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    FOOD SEOUL

    Seoul Cafés | Mangwon | Coffee Conhas

    Seoul Cafés | Mangwon | Coffee Conhas

    Our Seoul café hopping continued in Mangwon with a visit to Coffee Conhas, a portmanteau structure that combined the former residential building’s concrete-walled building with a stack of re-purposed shipping containers. The mix of old and new, industrial and vernacular somehow managed to fit right in its residential surroundings, as if Coffee Conhas had always been part of the neighborhood. From street level, we didn’t really notice the container buildings hovering in the air, though maybe we were distracted by the friendly pup who stood guard at the cafe’s entrance.
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  • SEOUL

    SEOUL | Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP)

    Not many cities can pull off a building like the DDP, but the ever-so-modern Seoul can. Designed by Iraqi-British architect architect Zaha Hadid and built over a former sports stadium the…

  • JAPAN TOKYO

    Japan | Tokyo – Meiji Shrine

    In the middle of one of the busiest areas of Tokyo lies Yoyogi Park, an expansive stretch of ruggedly curated green space in an otherwise concrete jungle. Through these torii gates…

  • TRAVEL

    Providence Public Library Wedding

    We spent a good part of the afternoon walking around Providence so, as usual, when it came time to get ready to attend Sly's friend's wedding we were cutting it pretty…

  • TRAVEL

    Providence | Brunch in Federal Hill

    We walked down Broadway in search of a place to brunch – past rows of old houses house, some more faded and more crumbling than others, but each beautiful in its…

  • TRAVEL

    Providence | The Dean Hotel and Birch Restaurant

    The Dean Hotel is a newer (as in opened within the past year) modern-y boutique-y hipster-y nyc-style hotel located in what I *think* may be the “up-and-coming” DownCity neighborhood, the term…