I first heard about Café Life Patisserie and its Japanese-style fruit cakes back in 2019. Also had the pleasure of checking its wide selection of sweets out in Sheung Wan the same year but recently, they've been flexing their culinary muscles. Following a successful pop-up at K11 Art Mall, they are making the expansion to the Kowloon side a permanent one.
I decided to dig a little deeper into this little cake shop and turns out it's the brainchild of Mr. Matsuoka Tetsuya (松岡哲也), a Japanese patissier who did his apprenticeship at Reve De Bebe out of Fukuoka (福岡). He did a fair bit of pastry classes in Hong Kong before finally striking out for his first venture.
While the bread and butter of Café Life has always been its fruit cakes, there are other interesting offerings as well including its strawberry napoleon cakes and more.
Soufflé cheesecake with apricot jam – This looks like a Japanese soufflé pancake.
Very light and fluffy.
It really tasted a lot like a soufflé pancake. Had to be a little more cheesy to be considered a soufflé cheesecake though.
Soufflé Ding – Ding of course means pudding from the Canto translation. This is really a crème brûlée served in a sliced cake manner. On the bottom was the creamy pudding with some really nice eggy flavors, topped by a layer of wobbly jelly reminiscent of the caramel glaze. Really not a bad idea but Jelloman and I both thought that the jelly had a little too much bitterness in there that almost felt like it's coffee infused. Otherwise, it's not bad.
Food Rating: 5/10
Price: $$$
Address: Shop B211, B2/F, K11 Art Mall, 18 Hanoi Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong
Closest Metro Station: East Tsim Sha Tsui / Tsim Sha Tsui
Opening Hours: 11:00am - 9:00pm daily
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