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Urban Artisan Cafe

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One of the Most Reviewed Dessert shops in George Town


Address

122-C, Jalan Burma, George Town, 10050 George Town, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

Website

www.instagram.com

Contact

+60 4-227 7980

Rating on Google Maps

4.40 (1.3K reviews)

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Working Hours

  • Tuesday: 1 to 9 pm
  • Wednesday: 1 to 9 pm
  • Thursday: 1 to 9 pm
  • Friday: 1 to 9 pm
  • Saturday: 1 to 9 pm
  • Sunday: 1 to 9 pm
  • Monday: 1 to 9 pm

Featured Reviews


Frequently mentioned in reviews: cream (45) taste (14) good (14) waffle (12) cafe (11) parking (8) dine (8) find (7) staff (7) service (7)
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  • 4/5 Louise W. 1 year ago on Google
    I order Signature Sea Salt x Strawberry Cream & Premium Hazelnut x Valrhona Chocolate. Unique ice cream I can say and delicious 🤤 But! No more place for customers to enjoy the ice cream and hardly to find the parking The staff are not too friendly
    7 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 SY Y. 1 year ago on Google
    Ice-cream is delicious. Recommended to ice-cream lover. Suitable for those like snap photos to post on sosial media. If the front of cafe parking lots is full, you can park your car at New World Park, then walk to Urban Artisan Cafe take about 5 minutes to reach this cafe.
    4 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 RIDHWAN S. 2 years ago on Google
    Nothing much to say lah, boring with nasi kandar at penang, should try this fantastic and delicious ice cream 🍦 lor.. The presentation and decorations of the ice cream make you wanna eat it.
    4 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 ruthie 2 years ago on Google
    Unique ice-creams available. For orders with waffle, might need to wait for 15-20 mins after ordering, since there are a lot of orders. Coned ice-creams don't need to wait as it can be served immediately after ordering. No dine in.
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Ning 1 year ago on Google
    Their ice-cream is ICY not creamy, Pricey given the texture and flavor. No dine in even though quite spacious, take your ice-cream out for sunbath so that it turns into a drink and enjoy your ice-cream two ways.
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 kelly C. 2 years ago on Google
    1. Terrible experience during our first visit!!! 2. Rude service from the service team. 3. Over priced with so so ice cream quality and taste, definitely not worth it and won’t recommend this cafe. 4. No dine in is allowed yet charged at cafe price! 5. Posted comment on Instagram, they removed it immediately 6. Inflexibility of handling customer’s request and ignored completely with unreasonable excuse given, “our boss will question us”!!!🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬spoil my day !!
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Dinesh S. 2 years ago on Google
    Heard so much abt this ice cream and thought of having a go at the Waffle version but have to wait for 30 mins.. Hence we went for the Cup and Cone version. They are not doing any dine in yet. Perhaps not enough staff. Anyways, ice cream was good.. If you want to get a good taste of each flavor best not take the mix ones. Just a single flavor to get the best of it. Njoy.. 😍😍😍😎😎
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 2/5 Mun Kew L. 9 months ago on Google
    Stopped to cool down on a hot day as we hunted for coffee. It seems that freshly churn their ice creams and it's a soft serve so tried it. Cute place with a tall staircase against brick walls. Benches to sit and some retro art that gave it some character. We got the sea salt caramel and it was a quite vibrant greenish turquoise colour. We got it in a cup to reduce the carb 😄. Taste wise was quite one dimensional and way too sweet. Some ice crystals in the ice cream which really detracted from the texture. We ended up abandoning more than half the ice cream, so needless to say, we won't be coming back.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Affi S. 1 year ago on Google
    Want to took picture of beautiful dessert? At the same time need something sweet? This is the place. Everything ice cream. A must come and try place for me. 👍👍👍 If you dont know where to go. Just come here, grab an ice cream, relax, enjoy your ice cream and plan you next destination.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Ren Ai C. 2 years ago on Google
    Not bad quite instagrammable hehehe taste wise okay laaa I like like the bubble waffle more than the ice cream heheh cause mine not really like the soft serve kinda sad but will try the soft serve next time !
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Kayattiri N. 3 years ago on Google
    Tasty and yummy ice-cream. Most people will order for take away due to confined space and of course because of CMCO.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Mohamad A. 3 years ago on Google
    One of the best ice cream in town. Had to eat in my car because I feel more romantic to eat ice cream while listening Bruno Mars since it is too quiet in the cafe
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Jason L. 4 months ago on Google
    Terrible service, the person that was servicing us was very unfriendly, as though she was forced to serve us. Over-hyped food, it's very basic. The only positive thing I could say is, it's instagramble
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Lay Ying Y. 11 months ago on Google
    Signature Sea Salt × Strawberry Cream Ice cream very delicious 🤤 but the bubble waffle still so so because the waffle not warm and crunchy. But still recommended the sea salt ice cream to ice cream lover. Hard to find parking there and the staff are not too friendly
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Viknessvaran N. 1 year ago on Google
    I would highly recommend this to everyone... Everything is good in the ice cream, it’s really tasty and also affordable. One of my favourite desserts is strawberry cream is really good.

