[ADVENTURES] Stumbling Upon the 2NE1 Cafe

NOTE – This Store Closed Down

The HA Crew likes to go on random adventures around Southern California.  We’ve stumbled upon many pleasant K-Pop related surprises, which we always intend on sharing, but always forget to.  It’s not that interesting of a story, but I’ll share anyways.

A few of us were driving to Garden Grove to one of our most reliable Korean music stores to pick up a few things.  While driving past Knott’s Berry Farm, down Beach Blvd., Dee shouts out, “TWENTY-ONE CAFE!” but we sped by without seeing what she was referring to.  I said, “REALLY? haha, okay cool, we’ll see it on the way home.”  I thought it might’ve been like a coffee, boba, or a pho place for some reason so I really wasn’t that excited about it…lol.

But then, on our drive back, we pass it and what do you know, it looks like THIS:

There’s no mistaking thats intentional!  ★2NE1 Cafe?! HELLO!  So we made a u-turn immediately to take a closer look.  To be honest, it’s not in the nicest plaza ever….but we went inside anyways to check it out.  It’s a Korean restaurant alright and as much as we wanted to check out the menu, it was all in Hangul (although, Dee can read Hangul…..).  Anyways, it’s a restaurant during the day and a bar at nighttime.  There were lots of colorful balloons and beer posters on the walls, but no sign of anything remotely 2NE1 or YG.  We asked the waiter if the name of the restaurant was in relation to 2NE1 the girl group and he told us no.

My guess is that they were thinking of a good name for the restaurant that would signify that it’s a great night spot to hit, someone may have mentioned 2NE1 and they used the name (since legal drinking age in America is 21!).  I don’t know, that’s just my guess!!!

If you’re in the area, here’s the address.  It just opened so if you Google it, you probably won’t find it.

2NE1 Restaurant
3010 West Lincoln Avenue
Anaheim, CA  92804
(714) 952-3010‎

I called the phone number to double check and make sure that it was correct.  The man on the phone greeted on the other line, “Annyonghaseyo, 2NE1 imnida!”  xD How funny!

Major props to Dee for her sharp eyes while we were speedily driving down Beach Blvd.!  We find a lot of ironic K-pop related stuff in So Cal while exploring.  We’ll try to share more often! 😉
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