Tikim30: My Favorites in Cafe Breton (Tomas Morato, Quezon City)

I have been to Cafe Breton quite a few times after dinner just to eat dinner and I usually order their La Pinay or Fantastic Pinay mango crepe. Mango is sweet and good, crepe texture is just right, perfect combination with chocolate, nutulla, whipcream/vanilla ice cream.

The bright yellow sign of Cafe Breton

Inside the Cafe

My biggest mistake is associating Cafe Breton with just crepe for desserts. I have never ordered their hot crepes until a few weeks ago when I tummy grumbled on a late night. I ordered a Gallette Rustique which is a combination of smoked bacon [it looks like ham when it arrived], tomato provencale, mozzarella, and egg. What I like about this dish are how the tomatoes were soft and steamed; these tomatoes converted me to like them! Aside from the previous dish, Evan ordered a Gallette Paysanne, a combination of onions, egg, asparagus, Hungarian sausage slice, and cheese sauce. Again, the vegetables were steamed, a healthier way of eating it plus and it tasted great with the cheese sauce! I would gladly recommend both hot crepes for dinner! :)

Gallette Rustique (P182.50): My fave hot crepe

Gallette Paysanne (P273.50): Sauce is good!

For this visit, I decided to g for Fantastic Pinay. It is just like La Pinay, except that La Pinay doesn't have nutella and is topped with vanilla ice cream instead of whipped cream. Note that La Pinay is also cheaper than Fantastic Pinay! 

Fantastic Pinay (P205.95): Mango Crepe with nutella, chocolate sauce, and whipcream

For my recommendation, I wish they had special gourmet crepes for special occasions or have a "flavor of the month" dessert crepe to introduce new flavors. Better yet, why not have a special crepe for certain branches; for example the Cafe Breton in Tagaytay may offer something a dessert crepe associated to Tagaytay flavors. Other than coming up with something new from time to time, Cafe Breton remains to be my favorite go to place when I am craving for crepes. :)

Taste: 4.5/5
Quality: 4/5
Ambiance: 4/5


Cafe Breton
Tomas Morato corner Sct. De Guia,
Quezon City, Metro Manila
Telephone: 374-6334

Tikim 17: Cold Layers, Greenhills, San Juan

Cold Layers

When you see "Cold Layers", the first things that came into my mind were ice monster, cerealicious, and cooked ice cream. I am partly correct because it's a dessert cafe that sells snack food for variety but Cold Layers specialize on snow ice. It is actually ice that is finely shaved (not crushed like the halo-halo ice) and is similar to the snow ice desserts of Lugang Cafe.

Counter Menu..choose your snow ice

Complete menu flyer 

If you want to have a rest from yogurt and bubble tea cafe, then Cold Layers can be your alternative dessert hang-out place. They boast that their snow ice are made from natural fruits, low fat, low calorie, and starch free ingredients! Other than their snow ice, they serve sandwiches, wraps, and lasagna for your carb needs and a few specialty drinks like coffee, milk tea, and Yakult tea. Evan actually saw their milk tea poster that is very similar to their competitor, Bubble Tea...haha. On a note, maybe they use Bubble Tea products for their milk tea drinks. But I think they should change that poster because it associates Cold Layers being a sister company of Bubble Tea Cafe!

The white circles are the bubbles that pop! ^.^ Makes the drink exciting

Going back to my order, unfortunately, I have no room for heavy dessert, and just decided to order a drink. I have been a yakult tea fan for the longest time and when Evan saw they have that on their drinks list, i got excited and ordered it! :) The Yakult tea consists of Green Tea, Passion fruit bits, and bubbles; the drink costs P105.00. I think it was expensive compared to Happy Lemon and Serenitea size, for the same amount you could have your drinks in large but not here, they only served it in medium size. Taste-wise it is less sweet than the Passion fruit Yakult of Serenitea; it also had a lot of ice which i hope they lessen. What was exciting about drinking the Yaklut tea was the "popping balls" of passion fruit juice! ^.^ At first I thought it was just a white colored sago/bubble but to my surprise it was like a burst of juice when you bite it! It is refreshing and exciting to drink. I wish my drink had more of those popping balls!

Rating 3/5


Cold Layers
2nd Floor, Northeast Square Building,
Connecticut St, Greenhills, San Juan.
Contact: coldlayersphilippines@yahoo.com