Menu Window Gazer · 8 stories
I write about meals and restaurant visits in Busan and Gyeongnam. · Writes about: Restaurants · Cafés
Low & Sweet Roastery (로우앤스윗 로스터리) is a roastery café on Haeridan-gil near Haeundae Station in Busan. After a morning workout, the writer stopped in at 10am for a pistachio swirl, an egg tart and an americano made with Choti beans, and enjoyed how the crisp pastry paired with the nutty coffee and its slightly acidic finish. With good coffee, desserts and atmosphere, Low & Sweet Roastery makes a solid Haeundae date spot.
Upper East Bakery (어퍼이스트베이커리) is a converted-house bakery café on the second floor of the Pickles building on Jeonpo Café Street in Seomyeon, Busan. The writer visited around 6 pm and had a pistachio kouign-amann, an almond croissant, a decaf Americano and a passion fruit ade, and found that Upper East Bakery's cozy lighting and playlist made it a great date spot. Verdict: Upper East Bakery has delicious croissants and kouign-amann and an especially excellent decaf Americano, making it a top pick for a Jeonpo bakery crawl.
Peisen-dong Gwangalli is a Japanese rice bowl (donburi) restaurant on the second floor of a building in an alley off Millak-ro in Suyeong, Busan. After a walk along Gwangalli Beach, the writer arrived right at opening and ordered the 30,000 won set for two (2 rice bowls, 1 noodle dish and drinks), getting generous portions of katsudon, ebi-don and cold soba. With crispy fried toppings, moist egg-topped rice and a wasabi pairing, Peisen-dong Gwangalli delivered a Gwangalli lunch that was both good value and genuinely satisfying.
Deokmi Atelier Gwangan Branch is a converted-house dessert and brunch café in an alley of Gwangalli, Millak-dong, Suyeong-gu, Busan. After a stroll along Gwangalli Beach, we tried the crème brûlée French toast, fig Earl Grey tiramisu, Royal Vanilla Bean Latte and Rose Thé Noir, and found a high-ceilinged European-style interior, a terrace and cats wandering freely in and out. Deokmi Atelier Gwangan Branch is a great café for adding a sugar boost and a little healing to a Gwangalli walk.
Freewill Pizza is an American-style pizza place with handmade, aged dough on a side street near Jeonpo Station in Busanjin-gu, Busan. Around 1pm on a weekday, the soda set brought an egg potato and hot chicken shrimp half-and-half pizza, whole mozzarella cheese sticks and two Coke Zeros, and Freewill Pizza filled up within 20 minutes. With dough that is crisp outside and chewy inside plus crunchy cheese sticks, Freewill Pizza is a lunch spot in Jeonpo worth recommending.
Pickles is an American-style pizza and pasta restaurant on Jeonpo Café Street in Busanjin, Busan, near Seomyeon. Pickles usually has a queue, but arriving around 3pm meant walking straight in for a jambon-beurre and taco half-and-half pizza with a bacon cream pasta set for 39,000 won. With a savory taco pizza, a bacon cream pasta that never feels heavy and self-refill sweet-and-sour pickles, Pickles is a Jeonpo pizza place that easily turns into a regular haunt.
Songnim Bok Jangeo Unlimited Freshwater Eel, Busan Dongnae Branch is an all-you-can-eat grill restaurant in Anrak-dong, Dongnae-gu, Busan, serving freshwater eel, pork belly and chicken neck for 29,900 won per adult. Staff trimmed the fins and fine bones out of each eel and grilled it at the table, and the self-bar's green onion kimchi with perilla leaf pickles was the best match for the grilled eel. With a complimentary bottle of bokbunja wine, Songnim Bok Jangeo makes a filling pick for a Dongnae work dinner or a family meal out.
Moshi Moshi PNU Branch is a sushi restaurant near Busan National University Station in Geumjeong, Busan. I shared Set 4 “The Better One” with a friend over a late lunch—18 pieces of sushi, shrimp tempura, and momil—and found it filling without becoming repetitive.
