Koryodang Bakery and Cafe

Awesome bubble tea! Awesome sweets! Awesome place! I discovered this place a long time ago after visiting BCD Tofu right next door. I keep forgetting to write a review for this place which is a huge shame on my part. This is how far behind this review is. They have changed their name now to Crome! I don’t know if they are under new management but the quality of their products and most importantly bubble tea remains the same. I love coming here and enjoying their treats. Oh what a site to behold seeing all the baked goodies. I have purchased their special cakes on many occasions and so have other friends of mine and all of us agree that they’re creations are delicious. So if you’re ever around the Fort Lee area, stop by and grab some treats and a nice glass of bubble tea to make your problems go away – at least for the moment.

It’s open from 6:30 to 10:30 everyday just to let everyone know since its not posted. Great place to hang out with friends and have some nice desserts like bubble teas and cakes.

After going to BCD tofu house I always stop here for a rose champagne tea and I ask them to put milk in it. It smells and tastes amazing.
As far as their desserts, I find them to be pretty tasty and on par with most Korean desserts. They’ve recently cup up samples for you to try. Their shaved ices are also pretty good and come in huge portions! I would highly recommend a shaved ice or a rose champagne tea with milk!
Overall very convenient spot but I wouldn’t say anything out of the ordinary.

A friend got me hooked on Korean bakeries about 2 years ago. I’m so impressed with the meticulous nature of their stores. I’ve only been here twice but I can’t wait to be back. The almond roll is delicious and the coffee is outstanding. Prices are pretty moderate.

Could be better. Most people come here to chitchat with friends over some coffee– the coffee, however, is pretty stale and tasteless. The seating isn’t good to begin with– but it’s part of the Korean «culture,» if you will, to gather at a coffee shop or bakery.
Nothing about this place impresses me. I also bought a cake for around $ 40 (was a blueberry cream cake) before and that’s definitely not going to happen again– I mistakenly believed that Paris Baguette (which is right across the street) was closed (and their cakes are much better– similar pricing, too).
Word on the street is, is that Caffe Bene is going to open up soon– that’s bad news for the Tea Bar and this place– but good news for me!

Great desserts and pastries! I love the Korean shaved ice (pa ping su) with green tea ice cream and mochi. The dessert also has a generous helping of red bean which made the dessert just sweet enough. The ice isn’t a snow ice shaving but is softer than traditional shaved ice. There are other flavors such as traditional pa ping su which has fruit, and vanilla.
My favorite non dessert is the cheese bread and ham sandwich which literally oozes with asiago cheese when microwaved. Really fresh and good quality ingredients ;) You can tell they weren’t stingy with the sandwich ingredients since there were layers of ham and a hefty amount of cheese on the bread.
The unique dessert that you have to try is the red bean donut with mochi. It is absolutely delicious. Sweet, gooey, and oh so satisfying! Trust me, you won’t regret it!

Stopped by here one morning while visiting the neighboring business for breakfast, the breads and pastries were still trickling out of the kitchen. Everything looked fresh and tasty, and it was.
As a macaron fan, I couldn’t resist when I saw them by the cash register. It was 10cents cheaper than my favorite macaron place, but they were just not up to par. The macaron tasted a tad dry.

In love. Currently in the honeymoon stage. Still oohs and aahs with wide eyes. So much to choose from… so many things to try.
I’d like to end with that, but let me give you some useful information! The bakery/​café is spacious and clean. When you enter, the baked goods are on your left hand side. You’ll see stacked trays, wax paper, and tongs. Take a tray, cover with a piece of wax paper, take a pair of tongs and be on your merry way choosing from a wide variety of baked goods. Just keep walking down till there is no more to see… it will naturally lead you to the register. However, if you need a second (and maybe third) look, feel free to do it! It’s like watching a movie — you’ll catch/​notice more things the second time around.
Happy oohs & aahs!

Good Korean bakery/​café. Compare with some other Korean bakery, this place is good but not the best place. Have various cake and pastries, Korean style breads. I went to buy birthday cake, fruit decoration on top wasn’t fresh. Was partially dried. I didn’t get any cake, just bought some breads. Service is okay, can get crowded with people.

Looks here can be very deceiving. All the baked goods and pastries looked and sounded so delicious. I love desserts made with green tea, red bean, or pumpkin. So I picked up a mini green tea loaf cake, a red bean donut, an Asian coffee cake thingy and a pumpkin bun. If there was an expiration date on all these items it would have said «last week»! The green tea cake was the worst. As I sliced into it the cake it literally crumbled into a thousands crumbs. It was that dry. The red bean donut and pumpkin bun were stale. The coffee cake was the only decent thing. I’m wondering what is in these baked goods that make them appear so deceptively pretty.
But let me tell you what’s worse than the pastries, the over priced bubble tea! I ordered a taro and a Thai tea bubble tea and these are the WORST bubble teas I’ve had. They tasted nothing like the intended flavors, more like super sweet liquid frosting with hard bubbles. Nasty! I was tempted to go back and complain but I was already half way home. I was literally spitting the bubbles out the window, b/​c they were inedible.
I gave 2 stars bc the place looked like a cozy hangout and the staff was nice. Everyone else ordered coffee or tea so perhaps those are better?
However I will not return. I will stick to the other Asian bakery in town, Parisienne.

Great little bakery café. Tons of young people hanging out here on a Saturday night.
Love the chestnut bread! The rest of the pastries look very good. If it weren’t so freaking cold outside, I’d check to see if they were doing Pat Bing Su.
Sorry to disappoint the Korean friends, but its good but still not as good as French bakeries. If you’re in the area, definitely worth checking out. Already checked out the Flushing location but this one is much nicer. Seems like the K Town location closed too. But at least there’s a new Tous Les Jours in K Town now.
Great place for a late night stop.

