Sosorae

Daegu

Sosorae

The most delicious seasonal fruit dessert, no matter what season it is.

Edit (Intern) Songae Choi

Photograph Youngmin Bae

It is the season when fruit is born with its true flavor after enduring a time of patience from seed to ripen. Café Sosorae is a place that captures this time most sweetly, offering the most delicious fruits of the season while closely observing nature. Upon entering through the café entrance, where a tunnel of Pyracantha flowers welcomes you, you find a central courtyard situated in the center of the building, displaying a restrained appearance that preserves nature in its purest form. It is a space where you can fully experience the "nature within the city" that Sosorae aims for. Sosorae seeks out the "most delicious seasonal fruits." Every year, they visit farms in regions with bountiful harvests to use as ingredients for their food and beverages, and they also sell the fruit directly. Even for the same fruit, they harvest and bring it in sequentially at the appropriate time from various locations ranging from the south to the north. They are so sincere about fruit that Sosorae team members even personally help with farming during the busy season. CEO Kim Jong-ju started Sosorae to create fruit desserts himself, lamenting that interest in fruit had waned compared to coffee and bread as café culture spread. Inheriting the business from his parents, who had been selling fruit at Daegu's Paldal Market since childhood, he has been operating a fruit wholesale business at the Daegu Agricultural and Fisheries Wholesale Market for 17 years. Leveraging his extensive know-how, he is introducing fresh fruit—which is difficult to maintain in terms of taste and quality—as premium fruit desserts. Sosorae's dessert menu consists of "Two Lights," featuring seasonal fruit menus, and "One Light," Sosorae's exclusive recommended menu. Introducing this spring, "Two Lights" offers sweet berry juice and Hadong strawberry tea made with strawberries from Hadong, Gyeongnam, while "One Light" presents various types of ciabatta and sourdough made with organic ingredients, served with seasonal fruit garnishes. If you want to enjoy the freshest and sweetest natural flavors of any season, be sure to visit Sosorae.