What’s up, everybody?
Philcaela here :)
Matcha is everywhere nowadays, people love it for the delicious flavor, the
looks, and also the health benefits.
It’s not just only hot lattes, it’s a lot of iced drinks, desserts, and even meals
now, too.
That’s why we’re gonna show you our 10 favorite matcha spots in San Francisco!
Let’s go!!!
So our first spot is Amausaan Uji Matcha, which is in Inner Richmond and their matcha
is freaking delicious here.
So Uji is a place in Japan and it sources and harvests lots of matcha and this place
uses Uji Matcha so you gotta bet it’s high quality and amazing.
Their soft serve unfortunately has been sold out because they’ve been so popular that
it’s gonna be back in 2 weeks, but this is also very good.
Yes it’s very good!
So instead we got matcha ice cream instead and matcha cake and also what I love about
this is that the cone is black and the ice cream is green so it contrasts really well
so if you wanna take cute photos you can definitely do that, too.
This is a storefront so you just walk right up and order to the window.
This is actually the 2nd location, the first was opened in Berkeley and this is the 2nd
one that opened recently so still very new and very popular so come check it out!
And about 15 blocks down the road is Home Cafe.
We’ve actually been here for so many of our videos because the coffee’s really great
here, it’s a great ambience and they also have really good matcha, as well.
There’s no place to eat the Amausaan crepe cake so we brought it here with some more
matcha lattes to eat it with.
I’ll drink the hot one now, it’s super good.
Also very good, but I think the hot one takes the cake.
I love slicing it with the fork because you can feel all the layers breaking down, which
is like 20 layers I think per crepe cake.
Not too sweet so it’s like the perfect dessert.
In our Chinatown video, we went to Little Swan Bakery where they also have a matcha
crepe cake, it was delicious, this place is just as good so Amausaan might be a one
stop shop for all your matcha desserts, because they have amazing soft serve and amazing crepe
cakes, too.
I’m honestly more of a coffee person than a matcha person, so usually when I come to
Home I get a cappuccino or a pourover or something, but the matcha at Home is delicious, so I
still order it from time to time.
If you’ve followed our videos for a while now, you’ll know that Home was in our first
video where we talked about our favorite coffee shops in San Francisco and they’re in our
Top 10 Richmond District video, if you haven’t seen those yet make sure to check those out,
too.
But we think Home is really awesome they have great drinks, beautiful aesthetics, great
vibes and it’s definitely a must-visit cafe in San Francisco.
We’re getting some matcha mocha donuts at a really new donut shop called Mochill.
Brand new, they just opened the last week of July and they have some really really good
stuff here.
They have a few different flavors like a rotating special, they have a chocolate, they have
a cinnamon sugar, but their matcha mocha donut is the most delicious.
Mochi donuts are always better than regular donuts and it’s the same here, they have
a better texture they’re a little bit softer and lighter.
Come to Japantown in the Japan Center in the West Mall.
Overall these matcha mochi donuts are really delicious, really unique and a great matcha
treat in San Francisco.
Boba Guys is our next stop, it’s a really popular chain that you’ve probably heard
of.
They have locations all over San Francisco and the Bay and even LA and lots of other
places now.
And they have a lot of good teas, but they also have the Strawberry Matcha Latte, which
is one of their most popular drinks.
It’s kind of interesting where you have a mix of the strawberry that fruit with the
matcha.
But it goes together really, really well.
It’s really, really delicious.
Micaela got a matcha latte and yeah even if you don’t have the strawberry in it, still
really good, high quality stuff.
Honestly, Boba Guys was a really easy choice for us and it’s definitely one of our favorite
places to get an iced matcha drink in San Francisco.
We are at Urban Ritual, this is actually my favorite drink here, it’s the matcha toffee,
it’s matcha and there’s toffee bits in here and this tea is actually not that sweet,
but it goes well with the toffee because toffee is more sweet.
There’s bits of toffee in here so once you drink it you get pieces of it and it’s really
good it’s gets a little crunchy.
I love the iced drinks here.
Crunchy little bits of toffee in this, matcha’s super delicious here.
They have a lot of other drinks but their matcha toffee is probably one of the most
popular and we like getting it when we come here, too.
It’s a pretty unique drink, having toffee in it, I haven’t seen that in any other
drinks.
And you can get boba at the bottom of this, but that would take away from having that
crunchy toffee texture, so we just get it without.
Overall, Urban Ritual is a great place in San Francisco for an iced matcha drink, the
matcha toffee is absolutely delicious.
Probably the most aesthetic and cutest place to get matcha in the city is a cafe called
U :Dessert Story.
So we got a matcha float, which is milk with matcha ice cream and matcha on top, so tons
of matcha here.
And we also got a matcha crepe cake and it has matcha cream and on the side there is
red bean sauce.
A flower wall behind me, which is really cute and there’s more tables there and it’s
just really, really cute in here.
