16, Flower Road, Colombo 03
This place has closed down
Yumi Cake is a cute little restaurant that serves awesome desserts - chocolate fudge lovers, this is your haven.
Yumi Cake's been around for a while, but they moved to a new location down Flower Road. It's a compact and cosy little space, with a pink and white theme cutting across, and lots of homemade goodies including ice creams, pastries, sandwiches and cakes.
The staff behind the counter are incredibly attentive and helpful, volunteering information about the produce used and how they make it. We were told that the ice creams were eggless, so yay for vegans. They've got a small selection of interesting flavours including passion fruit and blueberry cheesecake, both of which we tried out.
Despite being priced at Rs 300 and Rs 350 respectively (a bit too much for a single scoop of ice cream if you think about it), the ice creams didn't disappoint in terms of flavour.
A bit less on the creamy side and leaning towards a sorbet where the passion fruit was concerned; but the flavour was amazingly authentic and tangy. It just pops in your mouth, so mind that if you can't bear the sourness of the fruit, this is going to be too much for you to handle (sorry Shifani!). While I loved it (despite finding it too intense to enjoy as an ice-cream), Shifani preferred the Blueberry Cheesecake flavour. This legit had bits of frozen cake in it. Pretty cool. Much milder and smoother than its counterpart, we enjoyed this as well.
We weren't huge fans of the Nutella Cheesecake Piece (Rs. 540), which was a huge chunk of cheesecake made with the chocolatey hazelnut condiment. Unable to finish it (because we were stuffed), we brought it back to office where the rest of the team agreed that it wasn't anything to write home about either. The cream cheese was blended with Nutella itself, and it did have a nice, creamy consistency, but we think we'd have liked it better if it was a traditional cream cheese base, with a layer of Nutella flavoured cream or Nutella atop.
Their Chocolate Brownie Cream Pie Chaos (Rs. 360) was interesting. With bits of brownies crumbled throughout a container of cream, there was also some ganache and a noticable amount of some booze involved, which as Bhagya pointed out, made the cream taste a bit off.
I really liked their Toasted Chicken Sandwich (Rs. 400) though, which was beautifully made. They make their own bread, which was a wholegrain of sorts, and it's got plenty of greens, generous amounts of chicken, and even generous amounts of thinly sliced almonds and whole raisins thrown in. Personally we could've done without the sweetness of the raisin, but that's because none of us are fans of the little fruit.
Small, concise, with just one high table. It's more of a take-away spot than a sit-in-and-eat place, but I think they said that you can sit at Choco Luv if you come with a large group — they share the same premises.
Everything's spotless and airy, but it's too small to sit around or have a long conversation with a friend. We recommend picking stuff up and going, unless you're super hungry.
Yumi isn't as great as it once was, and we were kinda disappointed at how it's a lot different from what they used to be where flavour and taste was concerned. It's also a bit on the pricey side, but if you want some really good passionfruit ice cream, head over there :)
Delicious but pricey ice creams, and some good desserts
Yumi Cake is a perfect choice for home-made fudgey brownies and cakes - but surprisingly, they also have a decent healthy menu.
Yumi Cake is a cute little restaurant that serves awesome desserts - chocolate fudge lovers, this is your haven.
සිංහල කටට රසට කේක් ටිකක් කාලා, කෝපි උගුරක් බොන්න නියම තැනක් තමයි මේ යමි කේක් එක.
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Yumi is at the end of Flower Road, on the same building as Choco Luv. It's near House of Wines.
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Good Market
Just to clarify…Yumi Foods is the Good Market approved brand. It includes Kiru's "guilt free" range and healthier options like kurakkan maalu paan and salads. Everything in the Yumi Foods stall on Thursday and Saturday is free of artificial colors, flavors, hydrogenated oils, and other synthetic additives.
The shop goes under the Yumi Cake brand. It includes some Yumi Foods favorites from the Good Market , but not all of the products at the shop meet the Good Market standards. If you have any questions about which products are which, the people behind the counter should be able to help.
CS
"Guilt free"??
But they also sell meat items. WTF??
So only people who BUY vegetarian items are "guilt free"?? "Sellers" are NOT part of the cycle then??
Anonymous
Having tried her food at the Good Market and loved it, found the cakes here even more yummy. The ferrero rocher Cup Cake was delicious as was as the red velvet cheese cake brownie.
Savindil
Yumi foods has one of the best Mint Chocolate cakes i have tasted!
NaveenKR
Pfft i tried Yumi Cake at the Good market and it was not what was upto what was mentioned on the review
It was beyond that!
If i want to kill someone with chocolate this is where i would take them ,I tried the heavenly Chocolate cake somthing and a Brownie and a Cheesecake
the heavenly cake…That aint heavenly thats deadly ,Its a deadly slice of cake that was created by a wand of a hogwarts chef.It was too good to be real ,
Its been a day since i ate it but damn that was some good ass fine slice of choco choco cake
The brownies and cheesecake was spot on but i really couldn't focus on it cos i was too busy stuffing my face with the chocolate cake, Trust me one person will have a hard time finishing it alone,
BEST CAKE EVER! Much love to who ever bakes it
singh
Lovely little place. Awesome Stuff
Sherryl
They have good stuff here. Chocolate mint cake, …soft and nice, not too sweet…just right. The cheesecake is lovely too. And the chocolate cake., generous sized pieces.
But the maalu paan, (fish buns) need to improve. They have way too much fish in them. If there was less fish and more things like onions, green chilies or whatever that makes them taste good, it would be an improvement,
Anyway congrats to the young lady running the shop. Good job overall.
Honesty
I just wish that these places served some decent coffee.
But I guess sweet eateries attract people with a sweet tooth and it doesn't really matter if you offer substandard espresso loaded with mounts of hot froth
Vegan
Aisha, just because the icecream is egg free, that doesn't mean it's began friendly! If it's got cream in it (or any dairy) is out!
Arun
I totally agree that the prices are on the high side.
Buff
The Red Velvet cheesecake is the best of the lot, and is sometimes sold out. It is New York standard good (though much larger than most in the Big Apple). The Nutella is just a touch too sweet, but is not as bad as these guys make out. The Red Velvet cake is a little too dry. If you want a cleanser with a chocolate hit, the After 8 cake is the one….though the mint can be a little too sugary.
CS
I went there last couple of days. Got an "Egg sandwich" for 360 bucks. It had a somewhat SWEET taste. An egg sandwich should have a savory taste. The bread was also quite bad and had some black spots. They have not cut the sides (crust) of the bread. The crust was very hard. Pretty bad overall. One suggestion is to make a panini sandwich type where you toast or grill the bread. It adds to the flavors then.
Yesterday, bought a "Pol sambol & egg sandwich" which also had a cheese: Nothing extraordinary. Not worth the 300 bucks. You can do a much better job of making a sandwich like this at home at a fraction of the cost.
A piece of "After 8 Mint chocolate cake" cost a whopping 480 bucks. Again, nothing exceptional. I was expecting "sponge" cake but was the normal hard variety. Cake texture was dry. Overall was a disappointment.
The "blueberry cheesecake ice cream scoop" had a big piece of ICE in it. The ice cream was not CREAMY (i.e. CREAM part of ice CREAM :-) )and had the texture of crushed ice. At 350 a scoop, and a very small one at that it was daylight robbery.
Anyway I have decided to go to this place once more, maybe in a couple of weeks. Lets see how it goes.