Bagel café near Suncheon Bay Garden with private rooms: Monster Bagel

Is there a Seoul-level bagel café in Suncheon?

Monster Bagel Café Suncheon is a bakery café near Suncheon Bay National Garden that really does bagels properly. I ran a café in Seoul and have eaten pretty much every famous bagel place there, and the bagels here taste almost exactly the same. I was totally shocked!

A great bagel bakery in Suncheon, who knew! If you're looking for a coffee shop near Suncheon Bay National Garden, please go try the bagels at Monster Bagel. They're so chewy, nutty and delicious. When I visited, I saw some older folks by the window already eating bagels before their drinks even arrived, and I thought, yep, I've come to the right place haha

Monster Bagel Café Suncheon: parking and location

You can park in front of Monster Bagel Café Suncheon, but it's small, so if there's no spot, just park in the alley behind the shop. No parking worries in Suncheon, which is so nice haha

It's close enough to call it a coffee shop near Suncheon Bay National Garden. It's in Pungdeok-dong and easy to get to from Ocheon Green Plaza, so I often stop by when I'm passing through and want a bagel.

The exterior says it's a famous bagel shop that was sold in Seoul, and when I was running my café in Seoul I went to all the bagel places to benchmark them, you know? Same taste. Even better, honestly. Chewy, nutty, and without that rubbery feel bagels sometimes have... I really hope this place gets more known, because it's so good.

What are the private rooms in the converted house like?

Monster Bagel Café Suncheon is a converted house, so it's super cozy and pretty. It's clean and private, with only 1–2 tables per room, so it's a lovely place to spend time.

Isn't it so pretty?! I think it'd be perfect for a group of moms to come and hang out.

When you walk in there's a bagel display, and all the bagels are individually packaged, so hygiene is top-notch. Above all, the owner was incredibly kind, which was the best part.

Monster Bagel Café Suncheon menu and prices

There was a really wide variety of bagels. What I liked most was that everything is packaged.

The most basic bestseller, the soft bagel, is ₩3,900, and the triple cheese bagel, which I ordered because it looked so tempting, is ₩6,300.

Only the chewy red bean mochi bagel (₩5,400) and the blueberry bagel (₩4,900) were left; everything else was sold out :(

The tofu vegan bagel, red bean butter bagel, French cocoa and rosé chicken bagel and others were already sold out.

I heard the bagels are cold-aged so they're easy to digest, and that the owner developed them so they stay moist even after 2–3 weeks in the freezer. You can feel how serious they are about bagels.

Which cream cheese flavors can you get?

The fridge has cream cheese in three kinds: plain, blueberry and fig. We tried the blueberry!

Drinks and kids' drinks

The basic drink, an iced Americano, is ₩5,000, and decaf is available. There are lots of teas too, and even a kids' menu with Pororo juice and chocolate milk haha. We ordered three things, an iced Americano, a decaf latte and a triple cheese bagel, and it came to about ₩20,000.

Triple cheese bagel and coffee: an honest taste review

There's a self-serve bar with utensils and napkins, so just grab what you need.

Our order came out in about 10 minutes, on such pretty plates that it was perfect for photos.

That's the blueberry cream cheese and the triple cheese bagel. The plate was so cute that I looked closer, and it seems to have been made to match the meaning of the Monster Bagel brand.

The coffee wasn't overly bitter, just right, and alternating bites of bagel with sips of coffee, sweet, bitter, sweet, was so good. When I asked about the decaf option, they told me they do their own roasting and bring it in!

Eating that tempting bagel with coffee made me so happy. It's also such a nice place to spend time that it would be great to visit after dropping your kid off at daycare or school.

Is Monster Bagel Café Suncheon worth a visit?

I visited Monster Bagel, the coffee shop near Suncheon Bay National Garden. There are so many tasty bakery cafés in Suncheon, but bagel shops are rare :( I feel like I've found a real bagel place, and anyone who has hunted down bagels in Seoul will know how good the ones here are haha. Please go try the bagels!