Hongcheon hanok bakery café with salt bread and tissue bread: Gil151
In short
Gil151 Hanok Cafe (길151 한옥카페) is a 1,800-pyeong hanok bakery café in Nam-myeon, Hongcheon, Gangwon. Expecting little from such a big café, the writer still loaded up on salt bread, tissue bread, cheese long sausage bread and pain suisse right after lunch, was surprised by how good the coffee was, and met two yard cats named Caramel and Latte. Gil151 Hanok Cafe is not just big: its bread and coffee make it a rest stop worth recommending on a Hongcheon trip.
Good to know
- Address
- 147 Gilgol-gil, Nam-myeon, Hongcheon-gun, Gangwon State
- Size
- 1,800-pyeong hanok café built from Korean red pine (per the café's own description)
- Parking
- Free, with a large parking lot
- Seating
- Floor seating, regular tables, terrace and garden
- Breads tried
- Salt bread, tissue bread, cheese long sausage bread, pain suisse
- Traditional drinks
- Bomgil (Spring Road) 8,500 won · Gokshik Changgo (Grain Storehouse) 7,500 won · Jinheuksok-e Pineun Kkot (Flower Blooming in the Mud) 8,300 won
- Coffee
- Americano 6,000 won · Café latte 6,500 won · Vanilla bean latte 6,800 won · Belgian café mocha 7,000 won · Deep caramel latte 7,000 won
- Other
- Decaf coffee available
- Price reference
- ₩6,000 ≈ $4.5 · ₩8,500 ≈ $6.4 (2026-10-20)
as written by the visitor on Jun 21, 2026
Gil151 Hanok Cafe: a huge café with great bread and coffee too?
Gil151 Hanok Cafe is a big hanok (traditional Korean house) café in Hongcheon, Gangwon, and both the coffee and the bread were delicious. I went on a trip to Hongcheon a little while ago, heard there was a famous hanok café nearby, and had to check it out!
Honestly, at big cafés the space is often gorgeous but the coffee and bread are a bit disappointing. So I went with no big expectations, and Gil151 turned out to be the real deal!! The coffee was great and the bread was out-of-this-world good!! haha The moment I ate, my mood lifted and I got weirdly excited, so let me tell you about it :)
- Said to be the largest hanok café in Korea at 1,800 pyeong, built only with Korean red pine
- A variety of bakery desserts, including handmade cakes and breads
- Free parking available
Parking and exterior at Gil151 Hanok Cafe in Hongcheon
Gil151 is in Nam-myeon, Hongcheon, and the parking lot is huge, so no parking worries at all! I just put it into the GPS and found it easily. From the entrance you can already see several hanok buildings, and they looked grand and impressive haha
The garden between the hanoks and the terrace seats
There are several hanok buildings with a wide garden in the middle. On a nice day the terrace seats would be wonderful too. It had the perfect vibe for a cup of coffee in the sunshine :)
Is the seating inside okay for groups at Gil151 Hanok Cafe?
Inside, there is plenty of floor seating and regular tables, so even a big group looked like no problem. The interior is spacious and beautiful too! You can see the hanok roof-tile structure right from the ceiling, and in person it looks amazing haha It's a view you rarely get in a café, so I kept staring up at it for a while.
There was a floor-seating area and lots of regular tables. The inside felt comfortable, and the seats were fairly well spaced.
What happened in front of the bread display at Gil151
Looking at the bread display, everything looked so delicious 🤤 I originally planned to have just a quick coffee, but when I came to my senses, my tray was piled high with bread haha
This looks good, huh? Oh, I want to try that too? And before I knew it I was picking one of each kind lol
Drink menu and prices at Gil151 Hanok Cafe
Drinks run from an americano at ₩6,000 up to the traditional drink Bomgil (Spring Road) at ₩8,500, with a wide range from traditional teas fitting a hanok café to decaf coffee! I was looking forward to it, since the coffee is said to carry the know-how of an owner who has pulled 120,000 cups over 7 years haha
- Bomgil (Spring Road) ₩8,500
- Gokshik Changgo (Grain Storehouse) ₩7,500
- Jinheuksok-e Pineun Kkot (Flower Blooming in the Mud) ₩8,300
- Americano ₩6,000
- Café latte ₩6,500
- Vanilla bean latte ₩6,800
- Belgian café mocha ₩7,000
- Deep caramel latte ₩7,000
How were the salt bread, tissue bread, cheese long sausage bread and pain suisse?
I picked salt bread, tissue bread, cheese long sausage bread and pain suisse (a Swiss-style chocolate custard bun), basically swept up everything on the shelf lol I had definitely just eaten lunch and was full, yet the bread was so good that it kept going in! haha
The coffee was delicious too and went well with the bread. It's usually hard for a big café to get the coffee right as well, but Gil151 does coffee well too!
The salt bread and pain suisse were textbook crispy outside, moist inside, and the tissue bread was fun to peel apart layer by layer and so tasty that I kept eating it haha
Caramel and Latte, the cats in the yard at Gil151 Hanok Cafe
Outside the café there were two cats named Caramel and Latte. After enjoying the bread and coffee I was so full that I thought I'd take a short walk, and while looking around outside there were two ridiculously cute kitties.
There were name tags on their collars, and one was Caramel and the other was Latte. Caramel + Latte = caramel latte!!! lol So cute. Wait, who came up with those names? They're too cute T_T Thanks to them I left feeling good right to the very end 🐱🧡
A great café for a break on a Hongcheon trip
If you're traveling to Hongcheon, definitely stop by Gil151 Hanok Cafe! The lovely hanok atmosphere, wide garden, and delicious coffee and bread were healing for me. If you're looking for a café to rest at for a bit during your trip, I'd recommend it haha
Where it is
147 Gilgol-gil, Nam-myeon, Hongcheon-gun, Gangwon, South Korea강원특별자치도 홍천군 남면 길골길 147 길151 한옥카페 강원도 홍천본점
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