ROUND TWO!!! Uncle Tetsu's Japanese Matcha Cafe

Uncle Tetsu's Japanese Matcha Cafe

Location: 596 Bay Street (Bay & Dundas)

Access: Along TTC bus and subway route, street parking available

Price: average $8 per person

Blogsters' Rating: 3.5/5

We're here again! Except this time, we're not here to line up for Uncle Tetsu's Japanese Cheesecake but to check out the new Uncle Tetsu's Japanese Matcha Cafe. As we all love Matcha so much, we must explore this new cafe!

Japanese Matcha Cafe is just right next door to Uncle Tetsu's Japanese Cheesecake. You won't miss it as there is always a long queue outside the Cheesecake Shop. We noticed that this time around, they added pylons around the store to control the lineup of customers.

Compared to the neighboring Cheesecake Shop, the Matcha cafe has a much quicker turnaround so there is only around 4-5 customers in the store at a time.  No long queue! WOOHOO!

As its name suggests, the Matcha Cafe serves everything Matcha! Soft Serve ice cream, Slushie, Shaved Ice and their signature Madeleine as well. Unfortunately they didn't have the Slushie on the day we went so we ordered the Matcha Soft Serve, which comes in Green Tea flavour, Vanilla flavour or a Twist of both flavours.  

The Madeleine station is up front and the oven is in the back of the store - a similar set up to the Cheesecake shop.

A Matcha flavored cheesecake is scheduled to come out in August.  So for all you Uncle Tetsu fans out there, be prepared to line up for the new cheesecake! We were lucky because they recently released a new Red Bean Green Tea Madeleine and it was available on the day we went!

Janet ordered a Green Tea Vanilla Twist Soft Serve ice cream in a cone.

The Green Tea Madeleine is again very rich in buttery flavour with a strong Green Tea taste, which balances out the heaviness of the cake.  However, they were quite dense and filling. The Red Bean version is packed with A LOT of Red Bean paste in the middle and it was very sweet compared to the one without Red Bean.

Be sure to check out our post about Uncle Tetsu's Japanese Cheesecake as well! Stay tuned for more! Have fun!