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Lay-Back Coffee Stand

레이백 커피 스탠드 Reibaek Keopi Seutaendeu Cafe across from Taehwagang National Garden in Ulsan: dogs inside and out, terrace seats, open till eleven

Data as of 2026-09-27 · Published 2026-09-30 · Compiled by Gilpost

Lay-Back Coffee Stand sits on the ground floor of a converted white-brick house across the road from the main plaza of Taehwagang National Garden. It is registered as "Layback Coffee", but the sign and everyone who writes about it use the longer name. Coffee runs ₩4,800–6,500 and dessert ₩5,500–9,000, and more writers single out the dessert than the coffee — the french toast above all. It is open until eleven every night, last orders at ten fifty; three writers came precisely because nowhere else was still open. Dogs are allowed inside as well as out, which seventeen of the posts mention. We read 28 posts, from January to September 2026.

The basics

1 posts say it is walkable from the station.

When it opens

Of 24 posts: 17 wrote Daily 11:00–23:00, 7 wrote 11:00–23:00.

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.

These hours are counted from the posts we read. Shops change them without notice — check Naver Place before you go. Place — check hours

What people order

The most ordered dish is americano (아메리카노) — 11 of 27 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

Sides, and what comes with it

• 디카페인 변경2 ate it
  decaf byeongyeong₩500

  **₩500 on any coffee swaps it to decaf** — the board writes it as "decaf +0.5". Useful in a café that stays open until eleven at night

  **Charged per cup.** One writer paid ₩6,200 for a decaf einspanner; another ordered two americanos and made one of them decaf. The rooibos and the milk tea are caffeine-free to begin with, at no extra charge

Sweet things

• 프렌치 토스트5 ate it
  french toast₩9,000

  **Twice-baked, in a pan and then an oven, under a scoop of vanilla ice cream.** The shop's own notes put the basque cheesecake first; **the writers keep putting this first instead** — top three she has ever eaten, says one; worth another trip on its own, says another

  ₩9,000. **One writer records a fifteen-minute wait**; two warn that the ice cream goes fast and to eat it hot. One asks where else you would get something this size for nine thousand won, reckoning ten or more elsewhere. Another says hers lasted five minutes

• 바스크 치즈케이크5 ate it
  basque cheesecake₩7,000

  Made with French Kiri cream cheese, the menu says. It is the dessert the shop's own blurb leads with

  ₩7,000, the same from January to July 2026. Three call it dense; one describes a bitter caramelised top over a soft middle. **They disagree on what they smell** — one gets banana and loves it, another gets a faint egg at the back and finds that the charm. **There is a separate matcha version at ₩7,500**

• 말차 테린느3 ate it
  matcha terrine₩5,500 · ₩6,300

  Made with Narizuka matcha, the menu says. It arrives with ice cream and a cherry — which one writer had not expected

  **The price went up**: ₩5,500 on a January 2026 board, ₩6,300 in April and September posts. One writer describes it as very dense and slow to melt, with the bitterness of the tea sitting heavy; two liked it against the cold ice cream on top

• 오레오 초코 아이스크림1 ate it
  oreo choco icecream₩6,500

  Sangha Farm ice cream with an Oreo on top and crumbs over everything. One writer ordered it; **two more say they mean to next time**

  ₩6,500 on both the January and July 2026 boards. The writer who had it calls it nutty rather than sweet, and fit for anyone of any age. She ordered this and the basque cheesecake that day and no coffee at all

• 초코 테린느1 ate it
  choco terrine₩5,500 · ₩6,300

  Made with Valrhona dark chocolate, the menu says — the pair to the matcha terrine

  **The price went up**: ₩5,500 on the January 2026 board, ₩6,300 on the July one. One writer ate it and wrote only that it was good, so we know no more

• 말차 바스크 치즈케이크1 ate it
  matcha basque cheesecake₩7,500

  The basque cheesecake made with matcha. **It is absent from the January 2026 menu board and present on the July one** — added somewhere in between

  ₩7,500, the dearest thing on the dessert list. The one writer who ate it found the matcha's bitterness running through the sweet, dense cheesecake and was glad to have tried something uncommon — **while admitting she would order the plain one next time**

• 아몬드 아이스크림1 ate it
  almond icecream₩6,500

  Sangha Farm ice cream under almonds. **Absent from the January 2026 board, present on the July one**

  ₩6,500. One writer had it and says the nuts and the soft ice cream sit well together — and that it is one for people who like things sweet

