This vibrant Koreatown coffeehouse serves up delightful Asian treats like fluffy shaved ice, matcha lattes, and oversized desserts that are perfect for sharing.
"Grace Street Cafe is the preeminent dessert destination in Koreatown. Its original menu featured traditional Korean sweets like hotteok (crispy and chewy dough filled with sweetened walnut paste), and it’s grown to include treats like Taiwanese-style shaved ice (mountains of snow dripping with syrups and toppings), burnt Basque cheesecakes, and ube lattes. Efficient service cuts down on table time (a must because the waits can get long): order at the counter in the entryway and take a buzzer over to your table." - Caroline Shin
"This Korean coffeehouse with spacious cafeteria-style seating is open till midnight on Fridays and Saturdays, making it an ideal post-dinner (or maybe even post-karaoke) stop in Koreatown. Don't skip the hotteok, a Korean street food that falls somewhere between pancake and doughnut. The warm brown sugar, walnut, and cinnamon filling oozes out from the flaky pastry, mixing and mingling with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. The O.G., Grace Street’s black sesame shaved snow, is an irresistible textural playground, loaded with mochi, red beans, strawberries, and malty, nutty misugaru. You’ll be pretty full between those two, but why not not take a mini burnt basque cheesecake to go?" - molly fitzpatrick, bryan kim, will hartman, willa moore, neha talreja
"Don’t let the small counter at this dessert spot in Koreatown fool you. Peek around the corner, and you’ll see a humongous, semi-hidden room that looks like a high school cafeteria with high tops and picnic tables. You won’t go wrong with any of the impossibly fluffy shaved ices, but our go-to is the mango one. It comes with banana slices and a portion of perfectly ripe mango chunks that would cost a small fortune at Whole Foods. Despite all the seating, this place is always packed. Just hover around the room like a vulture, and someone will get up soon enough." - kenny yang, carina finn koeppicus
"Grace Street is a great place for coffee and sweets on 32nd Street in K-Town, and it stays open late (until 11pm most days, and later on the weekends), so it's especially good for a sit-down dessert after dinner. Get a ho-dduk - a Korean donut filled with sugar and nuts, which comes with ice cream - and some shaved snow with toppings like mochi, red bean, condensed milk, and boba." - Emma Greenberg
"K-Town dessert and coffee shop Grace Street gets busy on the weekends, though not so much that it’s impossible to snag a seat when seeking a break in Midtown. A kaleidoscope of colorful desserts can be spotted on everyone’s tables, but the neutral colored ho-dduck — bouncy dough filled with melted brown sugar and cinnamon — is a stand-out. It comes with vanilla ice cream, and all together, the dessert is an ideal mixture of chewy, creamy, and sticky, without being overly sweet." - Eater Staff
