Cafe Dulce (Little Tokyo)
Cafe · Historic Core ·
Asian-style bakery offering egg tarts, doughnuts, and milk tea
Asian-style bakery offering egg tarts, doughnuts, and milk tea
"This casual counter-serve café is best-known for the legendary green tea donuts, and rightly so. But branch out, into an array of freshly-baked delicacies including chewy spirulina rolls, flavored rotis, bacon donuts and for the coffee snob … four types of coffee (Ritual, Four Barrel, Stumptown and Copa Vida). Warning: to preserve freshness, they bake in limited batches and sell out early." - Sandwich Video
"Deep in the heart of Little Tokyo’s fun and very touristy Japanese Village Plaza sits Caffe Dulce, a counter-serve coffee shop serving some of our favorite baked goods downtown. While you can’t go wrong with any of their housemade pastries, their Green Tea donut is worth the drive from wherever you are in the city. If you’re in the mood for something slightly more substantial, their baguette sandwich situation is not to be ignored." - jess basser sanders, brant cox
"An Asian-style bakery and early gourmet coffee shop in Little Tokyo opened in 2012 by James Choi and his mother, offering fruit-adorned egg tarts, strawberry cream doughnuts, Vietnamese coffee, and Hong Kong–style milk tea. Carole recommends the cream-filled matcha doughnuts and the chewy green “dinosaur egg” tapioca-flour buns (colored with spirulina)." - Mae Hamilton
"I like arriving early in Little Tokyo when it’s peaceful and stopping in for hand-shaken coffee and house-made pastries; behind the display and cashier is the bakery prep area where items like the red bean roti and Oreo doughnut are made. I often opt for the Vietnamese coffee, a blueberry matcha latte, or the espresso-filled Dulce latte — note the iced variety is placed in a cocktail shaker before pouring — and appreciate the ample outdoor seating for a swift serving of caffeine, carbs, and sugar." - Eater Staff
"Café Dulce, Little Tokyo. This casual counter-serve café is best-known for the legendary green tea donuts, and rightly so. But branch out, into an array of freshly-baked delicacies including chewy spirulina rolls, flavored rotis, bacon donuts and for the coffee snob … four types of coffee (Ritual, Four Barrel, Stumptown and Copa Vida). Warning: to preserve freshness, they bake in limited batches and sell out early."