and just when you think it couldn't get any worse. I went to pick up some take out drinks and to my horror the guy working behind the counter drops a whole jug of mango juice on the floor and proceeds to mop it, nothing to crazy right? but then he starts to wring out the mop in what seems to be the only working sink in the establishment. Mind you this wasn't a brand new mop it was so grey and dingy I could imagine what it smelled like. Won't be going back anytime soon. read more

We ordered the mango shredded ice. Everything is fine until I found one hair in the bowl. We asked the waitress, and she didn't even apologize. We had to waste the rest of the ice cream :( and she charged us the same price. Used to be my favourite dessert bar, but I don't think I'm gonna go back again. So disappointed. read more

Sugar Marmalade - Desserts Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

I went to this place with my friend and would like to recommend not trying the Main dishes and appetizers. This place really surprised me because of the cheap prices and good display (of the food) which made me feel really optimistic about how the food would taste, but it's not as good as it looks. We left because we weren't as hungry and I surprisingly didn't finish my plate like I always do, however I assume the desert there are better than the main dishes. If I ever go there again I hope to try the deserts. read more

Sugar Marmalade - I ordered the minced pork with steamed rice. We did order some appetizers but it's not in the photo. - Desserts Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

IT is fair to say that this branch of Sugar Marmalade has been serving the downtown student community with fast delivery and somewhat sophisticated desserts. But when it comes to the actual taste of their main dish, one can hardly agree that this is the best cheap eat available. We ordered, among other things, some Taiwanese style popcorn chicken on the phone for a dinner delivery, but without a rhyme or reason we got the food served on rice, which was considered a main dish, and hence we were charged extra. The oil that was used to fry the popcorn chicken has been repeatedly used because of the strong staleness in the aftertaste. And don't be fooled by the marvelous design of the menu, as the portion speaks otherwise: the rice that came with the chicken took up 75% of the weight of the entire container. Bottom line: only get the sweets (but not the bubble tea or coffee, there are far better ones), and forget about the main dishes if you are serious about the taste of food, and your health. read more

Quality and hygiene are major issues. Hot food are frozen in the freezer in the customer area so customers can see the frozen food being taken out of the freezer then microwaved. A waitress picked her teeth with her nails multiple times. There are fruit flies in the booths. Finally, it's cash only without us being notified before ordering. The Mississauga chain is much better. This is specific for this location. read more

Horrible horrible horrible. Too bad Yelp doesn't allow half stars. Came here for a friends birthday (just the two of us) and all tables were full, but we were told that a table was paying and we would be seated within 5-10mins. We were waiting but as the table left a group of asian guys came in, spoke chinese to the waitress, and they were seated immediately! And then 1min later another chinese couple came and were seated as well! Me and my friend are not of any asian ethnicity but never thought we'd feel racisim in a japanese dessert shop. NEVER GOING THERE AGAIN. Unless it was to give them a piece of my mind. read more

Shitty service, waitress have no restaurant manners. It says close at 2am but, the workers really won't serve you after 1am. 4 people have to deal with 3 fork settings, and asked for plates 3 times before getting them. Kept telling my friend last call but won't let my friend place one more order. "LAST CALL" AT 1:30AM MEANS YOU CAN STILL ORDER ONE LAST TIME! Get your businesses straight or close at 1am if you are not going to serve anyone. read more

The quality of their desserts is really inconsistent. I always get the mango desserts which you can't do wrong but venturing away form there it only gets worse especially the milk/grass jelly desserts. The main food is alright, pretty expensive for the portion size. read more

They approached us saying that waffles will take 20mins for the first 30 for the other. The mango grass jelly had sour mangos. Lychee desert had 3 lychee balls the rest are glutenous balls. I don't appreciate the se read more

Late night chinese dessert place in Chinatown. Large selection of desserts varying from egg waffles to bubble teas. Service here is mediocre and some of their desserts are overly sweet. Since it is the only late night dessert place in the area, it can get busy at times especially when university students need a break from studying. read more

Had better Chinese desserts elsewhere. Although they have an extensive menu, the desserts are just mediocre and the public washroom is disgusting. The only good thing about it is it closes late and it's right at the core of Chinatown. read more

Total utter garbage. When I order desserts from this place, it feels like amateurs whipping up crap from their kitchen at home. Food does not taste like its made professionally. Taste like a 10 year old whipped up something non edible. The sesame soup was 100% watery and clear color as heck, the almond soup was extremely clumpy with 0% almond flavor, seems like it was just all starch. The tofu pudding(dau fu fa) was completely runny and watery(complete liquid). Strawberry shake tasted like water because they were too cheap to put any strawberries inside, the color of it was even completely water clear. Taro Sago had only 5% taro and 5% sago and 90% coconut milk. Disgusted that they serve this trash to customers. Filthy owner and staff. Avoid this dumpster. read more

This place has went down the drain. It sucks so bad. After just finished eating, the owner basically told us either to order more or get out to make room for other customers. We barely sat there for 40mins total from sitting down to then. read more

