Loving Hut - Gangnam-gu

One time I went here and got an ice cream cone. I left, walked away for a few minutes, finished my ice cream, turned around and went back in for more ice cream.

10 stars for the vegan ice cream.

I come here every week, and I love it each time! The staff is kind and welcoming, and the food is yummy and affordable. One of the staff speaks English, and they have English menus, so many foreigners come as well.

Dropped by for dessert after lunch at sarang bunsik (just around the corner). Had lots of kinds of ice cream and was so good! Will try out their meal menu next time. XD

The only thing that motivated me to travel 50 minutes to gangnam was this restaurant. This place is a safe haven for vegans. We ordered the soy cutlet, tomato pasta, strawberry smoothie, tea and some icecream. The soy cutlet is pretty much spot on to the real thing. The pasta is very flavorful and a tad spicy. Icecream was pretty amazing. Total came out to around 30000 won. Not bad at all. I would recommend this place 100%. They also have groceries and other goodies like vegan ramen so stock up while you're there!

For those trying to find this place, use the map in this app to locate it. It's the right one. The website takes you to a different place which is wrong.

To get there: Exit no. 5 of yangjae station. Walk a good 300ft toward the right and you will see a bus stop. Take bus no. 18 and stop at guryongsagori stop (after 3 stops). I used the map above to find the rest of the way there (5 min walk)

Visited on June 7th 2016

Updated from previous review on 2016-06-26

Loving Hut cafe is a great vegan cafe, and one of my favorite things is that you can buy some good vegan products from a nice selection of items in their little grocery section. The food is great. I am disappointed that they stopped selling the coconut cheese toast. Like many other vegan restaurants, they seem to only care about their weekday customers, when many of us can only go on weekends. For example, I was recently able to go on a rare weekday, and I was given 3 amazing side dishes, whereas on weekends, I have only been given two side dishes. The ingredients seemed much fresher on a weekday, too. The quality of the dishes also depends on who is working in the kitchen. Once I went and ordered the french fries and they were great, topped with lots of herbs and piping hot. The next time I went and ordered them, they had way less herbs on them and were barely warm. I'm not a fan of cold fries...sorry. Also, my glass of grapefruit juice was half way full, when normally it is full. That day, I noticed the lady who usually runs the front was doing the cooking. My biggest complaint is about the soya burgers selling out so soon. If you don't get there by 1 or maybe 2 at the latest, they are all gone, as they only make 5 per day. This does not seem right since they are open until 9PM.

Since many folks have already written their great reviews on this restaurant, I’m going to keep mine short if possible. :)

One great thing about this place is that in the restaurant, you will find not only delicious vege dishes but also lots of vege snacks, bread, instant noodles, ice-cream, etc. If I remember correctly, they also sell some cosmetics for vegans. The shop in the restaurant is actually bigger than I thought. There are basically so many things for vegans to buy. So if you go there for just a meal, I highly recommend that you check out their shelves. I’m sure to say you will find something interesting there.

I like most of their dishes, so if possible, you had better try them all.

However, one downside of this restaurant is that it is located in a somewhat inconvenient place. Thus, if you are not familiar with the bus system in Seoul, I suggest that you take subway and get off at the Yangjae Citizen's Forest Station and walk to the restaurant or take a cab.

One last thing. Their last order time is 8:30pm for Mon, Tue, Thur, Sun, and 9:30pm for Wed, Fri, Sat. Then please be ready to be amazed, folks! :)


Updated from previous review on 2016-11-17

This was seriously amazing to me, with a shop, huge menu, big and comfy place. They have a very large menu to my eyes, and they even make korean traditional food but vegan which is amazing, if you are into korean food this is the perfect place. They have many tables and sits, a lot of space.
Everything is super delicious, I literally indulged. I had the whole pizza, ice cream, vanilla frappuccino (I think that might be in season). Their fruit flavours ice cream tasted really natural. I seriously recommend to try it all. I'm definitely coming back.

From the subway stations around you can get there in many ways, you just have to search which bus to take on google maps. To get there for the first time, I used the instructions a user posted some time ago so you can read them below, they were very accurate and you don't walk much.
The address here in HappyCow is the correct one, the website doesn't have it right.

A charming cafe restaurant. A little out of the way to get to so you would probably need to take a taxi depending on where you are. Went for lunch on a Saturday. Vegan burger and vegan pizza were on the menu but sold out :(. Tried the bulgogi (a touch too bland), spaghetti (good) and the cutlet (good with a great tangy sauce). Vegan ice cream for dessert. Over all a nice experience. Prices were not the cheapest but not excessive.

