Chicco Dall Oriente

This place has amazing Japanese desserts. We sauntered in after eating way too much at the izakaya next door, and we walked out with all of the matcha things, and a strawberry cheesecake for my little brother. We took turns passing everything around (except the cheesecake) in the van on the drive back to Washington, and I was unreasonably full but happy.

This review is for their parfait.
I was expecting that I have parfait like I was eating in Japan, but I was wrong.
It has too much corn flakes. Because it has too little ice cream and whipping cream, all I felt eating was corn flakes. I don’t want to pay $ 7.75 + tax for it.
Cash Only

good cheesecake and tiramisu! it’s cozy and they have lemonwater for free too. the only downside is they accept cash only. Pricewise slightly on the higher end but overall, a place to hang out with your friends especially when you’re craving for cute japanese food!

Very good parfaits! We also tried green tea truffle and bought gift boxes since we liked everything we tried there. If you like green tea, try the truffles, they are very strong in flavor and the macaroons at this shop are deliciously good and a must try also.

Whoa! I have never experienced anything like these parfaits. Between the three of us, we got the black sesame, tiramisu, and mango parfaits. Delicious gelato, macaroons, whipped cream, jelly, and cornflakes for crunch. I can die happy now

Came here with my girlfriend because we are in love with macarons! And they had the macaron ice cream sandwiches. Good lord, I got the strawberry marble ice cream macaron sandwich and it was BOMBDIGGITY! So delicious. Will be coming back to try more of the goods!

I did a Unilocal search on desserts and what attracted me to this place was the photos of the desserts. The desserts look like pieces that should be in a museum; colorful and well put together. After ordering $ 9 worth of stuff I was told at the til that they were cash only. Embarrassed I asked the lady to put everything back until my friend saved me. Who doesn’t accept CC? especially on Robson street? Does anyone carry cash anymore? Rant aside, the desserts were decent. The desserts are $$$, therefore, no excuse as to why they don’t take CC’s. 1 table inside, therefore, grab and go situation which makes no sense when some menu items like crepes are sometimes hard to walk and eat with.

This place was amazingly cute. The atmosphere felt somewhat like a Japan Patissiere. My first parfait and every bite was a surprise. Me my friend went here after lunch for dessert and no regrets.

Great place little place for dessert. Their parfaits have the perfect amount of ingredients to make each bite lusting for the next. The mango parfait was great! It also makes for a great photo as it is nicely displayed. There is a straw wafer, with a macaron and cake nicely placed on top. Definitely will be coming here again to try the other flavours and their ice cream macaron sandwiches

This place is cute!
I love how its small and cozy inside with only two tables. I didn’t find the pricing that bad especially considering how expensive cakes and desserts in general are everywhere else.
Tried the mont blanc and the green tea cake and both were quite good. The mango icecream was the best we have ever had. Like EVER.
We will be coming back for sure! Great place to quietly chat with a friend or two after dinner.

This was a fun spot to end my day. The sheer number of Japanese dessert parfaits almost
necessitates the use of a roulette wheel to help choose one.

I’ve been here 3 times now. I have to say the parfait itself is very tasty, but canned whipped cream takes up like half of the cup. Two small scoops of icecream are melded into that. Lots of cheap cornflakes, and some cheap fruit and cake at the bottom. The mini dessert at the top is probably the most expensive addition… As I said tastes good but NOT worth $ 8.00.

CASH ONLY.
I only tried the parfait, which seems to be what is most heavily advertised and what people go for here.
Honestly, I don’t know how people eat this Japanese parfait stuff. Unlike a pretty much all-​cream parfait, Chicco (and D’oro Gelato & Caffè further up Robson Street) offer a different sort of parfait, with a base of cake and cornflakes, a layer of jelly cut into cubes, then mainly whipped cream, ice cream, a macaron, and a pastry stick. There’s some other stuff too depending on which one you choose but it’s sort of token compared to the overall price of $ 7.75.
Like a honey toast box, you need strategy to properly eat this. Otherwise you end up with junk at the end.
You can eat this very slowly, thus letting the whipped cream and ice cream melt down into the bottom layers, which honestly are too hard to get to initially, especially with the flimsy plastic spoons they give you. If you dig and twist too hard to get at the cake and corn flakes initially, you are liable to break your spoon. That would be bad. Therefore, if you eat it slowly, by the time you get to the bottom, there should be enough ice cream to mix with the dry ingredients and for a somewhat tasty if ugly paste.
Or you can tactically remove the obstacles such as the pasty stick and macaron, then start mixing and eating your way down. If you are not disciplined, you will eat too much ice cream and have too little left for the cake at the bottom. Since this requires more thinking, its is not the preferred strategy.
My personal opinion — and I’m sure I’ll be lynched by ESL students for this — is that these parfaits are a waste of money. The value you are getting for $ 7.75 is mainly a scoop of ice cream at the top and a macaron. What you are mostly paying for is a dessert that looks pretty initially.
Since it’s so popular, I’m sure there’s something about these parfaits that I’m overlooking. However, a this point I would have to recommend that if you want a parfait, go for the «real thing» rather than one stuffed with cornflakes and cake at the bottom.

