# Seongsu café to catch up with a friend: hand-drip Ethiopia at T Coffee - By Jiwon (https://superchart.com/en/@pour-and-plate/) - Written Sep 3, 2026 - Local places › Cafés › Seongdong, Seoul - Sponsored: This post was written as a paid visit sponsorship. - English edition: https://superchart.com/en/@pour-and-plate/seongsu-quiet-cafe-tea-coffee-handdrip/ - Also in: [한국어](https://superchart.com/ko/@pour-and-plate/seongsu-quiet-cafe-tea-coffee-handdrip/index.md) ## In short T Coffee is a quiet basement café in Seongsu, Seoul, a 10-minute walk from Seongsu Station Exit 4, on the B1 floor of a white building at 159 Achasan-ro. Meeting a friend who had just come back from Canada, the writer ordered a hand-drip Ethiopia and an iced americano, and green daylight came through the floor-to-ceiling window on one wall, so the basement still felt fresh. Prices at T Coffee run a little high, but it is a good place to sit and talk for a long time. ## Good to know - **Location**: 159 Achasan-ro, B1, Seongdong-gu, Seoul — 10-minute walk from Seongsu Station Exit 4 - **Americano**: 5,500 won (hot/iced) - **Cold brew**: 5,800 won / vanilla cold brew latte 6,500 won - **Latte and cappuccino**: 6,200 won each - **Vanilla bean, almond and mint lattes**: 7,000 won each - **Non-coffee**: Matcha latte 7,300 won, lemon ginger sparkling 7,500 won, lemon shiso mugwort tea 6,800 won, oolong tea 6,800 won, chocolate 7,300 won, milk (kids) 2,000 won - **Options**: Decaf +1,000 won / oat milk +1,000 won - **Other**: Hand-drip menu available, desserts in a display showcase - **Price reference**: ₩5,500 ≈ $4 · ₩6,200 ≈ $4.5 · ₩1,000 ≈ $0.7 (2026-09-18) *as written by the visitor on Sep 3, 2026* Today was the day I finally got to see a friend who's back in Korea for a short trip from Canada, after such a long time!! Since it had been so long, I figured we should loosen our tongues first (?), so the first stop was a café. My friend really, really wanted to shop and shop and shop lol. If you keep walking straight from Seongsu Station, you hit the main strip lined with pop-up stores and shopping spots — and pretty close to there was T Coffee, the quiet Seongsu café I'd been meaning to check out?! Perfect, I thought, so we agreed to meet there. This is my review after meeting up and catching up for ages at this quiet Seongsu café — let's get into the T Coffee review haha. ## Where is T Coffee, and how long is the walk from Seongsu Station? T Coffee is on the basement floor (B1) of the white building on the right if you walk about 10 minutes straight from Exit 4 of Seongsu Station. The address is 159 Achasan-ro, Seongdong-gu, Seoul. ![Entrance to T Coffee in the basement of a white building on Achasan-ro, Seongsu](https://img.superchart.com/images/seongsu-quiet-cafe-tea-coffee-handdrip/seongsu-quiet-cafe-tea-coffee-handdrip-01-rhbim-900.webp) Head down to the basement level and you'll find today's destination, T Coffee. This photo was taken on the way back up — the weather outside was gorgeous and the view looked like a painting, which I loved haha. ![Stairway view of Seongsu's T Coffee, taken while coming up from the basement](https://img.superchart.com/images/seongsu-quiet-cafe-tea-coffee-handdrip/seongsu-quiet-cafe-tea-coffee-handdrip-02-1wr2x-900.webp) ![Green scenery outside seen through T Coffee's floor-to-ceiling window](https://img.superchart.com/images/seongsu-quiet-cafe-tea-coffee-handdrip/seongsu-quiet-cafe-tea-coffee-handdrip-03-1lokz-900.webp) ![Wood-tone seating inside T Coffee](https://img.superchart.com/images/seongsu-quiet-cafe-tea-coffee-handdrip/seongsu-quiet-cafe-tea-coffee-handdrip-04-hp9p3-900.webp) ![Sunlit seats by T Coffee's floor-to-ceiling window](https://img.superchart.com/images/seongsu-quiet-cafe-tea-coffee-handdrip/seongsu-quiet-cafe-tea-coffee-handdrip-05-1ju08-900.webp) ## A basement café in Seongsu with one full wall of window light The inside of T Coffee isn't that big, but one whole wall is a floor-to-ceiling window, giving it this