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Cafe

COFFEE LIBRE

커피리브레 파란점 Keopi Ribeure Paranjeom Libre is Spanish for 'free', after the Mexican lucha libre wrestler's mask in the brand logo; paran is Korean for 'blue', after that blue mask.

Compiled from 6 blog posts read in fullSources →

A café on Seongmisan-ro 29-gil in Yeonnam-dong, filling the basement to the second floor of Coffee Libre's head-office building. It serves filter coffee from the beans of the day and sells beans and drip bags; posts list an iced americano at 5,000 won and a Honduras COE filter at 9,500 won. You order on the ground floor and sit in the large basement or at the bar-only second floor. We read 29 posts from 4 September to 9 October 2026; seven describe a visit to this shop. Most of the rest are about the brand's Yeonnam branch on Seongmisan-ro 32-gil, its Myeongdong Cathedral shop, a Gwangju pop-up, or other places, and we did not count them.

Data as of · Published ·

Location & hours

  • Address서울특별시 마포구 성미산로29길 17-8, 1,2,지1층 (연남동)17-8 Seongmisan-ro 29-gil, Mapo-gu, Seoul
  • Typical spend₩5,000 – ₩20,000
  • Floor areaFloor area 253 m² · Status In business

When it opens

Of 3 posts: 3 wrote Daily 09:30–18:00.

When it opens
Daily09:30–18:003 of 3 posts

Counted from what bloggers wrote in their posts; we did not confirm it with the restaurant. Where the values differ, it may be a change over time rather than a disagreement, so we show when each one was written.

What sets it apart

  1. Two posts mention outdoor tables and a bench in front. One drank iced filter coffee outside around noon on 22 September 2026, shaded by tall potted plants.
  2. One post brought a dog in and sat with it. Another lists dogs as allowed, but only in a copied info block.

What 6 bloggers said

3/6Most ordered
pilteo keopi
5/6Most-said good thing
Roomy
0/6Posts disclosing payment

We read all 6 in full. The most common claims are “Roomy” (5) and “Clean” (1).

What they liked

Roomy5 of 6 posts
Clean1 of 6 posts

Things you can check on site

  • In a basement 6 of 6 posts
  • Outdoor terrace seating 2 of 6 posts
  • Second floor 2 of 6 posts
  • Lift to the floor 2 of 6 posts
  • Seats to sit and eat 2 of 6 posts
  • Large windows 1 of 6 posts
  • High ceiling 1 of 6 posts
  • Dogs allowed 1 of 6 posts
  • Open kitchen 1 of 6 posts

These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.

The most ordered dish is pilteo keopi (필터커피(핸드드립)) — 3 of 6 posts.

The prices here are what bloggers wrote down in their posts, and they may have changed since. Check Naver Place for the current menu and prices. This list is not a menu board — it counts what bloggers actually ordered and ate. Check on Naver Place

4 more dishes

Who came, and with whom

  • With a friend 1 of 6 posts

Where it is

Map showing where COFFEE LIBRE is

We could not find this shop’s own listing on Naver Map, so the link searches for its Korean name around this spot instead.

Getting inside

Second floor2 of 6 posts
In a basement6 of 6 posts
Lift to the floor2 of 6 posts

The second floor is bar seating only, according to two posts. One describes a six-seat wooden table on the ground floor and a long table plus two- to four-seat tables in the basement, with the open coffee bar visible from above.

Most of the seating is underground. Six of the seven visit posts describe the basement and five call the place large — the basement is the biggest floor, a larger room a lift ride down. One post found the basement roomy but a little stuffy and echoey, and suggested staying on the ground floor. Another noted that people down there were mostly on laptops or studying.

A lift serves the basement; two posts mention it, one noting you can take either the stairs or the lift.

No post says whether there is a step at the entrance or describes getting in with a wheelchair or stroller. Two mention a lift, but we know nothing about the entrance.

No visitor described where the toilets are. Separate men's and women's toilets appear only in one copied info block.

No one mentioned: Ramp at the door · Step at the entrance · Step-free access · Toilet inside · Accessible toilet · Separate restrooms. That is not the same as there being none — it means we could not confirm it. Worth calling ahead, and do tell us: we will put it here.

How to read these posts

  • Posts saying they paid themselves1 of 6 posts
  • Posts saying nothing either way5 of 6 posts

Posts that followed a TV spot

Of the 8 posts we gathered, 2 went up on a single day right after a TV spot and show no sign of a visit. They retell the broadcast, so we left them out of the counts.

2026-09-152 posts in one day

We do not discard them. That a TV spot produced a burst of posts is itself something worth knowing about a place, and a star rating will not show it.

When the posts appeared

0910
Month by month
MonthPosts
2026-095
2026-101

What we do not know

  • No post describes walking from a station or bus stop; the '823 m from Hongik Univ. exit 3' line is copied from Instagram.
  • No post mentions waiting or walking straight in. That does not mean there is no queue — nobody wrote about it.
  • Too few posts say who they came with to show a pattern: one with a friend, one with a spouse, one with a dog.
  • Three posts give the opening hours as 09:30–18:00 daily, all copied from the shop's notice. Only one adds last orders at 17:45, and none mentions closing days.
  • Only two posts give prices (americano 5,000 won, matcha latte and cheesecake 6,500, a filter coffee 9,500), and none calls them high or low.
  • The phone number 02-332-7140 appears once, copied. Nobody booked by phone; one post signed up for the reading party through Naver booking, but we do not know whether ordinary tables can be reserved.

Sources (6)

Every number above was counted from the posts below.

  1. 연남동 경의선 숲길 주민센터 산책 코스 2026-10-09 · 홍대 먹거리 놀거리
  2. 커피리브레 파란점 2026-09-29 · 네컷로그 by 커피민영
  3. [서울/마포구] 연남동 카페 리브레 파란점, 커피도 공간도 편안했던 .... 2026-09-15 · 프리지아의 취향 아카이브
  4. 연남동 애견동반커피맛집 커피리브레파란점 2026-09-15 · 철없는 뭉치
  5. 커피리브레 파란점 리딩파티 후기 2026-09-14 · 커피 한 잔을 시켜놓고 · via Daum
  6. [연남동]커피 리브레 파란점 2026-09-12 · 다양한 삶을 위하여~~~

Of 388 candidate posts we opened 120 and kept 6 as evidence. We have not seen them all yet; another pass would add more.