SimplyCake

132 E 3rd Ave, San Mateo
(650) 348-2888

Recent Reviews

Vivian Lee

I’ve ordered 3 cakes from here in the span of a month. I was so impressed with the 6in mango cake I decided to get more for a coworker birthday and going away cake.The cakes are beautiful and delicious. They’re pretty standard cake prices ($30+) I call or email ahead of time to order. The fruit cake doesn’t seem to be available all the time, but it’s totally worth. I didn’t get a pic of the tiramisu :(I’ll be looking forward to getting more cakes in the future! The other pastries from here are good, too!

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Mixed Fruit Cake

Victor Zhang

I go every

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: BBQ Pork Bun, Bakery

Erika Yuu

Don't buy egg/portuguese/coconut/cheese tarts, the worst in the world. The ? is tasteless and not soft.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 2

A L

Been there few times. The pastries have always been good. Usually the staffs are nice and friendly, except for today. The two staffs at the counter were quite rude and arrogant. I won’t visit in the near future as the same staffs might bring some more bad mood to me.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 1

Gargi Gupta

They are really good, cakes are yum!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Amanda Hu

The HK milk tea here is pretty good and they have a wide selection of Asian pastries. I liked the sponge cake here but I thought the cheese tart was

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

Lauren Javan

Everything is the most delicious. Will definitely be back!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Recommended dishes: BBQ Pork Bun, Egg Tarts, Mango Cake

Walter C. & Karen Y.

Had their green tea mousse cake at a bday party. The mousse has a very nice green tea flavor that tastes like a good green tea ice cream. This cake is light and not too sweet, IMHO the flavor is better than 85° and Paris Baguette. Subtracted 1 star for price.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: Matcha Mousse

Yu

Good place to have an afternoon tea.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 4

Yao Wong

Probably one of the best Asian bakeries on the Peninsula. Pork sung roll and hot dog buns are very good. Solidly executed egg tart (pie crust style, not flaky). Excellent castella and sponge cakes.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 3

Cathy Cao

The Hokkaido cake is very delicious.

Jordin Alonso

Ricardo, excellent seller.Very good customer service

Myan D.

this is by far the best asian bakery in the area! we drove all the way from south bay to here because i wanted to try their purple potato buns & it did not disappoint! there was such a huge variety of pastries, i lowkey may have overbought. but it also got the asian parent seal of approval, so that's how you know it's good. our favorite was the pork floss bun that had asian mayo (i think?) in the center. super moist, soft, & so flavorful! definitely way better than paris baguette & 85 degrees bakery.it's self serve, so you come in and pick out what you want then get in line to pay. they individually bag up your pastries and then put them all into a big bag for you to take home. i wish they packaged them into a big box for you instead, like at 85 degrees bakery, so everything isn't just sitting on top of one another. the worker put the container of egg tarts on top of all my pastries which smushed some of them.there were also plenty of seating available if you wanted to sit there and enjoy your pastries as well. overall, this is definitely our go-to spot now whenever we want to buy asian baked goods!

Matthew J.

Bread here is 5 stars and they have a pretty good variety for the size of the store. The items do get updated so it doesn't feel stale if you come here often. -1 star however for the cake ordering experience. For having cake in the name. Ordering a cake is the worst part here. We liked the bread here so figured we should try the cakes. We ordered cakes here on two separate occasions and both times, when we went to pick up the cake, they didn't have the cake. They claim to check the name and phone number but it's clearly not the case as our cake was taken by someone else both times. The worst part is that we prepaid for the cakes too, and when ordering the second cake, we specifically mentioned that someone else took our cake the first time and to please confirm all information for the second cake pickup. The first time, they had no alternatives so we had to drive back later in the day to pick up the cake and serve is later than planned. The second time (today), they claimed that someone else took our cake and that we can just take theirs. Which might not seem bad at first but we were specific with the pick up time to make sure the cake was fresh. When we got home (about a 15 min drive), we tried to serve the cake right away but the cream around the cake was so melted that it stuck completely to the plastic wrapping and large chunks of the cream came off (pics of cake included).They also give you a tiny cake cutter so be prepared. Only -1 star as they did refund the above cake.

C. L.

Great Japanese cakes!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

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