To drink

• 아메리카노11 ate it
  americano₩4,800

  **The most-ordered drink here, and the most argued over.** Eleven people had one, and the verdicts run from clean and nutty to frankly watery

  ₩4,800 in posts from February, April, July and September 2026 alike. In its favour: a clean finish, no sourness, nutty. Against: **one writer who visits two or three cafés a week found it thin and says she will order something else next time**, and a local regular says she has never once thought the coffee here good. Both call it personal taste. Decaf is available

• 레이백 슈페너8 ate it
  layback einspanner₩5,700

  **The signature, named for the shop**: a flat white under cream, **with a chocolate stick standing in it.** Five of the eight who ordered it write about the stick separately

  ₩5,700, unmoved from January to September 2026. **Decaf adds ₩500, making it ₩6,200**, by one account. Four writers say the cream stays light enough that the coffee still comes through. One notes the chocolate stick **holds its snap to the last mouthful, perhaps from the cinnamon coating**; another snapped hers while stirring

• 아이스크림 커피6 ate it
  icecream coffee₩5,500 · ₩6,300

  **Ethiopian single-origin espresso poured over Sangha Farm ice cream** — one writer calls it an affogato. Posts name it and the einspanner as the two signatures

  Menu photographs and a receipt all read ₩6,300; **one July 2026 post says ₩5,500.** One writer is glad there is no syrup in it, leaving only the coffee and the cream; two say it improves as the ice cream melts into it

• 캐모마일 릴렉서4 ate it
  chamomile relax₩6,000 · ₩6,500

  The menu itself labels it "sweet and tart" — and two writers insist it tastes nothing like the chamomile teabag they expected

  Two photographs of the board say ₩6,500; **one July 2026 post says ₩6,000.** One writer expected the usual and got something sweet and tart enough to wonder whether sugar had been added; another used it to cool down after a walk. A third records simply that it tasted exactly as she knew it would

• 초코 크림 라떼3 ate it
  choco cream latte₩6,300

  Chocolate latte under cream. **The two accounts sit at opposite ends**: one of the best chocolate lattes she has had, says one writer; not the deep, expensive chocolate she was picturing, says another

  ₩6,300. In its favour: plenty of cream, and a chocolate with depth rather than plain sweetness. Against, from someone who still liked the taste: **there is not much of it**

• 홈메이드 레몬에이드2 ate it
  homemade lemonade₩6,500

  Pressed from whole lemons, the menu says. Two writers drank it and both mark it apart from the bottled kind

  ₩6,500. One writer says there is nothing synthetic about the sweetness and the lemon itself comes through; another, who was drinking lemonade everywhere at the time, rates this one near the top of them. **One post calls it a lemonade tea**, though the board says lemonade

• 아몬드 라떼2 ate it
  almond latte₩6,000

  A latte with almond. Two writers drank it

  ₩6,000 on both the January and July 2026 boards. One writer, who finds almond lattes usually too sweet, says the coffee holds its place here and makes it nuttier. She drank it with cake and recommends the pairing

• 밀크티1 ate it
  milk tea₩6,300

  A milk tea with rooibos and almond, listed as caffeine-free. One writer ordered it

  ₩6,300. The writer found it sweet with the rooibos coming through quietly — and in the same post rates the americano merely so-so. Two writers steer you towards the teas here

• 말차 크림 라떼1 ate it
  matcha cream latte₩6,300 · ₩6,400

  Matcha latte under cream. One writer ordered it

  Two photographs of the board say ₩6,300; a September 2026 post says **₩6,400.** That writer liked it for not being strong — closer to drinking the cream. If you want the matcha itself, the terrine may suit you better

• 카페라떼1 ate it
  cafe latte₩5,500

  The plain latte, written as "white" on the board. One writer ordered it

  ₩5,500 on both the January and July 2026 boards. The one writer who records it was not the one drinking it and says nothing about the taste — **the price is all we have**

• 루이보스 티1 ate it
  rooibos tea₩6,300

  Made with a TWG crème caramel teabag, the menu says — and it is caffeine-free

  ₩6,300. One person drank it and rated it above the other drink she had that day, on the grounds that **a café using TWG is already doing something right** — the rooibos underneath, the crème caramel drifting over it

Parking

2 posts say you can park; 5 say you cannot. We leave the disagreement standing rather than picking a side.