Chicco has seriously improved so much since they opened up a few years ago and I’m impressed every time I visit!
Chicco’s classic Japanese parfaits have been famous in Vancouver for quite a while, but I believe the hype died down recently so they had to innovate. Sure, spending $ 8.00 on a beautiful Japanese parfait does seem like a good choice for dessert, but it’s really not something that you would want to do all the time, especially when they’re located so far down Robson!
Now, they have several desserts such as: The Japanese ice cream macaron (with interesting flavours such as Matcha and Black Sesame), several Japanese confectioneries (the chocolate dipped almond pie is my favourite), and many new cake flavours (I love the chocolate roll and Mont Blanc). Chicco is a great alternative to Thierry/​Brekka but unfortunately, they do not have much seating so you may have to order take-​out!

I hadn’t heard of this place until my girlfriend brought up the fact that there was an Asian parfait place on Robson. I didn’t really know what the expect from it since I had never heard of this concept before! We were craving a green tea/​matcha dessert so we thought we’d try it out!
Atmosphere: Very small. Don’t expect to snag a table since there are only two. It’s more of a «grab your parfait and head out» type of place.
Service: It was alright. Nothing special at all. Ordered our food at the register and waited. Not any major greeting/​welcoming but they weren’t rude either.
Food: It was OK. We ordered the Green Tea parfait. It had green tea gelato, a green tea mousse/​cake type dessert, a matcha stick, whipped cream, green tea jelly (I think.) corn flakes (which I feel MADE the parfait. add an awesome crunch factor!), cantaloupe, and a sponge like cake at the bottom. It sort of reminded me of the Asian sponge cakes you get at T&T when it came to the taste of it overall with the fruit and creams. I really enjoyed the green tea mousse — its one of the few things in the dessert I had not tried before. I did think it was a bit pricey for what you got. $ 8 for one parfait.
Overall, I thought it was alright. Not a huge wow factor but nothing terrible about the experience/​food either.

Found this place strolling down Robson St. Very unique, I’ve never had anything quite like their Mango Parfait… it was a hodge-​podge of fruit, cake, whip cream, sorbet and… wait for it… cornflakes. Strangely, it all works together pretty well. I’m only giving it 4 stars because the store front it very small with only 2 tables but I would definitely go back.

wide selection of japanese style pastries, parfaits, and standard espresso drinks.
Owned by the same group as Gyoza King next door.

Besides the fact that it was overpriced ($ 7.25), I’d say it tasted pretty delicious! Our group got the tiramisu one and it had the tiramisu cake, vanilla and chocolate ice cream, some kind of jelly, cereal, a macaron and biscuit. Yum. Can’t go wrong with sweets but will have to say it is overpriced. Recommend it if you’re visiting vancouver and you don’t have these kind of Japanese dessert shops where you live.

Clearly overpriced.
Don’t be fooled with the large cup that are in the photos. That just a whole bunch of corn flakes on the bottom. One scoop of ice cream, a few cookies, and a macaron. Hmm. but then again the price of a single macaron is $ 1.5-$ 2. But I still think ~$ 7 – 10 is way to much for what you get here. Definitely make your own at home, and impress your friends: P
Tho… it is yummy :) but i’m a big fan of cereal, and ice cream, and cookies. Where to go wrong: P

I remember seeing their anatomy of a green tea parfait sign outside the last time I was in Vancouver and being curious about it. I decided to give it a try this time (and also since my favorite dessert place was closed at the time and I really wanted ice cream). Really important: this place is CASH ONLY. I didn’t have enough cash on me for a parfait (which is like $ 7.75 I think plus tax which made it over $ 8). After seeing the cash only sign, I actually went to the nearby 7 – 11 to grab some cash from the ATM.
I ordered the black sesame parfait, which is pretty much the green tea parfait, but with black sesame ice cream instead of green tea. The cookies and macaron are still green tea. The black sesame ice cream was delicious! I love black sesame. The green tea shortbread cookie was yummy and the corn flake cereal went really well with the vanilla bean ice cream and whipped cream. Who knew? From now on, I’m going to eat my morning cereal with ice cream instead of milk! There was also mochi and these green jelly cube things that I wasn’t too wild about. Oh, and the macaron was just ok — it tasted slightly dry/​stale, making me wonder if they use not fresh ones for the parfaits.
Overall the parfait was yummy and the black sesame ice cream was great. I’ve never had a dessert parfait like this before so I liked the novelty of it and the girl who made mine was nice. The dessert seems a little overpriced but then, I guess a lot of ingredients go into it.