Breka Cafe

Iced!

Our first stop on day one was breakfast at a cafe that my mom had wanted to check out called “Breka” – they’re open 24/7 and after doing some pre-vacation research she determined that she HAD to try their tea flavoured cream puffs.

So, in addition to her iced coffee and my iced London Fog we also picked up an Earl Grey Cream Puff and a Matcha Cream Puff. They were MASSIVE with a thick almost “shell” of icing on top. The matcha one was a deep, deep green and the Earl Grey more of a beige with noticable pieces of tea leaf mixed into it. I actually thought both were delicious, though surprisingly I liked the Earl Grey one more. It was fragrant and citrusy from the bergamot but also super rich and custardy with a vanilla-like flavour to the icing that made me think of (ironically, given my drink) a London Fog. If I have any complaint of the puffs themselves it’s that the amount of filling was disproportional to the amount of pastry. Like, it was a lot of filling.

My tea was very underwhelming. To my disappointment, it was served in a big mug with two tea bags left to infuse in a bath of ice water and milk, with a shot of vanilla syrup. So as you might imagine, it was thin tasting as the tea bags hadn’t been giving the time to infuse properly before being iced – a process which pretty fully has yielded any steeping that was happening. Definitely one of the worst cafe based drinks of the trip, sadly.