Hapjeong café with your dog: build-your-own brunch plate, Seowon Angil

A dog-friendly brunch café in Hapjeong: Seowon Angil

Seowon Angil (서원안길) is a dog-friendly brunch café in Hapjeong where you can have a full meal, brunch and pasta included, not just coffee. If you're looking for a brunch café in Hapjeong that welcomes dogs, I think you'll like this one quite a bit!

It's not just a place for coffee: you can eat properly, from brunch to pasta, and the space itself is fun to look around. I went with my pup, and the atmosphere was lovely and the food was tasty, so it was a relaxed brunch haha

Seowon Angil isn't a typical café with a few tables and a menu. It's a two-floor cultural space, and each floor has a slightly different mood. So instead of eating and leaving right away, you end up slowly wandering around every corner.

Seowon Angil's exterior and dog policy

A stylish exterior

Even the exterior was a bit different from a typical brunch café. The building itself is stylishly done, and from the outside you start wondering, "What does it look like inside?"

Dog-friendly restaurant and café

Seowon Angil allows dogs. How precious! Proof of vaccination is required, and please be sure to ask the café for the details!

What's inside Seowon Angil? A stylish two-floor space

Once I stepped inside, the space was much bigger than I expected. Seowon Angil has two floors, and each floor has a slightly different feel, so it was fun to take a lap around.

It's not just one corner that's prettily decorated; there's something to see everywhere, so I wasn't bored even while waiting for the food haha

There are reservable seats too, which is a nice bonus. Finding a café for five or more people is often a hassle, so being able to just reserve is great!

More than a café: a cultural space

One reason Seowon Angil was fun is that it doesn't end as just a place for a cup of coffee!

As I looked around, Seowon Angil felt less like a simple café and more like a cultural space.

Every corner has a different mood, and there are eye-catching touches like exhibits and props, so rather than eating and leaving, I wanted to take my time looking around.

Places like this are also surprisingly fun for photos. Even in the same café, the background changes depending on where you sit.

The menu is also more varied than I expected. You can have just coffee and dessert, a hearty brunch, or even pasta, so it works fine as a place to come just for a meal.

What did we order at Seowon Angil with the dog?

That day at Seowon Angil, we ordered these four things.

• Iced latte
• Flat white
• Brunch plate
• Aglio e olio pasta

Since I'd come with my dog, I decided to sit comfortably and eat at a leisurely pace haha

I ordered two kinds of coffee to have with the brunch, and since there are proper meal items, it suits a lunchtime visit too.

When you say Hapjeong brunch café, you tend to think of sandwiches or salads, but Seowon Angil has pasta too, so there are pretty good options for anyone looking for a meal.

The table is stylish too, with not a single detail wasted.

Seowon Angil's brunch plate: the fun of building it yourself

After some deliberation, here's the brunch plate I ordered at Seowon Angil!

Honestly, at first I couldn't decide between the open sandwich and the brunch plate.

But in the end, I think choosing the brunch plate was the right call.

Because you can combine the ingredients however you like!

It came packed onto one plate like this.

• Scrambled eggs
• Avocado
• Shrimp
• Tomato
• Salad
• Bread

The colors alone are so bright and cheerful, a proper brunch feel haha Best of all, instead of eating one flavor the whole time, you can make whatever combination you want that day.

Avocado on top, like an open sandwich

I put avocado on the bread from the brunch plate and topped it with scrambled eggs, making it like an open sandwich.

Adding the shrimp on top looks pretty and tastes great together. The soft avocado, the scrambled eggs and then the shrimp give you several textures in a single bite.

Making it yourself like this is part of the fun of brunch, and it's nice that everyone you go with can combine things to their own taste.

If I'd ordered the open sandwich, I'd have just eaten a finished dish, but building the brunch plate myself was actually more fun haha

What does Seowon Angil's aglio e olio pasta taste like?

Seowon Angil's aglio e olio (garlic and olive oil pasta) was lightly seasoned overall. Aglio e olio can get tiring if it's sharply salty or the garlic is too strong, but this one was mild, which actually suited my taste.

Not too salty, and mellow enough that you keep eating! The seasoning soaked into the noodles just right, so I kept going back for another bite.

Personally, I tend to worry that pasta at a brunch café will turn out so-so, but the aglio e olio I had that day was tastier than expected, so I was satisfied haha

Brunch in Hapjeong with my pup

And the thing I liked most that day: Seowon Angil is dog-friendly!

These days, finding a place in Hapjeong where you can eat with your dog takes some thought. Seowon Angil has brunch and even pasta, so it's a good one to remember when planning a lunch with your dog.

If you're looking for a brunch café in Hapjeong, try Seowon Angil

I liked Seowon Angil for more than one reason. You can just have coffee, eat a hearty brunch, or have a proper meal with pasta, and above all the space itself is fun to look around. So it's good for brunch with a friend, good for a date, and fine for visiting with your dog too!

Seowon Angil, the Hapjeong brunch café, is worth stopping by once. It's a café that does proper meals and is fun to explore, so it'd make a pretty good date course, right? haha Next time I'm in Hapjeong, I'll put it on my revisit list!