Princess Cafe

Restaurant: Princess Cafe

Cuisine: Korean style coffee shop

Price range: $5-20 

Location: Yonge and Finch 

Service: Ok

Food: Good

Atmosphere: Excellent 

Suggested for: Friends, dates, and middle aged women 

Taro Rating: 6/10

So perhaps Johnny's Chinatown has become 'Johnny's Slackville'  due our lack of posts. Truth is, we don't have a good excuse and our absence is because of sheer laziness. Luckily, we've gotten off that bandwagon and have revamped our system for your reading pleasure! 

To get on with our review: Princess Cafe has been around for a long time and I've never ventured inside due to the fact that I've always thought it was a hangout for girly girls. And I was right. 

Princess Cafe does not specialize in only one type of cuisine. It offers bubble tea, hot drinks, and different types of desserts such as cakes, waffles, fondue, and toast. Since it is Korean owned, they also offer Korean drinks.

One Korean drink they offered is the sweet potato latte. It is a very heavy drink that feels like a meal on its own. 

They offer a range of waffles for desserts, which can be combined into a combo. Our waiter suggested we share two plates between three people, but since we were starving, we each ordered our own. Even so, the waffles are very shareable.

Caramel latte slice.
Princess Cafe does not make their own cakes, but buys them from a bakery which is why I won't review them..

Red velvet, a new thing on their menu.

Chocolate-Chip Waffle.

You can ask them to give you variations different variations of ice cream. The waffles are made fresh.

Green Tea Waffle.

I'll always remember this particular waffle because it had a very distinct green tea taste to it.

Korean rice drink, one of the Korean drinks they offer. 

It's a very sweet drink and contains cooked grains of rice.

Original bubble tea.
My friend, who was visiting from a place where bubble tea is scarce, was very disappointed with this since it was very bland. Needless to say, Princess Cafe is not the place for good bubble tea.

Princess Cafe's atmosphere is very interesting. It's on the second floor and gets plenty of sunlight, but not so much in the back of the cafe. It has clusters of couches (embroidered in floral prints) and very princess like chairs. 

Teenagers, groups of middle aged women, and couples alike all come here.

Random teddy pears that littered the windowsills watching you eat (could get creepy).

Overall, Princess Cafe can be a hit and miss since I've had friends who have had a terrible experience here, but my experiences here have been good. It may depend on the staff at the time as well, as some are more fluent in English than others. If anything, I would say that their interesting atmosphere is their saving grace.