Motto Tea Cafe - Pasadena

100 W Green St, Pasadena
(626) 365-1049

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Victor Castillo

The Japanese souffle pancakes were very filling and very good, we ordered 2 cups of coffee and Creme Brule & original Japanese souffle pancakes both styles were excellent pillowy eggy vanilla 😋
It's not cheap $54 including 18% tip plus $10 dollars to park. Ordering is automated, when you walk in there's 2 kiosks to get you started on your order.

Emily Lin

Wiggle pancake, fun place to check out and share with friends/ family

Shelly Dong

The soufflé cakes taste amazing, but they need to better train their staff. Literally heard them talking bad things abt a customer in Chinese assuming no one else could understand it. Very disrespectful.

Lori Wan

We got a matcha cheesecake, but it was really disappointing. I couldn't taste any matcha and the texture of the cake was too hard, it didn't even taste like cheesecake.

Martha L

Always good drinks , fast service

Mihaela Lesikova

I’ve been wanting to try soufflĂ© pancakes for a while, so I was excited to find out that Motto Cafe serves them. Unfortunately, they weren’t what I was expecting and left me a bit disappointed. I ordered the Nutellamisu flavor, the mousse was delicious, but the pancake itself had a strong eggy taste and didn’t pair well with the sweet mousse.
I also tried the pistachio crepe chiffon cake, which was decent, and the grapefruit lychee sunset tea, which was just okay. I liked that you can order from a kiosk, but it’s odd that someone brings the food while you still have to grab your own utensils. The girl who brought my pancakes also had a bit of an attitude, which made the experience less pleasant.
Overall, between the food and the service, I don’t think I’ll be coming back.

Lorina Garduno

CrĂšme brĂ»lĂ©e soufflĂ© was so good. But the brown sugar boba pancakes were mid. Ordered 4 drinks, grapefruit citrus, matcha, taro milk tea, and taro storm boba and they were tasteless. No flavor. The citrus tasted like someone sprayed floral perfume in my mouth. When I asked the staff why the citrus drink tasted and looked different from the description she said, with a HUGE attitude, “it’s not suppose to look the same.” And proceeded to be very rude the rest of our interaction. Would not go back. Not even for those tasty creme brĂ»lĂ©e soufflĂ© pancakes.

adan zarate

Fast service, tasty cakes.

Laura I

Very skip-able. Didn’t love it, didn’t hate it. I thought it was odd that a pancake place isn’t open for breakfast.

The flavour of the pancakes was overly eggy. The service was lacklustre (eg you tip for service but when they bring you the dish you have to get silverware yourself?).

The Nutella mouse was good and boba is great!

Mojtaba Taheri

Would not recommend, this place definitely let us down. We bought desserts, and the cream was stale and the cake wasn't good. Additionally, although we only had two bites of the cake we requested to get a refund for the cake, but they refused.

Allen Scudder

What a great spot!

Donna Kumamoto

Creme ruler souffle pancake! Delicious!

missy cheng

We tried the Souffle cake, it was delicious. The price is reasonable. There were 4 of us who partake the souffle and it was filing. Street parking is available.

Ryan Freed

be patient, worth the wait.

Raven M

My friend and I just finished Catcon and found this delicious place to go for brunch.
I got the mango soufflé pancake and my friend got the crÚme brûlée pancake. Very light and fluffy. I recommend trying the white peach lemon jasmine bliss.

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