlic salt bread: Black Garlic Salt Bread

Freshly baked garlic salt bread at Danyang Gugyeong Market

There’s a bread I’ve been completely obsessed with lately••• It’s salt bread~~! But wait, there’s a famous place in Danyang for salt bread with garlic in it? Since I was here, there was no way I could just leave without stopping by, right?! This is Black Garlic Salt Bread (흑마늘소금빵) at Danyang Gugyeong Market.

Hours are 10:00–20:00, and it is regularly closed every Tuesday and Wednesday. You can park for free at the Danyang Gugyeong Market Riverside Public Parking Lot.

There are a few bakeries at Danyang Gugyeong Market, so I was deciding where to go. But if you come to Danyang, garlic bread is a given! And salt bread with garlic in it?! I couldn’t miss that either. When I arrived, heaps of freshly baked bread were coming out. So many people waiting for it... and me.

Four varieties, from original to black garlic

There are four kinds: original, soboro, garlic, and black garlic salt bread. They were displayed so you could see what each one looked like from outside. The original tray was totally empty~~ Original really is the best!

A look that truly makes your heart race 💓💓 You know how salt bread smells amazing from 100 meters away because it uses so much butter, right? And this one has garlic sauce too?! That’s it. Game over.

They use black garlic made from Danyang’s local six-clove garlic, Korean sun-dried sea salt, and French gourmet butter. Maybe because each salt bread takes such a long time to make, it has such a refined flavor 🥐

Set options and samples

A salt bread gift set is about ₩1,000 cheaper than buying individually, so I recommend getting a set. We weren’t going to eat just one anyway, were we??! The customers who looked like locals were also buying lots of individual breads, which made it obvious this is the real deal.

• Original salt bread ₩3,000
• Soboro salt bread ₩3,800
• Garlic salt bread ₩3,800
• Black garlic salt bread ₩4,200

They even prepare lots of cut-up samples like this! As soon as these came out, people were busy tasting them••• Once you pick one up and try it, there’s no way you can walk past without buying!

Sangha Farm ice cream is also famous for being really delicious, and you can get it through a review event! It would be heavenly on top of this salt bread. ☘︎ ݁˖

They mature the black garlic themselves and use it to make the salt bread. Is there anywhere that puts more care into making salt bread than this place?!

Taking home salt bread sets

Isn’t the takeaway packaging so cute too?! The bag at the top is open, so I was intoxicated by the smell of salt bread the entire way home...

Someone addicted to salt bread cannot buy just one, so I brought home two sets.

• Set 1: 4 original breads, ₩11,000
• Set 2: 2 original, 1 garlic, and 1 black garlic bread, ₩13,000

Feeling so pleased looking at a bag full of salt bread. This is Set 1, with four original breads! They say they are still delicious plain through the next day, so a set is not too much at all~~ Eat one at a time for breakfast or as a snack, and they disappear in no time.

How the original, garlic, and black garlic flavors differ

The original is intensely buttery, with a seriously crisp bite on the bottom. The top and inside are soft, with just the right amount of saltiness. The garlic and black garlic ones taste like the garlic baguette sauce we all know, spread over salt bread and baked! They are very sweet and make the salt bread even softer and chewier.

So easy with coffee〰️ so easy with tea〰️ so easy as a beer snack too〰️ Black Garlic Salt Bread is a must-eat Danyang Gugyeong Market favorite if you visit!