Matcha Cafe Maiko

One of best matcha drinks and ice cream you can get the bay, their boba is also really good sweet and good chewiness. Only thing is I wished they opened a real store and not a stand. But service and food here is good.

I would say I prefer less sweet of the matcha but my friend thinks the sweetness is at the right point.

worst banana matcha latte ever omfg so artificial and sweet that we could barely taste the matcha itself. otherwise the matcha ice cream and hojicha latte are delicious — just do NOT get the banana matcha latte. also workers r nice 👍🏼👍🏼

Just abit too sweet but still Loved their soft serve matcha cone ice cream!

Love this store… Matcha soft serve is a must when we are at the mall. So delicious and so good. The service too was good. The only thing I noticed: their soft serve was more up at the top, u know, it's bigger in portion before, now it's lesser, but I still come back hoping they bring the same volume of ice-cream as before. They have a promo for today, only $4 soft serve if you take a picture from their calendar in the middle of the mall. Same as in the picture… this is cool.

Came here to try out their parfait since we have been looking for ones similar to ones we had in Kyoto and hadn't had much luck in finding good ones. This one is definitely a journey since it's in the mall and the parking here is such a cluster having to navigate into the mall parking itself and then fighting people for parking spots. Once you get here, it took us some time to find it since it was showing as being on the first floor but it's located on the second floor near Nordstroms.

It's a stand so no real seating around, which also makes it a challenge. They have a rope up to guide people where to stand and it went relatively quick, about 10 min wait for 8 people ahead of us and then another 5-10 mins for the food to come out.

Ordered the strawberry sundae and the Maiko special parfait. The sundae was alright, a bit sweet for our tastes but fits more the American pallet well. It sorta reminds me of the McD sundaes. For the Maiko parfait, you get a choice of Vanilla, Matcha, Vanilla/Matcha swirl, black sesame, kinako, and then a mix of the two. It was too bad that you couldn't mix black sesame with matcha or some other combination but I get that is just how the machines are setup. The parfait has a lot of ingredients and gives some nice textures and while it was pretty good, it still doesn't live up to what we had in Japan but I guess it will have to do until we can make it back!

Always consistent and good matcha Soft Serve. They were out of the the Hojicha today.

banana matcha latte is so mid. tasted so artificial and gave me a stomach ache

Good high quality matcha sweets. Only wish you could change the matcha concentration.

Wateriest matcha latte I’ve ever had. I’ve been to one of these in the past and was one of the best matcha I’ve had, this was just bad. Very very bad.

The matcha itself is alright, especially the ice cream. It's unpleasantly grainy and I think it's a bit overhyped. I've tried their drinks and ice cream on two different occasions. It was inconsisted in taste and texture.

On top of that, they have the worse staff. Very rude and always rushing. The guy with the glasses looks like he wants to quit and the line wasn't even long. Save your money and either get your own tin of matcha or go to a different place

That matcha with cheese foam is so gas

classic and delicious. a lovely treat.

The matcha is pretty good for the price but just know that if you're going to try it, the lines get really long on the weekends so try to come in during the weekdays.
The staff is really nice as well jajajaaja

8/10

One of the best matcha places in the Bay Area. I love their softies and matcha drinks. Their softies ante soothing, creamy and not too sweet. I got the matcha float and my friend got matcha vanilla softie. Both were amazing. If you haven’t tried matcha and want to try, I’d suggest this place.