It was nearly a year after its opening when I finally got to try this restaurant. The name sounds…read moreJapanese but it isn't... I think the words were selected because one sounds like "yummy" or something like that. My cousin told me she and her friends like this place (they would--they're tweens). She ordered one of those flower pots. It's like a pot with a cupcake in it (the flower is fake, but I think it costs Php 80.00 extra). The place looks really cute and girly (read: not my kind of place) and the chairs are rather tiny. My knees would bump on the little table too. Not for very tall people. So I think we ordered the tiny burgers and the fries which are nothing to write home about... they're just...okay. The ingredients aren't anything special, but very interesting concept with the pizza fries. I'm going to try making that one day, with better cheese (the secret to making anything awesome is cheese, I tell you).
Now, the thing on the menu you have to order are their drinks. They have cute names like "Once Upon a Nutella," "The Three Maltesers," etc. I had the one with the tiny Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, so it was salty and sweet at the same time. Anyone would go into sugar shock with the sweetness, so I think I requested just 3/5 sugar, but they'd sprinkle this colorful sugar on top of your drink, which looks very cool on instagram.
We decided to order a slice of red velvet cheesecake (I think) and a slice (or square) of blueberry cheesecake (as takeaway for my mum) and they were tiny... so a little disappointing. The red velvet wasn't that great; the cheesecake wasn't cream cheese-y. It was quite bland and not rich at all. It tasted like paste, actually. I think my mom didn't really love her dessert either. I've definitely had better cheesecake.
So, I'd probably give 4 stars for my drink, because-- duh, presentation and instagram-worthiness. But overall, for the concept with the movie house thing (there was a group of kids watching a film when we ate there and they looked like they had a lot of fun), the cozy (albeit cramped) space, and the decor and for making me feel like giant Alice in Wonderland-- all good things, but then, the not so special food, the cakes -- I'd have to say three stars. I might go back for coffee, but not for the food.
* EDIT: Oh, and they sometimes offer Buy 1 Take 1 deals for their drinks on their anniversary, around May if I'm not mistaken, so that's cool.