Emeline V.
Yelp
It breaks my heart to bring this place's score down but... This is the second year we've requested Mlles Gâteaux's services for custom cake. Last year, we wanted a spiced cake, and somehow ended up with lemon and chocolate. Umm..ok..? It was tasty so we brushed it off and decided to give them another go this year. It was for a birthday, so we wanted to do something a bit off the beaten path, and went for a rainbow cake. I called the place 2 weeks in advance, and was told I could expect a call-back to iron the fine details. The ladies on the phone seemed overwhelmed by the request: how many colours are there in a rainbow? Plans were made, that was that.
We picked up the cake today. It looked quite lovely, all white! It makes it even better to cut into a nondescript cake eh? So moment of truth, the slice comes out and...it's not a rainbow. It's a random bunch of colours. The first young woman did ask me which colour I wanted on top, and the order of the rainbow so what's that? What about the taste? Only one layer of the cake was flavoured (yellow-lemon), even though I asked for all of them to be done (how hard is it to put lemon zest in batter, even if it is dyed purple?). The five other colours taste like cardboard, and the top tiers are under baked. The only solution we've found is to drown it in booze. For $70, it's the most expensive cardboard I'll ever eat, and a massive birthday disappointment. I'm sure the store redeems itself in other ways, but custom cake might not be their forte. I really can't recommend them yet.