Rooftop café in Danyang with garlic-shaped ice cream: JB Coffee

A few days ago I took an impromptu trip to Danyang🏕️ True to its title as the city of garlic, every restaurant, café, and market stall seemed to have garlic in something — and when I heard there was even garlic ice cream, I ran straight to JB Coffee~~

Wait, is this actually garlic...? It was such a genuinely unique menu item haha

It ended up being an unforgettable ice cream. Let's go with my honest review of JB Coffee, a recommended Danyang café.

Where is JB Coffee, and what are its hours and parking?

• 🍨Location: 624 10-4 Byeolgok12-gil, Danyang-eup, Danyang-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea
• 🍧Hours: Daily 10:00–19:00
• 🍨Parking: Roadside near the café

Even though it's indoors, the café felt open and airy, almost like an outdoor space — very pleasant.

Once you go inside there are also outdoor tables. There's a cover overhead, so it's a great spot to chat whether the weather's nice or it's raining.

The second-floor rooftop is JB Coffee's best feature

This recommended Danyang café feels like a standalone house, and that's why there's this 2nd-floor rooftop space — this is the café's real kick. The inner part of the 2nd floor is indoors, while the outer part can be enjoyed as a rooftop. There are even camping-style tables, which would be especially perfect on a rainy day.

JB Coffee menu and the price of the garlic-shaped ice cream

The menu lineup was genuinely diverse — coffee, lattes, smoothies, ades, tea, even bingsu (shaved ice dessert). A place like this feels like it needs at least two visits.

After some deliberating, since we'd come all the way to Danyang, the city of garlic, we decided to try the new menu item, Maneulinjularatdanyang ("I thought it was garlic"). But every flavor looked like something I wanted to try, so after more deliberating we ordered one each of banana, melon, and strawberry. It's ₩10,000 each.

There wasn't a single cloud in the sky that day~ so we grabbed a rooftop seat haha. The view looking out from inside was so clear, it's a shame it doesn't come through in photos ㅠㅠ

There were a lot of figurines on both the 1st and 2nd floors — if you're into figurines in Danyang, this café is worth a visit. With so much variety, I wasn't bored at all while waiting.

The three-flavor Maneulinjularatdanyang set >< Seriously, isn't this garlic?? The thing sitting at the bottom is genuinely garlic in both color and shape.

A mountain view mingled with garlic,, makes me want to go back to Danyang.

How to eat it: pour the espresso, then crack the garlic with the stick

After taking pretty pictures, I came back to the table to get ready to eat the ice cream. You pour an espresso shot over the top of the ice cream, and unlike a regular affogato, it doesn't melt fast or drip everywhere, which I really liked. Once it all melts, it just becomes a latte anyway,, You stick the long stick the owner gave us into the center of the ice cream, then scrape at it with a spoon~

It was oddly fun to crack it apart lol. The texture is like sherbet, so it wasn't heavy and had a clean, refreshing taste. The strawberry flavor was exactly the delicious strawberry flavor we all know! Even though it's shaped like garlic and has garlic in the name, this ice cream is only garlic-shaped, not garlic-flavored! Hence the name Maneulinjularatdanyang — basically "thought it was garlic, didn't you~" haha

Banana flavor

This one's banana flavor — blended banana and ice frozen into a garlic shape? At the bottom there's garlic-shaped white chocolate too. The chocolate had a slightly jelly-like texture,, one that doesn't melt easily?

Melon flavor

This one's melon flavor~ personally, melon was my favorite! haha I love melon anyway~ it felt even better than a Melona bar! haha

Verdict: an offbeat dessert stop in Danyang

If you're looking for a café in Danyang, JB Coffee with its unique menu is worth a visit at least once! In particular, Maneulinjularatdanyang has a different charm from bingsu, and it also works well as a palate cleanser after a meal.