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  • After having experienced soufflé or jiggly pancakes in Osaka, I wondered why they didn't make them in Canada. Fast forward to a year later, Hanabusa Cafe (which specializes in soufflé pancakes) has opened up in Kensington Market. I went with my sister in law who was keen to try it as she missed the opportunity when she was in Japan. You order your food at the counter and then sit down. The area near the counter has some bar top seating areas and really cute chairs but potentially could get crowded if there are a lot of people waiting for takeout orders. The gold details throughout the restaurant were very feminine and fresh. There is a cute poem spelled out in lights on one of the walls which I'm certain will get coverage on Instagram. We ordered the matcha soufflé pancakes as well as the original soufflé pancakes. It took about 20 minutes for the order of original pancakes to come out. They were light in texture and had a lightly sweetened taste. They were served with pieces of fruit and whipped cream. I was slightly disappointed that they were not served as a stack of pancakes to highlight the delicate jiggly texture of this style of pancakes. When the matcha pancakes finally arrived, visually they were very eye catching. The matcha sauce had a dark green appearance and a good strong matcha flavour. However because the delicate soufflé pancakes were partially soaked in matcha sauce, they lost some of the contrast of textural firmness on the pancake's exterior that the time on the griddle provides. The overall effect was a soggier, eggier pancake which was much less appealing than the original pancakes. Perhaps the option of matcha sauce on the side would help to remedy this textural issue. It took nearly 30 minutes for us to receive the order of matcha pancakes. The manager or owner came to our table to explain that they had messed up our order of pancakes and thus had to remake them. I appreciated the fact that they were trying to maintain a quality standard and thus would not serve me broken pancakes. And in fairness they were only a few days into their soft opening. As a gesture of good will, he offered a discount on the order of takeout pancakes I had planned to order for my mother in law. I would suggest asking for the whipped cream on the side for takeout orders to avoid making the pancakes soggy. The pancakes are not cheap. For the matcha and original pancakes, it came out to approximately $30. For that much money, I'd prefer to dine on more substantial food. That being said, there is a certain playfulness to this type of cuisine and to the cafe itself that would have me consider a return visit to try the custard pancakes, if for nothing else than to be able to jiggle the stack of pancakes.
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