Dots Cafe

3819 E Colorado Blvd, Pasadena
(626) 314-3456

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Graciela Cornell

Such a charming little bakery! I absolutely loved the wallpaper and pink décor—just so dreamy! Their carrot cake cupcake and chocolate cupcake were both super moist and full of flavor. Service was outstanding, and the cupcakes are very reasonably priced. I will definitely be returning!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Greg Lucas

Great for late breakfasts. Always a pleasent atmosphere.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 5

Service: 4

renee hayes

Always fun to go here!!!

Jason Lew

I don’t usually post lengthy reviews unless the experience is extremely good or bad. But this is bad. My family fell in love with dots family meals. They r good in quality and in taste and feeds a family of 4 and I have been ordering the family meals once a week and this week I ordered TWICE. They take pre orders and pre payment for their family meals. I pre ordered this Wednesday and picked it up and everything was great. I also pre ordered 4 DAYS BEFOREHAND to pick up this Friday and they confirmed my ordered. My family and I really liked their food and this Friday they had a family meals with steak, pasta and cookies that we really really wanted to try. I told my kids about dots and their meals since this Monday. They liked this Wednesday’s so we were so excited about the Friday family meals and we were so looking forward to it and everyday this week I was prepping my family and saying oh they have steak and pasta and cookies! So I drove the family to the Santa Anita mall and had a great time and told them on the way home we will pick up dinner at dots and they were so excited. We arrived at dots and I went inside to pick up my order and they TOLD ME THEY DIDNT HAVE ANY??? I’m like what do you mean, I pre ordered 4 days ago. I don’t get it. The owner lady said someone came in to pick up the last one? Huh?? I preordered and confirmed the order for pick up and they gave the last one to some other person? How does this happen?? All she did was apologize and didn’t even make me feel any better or remedy the situation. I told my family about this dinner 4 days ago and prepped them and they were so happy but I walked out of dots with nothing! Being sorry doesn’t feed my family. What does pre ordering and pre paying do when they don’t even honor it ?? She said they made the exact amount of preorders. Obviously not! Someone messed up bad and gave my food away or didn’t make enough food. I don’t even know what happened. I felt so bad. I had to walk to the car empty handed and my family kept asking me what happened and I had to tell them they didn’t have our food and we had to go somewhere else for dinner. They were so disappointed to the point of almost crying and I felt so bad and felt helpless. This whole experience was horrible. I regret counting on dots to deliver. I was a loyal customer but not anymore. I was going to order for next week for Christmas Eve. They are doing a prime rib family meal for $175. Expensive but was gonna order at least 3 for a family party but not anymore. I don’t want to show up empty handed and can’t trust that I would even get my food I preordered. I rather go to an establishment that actually puts customers first and knows what they are doing. If they mess up, take the blame and at least make me or my family feel better but I walked out of there feeling ill to my stomach. To see your kids faces so sad is just heartbreaking.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 1

Dan Hess

The food here is fire 🔥 - my fave is the absolutely delicious breakfast sandwich, with its fluffy eggs and brioche bun, but honestly all of the breakfast items are fantastic. Good coffee, great lunch sandwiches, but their “happy hour” deals are killer. Not to mention the cupcakes and desserts are killer! This might be the most underrated food spot in Pasadena.

But I haven’t even mentioned the best thing about this place - the family meals that they offer from Tues-Friday every week, rotating meals all the time, not one repeated meal all month, are massive, delicious and one of the best deals in California. They can feed a huge family for one night but we usually stretch out the meal over the course of several meals per week. Insane.

Bonus points: the owners might be the biggest Dodgers fans in LA. They even work with the team!

Only drawback is the café, as cute as it is, is a bit empty most of the time. That’s good if you want a quiet spot to work and grab a bite, but ultimately it’s best as a grab and go spot right off the freeway.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Cupcake, Mini Cupcakes Future Order, Sandwiches

Gurwinder Singh

Thanks you so so much it was so so good!!!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Lingyu Liu

We got these mini cupcakes for my son’s birthday at school with his little friends. They are all so stoked about these.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Thomas

Really good. The baked goods are fresh and of the highest quality. My latte was pefect. The atmosphere inside is nice and cozy. Next time I come here (and I will come back again) I will try a few of the different lubch options they have.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 4

charisma barriger

this place is very cute with a big reasonably priced menu. i liked the decor a lot and the seating options. this place just has a cute vibe. my cupcake honestly wasn’t my favorite but it wasn’t bad.

Victoria Kondo

I had a variety of mini cupcakes and the Vietnamese coffee. They were all delicious. Definitely a place to stop at if you have a sweet tooth. They also do regular lunch stuff but I was there for the sugar rush.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Sam K.

The food exceeded my expectations. It tasted fresh and made with care. Like something I would make at home if I really put a lot of effort into it. Coffee and cupcake made a great dessert. But I will definitely be back for lunch or brunch again

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Johnny Tseng

We've been here since they first opened and also frequented their arroyo locaiton before it closed down. Cupcakes sometime get be little dry
Most of the time is okay. Service if busy can be slow and cupcakes due run out of popular flavors like mint. Order ahead if option is available. I also wish they brought back daily meal dinner packages like when they had during covid. They were family meal kits ready to heat / eat. Our family enjoyed them a lot when it was offered.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 4

Marlene Velazquez

Live their carrot cake cupcakes! Everything is delicious here!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Felisia Micky

Here one cupcakes store with cozy and cute theme place name : Dots Cafe.

Its great for your party, with $ 24.75 you got a dozen mini cupcakes with many flavor such as :
Red velvet, strawberry shortcake, vanila squarer, chocolate coconut, and for special flavor that only made on friday/saturday/sunday they got rasberry lemon and passionfruit.

Its complete your party with cute cupcakes and great taste!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

68mustamg Home project

First time in, had some cupcakes, they were good just a little dry but very tasty. The server was magnificent very welcoming and friendly super patient, Thank you Leila for your hospitality! 10/10 service and atmosphere very clean and appealing definitely recommend

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 3

Service: 5

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