1010 Airplane Cafe

We live just off a really busy street that has a lot of bus traffic on it. Every 10 minutes or so there's a special grey bus that drives up our road that takes people to the airport. Lately, anytime we see it driving by it's become tradition for one of us to moan, "take us with youuuuu". Yep, we're excited about going home!

Keeping with our airplane fascination, this weekend we met Hannah to visit Cafe 1010 in Hongdae... an airplane/traveling-themed cafe. Apparently, there is more than one travel-themed cafe in the Hongdae area- which is either a sign that this is a great idea or that there are too damn many cafes in Korea.

There's some jolly Lego-like men waiting to greet you outside the cafe.

The cafe isn't toooo themey (nothing like the airplane restaurant we ate at in Taipei), but some of the tables are glass with travel-y papers stuffed under them. There's also some Cafe 1010 brand passports for sale (everyone could use a fake passport!), some travel bags with mini-shampoos were for sale, too, as well as some similar knick knacks.

The menu mostly offered drinks, but there were some sandwiches, too (under the heading "In Flight Service").

Our drinks: an affagoto, a cappuccino and a sangria. Pretty tasty, for airplane food.

A nice touch: the receipts looked like plane tickets. The destination? Anywhere. "Take me with youuuuu!"

Lastly, the washroom doors looked like they would on a real airplane. Unfortunately, the toilets inside didn't have the pleasing suctioning sound that an airplane toilet would.

Cafe 1010 was a good place to grab a drink and relax, and the best part was that we didn't experience a single moment of turbulence. If you're in the area you should check it out. Plug this address into google and you'll see a map that can lead you there quite easily: Mapo-gu, Seogyo-dong, 358-8, Seoul

Don't forget your (fake) passport!