WA Cafe (Covent Garden)

Japanese cakes that are beautiful and succulent. I had the Strawberry Shortcake and it altered my brain chemistry. Unlike my expectations, the cake is fluffy and the cream is light, which is added by sweet tart berries. And after that explosion of sweetness in the mouth, get their bitter sencha that rounds everything up in an epiphany. Will come back to try the variety of colourful cakes.

In the UK, the cakes I’ve had are generally sweeter, and the cake texture tends to be denser. I personally prefer the soft and fluffy Japanese sponge cakes paired with light, smooth, and mildly sweet fresh cream.

I was delighted to find this Japanese cake shop. Due to its popularity, there was a longer wait for seating, but seeing the array of exquisite cakes made me very excited. Although the prices of the cakes were a bit high, the quality was truly satisfying. It was difficult to choose among the different cakes because each one was enticing and I wanted to try them all. In the end, I selected a few cakes, and each one was incredibly delicious.

The restaurant had a Japanese countryside-themed decor, creating a feeling of being in a Japanese cafe. The staff were friendly and polite, and they kindly introduced each cake to us, making us feel satisfying.

We came because of all the praises and recommedations from friends around being one of the best Japanese dessert shops in town.

Indeed we were very impressed by the high quality and authenticity of both cakes and particularly the white sesame cheesecake. It is literally top-notch : sweetness is perfect and sesame flavour is strong but well balanced. I just wish its portion could be bigger…

On the other hand Matcha Tiramisu is just mediocre to me personally as I dont find the matcha taste at all and without the slight bitterness fragrance. But I would still say it tasted nice and would be disappointing in any sense.

Worth a visit however be prepared to wait for seats as the store is pretty small.

If you want a dreamy gluten free matcha cake, WA cafe is the place to be. I’ve loved them since I stumbled across them during lockdown and it never disappoints. Cake are delicious and love that there is always a few gluten free cake options. Lovely baby changing facilities also available.

So many of my Japanese friends have been hyping up this cafe and I was finally able to go and it was so worth it.

It was around lunch time on a saturday and we were able to get a seat in the cafe. There’s not that many seats in the cafe so we got very lucky.

The kuro gome latte was super delicious and not sickly and paired really well with the black sesame cheesecake.

The matcha latte was delicious as expected but the matcha tiramisu had too much cream in my opinion but once you get to the sponge on the inside it is very delicious.

All of the cakes were around £6 which I thought was pretty cheap for the area and one of the cheapest one I’ve been to in central london so I think it’s absolutely worth it, esp if you’re getting it for takeaway.

Update: we got the sakura roll and the matcha gateau for takeaway, the match gateau was to die for, a must order!!!