There is no car park of its own, and this is the sticking point if you drive. Of the seven writers who describe parking, five describe failing: one calls a weekend here a war of people and cars; one found the nearby public lots effectively full in cherry-blossom season, with a long queue, and walked from a farther one; one simply parks across the river in Nam-gu and walks over the Simnidaebat bridge every time; two others note there is no lot attached and you pay to park somewhere else. The two who managed it hedge as well — plenty of spaces but plenty of cars, find one or two if you look. Two posts quote the garden car park's tariff in full, but that is copied from the Naver listing and we left it out of the count.

Who came, and with whom

Getting there

Getting inside

There is only the ground floor. The address reads "221 Taehwagang-gukgajeongwon-gil, building 1, 1F", and more than twenty posts copy it; one states the ground floor separately. Not one of the 28 mentions a stair or a lift. One describes a converted white-brick house, and several read as though the writer opened the door straight off the street. That there is no upstairs is certain; whether the doorway itself is flat or stepped, nobody says.

No post says whether a wheelchair can get in. Two come close and neither settles it. The first: a mother took a pushchair to the outdoor seats when her baby was a little over a hundred days old, and thinks a pushchair is fine in good weather — that is outside, not in. The second: one writer warns you to watch your step on the way to the toilet, because the threshold there is sloped and easy to catch. The pushchairs in the dog notice are for carrying dogs. Nobody measured the door, the threshold, or the room between tables.

The toilet is inside — three writers used it and said so, one of them adding only that it was clean. One records from her own eyes that it is split into men's and women's, and tidy. Several other posts carry the same detail, but inside a copied Naver facility list (groups welcome, takeaway, wi-fi, separate toilets, dogs allowed), so we did not count those. One writer warns of a sloped threshold on the way to it — her words, left as a warning.

No one mentioned: Second floor · In a basement · Lift to the floor · Ramp at the door · Accessible toilet. 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 themselves11 / 2711 of 27 posts
• Posts saying nothing either way16 / 2716 of 27 posts

When the posts appeared

What we do not know

• Exactly one writer arrived by bus — she walked from her hotel's stop, past the sign for the national garden and a little way on. She does not say which bus or which stop. The other twenty-seven either drove or say nothing about getting there. On the location itself the posts agree: directly opposite the garden's main plaza, right by the small roundabout, impossible to miss if you walk that stretch. What the journey is like without a car, we do not know.
• One writer queued. On a cherry-blossom weekend in early April she records a little waiting at weekends, and says it thins out after five — she got a two-top when one came free. Two others walked straight in, and both had picked their moment: one came in the evening, one came early. The remaining twenty-five say nothing about waiting at all. Several do say it is busy, though — really busy, always busy, too busy to photograph the room during blossom season. A full room and a queue are not the same thing, and only the first is something we know. Drinks come quickly; one writer records fifteen minutes for the french toast.
• The posts contradict each other on closing days. One says the place never closes, another says there is no closing day — and one August 2026 post says it shuts every Monday. The same information block in that post also gives the hours as 11:00–22:50 with last orders at 22:50, repeating one number for both, while the other twenty-four all say 11:00–23:00. A further post says only that the closing day varies. If you are going on a Monday, phone first. On last orders all seventeen posts that mention it agree: ten fifty.
• Two things got dearer. On a January 2026 photograph of the board the chocolate and matcha terrines are ₩5,500; from July they are both ₩6,300. The same July board carries two items the January one does not: an almond ice cream at ₩6,500 and a matcha basque cheesecake at ₩7,500. Nothing else moved — the americano is ₩4,800 in February, April, July and September alike, and the einspanner and the french toast held at ₩5,700 and ₩9,000 through the year. Two posts disagree with the board: a July one prices the ice cream coffee at ₩5,500 and the chamomile at ₩6,000 against ₩6,300 and ₩6,500 on the same month's photographs, and a September one puts the matcha cream latte at ₩6,400 against ₩6,300. We have no way to settle it, so both figures are recorded.
• Not one of the 28 declares a sponsorship. Eleven volunteer that they paid their own way; seventeen say nothing. No blog appears twice, so 28 posts are 28 people. One is a week's diary covering eight places, and only its Lay-Back passage is counted — that writer records it as her third visit. One post, from February 2026, states plainly that there are no high chairs. One notes you can pay with the Ulsan local card. A writer who came on 12 March 2026 found the Christmas decorations still up, and guessed they would be gone by spring.

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