Laurel

A quaint café across from the big uniqlo monster. You forget you’re inside the belly of the beast when you’re in Laurel. It’s a quiet little café. Where you can escape from the metropolitan mammoth. They have a wide selection of different kinds of foods and beverages. Coffees, parfaits, lunch and dinner options for around 700 to 1000. Love the prices here. Great quality food for the price. I actually wanted to stay and eat a big meal but I’m such a fudge packing gut busting fatty so I’m on a diet. See what I did there. I’m fat shaming myself. Thank you CNN for teaching me words that never existed before the internet gave crazies a voice :-D send hate mail to PO Box… anyway, this café is definitely a top pick on my list for the hide away from the world and study or get work done or just relax cafes. Nice music from the early 90s playing in the background. I guess they’re not Beliebers. (￣。￣ﾉ)ﾉ I’ve seen a theme where you find many cafes in Japan are either 1. the sit and study coffee «hippy hangout style café» I love, 2. a «diner-​esque style café» which is just a diner with café written at the top…。Or 3. they’re the trendy fashionable «restaurant style café» which you are there to meet with friends and chat, do meetings but aren’t going to feel comfortable studying with the loud music and the guy pumping his fist saying how Japan can’t make a good hamburger but makes an awesome hambagu !?(･_​･;? This is a mix between the first two. So come in and try the café mocha. Many upsides to this café. Downside to this café is no wifi but it seems that’s also a trend in Japan too. There’s no such thing as a café without wifi in Cali but then again there’s no such thing as a ⁷⁄₁₁ with wifi in Cali either. Imagine all the homeless Berkeley hippies hanging out at the ⁷⁄₁₁ with their smartphones all day :-D trendy hippies :-D I miss my Berkeley. Cry* Anyway come stop by and check this café out. Definitely hit the like button on this one.

Laurel is a cute coffee house across from Bicqlo. We stumbled upon it when we were tired from shopping. There are two levels — I believe the lower level is for smokers. (I don’t understand this because doesn’t smoke rise?)
We ordered the cake + drink set. We both got the kiwi drink — unfortunately it was incredibly sour. (Are Japanese kiwis ridiculously sour?) For cake, we got the mille crêpe and the marron cake. Both were good!