Just Desserts

We used to visit Just Desserts everyday when I lived in San Francisco’s Haight District. In college, we would typically bring home a piece of the carrot cake and share it between us because we did not have enough money to buy two pieces. It was always delicious and so very special. So long and goodbye.

Found out the place that makes the awesome cheesecake sold at Just Desserts:

I recall tasting and hearing about this when my cousin from SF brought the carrot cake as a holiday potluck dessert. Afterwards I was given a trio mini bundt cakes for my birthday a few years ago from a co-​worker.
LOVE their desserts. Ive only tried the cakes so far. If you are lucky u can grab these desserts from COSTCO!

RIP Just Desserts :(We used to fly in from Hawaii for your cakes. I used to make my aunt, who often had to make trips from Hawaii to San Francisco, rent a car JUST to get to you. Then, she would by the triple layer chocolate cake (at least 3 of them) so we could freeze it and eat it throughout the rest of the year.
I mourn the loss of my favorite chocolate cake place — now you sell your cakes in supermarkets. It will never NEVER be the same.

This was the last Just Desserts Café location in SF, it’s now CLOSED. Replaced by a new coffee and savory snacks stand from the Penguino froyo business already at the Metreon.
This cute café had an assortment of pastries, croissants, cream puffs, cheesecake slices, mini mousse cakes and drinks, usually overpriced. The cheesecake and cream puffs were okay. But overall the food quality was similar to what u can get at a Safeway bakery. It had the potential to be a great shop (IF they had stocked better quality stuff, like high end bakery shops), but the owners never made that possible.

WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
Check this. I just checked my online bank account and they ripped me off. I gave them a 33 cent tip to give a balanced total of 4.00 dollars. My online account says I was charged 4.40. It’s really nice how they DOUBLED their own tip. I might call VISA to dispute the charges. It’s only .40 cents back to me, but it’ll be a heavy fine to them. I’ll think about it. Makes me wonder how many people they rip off like this ALL the time?!

Wow.
My friend brought some black and white cupackes (chocolate cake w/​cream cheese icing) home and I happened to grab one today — and …
OH. MY. GOD.
HOW DELICIOUS!
WOW!
I’m such a sucker for cupcakes, and this one I just had — I swear — it was the absolute best I’ve ever had,…ever.
WOW!
I’m going to have a hard time keeping myself from grabbing another!

Just desserts is conveniently located inside the SF Metreon. they make one of the best cheesecakes ever. its not too sweet with the perfect consistency. its a cute little stand with a nice variety of sweets to satisfy any craving. I was surprised I was able to get a slice for under $ 4. yumyumyum: D

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mmmm… wowwwwww…
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$ 6.70 for 1 tuxedo mousse cake and 1 pumpkin cheesecake
… mmmm… wowwwwww…
This place is awesome… I found my wedding cake!!!
I wasn’t even hungry when we walked into the metreon (I needed to pee). So the first thing I see are cakes! I honed in on the tuxedo because the cheesecake factory had a tuxedo cream cheesecake that I loved so I knew this would be good just by looking at it. If you don’t believe me look at the pictures!!!
Anyhow the tuxedo mousse cake had 2 layers of white cake that had swirls of chocolate cake. BOTH cakes had different flavors of the chocolate and the white cake. SOOO Moist too. It was filled with two fillings. The white one tasted like mallow cream almost buttercream-​like. The other one was chocolate mousse. yummmm… THEN it was topped with an Orgasmic chocolate ganache.
The mango mousse and chocolate mousse cakes look divine.
They do have an espresso bar to help balance the overdose of sugar and butter. Prices are reasonable since cheesecake factory charges 8 bucks for a cheesecake that no one ever finishes. Also, the service is über friendly.

OMG!!! I love the cakes and tarts here. Back in the old days it would have been 5 stars for sure.
They make custom cakes, too, with advanced notice.
YUM CITY!

Love it.
Especially the red velvet. Mmmm…

I know Just Desserts is a little too generic and commercialized at this point, and god knows I can’t stand the Metreon, but nothing heals a little bit of the ickies like the key lime delicacies these folks are peddling. In fact, when I have that big ball of emo in my stomach, and I can’t possibly fathom the idea of putting anything in my mouth, the key lime cake is about the only thing delicious enough to whett my appetite.
Don’t stop at the Key Lime goodies, though… no! The mousse cakes, the mocha cake, the lemon cake, and the cookies are all standouts too! The coconut bars are out of this world, but that’s some mean calories and thus reserved for PMS week and states of emotional emergency.
The proximity to the Zeum carousel doesn’t hurt either– what takes your mind off your troubles like riding a painted horse in circles after consuming massive quantities of sweets?!? It also doesn’t hurt that I can get over there in about three minutes on foot from my apartment… because when emo strikes, it helps to address it immediately.
Note: Absolutely NO eating within the confines of the Metreon itself. The noise, the unruly children, and the disrespectful (and probably gun-​toting) teenagers will be completely counterproductive on your search for inner peace through sugar and flour. Get your edible band-​aid to-​go and seek refuge in a shady corner of Yerba Buena. Mmmmmm.