cool, green-tinged feeling. Not easy to pull off when you're in the basement, right?! Personally, I'm not a fan of going into basement cafés on a nice day when no light gets in, but T Coffee more than makes up for it, so I could sit in a fresh, bright mood — the wood-tone interior plus the stylish chairs and tables kept things from feeling monotonous. Good stuff! ![Table with a red accent in the back area of T Coffee](https://img.superchart.com/images/seongsu-quiet-cafe-tea-coffee-handdrip/seongsu-quiet-cafe-tea-coffee-handdrip-06-urpnj-900.webp) ## Is T Coffee good for going solo or working on a laptop? Further inside T Coffee, there's a table with a red accent like this. Seemed like a decent spot to quietly work on a laptop alone haha. Overall the café wasn't that loud, and I saw a lot of people sitting alone doing their own thing?? So it seems like a nice place to come work when you've got something to get done haha. ![Overview of the quiet seating area at T Coffee in Seongsu](https://img.superchart.com/images/seongsu-quiet-cafe-tea-coffee-handdrip/seongsu-quiet-cafe-tea-coffee-handdrip-07-uvksy-900.webp) ## T Coffee menu and prices Shall we take a look at the menu together? T Coffee's americano is ₩5,500, the latte is ₩6,200, and switching to decaf or oat milk adds ₩1,000 each. - COFFEE — Decaf +1.0 / Oat milk +1.0 - Americano (HOT, ICE) 5.5 - Cold Brew (ICE) 5.8 - Vanilla Cold Brew Latte (ICE) 6.5 - Latte (HOT, ICE) 6.2 / Cappuccino (HOT) 6.2 - Vanilla Bean Latte (HOT, ICE) 7.0 - Almond Latte (HOT, ICE) 7.0 - Mint Latte (ICE) 7.0 - NON COFFEE — Matcha Latte (HOT, ICE) 7.3 - Lemon Ginger Sparkling (ICE) 7.5 - Lemon Shiso Mugwort Tea (HOT, ICE) 6.8 - Oolong Tea (HOT, ICE) 6.8 - Chocolate (HOT, ICE) 7.3 - Milk (HOT, ICE) *FOR KID 2.0 ![T Coffee's coffee and non-coffee menu board with prices](https://img.superchart.com/images/seongsu-quiet-cafe-tea-coffee-handdrip/seongsu-quiet-cafe-tea-coffee-handdrip-08-19fqk-900.webp) They also have a hand-drip menu, which got me even more excited about the coffee haha. ![Hand-drip menu sign at T Coffee](https://img.superchart.com/images/seongsu-quiet-cafe-tea-coffee-handdrip/seongsu-quiet-cafe-tea-coffee-handdrip-09-1u5q2-900.webp) The desserts were displayed like this, so you could see them before ordering haha. We just ordered coffee though?! haha ## How the hand-drip Ethiopia and the iced americano tasted What we ordered: one cup of T Coffee's hand-drip Ethiopia and one iced americano! You can see the color difference, right? ![Two cups at T Coffee: hand-drip Ethiopia and iced americano](https://img.superchart.com/images/seongsu-quiet-cafe-tea-coffee-handdrip/seongsu-quiet-cafe-tea-coffee-handdrip-10-lx5mp-1200.webp) ![Color comparison between the hand-drip and the iced americano](https://img.superchart.com/images/seongsu-quiet-cafe-tea-coffee-handdrip/seongsu-quiet-cafe-tea-coffee-handdrip-11-1x5a5-900.webp) I ordered the drip and it was clean and not too heavy, so it was nice to sip while chatting comfortably. ![A cup of T Coffee's hand-drip Ethiopia](https://img.superchart.com/images/seongsu-quiet-cafe-tea-coffee-handdrip/seongsu-quiet-cafe-tea-coffee-handdrip-12-rq1s2-900.webp) My friend went with the americano — reliably solid as always! A flavor you already know! lol ![An iced americano from T Coffee on the table](https://img.superchart.com/images/seongsu-quiet-cafe-tea-coffee-handdrip/seongsu-quiet-cafe-tea-coffee-handdrip-13-181d4-900.webp) ## Final take on T Coffee, a quiet café in Seongsu Overall, prices run a bit high, but if you're planning to sit for a long while, it seemed like a good spot! ## Where it is - T Coffee (티 커피) - 159 Achasan-ro, B1, Seongdong-gu, Seoul, South Korea - 서울특별시 성동구 아차산로 159 지하1층 - 37.5433996, 127.0618187 - Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/search/%ED%8B%B0%20%EC%BB%A4%ED%94%BC/@37.5433996,127.0618187,17z --- Superchart · https://superchart.com/en/@pour-and-plate/seongsu-quiet-cafe-tea-coffee-handdrip/ · https://superchart.com/llms.txt