Shochikuen Cafe — Restaurant in Tokyo

I had a very terrible experience in this cafe. First of all, the place is really small, the tables are so tiny that the dishes can barely fit in it. There's no service at all, you have to ask for the food at the counter and go to pick it up when it's ready. But the worst part was the food itself, I can try my best to think about a positive aspect about it but I simply can't find any. Everything was ridicously tiny, like extremely small hamburgers and slices of pizza (also different and with way less ingredients than the photos on the menu). The taste wasn't good either, and I'd say that I could forgive everything since at least I had the chance to eat something gluten free, but the ridicously high prices make everything unforgivable. I seriously felt played around, even though I ordered a lot of things I left the cafe with my stomach completley empty, but mad because I paid way way too much for what I received. I know that gluten free and vegan restaurants in Japan are very pricy, but in many other places I had at least left the restaurant satisfied. Here I felt joked around and tricked instead. Absolutley not...

We ate here for lunch. We ordered a half/half pizza, lemon soda, and iced oat milk latte. Everything disappointed us. The pizza was too soft/wet and definitely seemed like a frozen pizza that had been heated up. It costs 3212 yen which is way to much for a small pizza that’s mediocre at best. The taste was alright. The lemon soda was okay, but again nothing to write home about and mediocre at best. The iced oat milk latte was maybe the most disappointing thing. Tasted like oat milk and instant coffee mixed together. Very bland tasting.

We didn’t try the cake since we were so disappointed by the food. But it better be fantastic to deserve all the 5star ratings this cafe has.

Best part about it was definitely that it was a vegan option. But since Tokyo has quite a few vegan options nowadays, this isn’t enough to...

love this little hidden gem. The decor is great and the whole cafe feels very welcoming and cute. I loved the matcha mousse cake. The cake itself had a great texture to start with. Nice crumble cake bottom and layered matcha mousse not buttery just delicious and not too sweet. I also had a delicious matcha latte. I ordered a large hot matcha. The size was good and the taste was great as well. Normal is soy milk, but you can change to oat or almond for extra charge. But unfortunately the hot drink was not hot… I have two complaints. The cake pieces could be bigger. The size is quite small! The matcha was lukewarm. I had to drink it in one bit or it would have been cold. Please serve hot drinks when ordering hot. I will still leave 5 stars but hope that they will make the drinks hot...