Bakery

Vegan dessert cafe serving daily selection of cakes and sweets plus beverages like coffee, tea, smoothie, beer, and wine. Est. 2020. Certified by the Korea Vegan Society (koreavegan.org). Open Mon-Sun 12:00pm-10:00pm.


Venue map for Cafe Turtle 카페 거북이
© OpenStreetMap contributors

38 Reviews

First Review by hooni

meejisu

Points +2290

Vegan
22 Jun 2022

Lovely turtle cafe

Cozy place with yummy patisserie
And Bingsu for Summer!

To be honest I couldn’t try any of the cakes…
I was already too full after lunch…
Mango Bingsu was very nice though

Pros: Lovely cozy interior , Tasty vegan cakes!

gentletomato

Points +1053

Vegan
11 Jun 2022

A must visit

Cafe turtle has some excellent cake, nice drinks, and bingsu in the summer.

Some cakes are better than others, but overall the quality, appearance and variety makes them one of the best bakeries in Seoul. Best cakes are the tarts, lemon meringue, and mint choco. I think the lemon meringue is one of the top 5 desserts in Seoul.

Other cakes like the salted caramel are way too sweet for my personal taste.

There are 2 flavors of bingsu, pat and mango. Both are very good.

Recently they added bagels and cream cheese to their menu. The bagels are decent, albeit a little too soft and sweet, but unfortunately the cream cheese is all sweet. Even the flavors like jalapeno and onion. I think the fig cream cheese would be great on desserts like cinnamon rolls and strudels, but I was really disappointed about the cream cheese.

The interior of the cafe is quite pretty and has quite a few tables, but its extremely popular so it can be difficult to get a table, especially around dinner time.

PeachyKeen

Points +131

Vegan
13 May 2022

The BEST bakery in Seoul!

At least the best that I've been to. If you've been envious of all the beautiful baked goods at the omni cafes in Seoul, be envious no longer because this place outdoes them all! The cakes are beautiful, creatively flavored and most importantly, super indulgent! Not a healthy crumb in sight, you come here for a cakey good time! The price reflects the quality, but you will absolutely not regret buying out the whole case!

This place deserves way more reviews and a solid 5 stars!

SebastianTan

Points +752

Vegan
14 Apr 2022

Nice ambience cosy cafe

Wide selection of cakes

Pros: Vegan cakes.. what to say

뚜안.杨

Points +726

Vegan
14 Apr 2022

MmMmm.. Nice little bakery

They serve an amazing favours of cake and tarts and they are all vegan!!
Damn Seoul, how can I leave this city!!! 😔

Pros: Lovely cakes, Taste good, Fair price

KadiHarmon

Points +9783

Vegan
24 Dec 2021

Oooo!!!

Such pretty deserts and I loved the style of the space! We enjoyed our lattes and shared the most beautiful lemon meringue. Can’t wait to go back and try more!

vegan_nyam

Points +1547

Vegan
10 Nov 2021

Best cakes ever.

I tried almost all the cakes here, everything was perfect. Cakes with chocolate are very sweet so they belong well with coffee.

JulieDarner

Points +1118

Vegan
25 Aug 2021

So popular!

Alright, this is my second time I've come to this place this week and each time, I've grabbed the last available table. People have to leave because there's no available seating! How is that the case on a Wednesday night AND a Sunday afternoon?! Very impressive.
I've gotten the salted caramel cake and pumpkin tart. Both delicious.
Avocado banana smoothie is fab and very filling.
This place is just wild to me. Not in a very accessible location so they must have a great online presence! Haha.

Great wifi 😜 their password is printed on their napkins haha

SteveH

Points +19815

Vegan
23 May 2021

Evil, in the best way

I am so glad I dont like too close to this place. We split 3 cakes between 2 of us to sample more of the menu. Everything was great. It was quiet at 1pm but packed by the time we left at 2pm. They do a great job of making the flavor burst out of the cake.

Pros: Everything!

bongbong733

Points +14496

Vegan
25 Nov 2020

Pretty pastries and cakes

This vegan cafe offers pastries, tarts and cakes that look very pretty - you couldn't tell the difference to non-vegan patisserie just by the look of it. (The taste is different though.)

Besides dessert, there are refreshments such as lemonades, coffee and teas.

Pros: Large menu

hooni

Points +36

Vegan
13 Jul 2020

Friendly staff, nice cakes, cozy interior

This time was the 2nd time I went there.
As last time the staff was very friendly. The cake selection is not that big but the ones I tried were pretty good (last time pistachio raspberry, this time carrot muffin and pumpkin tart).

The cafe itself is an open square with limited seat selection. Even though if all places are (unfortunately, there are not that many) taken it doesnt feel crowded. It was (this time) quite noisy but not that you cant have a conversation (i guess the noise level is also dependent on the people who are there).

The interior design feels woody (does this word even exist? Haha) and leafy, a touch of jungle I would say.

While ordering at the counter you can that the place in which they bake the goods is basically behind the counter. The two times i have been there weekday evening and weekend lunch), someone was preparing goods.

This place is somehow affiliated with Nammi Plant restaurant which is literally a 2 min walk away. The staff seems to work interchangeably between the 2 places (there was also a 10% discount during June if you came to the cafe after you have eaten at the restaurant but that wasn't the case anymore when I went there in July).

All in all, I personally like the place, a wider selection of goods might be nice (I think the whole selection wasnt available the times I went there, because they seem to display the goods in form of a plastic model in the glas tray but not all of the ones there were, were avaialble), (as always) prices are quite high in comparism to normal bakeries (but, unfortunately, I guess thats normal for vegan food, still hoping secretly for a cheap began desert cafe, haha) and seat selection is limited but I liked the cakes I tried, am willing to pay a little more and always got a seat when I went there.

Will go again! :)

Pros: Friendly staff, Nice interior

Cons: Expensive, Limited seats, Selection could be wider




This page has been viewed 0 times.