The Cupcake & Espresso Bar

The BEST ever!
Great customer service, prices are better than ever. I really enjoy coming here I love the warm cozy feeling in the building totally love the atmosphere!
Hope one day they make this worldwide!

By far the best coffee house we have ever been to! Had a cup of black coffee, an iced black tea with peach, and two cupcakes (lemon blueberry & vanilla). They were all beyond yummy! Highly recommend to anyone, they have so many options. They are super nice and friendly and its now our new coffee place! Haven’t seen a coffee place these yummy and genuine since Seattle.
Seriously the best cup of coffee anywhere!

Only gone there once, but it was some delicious cupcakes and drinks. best customer service, need to go again soon !!

One of the best cupcakes I ever had!!! I got the banana, red velvet, turtle, and lemon cupcake. So far I tired the banana cupcake and it was amazing! So moist and yummy!!! On top of that they have GREAT customer service. The lady that helped me was so sweet and friendly. I am for sure coming back again… Maybe tomorrow hahah

I don’t have a sweet tooth and I’m not one to even have seconds. This is the second time I’ve been here because the cupcakes are amazing! I’ve never had something so sweet and delicious that keeps me wanting more. I recommend this place to everyone even you don’t have a sweet tooth. And the coffees are awesome as well.

Let me just start by saying I am a total cupcake addict. Seriously, I actually went on a hunt around the Riverside area to find the best cupcakes and let me tell you, this place has got them. All their frostings are made with a cream cheese base so they aren’t too sweet or have that artificial taste like some other places like Casey’s or My Delight. Also the cake always has the right amount of moisture in it. Never dry, and never crumbles. I’ve tried many of the cupcakes that they have to offer and none have ever disappointed me. Some of my daily favorites are the cookies n cream, lemon, and more recently, the carrot. Other favorites that they don’t carry daily would be the snowball (which is a coconut cupcake topped with coconut shreds), s’mores, and white chocolate raspberry vanilla bean! Aside from cupcakes, the drinks are also delicious. My favorites are the cookies n cream ghiacciato, iced chai latte, and you can never go wrong with an iced caramel macchiato. The shop itself is very cute and a great place to go to work on things or just hangout. Everyone that works there is super helpful & super friendly. You will never get anything less than great service from them! I recommend this place to literally everyone it’s a ¹⁰⁄₁₀.
Pro tip: if you want a cookies n cream cupcake later in the day, I recommend going after around 5 pm. They sell out often and they are usually fresh from then on!

I love this place! The staff is very sweet and very friendly. It is very Cosy and has a great atmosphere to chill talk and snack! I got the red velvet cupcake which fell short in my books but I am addicted to red velvet and can not find the right one. However it was very moist, but very chocolate flavored. I got my mom a banana cupcake which she seriously enjoyed!

The Cupcakes were amazing, with the exception of the chocolate ones being a little less moist than the other flavors… but It had nothing to do with DELECTABILITY, they literally had me lickn my fingers #Yummy.

Amazing customer service, friendly staff, and presentation of deserts! I come here to study and love the environment, also has great coffee

I feel like no matter how great I tell you this place is, will not justify the glorious cup cakes these people are baking. Let me just recommend some stuff: the mounds cup cake is by FAR the best in the inventory (if you like almond joy this will be your go to) blended drinks are to die for, I like the mocha coconut ghiachatto. Here hasn’t been a visit where I don’t walk out of there feeling great about the service I receive, Shaddy, Faddy, Karina and their team are amongst some of the most kind hearted people I’ve ever met. Come here and get a taste of a great treat and outstanding customer service! You will never look back :)

This place is so amazing! They are always so clean. I came in and told them I needed help. My wife is pregnant and was craving baked goods. They asked me what does she like. I told them she likes chocolate. She is a big Reese fan. The girl told me give me a min. Let me check in the back to see if I can make a peanut butter frosting and add a peanut butter cup on top of a chocolate cupcake for your wife. When she came back she said she could do the custom cupcake for me.
Talk about customer service! Their cupcakes taste out of this world. I definitely recommend the cookies and cream cupcake. Not to mention the peanut butter cup cupcake… according to my wife, it is to die for! Best customer service I have seen by far!

