JANE et ALICE
Located in Sangmu is a tiny hole-in-the-wall that serves up sandwiches and cereal. Its name is Jane et Alice (Jane and Alice). It’s a tiny shop near E-Mart by the 5.18 pedestrian overpass bridge. You’ll spot it next to a vacant Rice Spoon and a Seven Monkeys coffee shop.
The menu is extremely limited, offering sandwiches, one burger, one bagel, cereal and a couple of drinks. I’ve heard their turkey and cheese was good, as well as their steak sandwich. Chris came out for the review and tried the steak sandwich.
The steak… well more like bulgogi was cooked fine. The sandwich was ridiculously small for it’s hefty 7,000W price tag. The hash-brown was an extra 2,000. In addition to cheese, lettuce and red onion (which were nice) there was a very strange relish taste to the sandwich (which in my opinion, ruined it).
I opted for their bacon-bagel. It just sounded good. The description of the sandwich was written in Korean, and the only thing I could make out was “치 즈;” cheese that is. I figured it was going to be a bacon, egg and cheese bagel, which at the time sounded lovely.
Instead I was met with a BLT; bacon, lettuce and tomato. The bagel was raw and was also filled with dried cranberries. There was way too much lettuce, just trying to “beef” up the bagel. The cheese was plastic. The bacon on this thing was awesome though… sort of a waste of bacon. Weighing in at 5,500W, Mr. Cranberry was well over-priced.
Jane and Alice are lacking a few things. One of them is service. It took a long time to get our food. The menu was pretty boring. The food was so-so. The atmosphere and decor are the same as most cookie-cutter layouts found in Korean coffee and sandwich shops.
If you are in Sangmu and want to overpay for an average sandwich (kind of like going to Kraze Burger) then check this place out. Our bill came out to almost 20,000W; that is just too expensive for a couple of plastic sandwiches.
-JD
How to get there: Take a taxi to Sangmu E-Mart, or catch a bus to Sangmu 5.18 Park.
