Gyodae café: goblet Helsinki Latte, mini pain au chocolat, Mini Male

A Seocho-dong café and bakery: Mini Male Roastery & Coffee Bar

What kind of café is Mini Male Roastery & Coffee Bar Seocho Gyodae Branch?

Mini Male Roastery & Coffee Bar (미니말레 뢰스터리&커피바) is a roastery café near Gyodae Station and Seocho Station where you can enjoy specialty coffee and bakery items together. It was a coffee brand I'd never heard of before, and it serves really good coffee at reasonable prices~

And the bakery items were seriously good too, great quality!! The brand apparently aims for "daily special coffee at a reasonable premium." Let me introduce Mini Male Roastery & Coffee Bar :0

• Location: 70 Banpo-daero 30-gil, Seocho-gu, Seoul, 1st floor
• Hours: weekdays 08:00–20:30, closed weekends
• Takeout and reservations available

What are the atmosphere and seating like at Mini Male Seocho Gyodae?

Mini Male Seocho Gyodae has a steel-and-metal industrial look (what Koreans call "soetterieo"), the kind of vibe you'd expect in Yeonhui or Seongsu. There's a terrace outside too, and lots of office workers were coming at lunchtime.

On weekdays it opens at 8 am, so it looks like a great place to grab a good takeout coffee on your early commute. The inside is quite spacious and comfortable too.

Inside

There were tables for 2, 4 and 6, and deep inside there's even an area for roasting and an area for baking..!!

It felt like a very tasty, professional café. It's hard for both the coffee and the bakery to be good.. but Mini Male is that kind of place!

Plenty of customers just took their orders to go, so this Seocho-dong café seemed to have a solid base of regulars.

What is on the Mini Male coffee menu, and what do things cost?

Coffee prices at Mini Male Seocho Gyodae were quite reasonable too.

They sell drip coffee and have things like a coffee of the day, and the prices were really decent~

Since it was my first visit, I was curious about the signature menu, and I was told the Helsinki Latte is the tasty one, haha, so I ordered it right away!

Mini Male bakery and gift sets

The bakery display held breads and cookies laid out with care for hygiene~

The gift sets looked well put together too. They sell drip bags as well!!

Good to know if you're packing up desserts or coffee as a gift near Seocho or Gyodae. The bakery prices didn't feel high to me either. And the unusual breads you can only find at Mini Male are cute, haha

Is the Mini Male Helsinki Latte very sweet?

Mini Male's signature Helsinki Latte was served in a fancy glass goblet..!

A pretty Helsinki Latte. I don't usually drink sweet drinks so I hesitated a bit, but I was told the sweetness isn't that high, so I gave it a try.

It had a pleasant level of sweetness, just right to drink after a meal!

It tasted like something I'd had somewhere before...? yet also unique, a flavor you only get here. The first taste is quite nutty and sweet~ But it's not a flat, sharp sweetness.. so I caught myself sipping it nonstop haha ㅎㅎㅎ

It had a nutty taste like condensed milk or milk powder, haha. The body was rich too! And the milk was so smooth...

If you get hooked on this Helsinki Latte instead of your everyday vanilla latte or dolce latte, I think you'll be thinking about it often.

Is a mini pain au chocolat a good after-meal dessert?

Mini Male's bakery items are baked and displayed that same day, so they were crisp and tasty~ The size and price are perfect with coffee.. so I couldn't not order one, lol

Precisely because it's mini, it was great as a dessert! A pain au chocolat is usually pretty big, right.. It's a burden after a meal, but here you don't have to worry about that, haha. Just perfect..!

Does Mini Male Seocho Gyodae offer group coffee catering?

Mini Male reportedly does group coffee catering for important meetings, seminars and company events.

It can be arranged through Naver reservation, and getting specialty coffee at a reasonable price is worth knowing about for group orders. Above all, with such a variety of bakery items and reasonably priced coffee, I think I'll keep coming back!