SimplyCake
132 E 3rd Ave, San Mateo
(650) 348-2888
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I ordered Blueberry Mousse Cake for 15 people. The result was excellent! The decoration was beautiful, the mousse was light and delicious, not too sweet, with fresh fruit, and you could taste all the flavors in every bite. I 100% recommend this place. Thank you for the great work!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Horrible service. If 80% of the bad reviews here are about the confusing line and how obsessive and rude the male cashier is, you should at least do something. Clearly the owner doesn’t care about customer satisfaction.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 3
Service: 1
The cakes and pastries are fine, but the male staff member was incredibly rude and had this strange obsession with the red line. I was just following the previous customer who stood next to it, and even though the store was completely empty, he kept insisting I “stand between the red lines.” He said it so quietly I could barely hear him, and when I asked if he meant me, he just repeated—like a robot running on low battery—“please stand in between…” What a joke.
Also, maybe don’t put three exclamation marks on your sign telling customers where to stand. It’s basically yelling at us. And if you’re really that concerned about the line, maybe don’t put it so far away from the cashier. Honestly, you’d be better off replacing the seating area with the bakery window—it’s dirty and crowded anyway.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 4
Service: 1
Walked by since we’re waiting to get into a restaurant nearby. Got curious and the baked goods look delish so decided to checkout. Man. I ended up getting more than I would like but it all worth it. Good portion of choices of pastries, breads, cakes, and others. Well make & presented plus well displaced. One side is the self pick of the pastries, and the other side is the sitting area. In the back is the cashier & cake order& displace area. Parking was okey and it’s street parking in front with pay and there is one big parking structure and parking lot behind the store (3-5mins walk). Got the egg tarts cause it looks great and taste great too, taro snowy cake (quite good, better then I expected), and couple of to-taro buns. The cakes are well make and eye catching decor, especially the Labubu cake, too cute. The vibe is here chill and enjoys the baked goods. Glad that we stopped by and got some goods.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Bakery, Cakes, Pastries, Tart, Egg Tarts, Fresh Fruit Cake, Blueberry Mousse Slice
My wife and I got incredibly disrespectful treatment by the cashier on the evening of 11/26. Based on previous reviews that cashier seems to be a repeating offender. The owner should really up the game in store front management. If there’s a lot of confusion with the wait area, fix the issue, put up some clear signs. Don’t let your cashier yell at your customer for your own management issue.
Service: 1
TLDR: cashier is plain rude. As one of the earlier comments mentioned, we had the same exact experience of getting rudely accused of cutting the line and yelled at by a cashier on the evening of 11/26. We joined a line that was already formed, when it’s our turn the cashier rudely turned us back and said you were in the wrong spot. After we clearly told him there was a line forming before us and we have been waiting for a while, the cashier rudely dismissed our request and essentially said we should have known better.
Funny enough I’m also pregnant (as the previous concerned comment) so that almost made me think does this cashier have an issue with pregnant women? Why does this guy lacks the very basic manners? No one should be treated like that when all they want is some nice bakery.
This place is great. Reminds me of a more intimate Paris baguette with way better pasties. I got a cake here for my birthday and it was phenomenal. Very soft cake with light crème and strawberries. The best presentation you could imagine and it also came with plates, candles and plastic cutlery. Way above and beyond. I’ve never had Taiwanese bakery so this will now be my standard, also try the use sandwich’s they are soft and fluffy with creamy texture.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
⚠️ TRAP! Avoid!!
WORST EVER Durian and Mango bag dessert in the Bay Area! $4.35 (cream pancake on the receipt) for hard-to-find-any fruit bits and 99% sponge cake and crepe wrap.
This type of deserts called 班戟 are never supposed to be like these. They are usually made of a big chunk of fruit and fresh cream. Just Google them.
Go somewhere else!!!
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Tried a bunch of pastries and my friends and I like them. Fun flavors with good taste. Price is reasonable compared to other stores in the Bay Area. Checkout is a bit slow.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Amazing baked goods, definitely not simply cakes, though they have very pretty cakes as well. We had a very good lunch with a variety of sandwiches, buns, and sweets.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Restaurantji Recommends
The pork taro roll is so delicious! Have to stop and take a pic before we demolished it.
They have many other good items, and priced reasonably too.
Unfortunately, the bathroom was pretty dirty when I visited.
I tried the custard bread and what was labeled to be coconut bun but according to the menu it is purple yam. Both looked decadent but didn't taste like much and for some reason the breads look appealing but flavors are not very balanced. Random extras on the baked goods that don't add much, for example powdered what I think is ube because it's purple on top doesn't add any flavor just color and texture.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 4
The egg tart had a strange spoiled taste for a while, and then they even charged extra for a box when buying four egg tarts. I don’t understand why they charge for a box when the egg tarts aren’t individually packaged—are we supposed to carry them one by one? Other bakeries usually put egg tarts in small bags. Please don’t go to this bakery again; it’s expensive and tastes bad.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Fruit Cake 4 light, fluffy, not too sweet, biscuits, fresh strawberry, mango and blueberry
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Cakes
Delicious cakes! They have premade or you can also custom order. They were easy to custom order with over email and the cake came out beautiful and exactly like the inspiration pictures. The boxes the cakes come in also look so luxe and high end. Great gifts.
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