Tina K.
Yelp
Free parking in the back during lunch.
The atmosphere is just like any other coffee shop. It's busy, , bright, clean, and quiet. The prices are a little too high for the quality of the drinks/food, in my opinion.
I got a smoked salmon bagel ($15) that was okay, nothing special, an iced yuzu peach green tea ($5) which originally comes unsweetened but I asked for sweetener, and a matcha cream cheese cookie which was lacking flavor other than sugar (it tasted more like pandan than matcha). You can't taste the yuzu at all and can get a slight hint of the sweetener. A friend bought a slice of multiple cakes: earl grey, coffee cheesecake, Dubai chocolate cheesecake, and chocolate cake. They were all moist and pretty good (I'm not sure about the pricing). Service was slow. We walked in when no one was waiting for an order. It took 15 minutes to get our sandwiches.
My main issue with this coffee shop is that there are rules everywhere. Maybe it's to maintain some order and ensure everyone in the shop is a customer, but it's weird to have a required rule where each person needs to have a minimum of 1 order. Then there's the infamous "no outside food or drink" which I fully understand, but a friend of mine was rudely kicked out for bringing a Starbucks croissant one day even though she bought a drink here. Lastly, patio says, "no rearranging the furniture" which is weird considering all the seating were preferable of groups of 2-3 and we were a group of 6 trying to be seated together. Any seats inside that could hold us were taken by single people with laptops taking the whole table (which is out of anyone's control).
Overall, I'd go back if I really wanted the coffee cheesecake. But I would generally avoid it because of pricing and weird rules. To be honest, I think people only like this place cause it gives an aesthetically pleasing atmosphere.