Jungle Cafe

It's a little out of order, because our Chinese food crawl, we did have another place, but since that's savory and we are on Macaron/Dessert Fridays, I thought I do a quite flip-a-roo to adjust.

Anyway, Jungle Cafe's new location is totally hip, although it felt out of place in the strip center that's warm and welcoming with food.

Front counter: cake display.  I missed their chestnut cake roll, their cake rolls are what they're great at.

Chocolate chestnut cake - very fancy

More cakes - they use macaron as part of the decoration!

Hello Kitty & Pooh bear cake... I'll never eat them because that's cruel and weird, but they are exceptionally made.

Pretty pistachio cake and iced green tea.

It is super cute!  

Here's the thing about Jungle, you do feel like you're going to the Soup Nazi of dessert cafe in Houston.  While there were no incident this visit, in the past, I do pass this place up even though that means passing up some good dessert.  The servers are inflexible, which I've heard that from other people as well, and they used to not accept credit cards for purchase.  When they finally start to accept credit cards, you as the customer pay a higher price with credit card versus cash.  I think they finally leveled the playing field, but then they don't make as many of their popular items and more artsy individual cakes.  Ultimately, it was easier to go to Dolce Delights with less drama and hassle.  That's not to say that Jungle's quality isn't good, they are, but not sure if the drama is worth it.

Jungle Cafe

9889 Bellaire Blvd, Ste 217

Houston, TX 77036

713-272-6633