Finished lunch at Petite Soo Chow in Cliffside Park and decided to look for a place for dessert. Since it was Thanksgiving, a lot of places were closed. We found the Koryodang Bakery open and since we’d been to a Paris Baguette previously, we thought we’d give it a try.
As other’s have mentioned, there’s a combination of sweet and savory pastries and we tried a few. The standout was the maple bun, an oversized elephant ear. We also tasted a pumpkin pie, and some sticky rice dumplings filled with red bean (the Korean version of Mochi). They were very fresh. The dough had a tinge of saltiness which accented the sweetness of the red bean. My son also had a Strawberry Milkshake.
What I liked about what we tried was that everything was not quite as sweet as at a non-​asian bakery. This even included the milk shake. I don’t know if they used fresh strawberries, but the shake had a slight tartness to it… almost like a yoghurt shake. It also had a milkiness about it that reminded me of some of the fruit flavored milks I’ve had in Asia.
A number of people commented about the prices. The maple bun at $ 3.75 is a great deal. Their fancy cakes are expensive, but the takeaway items seemed ok for the money.

The quality of the pastries definitely went down… especially the potato croquette. It’s so mushy inside (more than needed). No longer the best. mediocre at best, prices still high. I rarely visit this place anymore…
Nice place to chit chat with a group of friends.

I came here with a few friends after A LOT of Korean BBQ down the road at Picnic Garden. The place looked really fresh and modern when walking in and was quite busy for a 9:30−10 on a Friday night. I didn’t think bakeries were open this late!
We decided on the babingsu (please correct me if that’s spelled wrong!) aka the shaved ice. Men being men, we decided to get both the fruit and green tea flavors. Turns out it was waaaaaaay too much. However, I will say that the green tea one is much much better!
The menu is quite extensive compared to most cafes I have been to in the area. You will find most of your normal café drinks as well as (Korean style) bubble tea, as well as the shaved ice we got.
I am personally not familiar with Korean pastries, but from what my friends said and from what I saw, the selections were very good. A little expensive, but good!
One last thought, the bathrooms are super clean!!!
Bottom Line:
Great place and great atmosphere to hang out and have a cappuccino. I definitely have to come back and try some of the delicious looking pastries I had to pass on because of my stomach full of Korean BBQ. Two thumbs up for being open a little later than most of the cafes/​bakeries in the area.

Very nice selection of sweet and savory pastries with ample indoor and outside seating. Went there after dinner with my sister, 2 yo niece and friend who like Koryodang so it was nice to get some advice on what to get! I had the cappucino bubble tea which was like a frappé slushie with bubbles … quite good and very filling. Bought a couple croquettes to go (ham, crab meat and cheese inside). My sis and her friend got the little creampuffs, a blueberry pastry, garic bread (reportedly sweet), sugar toast (reportedly delicious) and little mini chocolate chip cookies which my niece loved.
Décor was very modern and spacious. I especially liked the Corbusier style chairs. Business was brisk but we were allowed to sit at leisure. Parking is pretty easy … this bakery is in the little mall like area where Borders used to be in Fort Lee. Pricing was a tad high but I would come back here for a treat!

Koryodang is a fun place to stop for some pastries or a bubble tea. They have lots of seating indoors and a few tables outside as well. Some pastries are better than others, but there are definitely some interesting and unique options.
They create beautiful cakes and cookies that would look amazing at any party. The downside of the vibrant colors are the artificial colors and flavorings that taste a little too fake sometimes. Overall, worth a stop to try something different.

Baaaah. No other word to describe how I felt. Upon learning Koryodang carried the ever coveted macarons which are best known by Laduree in nyc, I felt it wouldn’t hurt to pay a short trip here since it’s considerably closer. The macarons were $ 1.50 a piece so I excitedly lunged for one of each flavor. The brown, i couldn’t taste anything but melon. The purple, tasted like grape, but still, the filling was melon. The vanilla tasted like vanilla.
I was pretty disappointed by the misleading colors and incoherent flavors, but I guess that’s what I get for trying to get a sweet steal instead of the real deal.

Turf battle royal between this Queens-​born, gyopo korean bakery and the more established, motherland Paris Baguette bakery across the street. Kind of like a cage match between the Rock and StoneCold SA, except business fights are FOR REAL. These two are not going to stop until one of them goes under (which is good for us consumers via lower prices).
If I had to bet, I pick Paris Baguette because their prices are lower and they’ve also been around longer. Koryodang here is larger and have more seating but their breads/​pastries cost 25% more than PB. (Only Balthazaar can get away with charging a premium for their breads/​pastries because they are the best). And at the end of the day, lower prices will win out if you offer similar products, which these two korean bakeries offer.
When the novelty of this location wears out, they will be hurting. It bears further watching– and eating.

So I just finished a nice meal at BCD Tofu House and this awesome looking dessert place just a few stores down in the same strip mall catches my eye. I’m on the outside looking in and I’m mesmerized by all of the baked deliciousness calling out to me like a siren luring in an unsuspecting sailor.
The choices were endless, each one more enticing than the next. What was I to do? How was I to decide? Finally, with the assistance of one of the many helpful staff I settled on the Green Tea Simplicity cake and it was simplistically delicious! But this little piece of heaven don’t come cheap… it’ll set you back $ 5.50. But what the hey, you gotta indulge yourself once in awhile.
Koryodang is a cool place to chill with a tasty dessert and plenty of coffee, tea and bubble tea choices.

Another korean bakery chain in fort Lee.
I like here better than the other places because me and my gf always find a seat and rest up. As she talks I sometimes stare at the tv where it usually shows kpop music vids.
The baked goods are priecy but they do a good job at.
I love the black tea frap. It’s not too sugary and still taste like tea,