This lively counter-serve café in Chinatown serves delightful Filipino breads, enticing baked goods, and must-try specialty drinks for a cozy cultural escape.
"Brown butter is paramount when it comes to this Filipino cafe’s chocolate chip cookie—simply smelling one activates all that toasty golden confetti we know and love. The chip of choice here is miniature, with the occasional larger milk chocolate morsel there to cut through the teeny semi-sweet bric-a-brac. A tooth-sinking squishiness dominates the interior, making it a pretty choice candidate for an iced ube latte dunk." - aimee rizzo, kayla sager riley
"Hood Famous specializes in Filipino desserts, mainly mini cheesecakes that come in flavors like white chocolate guava and matcha. While we endorse standing on a street corner with a fork and eating all four varieties at once straight from the takeout box, the swirled purple ube cheesecake is the best one in Seattle. If you’re not feeling the street corner, have one inside the cafe for lunch chased with an iced ube latte, in case you want more ube." - aimee rizzo, kayla sager riley
"We love this Filipino bakery for ube-flavored everything, like miniature cheesecakes, cookies, and their sweet and earthy iced ube latte. You might have to wait in line behind people looking to snap photos of the espresso-ube syrup-milk gradient before it all mixes up to become a shade of gray, but it’s worth it. And if drinking a liquified purple yam isn’t for you, try a tangy calamansi espresso tonic." - aimee rizzo, kayla sager riley
"Hood Famous specializes in Filipino desserts, mainly mini cheesecakes with flavors like white chocolate guava and matcha. While we endorse standing on a street corner with a fork, eating five flavors at one time in a takeout box, the purple ube version is not to be missed. If you’re not feeling the street corner, eat it inside for lunch chased with an iced ube macchiato, in case you wanted more ube. Ube for president." - aimee rizzo, carlo mantuano, kayla sager riley
"This Filipino bakery and coffee shop serves great pastries and lattes featuring purple sweet potato. If taking attractive photos of your food and beverages is important to you, you’ll want their iced ube latte. The colors melt from violet to white to chocolate-brown in a visually stunning gradient that always makes us sad to shove a straw in and ruin that ombre. It’s also sweet and creamy, especially with a mini homemade cheesecake on the side (the best flavors are guava-swirled white chocolate, and, of course, ube)." - aimee rizzo, kayla sager riley
