Chicco Cafe [RIP]

Bakery: Chicco Japanese Dessert Cafe
Address: 1504 Robson St, Vancouver BC
Website: http://www.chiccocafe.com/
Style: Japanese
Price: $$

Chicco is a Japanese cafe serving homemade, mostly European-inspired sweets such as lovely cake slices and pastries, sugar cookies, and parfaits, all featured in their appetizing display case and packed in little bags. The Japanese always do make things look prettier. ^.^

 Anyways, it was a difficult choice, but two cake slices were selected: the Japanese cheesecake and a matcha cake (around $4.50 each). The matcha cake was unlike anything I've tried before: as opposed to a cake with green tea powder (such as a green tea cheesecake or cream cake), the matcha was the main ingredient. And there was lots of it; it being high-quality, flavour-packed matcha. Very good! Perhaps not for everyone, but for those who love tea, there's a lot of it. Probably more tea than cake, in fact. :P

The cheesecake wasn't as smooth or as mousse-y as other Japanese cheesecakes I've tried, namely Uncle Tetsu's. More dense, more wet and clotty (a bit hard to explain), this was certainly the most cheesy variation. Its richness resembles more Eastern European cheesecakes. Nevertheless, this has to be the best Japanese cheesecake I've tried -- and no crazy lines! ;)

Rating: ****