It’s more Instagrammable and the food is amazing, the food is really cute.
They serve brunch during the day and in the afternoon starting at 5:00 they have dessert,
which is what we ordered.
I can see why they put it on a tray because this thing is really full.
I definitely spilled some already.
And they use matcha from Uji, which is great matcha.
The first bite is the best because it’s a pointy piece!
There’s matcha cream in between the crepes, there’s matcha powder on it, there’s matcha
lava on it, too.
This is delicious!
And just like everything else in this cafe, it’s really, really aesthetic, too.
I love that idea, you have matcha lattes, it’s not super sweet and you have ice cream
to sweeten it, instead of adding sugar or something.
This location is actually a spinoff of the original they have in the Castro, the menu
is a little bit different, but this has a lot less crowds than the other location, given
that it’s much, much newer.
And we actually made a reservation, don’t know that you would need one, but just to
be safe, make a reservation before you come.
Matcha Cafe Maiko in Japantown has a big selection of matcha treats, but they always pull in long lines
for their delicious and creamy matcha soft serve.
We love it and get it every time we come, but we do highly recommend trying out their
latte floats, too.
They have really delicious drinks here, especially their hojicha, so pairing together their yummy
matcha soft serves with the flavorful tea drinks makes a unique and incredible dessert.
They get their matcha from Uji in Japan, which makes their matcha that much better than so
many other places.
If you’re in Japantown and looking for dessert or a sweet snack, this is the best choice!
This is Black Sugar, it’s a really, really good boba shop near Union Square and this
place is known for having really good milk tea, but they have a lot of good matcha drinks
here, too.
We actually featured this place in our Top 10 Union Square video, if you haven’t seen
it yet make sure to check it out.
So my favorite drink here is the black sesame matcha, it’s so good, it’s a good balance
of having a great black sesame flavor with matcha itself.
So freaking good!
Black sesame is really strong and you’d think it overpowers the matcha, but it doesn’t
really.
This place has really good milk tea drinks and fresh milk drinks and actually when I
come here I typically get the black sugar fresh milk, but the mango matcha latte is
already really, really delicious, too.
I really like this drink because it has a nice mango flavor to it, but it doesn’t
overpower the nice matcha flavor there, too, though.
And it’s kinda similar to Boba Guys’ strawberry matcha latte, where you have that fruit and
matcha mix, it works really well.
If you’re near Union Square and looking for a really good cold matcha drink, definitely
check out Black Sugar.
So we just got a box of cheese tarts from Bake Cheese Tart, I know what you’re thinking
right here like, “This is not matcha.
This is a cheese tart.”
Well we actually got the matcha cheese start because this is actually in season right now.
It’s actually a seasonal flavor and they brought it back recently.
Although it is seasonal, I can definitely see it coming back because it’s definitely
a very popular flavor here.
OK, now let’s eat!
And look at it, it’s just so green!
There’s lots of different ways to eat it, my favorite actually is putting it in the
fridge for like a little bit and it’s just tastes really good.
It’s more solid and I just prefer that way, but people have their own preferences so you
can eat it however you want.
Honestly I’m so excited when it came back but this is honestly like the best flavor
ever.
I’ve had all the other seasonal flavors and this is like the best one.
And they haven’t had this for over 6 months, I’ve been waiting for this long!
Mmm!
It’s like a little bit of cheese, but not like super strong, but the matcha is just
such a deep flavor.
As you can tell by the green, there’s a lot of matcha in here.
They pack it full!
And our last stop is Stonemill Matcha!
So we ordered the salmon dashi, which is kinda like a miso broth with this.
The katsu sandwich, there’s no matcha in it, but it’s freaking amazing and really
good and we got a matcha cake and matcha latte and a hojicha latte.
The matcha latte used to be kinda meh, I will say that, but they actually improved recently
they put more matcha in it, so there’s more flavor.
It used to be very bland but now it’s darker green and it’s much better!
This is like a dashi matcha broth, it sounds weird because it’s savory, but it’s actually
very good.
I wish the piece of salmon was a little bigger because it’s actually kind of expensive
for how much it costs.
Mmm!
But it’s so good!
So this is a pork katsu sandwich with tonkotsu sauce and cabbage and they use the Asian white
bread that doesn’t have any fiber in it.
But it’s amazingly good because it’s very soft.
And it’s very good bread, not heathy bread, but it’s very, very good bread.
This is probably my favorite item here, there’s no matcha in it, but they just make it so
well, the flavors are so good.
This matcha cafe actually opened maybe a year ago, not too long ago and within like a month
or two they were super popular.
Lines are still long now, but it’s not as long as it used to be.
I think this is mostly the only matcha cafe that serves matcha food, like savory and sweet.
That’s why I think it got really popular.
Overall, Stonemill Matcha is one of the best options for matcha and food because of the
high quality and the really, really strong tea flavors they have.
And that’s gonna do it for our top 10 favorite matcha spots in San Francisco.
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