After a little too much bias and hype from fellow people who drool over cup cakes and red velvet, I decided to pay tribute to this petite cup-cake place on a Friday evening.
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| Sit here to enjoy your cupcake, enjoy being looked at like a show piece. |
Ambiance
Being located at a mall, parking is no big deal. Unlike other malls, the parking is a little less expensive. Thirty bucks an hour (if you're saying wtf now, welcome to the club.) The table room or more of a "cup-cake cafe" is located in the third floor of the Brookfields mall (first ever mainstream malls to reach the shores of Coimbatore,) near Odyssey, not inside the food court. The inside is completely quiet from the usual chaos, they pay good attention to maintain the place spic and span. The wall hangings on the west was amazing, pretty impressive collection. The show plates near the glazed entrance were empty (and I don't like me plate empty.)
Lighting was just sufficient with white predominantly bounced from muted walls.
Furniture was decent, but the chairs were a bit tall for the table provided. The stools (as they were more like that) resembled bar stool and wasn't really the thing for a place of this kind. On the other hand, sofas are well chosen, cozy too.
Behind the display and billing lay another set of visually appealing cutlers, more for a show purpose than being actually used.
The display trays were decent enough for the spread of the menu. The whole cafe at a go could serve up to 20 people seating, however seats were limited to 15. Good not being over cramped. The cutlery, plates in specific, were white and dirty :/ A darker colour could have worked better.
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| Chocoholic |
Food
The menu was simple with, cup cakes as the main seller and was sided with green tea, cappuccino, only reason being, cup-cakes don't feel left alone. We walked in at almost 8 pm and red velvet cup cake already ran out of stocks. With great disappointment I chose to have a few others. I could lay hands on the chocoholic, a heavenly chocolate cup cake baked with dark choc and topped with beaten chocolate, they made an awesome blend on the top, but was more sugary leaving you blind in sweetness. The strawberry cheesecake is something that drove me with it's name, it's baked with biscuits at the bottom with the whole cake made of normal buttered flour, that was too dry, it crumbled as it was pierced, topped off with a layer of crème cheese, highlighted in the centre with raspberry Jam! Irony, because of the jam, it tasted like Jim Jam biscuit. This particular dish could be improved by a layer of cheese in the middle and more butter in the
cake flour. Also flavoring the cheese with strawberry instead of the jam would greatly improve. One made with Nutella (forgot the name) was the best I laid hands on! It was usual chocolate based cake topped with nutella and iced with choco cips. The cake was fresh and... chewey, sweetness was well maintained and the chocochips didn't do as much damage as I thought it'd do.
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| Nutella Cup cake |
Heavenly chocolate was another in the list, which was sweet chocolate cake topped with a thick layer of éclair. Had a hard time finishing it and I died for something spicy to over come the sweetness, my bad cappuccino also wasn't available.
Service
The franchise is run by a pretty famous group of companies in CBE. It's self service and if you're a huge crowd you might spend some time to get em proper.
Cupcakes cost about 69 and 59 and coffee about 40, green tea at 30. If you choose a wise range of serving, it is absolute value for money. The so called dessert places that cost twice hardly serve the same or even worse, so if you're dying for cup cakes, walk right into here.
They open by 11 is in the afternoon and close by 9:00 pm. So in case you get disappointed because it's closed, you're just at the tip of the ice berg.
Their best seller is the Red velvet which gets sold out by 4:00 pm max.
If you might need more at a go, you could even try calling up for a pre-order, which I'm sure they would entertain (I haven't tried though.)