I have gone here about probably 30 times over the year. Every time the experience changes... it went from okay to worst yet I always have faith that one day they can get my drink order correct. I have given up... is it really hard to order and get the golden royal drink correct ? I tried pointing at the menu item and not saying anything else and it usually comes with tapioca or some other garbage in there, when I get actually lucky it's watered down drink with mangoes in it. When I asked for a change in drink, because they put tapioca (something that isn't even supposed to be in it) and, oh wait, I'm allergic to tapioca... they said next time. Well there will be no next time. Advice to management, train your employees to make the drinks correctly. If management is around and if a customer wants a new drink make them a new one it cost like 1$ in materials to do this... read more

Definitely not worth the wait. Waited for a table for at least 30 minutes, then another 30 minutes but they got the order wrong. Then the server proceeded to ask us to have the hot dessert that we didn't want. When we said no we don't like hot dessert, she went back and said that they will make the cold dessert we ordered but will be another 15 minutes wait and we couldn't get our other order. We waited and they put the hot dessert in a freezer or probably added ice and got us luke warm dessert and the bowl was still hot. When I told her it's still hot, she just insisted that we eat the hot dessert and next time she will be careful. Needless to say I am never going back. Take your money elsewhere. read more

The plates and knife I got were the dirtiest I have even seen in my entire life. I can even see what was the previous user ate. The table and floor were fucking dirty too. Not surprisingly, got a diarrhea right after. People BEWARE!!!! read more

This is my favourite Taiwanese dessert place in downtown Toronto. It's located next to Dragon City in Chinatown. They have a huge selection of desserts and drinks. I've tried their Golden Sago Mixed, which mango slices, sago, and grapefruit pieces mixed in a creamy mango juice. It's very delicious and refreshing for a hot spring/summer day! read more

although the food is mediocre, the portion of the food/dessert is inconstant. this still one of our go to place in downtown. btw the shaved ice and fries are good, but very pricey. read more

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I love this place as its one of my all time favourite go to places for dessert! It's affordable and a great hang out place for friends! I love all their desserts especially the grass jelly and the yogurt balls, the shaved ice is also good too! They have the best popcorn chicken but it's only served in a tiny basket but it's still worth it! Also try not the get the meals because they just microwave the frozen meal up its not freshly cooked! So if you're going for dessert and a nice place to hang this is the spot. It's a low key spot in dragon city which I love!! read more

All I can say is... This place exceeded expectations despite the current reviews here. Great little place to grab a snack and dessert. Unique desserts (not your typical ice cream and crepe place) and so much variety will keep me coming back. Well worth the walk! Really liked the sweet dumplings and the steamed rice rolls. There's not many places like this in Toronto so finding a gem like this made my day. Apparently it's open late too! read more

they're ok. I was a bit annoyed at first because i wanted the apple tea and they didn't have it, fine. i choose another drink and again, they told me they didn't have it. i think stock-wise, they shold be a bit better prepared but it was an okay experience. i wouldn't mind going back again. read more

Ordered for delivery. Everything was much lower quality than their North York location. Tapioca was hard, milk tea was watery, and popcorn chicken was meh. Was sad to see the quality drop as I love their drinks and food at the other location. read more

first time here was really good ! was a bit odd that they brought out dessert before my main dish but still very delicious. such unique flavours. if im in the area i should go back and try some new things ! read more

Sugar Marmalade - fried chicken with the flavours of takoyaki ! - Desserts Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

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I first tried Sugar Marmalade in Pacific Mall and absolutely love their drinks. However, at this location, they didn't have the same option as the other one. I expected them to have all the options and beyond, compared to the other location since this one is a sit down place and the other one a take out counter. They do have more options, but just not the one I like from the other location. The place is a little small. Service is ok, a little slow and could have been a little more friendly. Server brought water for every table but us. We had to ask for it. Dessert was just ok, some of them that we've ordered was a little blend in taste. Don't think I will come back to this location. read more

came here with 3 friends and one friend's order still havent came after us three have finished our food LOL food tastes alright nothing special, just typical chinese sweet soup read more

3.5 stars. Checked out this Chinese dessert place in Chinatown. This is probably the only place in Chinatown that serves chinese dessert to the calibre that I'd be looking for. We ordered a mango sago dessert. For the portion received and how it's made, it felt a little expensive for what it was. You can see the staff access the salad-bar-type work station in the back to assemble the desserts. Everything is premade and sitting there to be mixed into the various soupie desserts. The space is small and narrow. I'd probably come back not because it was anything in particular, but more so because of the fact that there really isn't any other place to have this kind of dessert in downtown Toronto. read more