I really enjoy the sweets at this place. The cakes are incredible: rich, decadent and with just the right amount of sweetness. The frosting on the cake is also very good — creamy and sweet and the perfect balance to the taste of the cake. All the cakes are good — Chocolate Mocha, Chocolate Bundt and Carrot. Besides the cakes, the sliced desserts are also great — my favorites are the Chocolate Tuxedo Cake and The Strawberry Shortcake… I really love that stuff!
I haven’t tried any of the mousse cakes, but the traditional cakes are perfect.

Sometimes, things aren’t so good. The outlook is dark. You eschew taking the high road of going for a run, taking a bath, or calling a friend. No, not today. For those purely icky, hopeless horrible, there-​is-​nothing-​good-​in-​the-​world, you-know-exactly-what-I’m-talking-about kind of days, Just Desserts can offer up a temporary salve. They deliver COMFORT where fruit popsicles or carrot sticks can only fail.
My recent unabashed face plant into one of their carrot cakes after one of those said days may not have lifted me to enlightenment or nirvana. But taking Just Desserts along for the ride was exactly what was needed, providing a diversion without regret. (well, regret came 2 days later when I stepped on the scale, but that’s a whole other post).

**Cupcake review only**
They had *MY* cupcake — vanilla cake and chocolate frosting. Wouldn’t it go perfectly with my iced coffee on one of SF’s uncharacteristically boiling hot «summer» days?
Ahh…such was the dream… I had such hopes that a cupcake would be as wonderful as their cakes look.
Alas, cake was dry and not very vanilla-​y. And the chocolate frosting lacked the chocolate depth I would have expected.

After eating at the Japanese restaurant next door, I needed a sweet fixation. My Xo led me to this joint that had various cakes, cookies, cheesecakes & ice cream, etc — — Just Desserts! Well, he got me the rice krispies with m&m topping & he got the madeleine cookies. The rice krispies were kinda bland. The madeleine cookies were yummie!
What really caught our eyes was a misspelling of one of their cheesecakes — TEXUdo cake? Isn’t it suppose to spell — TUXEdo?
BTW, if the management is reading this… my Xo caught your 2 asian employees cupcakin! (you know, having each other for dessert)

A somewhat small stand in the corner of the Metreon with various types of cheesecake, mousse, cookies and Double Rainbow ice cream… which I did not actually see. Just saw the sign. A serving of cake is generally priced at $ 4-​$ 5.
I settled on a Pumpkin Drop Cookie, for nearly $ 2…but didn’t feel too bad cuz it was such a small little store. I liked the frosting, but the «cookie» tasted more like a muffin-​cake. I was hoping that it had chocolate chips inside but those turned out to be raisins.

Much better than nothing. Now, hear me out!
It’s 7pm and I just dropped $ 2 into a Canteen machine on the 8^th floor at school, and I got … nothing. I get a better payout at Bill’s Casino at Lake Tahoe.
What to do? Thank goodness Metreon is across the street. I dash over, and Just Desserts is open. Lots of people, but the line is moving fast. Fleetwood Mac on the sound system. Bright lights. Happy conventioneers.
An amaretto mousse slice and a regular coffee cost me $ 5.25. Nice! Happy food, happy juice.
Now I’m ready for my next class.

I really wanted some dessert before I went to go watch «Ratatouille» upstairs– we spied Just Desserts and thought, «Oh perfect!» I loved the fact that they have a huge variety of cheesecakes and other really tasty-​looking pastries. We decided on the Rocky Road cheesecake, which was a little round, individual chocolate cheesecake with some marshmallows, pecans, and a drizzle of chocolate on top. I was thirsty and saw that they offered smoothies made of Double Rainbow ice cream or sorbet. So, on complete impulse, I ordered a Berry smoothie.
The cheesecake was all chocolate-​y goodness– I’m just not sure that the marshmallows on top really added anything to the overall taste of the cheesecake. The cheesecake was also a little too dense for me– I prefer my cheesecakes to be a little lighter in texture.
The berry smoothie really wasn’t very good– I expected a stronger berry flavor considering that fresh strawberries are in season. It also took forever for the smoothie to be made– they weren’t busy at all and yet, it took a good ten minutes after I ordered the smoothie for them to start making it.
Overall, an okay place to get dessert– I wasn’t particularly wowed by the cheesecake and even less so by the smoothie.

Turtle cheesecake at Just Desserts was my consolation prize after discovering that Beard Papa was not open today.
The cheesecake itself was good, but the seating was strange as was the ordering process. But then again, it’s inside the Metreon, so expectations ought to be naturally low.