Bottoms Up - VB Cafe

VB Cafe, a healthy cafe in Sinsa-dong of the Garosugil street is the one place to go to for a drink and healthy eats without feeling guilty of a splurge. VB is a cafe on the first floor and a diet lab on the second floor, offering products and services for guests. 

In the VB Cafe, the drinks are all made of healthy ingredients, with the most popular being red ginseng. It is extremely strong and overpowering taste if you are not a fan of ginseng, I do not suggest going for it. The VB fruitade is a suggested drink that is recommended for anyone looking for a cool refreshing drink. 

The best part is the healthy desserts VB Cafe offers which include a strawberry roll cake and a green tea soy cake. Made of all healthy ingredients and even vegan, VB Cafe is the one place to go to for anyone on a strict diet or looking to maintain beauty.

Straight from exit 8 of Sinsa station on line 3, take a left when you reach Tous Le Jours bakery on the corner. Go straight along the famous Garosu-gil shopping street until you reach the corner where VB cafe is on the left.

Phone Number: 080-023-5454

Sweet Tooth Satisfaction - Fell + Cole

Fell + Cole originated in San Francisco, but you can find this Gastronomic Ice Cream shop in a small cozy story hidden in one of the Hongdae alleys in Seoul. Just opened in July, the shop offers a handful of vegan, alcoholic and many other delicious flavored ice creams, sorbets, and sherbets. You can find many differently paired flavors that you cannot find elsewhere. That, and there are alcoholic goodies which are the favorites of many. There are of course, the classic wine and even the more traditional flavors like Makgeolli. For just $5 a scoop, it is a must visit on any hot day, but of course I am not one to hold back from eating ice cream in the cold winter days!

Address: 408-1 Seogyo-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul 
Phone: 070 4411 1434
For the easiest way to Fell + Cole in Hongdae, take the Sangsu station on line 6. Take exit 1 from the station and turn back to the main intersection. Make a left when you reach the light without crossing and go straight until you reach the seven eleven on the corner. Take a left at that very street and go straight for three blocks. Fell + Cole will be on your left.

Sweet Tooth Satisfaction - babycakes

babycakes is an extremely popular vegan, but small bakery in Nolita. For anyone with an allergy, you can definitely give this bakery a try before giving up all things yummy. Decked out in all things girly and sweet, you can miss this small bakery if you aren't cautious enough and you definitely don't want to miss this bakery! Being that it is a small cozy spot and extremely popular, there is a request of photos to not be taken in store so definitely keep that in mind and make your purchases quick!

The best thing about babycakes that makes it stand apart from the rest is the fact that it is a vegan bakery, offering refined sugar-free, gluten-free, wheat free, soy-free, diary-free, egg-free, vegan and kosher goodies. For anyone who has to watch their diet or want a healthy cheat, babycakes is the best place to do so! With so many baked goods to choose from, you can go healthy or go crazy like me. The recommended of course is their cupcakes, a little too much to choose from which made my choices difficult. The one cupcake recommendation I must make is the chocolate chip mint cupcake that has chocolate chips inside the cupcake! I love the fact that the chocolate chips are still hard and not melted in the cupcakes like they are in other bakeries. 

Another one of my favorite is the vanilla lemon cupcake top. It is literally the top of a cupcake (literally the best part of a cupcake). Palm size and yummy, babycakes is definitely one of my favorite spots for dessert now. Be sure to try out their many other flavors and cupcake infusions like the pumpkin vanilla, sweet, savory, spicy.

For those who are looking to sample this goody but dont have the time to make a visit, you can simply order online. Orders require a dozen minimum, but the best part is that you can even order nationally!