I was lucky to find this place! Absolutely delicious cupcakes!!! I was craving cupcakes and was hoping it would be a quick in and out but when I walked in, I saw that they served Lavazza coffee! Needless to say, I had to stay for a cappuccino. Great coffee and delicious cupcakes. I highly recommend this place.
BTW, possibly the best carrot cake I’ve ever had!

First time coming here. Very open and inviting in terms of space! The staff were all very friendly and willing to help. Also very good WiFi! I ordered the medium Americano sans cream with a lemon cupcake! All very Yummy!

This review is long overdue, this place never disappoints me. Aside from their great tasting cupcakes and drinks they always provide me with their best customer service!
Btw, you can’t go wrong with any of their cupcakes but I love coconut and their snowball! It is my all time favorite along with some other cupcakes on their daily menu like cookies and cream, red velvet, strawberry, turtle crush (which I just tried).

I usually go & get cupcakes but today I was starving for food food lol so I ordered a sausage & egg breakfast & I am in love!!! Super cheesy & delicious (if you’ve had the Starbucks ones & you like them, I would recommend you go to the espresso bar instead) they’re WAY better.

Great coffee, great sandwiches, great service! Seriously, I get so frustrated at myself for paying so much money at Starbucks but finally we have a coffee shop that’s excellent value for money!
The choices available for coffee are really good, the quality is of the drinks are equally as good. Plus they don’t try and cheat you by giving you more ice than drink!!!
I haven’t tried the cupcakes, as I’m not a cupcake person but I can tell for sure that the sandwiches are great!
The service ultimately is what it’s about too. You can tell the brothers care about their customers and are not complacent with their service. They are both attentive to your order and remember their customers. Their staff also are a good representation of the brothers too. The staff are friendly and treat you like family…

Everything from their coffee to their cupcakes is absolutely delicious. This is a family run business that puts a lot of heart and passion in the product they sell.
This is the exact definition of a hidden gem, and it is worth coming back to over and over again.

Unfortunately, I haven’t tried much of their products but I was looking for a bakery that can make a really good German Chocolate cake for my bf’s bday (his fav. cake). Most of the places said they can’t or offered me an alternative. I came in almost as a last resort because I was making my way from the border of Riverside/​MoVal to into Moreno Valley.
I talked to the owner and he told me they definitely can bake me a cake. He told me the price is a little on the higher side because they use fresh and real ingredients. He had already sold it to me when he said they’d be able to grant my request lol I thought the price was reasonable and felt it was a standard price for what I was asking for.
I’m giving 5 stars because the cake was AMAZING!!! Thank you again! I had ordered the cake a week prior to my pick up date and had to change my pick up time around and they were very accommodating. Anyway, back to the cake, the cake was moist and you can taste the real chocolate within it. The owner told me I can taste a real difference with their cakes vs. a store bought cake and I really did. I didn’t doubt him because you can tell he knows what he’s talking about and when he was explaining how he’d make the cake, I could sense passion behind it all. They also added some almonds onto it and I thought that was a nice touch. I never had German chocolate cake with almonds but it went really well with the caramel and coconut.

Oooooo, this was such a lovely little Café! They have decent coffee and delicious cupcakes and other goodies! I had the cranberry scone… Oh my goodness was it sooooooooo good! And the banana cupcake — Yum! The barista’s were so welcoming, friendly and gave great service!
The only damper for us (not them) is that it’s a little out of the area, but it is worth the drive to, especially if your going shopping. I came on coincidence because I reunited with my daughter (don’t ask) and wanted to do coffee w/​her but not Starbucks, so this place was perfect! Hope to visit it back when I go out there.

Came across this venue by chance, when I was roaming around MoVal one night.
Weeks later here I am in MoVal again and decided to pay them a visit finally. It’s a little hard to spot, as there isn’t much for advertisement, but to save those looking for it, it’s a few doors over from Little Bambinos.
Wow does this place live up to it’s ratings. Their cupcakes are crazy good.
The cupcakes and desserts we tried while there were peanut butter cup, cookies n cream, banana cupcake, chocolate cherry cupcake, pumpkin spice scone, and pumpkin loaf.
The cupcakes were moist and delicious, and surprisingly the scone and pumpkin loaf were too! I’d never have considered trying their scone until they described it to me. It was worth it. Add to the fact the frostings were soft and not overly sweet sealed the deal for me in this review.
If you love cupcakes, you really need to give this place a try. You won’t regret it.