Tsubakiya coffee shop Ueno — Restaurant in Tokyo

Very cozy and quiet coffee shop --- the servers actually are dressed up as maids (not the Akibahara maids, if you get what I meant), and they serve in a highly trained manner with good service.

I ordered Breakfast special and it includes a generous salad (hard thing to come by if you don't go to western style Japanese restaurants, Japanese ppl are REALLY into meat dishes), a bit of a tiny portion of egg (it is boiled and mashed up a little, you have to ask for salt as it is not seasoned at all) and some ham.

The morning set comes with hot coffee or tea but adding ¥150 gives you additional choices or other drinks like juices or Royal MilkTea (served hot or cold --- chose cold as I was hot from all the walking around).comes with syrup and don't forget to add it prior to taking a sip... it is not pre-sweetened either.

Total ¥1,500... a bit steep comparing to all other Japanese coffee shop style place with breakfast (Also, not many places offer the standard Continental breakfast with eggs, most are hot egg / ham / bacon sandwiches only,some places even serves the sandwiches cold only), but it is a good place if you like the high classed atmosphere.

Forgot to add --- this place is nice for ppl who like cakes... just that I didn't have the appetite for that at the time I went there (10:00?).

P.S. Sorry that I can't post the photos, seems like Google's system (Google Map?) somehow cannot find the photos I took using Wechat... but trust me, the cakes look nice, even for someone who normally doesn't go to tea places just...

NOV 2024

Visited here for a late night dessert and ordered a cake set which includes a drink of your choice. Had the mont blanc cake and their specialty blend coffee which took about 15 minutes for the order to arrive. The mont blanc is a multi layer cake with a tart base, sponge and chestnut cream, topped with chestnut. It was sweeet and tasty, and easy to cut with the soft tart base. Also pairs well with the black coffee which was smooth with a mild medium roast flavor profile. Overall great coffee and cake, staffs were friendly and the atmosphere was calm and relaxing at night when it...

Came in here for a break after exploring the area and ordered two cakes sets - one with coffee and the other with tea. The coffee was smooth and wasn’t acidic at all, the tea was pretty good and came with slices of lemon. Cakes were delish and paired well with the drinks! This cafe does allow smoking though so even though we were seated away from the smoking area, you could definitely still smell whiffs of smoke - but we didn’t mind it too much. The interior is dark and quite cozy - our bill turned out to be around 40AUD total but it was worth the experience...