Hagik-dong café after teeth whitening: schisandra juice, Tiny Dot

If you're looking for a big café with parking in Hagik-dong

Tiny Dot (타이니닷) is a big café with parking in Hagik-dong, Michuhol-gu, Incheon. If you've ever hopped between cafés in Juan, Guwol-dong and Hagik-dong, you know how hard it is to find one with parking.

So when I heard about a big café with parking, I went to check it out.

Why is Tiny Dot's coffee so famous? Choosing beans at a roastery café

Tiny Dot is a roastery café known for really good coffee. There's a big, separate roasting space behind the counter, and they supply beans too, so when you order an espresso drink you can pick from four different beans.

Behind the counter there's a big roasting space of its own, and they supply beans to other places!

That's why you get a choice of four beans when ordering coffee! There's even a charcoal-roasted Charcoal Blend, which felt new to me. And of course there's cold brew too :)

Tiny Dot signatures: Orange Dot, Sesame Dot and Perilla Dot

The signature menu has Orange Dot, Sesame Dot and Perilla Dot (perilla is a nutty Korean leaf-seed), so you can tell they take their cream seriously! If you like Einspänner or cream lattes, give the new flavors a try.

Beyond coffee: millstone matcha latte and fresh fruit juice

Tiny Dot has all kinds of drinks, like lattes, teas, juices and ades, and these aren't ordinary either.

The millstone matcha latte is made by grinding Hadong matcha on a millstone. I really love cafés, and this is my first café with a millstone, haha!

I also love that there's fresh fruit juice blended to order. Good to order when you come with a kid, right?

Handmade desserts baked every morning

The dessert lineup rivals a dessert café's. Scones, salt bread, croffles and Basque cheesecake are handmade and baked in store every morning, so I couldn't not order them, haha.

Which floor? The vibe and seating on each level of Tiny Dot

Tiny Dot is a four-story café that uses a whole building. The 1st floor has the roasting space and counter, the 2nd is for looking at plants and coffee machines, and the 3rd feels like a cozy living room, so every floor has its own mood.

Going by the name alone, I expected a tiny little space, but it's a big four-story café.

The 1st floor is the roasting space and counter.

The 2nd floor is nice for browsing the greenery, coffee machines and more.

The owner must be seriously into coffee, since it looks like they've tried their hands on all sorts of equipment, haha. Browsing around is great fun.

The 3rd floor feels a bit cozier, like a living room!

Because the whole building is the café, every floor has seats with good views, so there's no fierce fight for a spot. Among the big cafés in Juan, I think Tiny Dot is the only one with this neighborhood-café feel! It's fun to look down over the Michuhol neighborhood. Even tables away from the windows have a good atmosphere, so I think any seat will satisfy you :)

Schisandra juice and desserts instead of coffee after teeth whitening

This day I ordered schisandra juice, Basque cheesecake, a chocolate scone and an Earl Grey scone. The drip coffee is famous and I really wanted to try it, but I'd just had my teeth whitened, so I couldn't order coffee.

While I was looking around the four-story café, my order came out.

Tiny Dot's drip coffee is famous too and I really wanted to try it, but I came straight after my whitening so I couldn't order coffee 😭 I'll be back!! Boo-hoo.

Still, the schisandra juice I ordered was pleasantly sweet and delicious :)

Basque cheesecake and scones: are they very sweet?

Overall, Tiny Dot's Basque cheesecake and scones were not very sweet. Basque cheesecake is a flour-free dessert made with cream cheese and the like.

It wasn't sweet and the cream cheese flavor took center stage, which satisfied me.

Some famous dessert spots get cloying, but the scones weren't sweet and were delicious.

I ate the chocolate scone the next day and it was still soft, not dry at all, and delicious!

They don't just do coffee well. With juice and desserts this good, I'll have to come back several times and work through the whole menu.

Is it good for gatherings and private hire in Hagik-dong?

Tiny Dot's 4th floor can be booked for private hire, so it suits anyone around Hagik-dong, Juan and Michuhol-gu looking for a meeting spot, a café with rooms or a big café for a group. They also sell a wide range of beans, which clearly sets it apart from other Hagik-dong cafés.

Besides the four beans for espresso drinks, there are lots of drip coffee beans too, so this is a spot I'll need to keep visiting!

In a neighborhood where cafés with parking are rare, I hope Tiny Dot thrives for a long, long time.