• Matchaful Cafe

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  • Coffee-tea Coffee & Tea
Bakery
Honey

Offers matcha teas, vegan pastries, snacks, and soft serve. Located inside Whole Foods at Hudson Yards. All vegan except honey. Open Mon-Sun 8:00am-7:00pm.


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7 Reviews

First Review by Poundie

lime.skyblue

Points +568

Vegan
09 May 2025

High Quality, Strong Matcha Soft Serve Ice Cream

As someone who enjoyed green tea ice cream in her childhood, the absence of a vegan version was challenging until I ordered it from here.

It's not loaded with sugar like typical American desserts are, and, at least for me, the matcha in this ice cream is very caffeinated: I ate this at 16:00 and couldn't fall asleep until 04:00. The matcha in this ice cream, and all of Matchaful's products, is ceremonial grade (higher quality than culinary grade matcha).

The price of one order of this is 10 USD, but that's because it's suitable for two people. A kind staff worker gave me half the portion for $5.

Pros: Ceremonial Grade, Strongly Caffeinated Matcha

Cons: Sleep may not come if you eat here after 16:00

jalopy

Points +318

Vegan
28 Feb 2025

Expensive

I just came here for a lil dessert type snack joint.
It’s cool all their sweets is vegan but they tiny lil donuts cost nearly 10$.
I got the valentines chocolate heart w raspberry special. It was good n all but it wasn’t no $10.34 good ykwim?? I can’t do that again 😔

Pros: Interesting flavor combos

Cons: $$$$$$$

tarayoon

Points +1994

Vegan
27 Jun 2024

Great for matcha lovers

Took me a bit to find this place before I realized it's inside Whole Foods.

Super cute little cafe that serves great drinks and soft serve.

The matcha and black sesame soft serve was delicious. It was thick, creamy, and the perfect blend of bitterness and sweetness. I'm hoping they'll have houjicha soft serve the next time I visit.

Matcha latte was great. I love how creative they are with their drinks and flavors.

Little pricy but worth it in my opinion. Staff was very sweet as well.

Cons: Some items have honey

Marie-France

Points +564

Vegan
30 May 2024

Delicious

Delicious soft serve, had never tasted something like this before.

Updated from previous review on 2024-05-30

OliviaMarie

Points +167

Vegan
01 Nov 2023

Not bad

The matcha is strong! ❤️ it seems like the matcha beverages were pretty reasonably priced given the apparent quality and quantity of the matcha used. The desserts on the other hand....I tried the matcha doughnut, which was fine but it was a bit too healthy for a doughnut. It was more like a loaf (sort of like a zucchini or pumpkin bread density) with a lightly sweet film of icing on top. If you like less sweet or healthier dessert options, you'll enjoy it, but I bought it because was really in a mood for a sugary treat. Some of the other desserts, like the cookies and brownies, look like they might be better. Might give those a go if I stop in again. Overall felt like 3/5 stars to me but I'll stick with 4/5 until I give another dessert option a shot.

Pros: Decent prices for matcha, Several dessert and breakfast options

Cons: Healthy tasting desserts :-(

coco3c

Points +452

Vegan
06 Mar 2022

Pleasant but expensive.

Very pleasant hot beverages but expensive. Takeaway option only as seating option was closed.

Poundie

Points +17557

Vegan
11 Dec 2021

Matcha tea place inside Whole Foods

This place sells matcha teas and vegan snacks on the ground floor of the Whole Foods Market at Hudson Yards. The teas come in paper cups, not ceramic cups--this is not for a tea ceremony. However, the teas are good, and there are places to sit both nearby and up a flight via the elevators. The pastries are small, but very hearty--in all, fine for a small pick-me-up. They also serve some other items, like vegan avocado yogurt, and pumpkin vegan soft serve during the warmer months. Most of the items here are vegan, though one of the drinks includes honey.




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