This is my third Vegan Hut I have been too and it was pretty good. The shop in the restaurant is wonderful as well. You can buy frozen bulk food of some dishes they serve. The staff is very friendly. Dishes are very tasty, and they even have vegan ice cream very cheap.

Really great place and wonderful service. Food was great and the store has a great variety of products to purchase at affordable prices. Please do not leave without buying a scoop of the biscuit ice cream!

PS if you like coconut try the coconut vanilla ice cream covered in chocolate in the fridge by the products, i personally loved it!

Don’t use googlemaps to get here! It leads you to an animal hospital by a pizza place whereas the actual restaurant is a few streets behind and along. The map from happycow takes you there perfectly. I had almost given up and it was close to 9 when I arrived so I just about cried when the young guy working there said I couldn’t get the burger. I thought he meant they had stopped serving meals but he was just saying they had sold out.
The English menu is behind the counter (I’ve uploaded a pic). I ended up with the spicy hot pot and fries. Wow, I’m used to Japanese portions so it was way too much food for me. The hotpot came with a big bowl of brown rice and 2 side pickle type dishes. It was very tasty. I don’t like fake meat but this was okay – not too realistic. Nice and hot too. The cakes looked a bit dry and uninteresting considering the price (5000-6000) but the icecream looked nice (the flavours are in Korean but the teenager working there spoke enough English to probably tell you what they were, or you could taste them I’m sure).
The shop is sterile and the fast food type uniform incongruous but who cares really. Thought it was very good value for money and there’s a bus stop close by. Lots for sale – pretty expensive but if there’s something your heart is set on then good chance to stock up.

Visited March 22 2015

The savory menu is fairly small here. They also have a coffee bar and a number of desserts. The lady working behind the counter was very kind, super helpful, and had some solid English skills. Though the previous review mentions their menus are in Korean... if you ask, they have an English version behind the counter.

I wasn't blown away by my food. It was standard Loving Hut cuisine. It was just nice to go out and not spend a bunch of time and energy deciphering the menu. The baked goods I sampled were on the dry side, but the ice cream was pretty good. They have a well-stocked grocery section on one side of the cafe, which will probably draw me back here occasionally. Though some of the items are extremely expensive, you can pick up a number of snacks (healthy and not) for normal prices. Legitimately vegan soymilk is 3,000. And if you're looking for vegan ramen, they have 5 different brands and a total of 7 flavors.
Updated from previous review on Saturday February 16, 2013

From walking inside the restaurant with my family, the lady on duty greeted us very nicely and was super sweet/patient throughout the meal. We asked lots of questions and I took pictures of the whole place since we were the only ones there; no one seemed to mind. I recommend having the menu on your phone/ knowing what you will order beforehand, because its in korean. The menu is pretty much the same as the one in Sadang. I ordered a noodle soup which was delicious, the broth tasted like french onion soup and there was veggie meat in it which was really good but a little too convincing IMO. They also have this hot sauce that tastes so good with your food. My parents and brother ordered the Big Burger with fries, and I couldn't stop stealing their fries, they were so delicious and tasted very homemade! It came with organic ketchup which was lovely. In my pre-vegan days, I used to love going to Kraze Burgers. Well in tasting that burger, it brought me back...tasted exactly if not better than my favorite burger in that omnivore place. Not even kidding! Also, the nice server said they had messed up the order in the kitchen, and they brought out a free brownie as a treat! It was so huge and rich dark chocolate, it really hit the spot. After dinner, we all got ice cream, and the lady let me taste some before ordering. I don't remember the name of the kind I got, but it was coffee-flavored with chocolate/coffee crunchy cookies in it. I was seriously in heaven! It has been so long since I've had ice cream, and that tasted even better than what I remember ice cream tasting like. My non-vegan parents got Affogatos, and they raved about it all night long! Seriously, any vegans/vegan-curious people NEED to visit here! They also have a little shop stocked with all vegan stuff, things like So Delicious ice cream and vegan meats. Lastly, I was sort of worried about the whole 'Supreme Master' thing, and if it would be awkward being there, but the TV is always on mute and there were hit songs playing. They played mostly Maroon 5, which made me like that place even more. I could probably go on about my experience there, because it was such a relief finally going to a place where I didn't have to worry about what I ordered or if there would be something for me to eat. I could order whatever my heart desired and I had no care in the world. I'm definitely going back here, and I want to try all the Loving Hut's in the Seoul area. I visited on Jan, 6 2013.