After eating Dim Sum, the walking distance was only a few blocks away and luckily our friends introduced this small business. Opening the door from the outside of the mall, can be a hassle but that did not made me look away from the interior design. Black, chic, and bold all around the place. You need to wait to be seated, of course. As we were seating and looking over the menu, it was easy to read. All the ingredients were listed below the name of the desserts, appetizers, entrees, & beverages. It's wonderful that they have pictures with the food items. Perfect way to see how the desserts comes out. Once ready, we pressed a button on the side of the table to call the waitress to take our order. We had ordered Durian sago, Red Bean & Green Tea Shaved Ice, Taiwanese Delight, and other few items. Waiting time was reasonable since everything came all at once. I think we waited 5-10 minutes. Overall, everything was not too sweet, which is a good thing for my parents and their friends since they are much older than my brother and I. The design of the Red Bean & Green Tea Shaved Ice was interesting because it looked like that the Green tea had layers of sheets. Usually whenever I ordered shaved ice, it would be a pile of shaved ice. They also put small pieces of aloe. The Durian Sago, tasted good since the durian was fresh. The waitress was nice and informative on how the ice machine that they have is different from shaved ice. Also if we didn't know what one of the food was, then she was able to tell us right away. Hopefully, when I come back to the Toronto area, I will bring my friends here to taste these wonderful desserts since we have a sweet tooth. read more

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There are a lot of Chinese dessert shops up town, and was super excited to know there is a dessert shop opened on Spadina China Town. This week, I went with my friends there to check out this place. I ordered the Golden Macau Pudding, my friends ordered papaya sago mixed and mango black grass jelly. I was so excited, I read on their facebook that alot of people recommended this dessert. It arrived and I put a spoonful in my mouth. OMG, I only tasted whip cream mixed with crushed biscuit. It was so sweet and DRY. I paid $5 for a cup of whip cream, what a joke and very disappointed. My friends' dessert choices were ok, but nothing special. For people that never tasted good Chinese style dessert, it is not a bad place. read more

Desserts are good , one of the only places to get chinese dessert downtown. Very cramped and narrow. Not comfortable.

This place is great for desserts my personal favorite is the strawberry banana "crêpe". But for the hot food I totally would not recommend it. It is not that good for the price and I am pretty sure everything is pre made and then frozen, and reheated when ordered. But for the drinks price range from $3-$5 and food is from $5-$8 and desserts are $5-$7 so not too expensive portions are also pretty big. This location is also very small so would not recommend for large groups. read more

I have gone here a few times with semi-good experiences. The desserts are pretty good for the price. I've tried mango black glutinous rice dessert, mango pudding, green tea and red bean shaved ice an taiwanese black glutinous rice mix. The drinks are WAY too sweet and nothing special. I have only tried wings on their hot food menu and would not recommend anyone get them. I got the crispy chicken wings which were basically 3 wings cut into half and battered to make it look like 6 full wings. $6.99 for 3 wings is STEEP AND A RIP OFF. They did not taste that great either. I also do not like the fact that they add a mandatory 10% tip. Every other place I go to does not do this unless it is a big group. The first few times I went, I did not realize they did this and paid tip on top of the total! read more

The food tastes good, but the portion is highly questionable. Yeas, questionable. The first time we checked out their popcorn chicken, the portion was so small that we barely enjoyed it, plus my friend said when she ordered this with her boyfriend, the portion was generous. So I gave it another try one year later. And the portion was amazing, I enjoyed the last bit of it. But when I went there today, the portion was not even the half of what I got last time. So I'm confused. Do they have a standard for the portion of they just put as much as they think is acceptable in there each time? And I need to weigh in my luck to have the courage to order from them again? read more

Awesome place for hangout! Opens late whenever you need some Chinese style dessert. Nice atmosphere and decor.

Meh... at least the prices are reasonable. No coffee and tea was too strong. Desserts look better than they taste as well.

We recently came here on weekdays afternoon. There was no other customer and yet the service was barely minimum. The server didn't give us utensils to share the food that we ordered. The server also kept disappearing when we tried to call and ask for utensils and water. Overall it wasn't a good experience. read more

Anything with Mango in the dessert has been tasty, which is why I've always returned. But after seeing lipstick marks on my water glass after my recent visit.. I will have to think twice. read more

I've been here twice, years apart, with different people. Both times have been a terrible experience. Their deserts are uninspired and bland, we talked about everything besides the food. The last time I was there a cockroach fell off the ceiling and landed right next to me. Their 2014 pest control certification is proudly displayed behind the cash, but where is the certification for 2015? (a year that is almost over at the time I write this review). Only good thing about this place is that it's cheap, which means lots of high school kids fill up the place. Don't bring a date here. read more

Great place for dessert :) Went with a friend, and the Mango Snow Ice I got was a tad sour (as Mango's probably weren't in season). Otherwise, their food was great! And cheap also! Food: 4.5/5 Atmosphere: 3/5 Service: 3/5 read more

I love the Oreo Cheesecake! Very yummy and hits the spot! Also Japanese wings are wicked

The food is mediocre and portions were quite small for the price they charge. The worst part of the experience was the service. The staff were rude, inattentive, and the whole restaurant was dirty!! read more