Rainy-morning date café in Anseong: ham & cheese croissant, Chat Baker

Chat Baker Brunch & Bakery Café is a big, atmospheric bakery café in Gongdo-eup, Anseong, and a coffee favorite and brunch spot too. (Groups ⭕️ Takeout ⭕️ Parking ⭕️) On a rainy weekend morning, we went to the famous Chat Baker in Gongdo for a brunch date ><

Where is Chat Baker in Anseong? Hours and parking

Chat Baker is at 4391 Seodong-daero, Building 3, Gongdo-eup, Anseong, Gyeonggi, and it's open Mon–Sun 9:00–23:00, every day of the year. Brunch has its own hours, so check before you go!

Chat Baker is inside 512 Square in Anseong, so parking is easy, which is nice. But you can't see the café sign from the main road from Pyeongtaek to Anseong, so turn on your navigation! It feels hip from the entrance.

Chat Baker menu: coffee bean options and bread prices

Chat Baker is a big bakery café and brunch café in Gongdo-eup, Anseong, so the range from brunch dishes to drinks is really wide!! For coffee, you can choose nutty beans, beans with some acidity, or decaf :)

And the bakery lineup is enough to make any bread lover's eyes spin >< There was such a huge variety that it took me forever to pick, haha.

There are sandwiches, Dubai-style items, salt bread and dujjonku (Dubai chewy cookies) too. That Camellia cake is so pretty. A cake made to look like a camellia flower (dongbaek)!!

• Mille-feuille croissant (만겹크로아상) ₩5,800
• Almond queen amann ₩5,500
• Pain au chocolat ₩4,500
• Tomato basil cheese rice cake bread ₩4,900
• Ham cheese corn toast ₩5,500
• Mocha bread ₩3,900
• Hot chili sausage Danish (short) ₩4,800

• Salt bread ₩3,500
• Red bean butter salt bread ₩4,900
• Squid ink cream cheese chewy bread ₩6,500
• Gongju chestnut loaf ₩6,800
• Olive ciabatta ₩5,500
• Salt ciabatta ₩4,900

• Pistachio pound cake ₩5,200
• Earl Grey pound cake ₩5,200
• Chocolate rocher ₩7,800
• Snowball almond cookie ₩7,500
• Yakgwa cookie ₩4,000
• Chocolate brownie ₩5,500

• Shanghai butter rice cake ₩2,700
• Walnut red bean butter rice cake ₩3,200
• Cubel chocolate cookie ₩7,000
• Soufflé castella (large) ₩12,000

• Crumble cake ₩4,700
• Jeju carrot cream cheese cake ₩8,500
• Oreo cake ₩8,500
• Double cheesecake ₩9,000
• Fresh mango whipped cream cake ₩9,000

Inside Chat Baker: a good date spot in Anseong?

Chat Baker is open and airy with high ceilings, so I recommend it as an Anseong date café. The atmosphere is honestly so good.

It was a rainy weekend morning, so we could eat and relax at a leisurely pace, which made it even better. The crowd was mixed too: families with kids, couples, and older folks.

Second-floor seating and bread-warming station

Go up the stairs at Chat Baker and you'll find more seats and tables on the second floor. There's a spot to warm up your bread, and both hot and cold water are available.

The second floor is bigger, with a variety of tables! There are tables good for working alone and tables for families or groups. The atmosphere is seriously great ><

A café with LPs and jazz playing

The owner must love jazz! Look at how many different LPs there are. Chat Baker holds a jazz performance once a month, and jazz plays from Bose speakers all around the café.

We sat at a first-floor window seat and enjoyed coffee and bread with the jazz >< I wondered if it was really raining that hard, but it turns out water runs down the windows on purpose, lol. Maybe that's why the mood felt even better ><

Our brunch order for two at Chat Baker

What we ordered at Chat Baker: an iced Americano, an iced vanilla bean latte, salt bread, sausage pizza bread, a ham and cheese croissant, mocha bread, and a pizza ciabatta sandwich.

Yes, this is brunch for two....lol The bread lover's eyes spun and we picked a bit of everything! They all look so delicious and tempting!

Ogamdo-bean Americano and vanilla bean latte

I had the iced Americano, and my companion had the iced vanilla bean latte.

As always, we chose the Ogamdo (오감도) beans: nutty, full-bodied, with dark chocolate notes :) The Americano at Chat Baker is really good!! Great bean choice ♥

The vanilla bean latte, made with house-made vanilla bean syrup, is classy from the aroma to the taste!! It's pretty sweet though, so with sweet breads I'd recommend the Americano.

Pizza ciabatta sandwich

Chat Baker's pizza ciabatta sandwich is perfect for me, a ciabatta lover and sandwich lover!

Soft, chewy ciabatta filled with bacon, tomato, lettuce and more. It's a great sandwich for a light meal.

Mocha bread, salt bread and sausage pizza bread

And these are the breads my companion and I picked to our own tastes.

Mocha bread: it reminded me of the Mocha Bun from the chain I always got tempted by the smell of back in my school days, and I hadn't had a mocha bun in ages.

The mocha streusel on top and the mocha cream spread inside are so fragrant and delicious!!!

Salt bread: Chat Baker is said to be a salt bread hotspot in Anseong, so this salt bread lover grabbed one right away! The butter cave (the hollow inside) was a little disappointing... but it was still crisp outside and chewy inside, a buttery bread.

Sausage pizza bread: this is exactly the nostalgic sausage pizza bread I used to buy as a kid. Sausage, onion and cheese, there's no way that tastes bad!

The best bite: Chat Baker's ham and cheese croissant

Ham and cheese croissant: take a good croissant and add ham and cheese... that's just pure happiness ♥

Chat Baker does croissants well. The cross-section shows nicely defined layers, it has a crisp bite, and there's plenty of ham and cheese, so this was my favorite!!

The two of us happily inhaled one sandwich and four breads >< We had a proper date on a rainy weekend morning in a relaxed, pretty café!