Disney California Adventure Aunt Cass Cafe Review

Aunt Cass Cafe is a quick service restaurant located in Disney California Adventure‘s San Fransokyo Square area. This location is famous for their signature bread bowls from San Francisco’s famous Boudin bakery, as well as seasonal bread pudding and Japanese-style fluffy pancakes. In this post we’ll take a look at what Aunt Cass Cafe has to offer.

As you can see, not much has changed in terms of looks. Aunt Cass Cafe looks similar to Pacific Wharf Cafe, but has received a new sign and some new thematic elements inside. This marquee says Aunt Cass Cafe in English text on one side, and Japanese katakana on the other.

Inside Aunt Cass Cafe is this chalkboard with the bakery’s deliveries for the day. On it you can see references to other parts of the land. One of the walls shows pictures of the Big Hero 6 crew. Like the outside, much of the inside of Aunt Cass Cafe remains the same. Something I thought was funny is this display on the wall. The oven peel in the middle used to have a fake loaf of bread on it. You can see where they ripped it off because of the exposed/unpainted wood in the center, as well as the ring of flour that used to circle the fake bread. Besides that it’s cute that they put the Baymax bread on it.

The Broccoli Cheese and Bok Choy Soup is served in one of the fresh bread bowls that are made on site in Aunt Cass Cafe. The soup soaks into the fresh Boudin bakery bread and it’s truly glorious. This is a very filling and delicious meal for only $12.99, which is on the cheaper side of Disneyland Resort quick service meals. Don’t miss out on this one.

Two other bread bowls are also available, clam chowder, and creamy mac & cheese, which are $12.99 each.

The Soba Noodle Salad is comprised of tofu, cabbage, edamame, carrots, roasted corn, scallions and cilantro topped with crispy shallots and sesame ginger dressing. This dish is perfect for people looking for a lighter meal, especially when compared to Aunt Cass Cafe’s bread bowls. The salad is $14.49, and there’s also a version served with shrimp for $20.49.

The Turkey Pesto Club includes roasted turkey breast, pesto aїoli, havarti, bacon, arugula, tomato and served on herb foccacia with potato chips for $13.79. It’s the least exciting thing on the menu, but it’s a perfectly find sandwich.

The Honey Lemon-Ade contains Minute Maid Lemonade Zero Sugar, yuzu puree with passion fruit and strawberry popping spheres for $7.49. Even with the zero sugar lemonade this is still a total sugar bomb. The yuza flavor is great, but at $7.49 this is another pass for me.

Now that you’ve skipped the Honey Lemon-Ade, you can spend the $6.99 on this beauty, which is the same price. The Japanese-style Fluffy Cheesecake is a wonderfully fluffy dessert packed with rich cheesecake flavor. Fluffy Japanese-style pancakes are very trendy right now, and while this isn’t the best one I’ve ever had it’s still great and worth a try.

Aunt Cass Cafe is famous with locals for their incredible seasonal bread puddings. They change regularly throughout the year. During the Halloween season they’ve had pumpkin cheesecake bread pudding, and pictured above is the carrot cake bread pudding. I can’t recall a time where one has been bad so consider this a standing recommendation to try whichever bread pudding is available during your visit.

Coffee fans will enjoy the Milk and Cookies Cold Brew for $7.29. It’s cookie butter flavored and topped with cereal milk and chocolate cookie foam.

If you’d like to leave another item for your beneficiaries to throw away when you pass, this Baymax sipper is perfect. For $21.29 you get the sipper and one beverage.

Overall Aunt Cass Cafe is a decent place to fill your stomach. Disney simplified the menu recently to remove most of the unique Japanese dishes, which is unfortunate. The focus of the menu is the bread bowls, which are good, but not very exciting. However, the Japanese-style fluffy pancake is a unique dessert in Disney California Adventure and they’re fantastic.

Check out our review of San Fransokyo Square’s other quick service restaurant, Lucky Fortune Cookery.

Which food items in San Fransokyo Square are your favorites? Let me know in the comments below.