  • 2/5 Alan G. 10 months ago on Google
    Seats for less than 20-pax at a single go. Everybody just buy the ice creams to eat, and zero interaction. This is a ROBOT CAFE for cyborg … not humans. Highly won’t go back again.

  • 5/5 munirah 2 years ago on Google
    i love this place so much... their ice cream was very fresh and delicioso!!! might try it again..even mostly their staff are Chinese but they're so nice 🤫 (nice service) the price are also worthy for the ice cream💖

  • 4/5 nur hafifah alia a. 11 months ago on Google
    The food is nicely presented. It is worth the hype. But, price wise it is quite pricy. Can try once in a while. The seating is quite limited.

  • 2/5 Tan Chun H. 4 months ago on Google
    Dining environment: Clean. Retro interior decoration. The place has some small round tables and benches to enjoy your food. Customer service: Passive. Food taste: Tried their 'Mixed Berry bubble waffle'. Fresh ingredients combined with some nice ice cream, but lacking the wow factor for me to classify it as “delicious”. Price: Expensive, perhaps more than what I personally would deem acceptable pricing. Definitely can find more affordable options than this store.

  • 5/5 Mateo G. 6 months ago on Google
    Really cute place to grab a coffee. The staff is very friendly and the atmosphere very enjoyable. There is a good temperature inside, the plenty of small tables

  • 5/5 Shafawi M. 8 months ago on Google
    The ice cream selections are so good and you can pick any mix that you want. However, they always changing their flavour every week, the good side is, you always have a chance to taste something new or something refreshing, the downside is if you have your own favourite flavour, it depends on your luck either they have it or you gonna try something new. In the image attached, is the vanilla and biscoff flavour, personally I indulge every moment I eat it and the taste is something new and refreshing for me. Location wise, it is walking distance from Komtar, I would recommend you walk to the place rather using car or motorcycle as the traffic is quite busy and it’s quite hard for you to find a good parking spot as in the location is near to a food court, locals and tourist also love to go to the food court area, therefore it will be a challenge for you to find a parking spot especially during dinner time or peak hours. I would recommend you to buy the ice cream cone rather than the cup, it is because personally for me, the ice cream in the cone tasted better and you can eat the cone as well to satisfy your cravings towards sweet things.

  • 4/5 PohSuan L. 7 months ago on Google
    Taste good ice cream & waffle, not too sweet, limited seat inside the cafe. Quite difficult to find street parking in this area but there hv paid parking space near new world park and within 150m walking distance to this cafe

  • 2/5 Lynette T. 7 months ago on Google
    Bubble waffle, waffle is cold and soft, probably made it hours ago, the amount of strawberry was questionable, I mean you can’t go wrong with Nutella, overall it was too expensive RM28 I think for something so simple, and the cold waffles.

  • 2/5 archer l. 1 year ago on Google
    Their ice cream and waffles are way too normal. Given the price, they are below average. Matcha Waffle ice cream: nothing to brag about. The matcha ice cream does not taste like matcha. There is one cafe shop near them (cafe chemistry) that serves better matcha waffle Salted sea and cheese cake mixed Ice cream: sea salt is too salty. Beside that, there is no flavourful taste. Cheese cake is way too ( no cheese cake flavour at all). Only creamy texture. Their service is good. That is a plus. Other than that, I do not think there is any special about that beside taking Instagramable photo

  • 4/5 Tan D. 1 year ago on Google
    Nice ice cream & taste good. Dine in place rather small but worth the visit.

  • 5/5 Vieren C. 1 year ago on Google
    Indeed the signature sea salt ice cream is worth to try. Just the blue sea salt one.. the sea salt caramel in the cup was just so so.

  • 2/5 Rachel C. 1 year ago on Google
    While the ice cream and place are super 'Instagrammable', the actual taste is just okay. The yam one was good but the chocolate soft-serve was mediocre at best. We had to wait for the waffle for a bit so we expected it to be fresh and warm and crunchy, but instead I bit into a room-temperature and deflated waffle. It was pretty disappointing. I usually don't give ratings below 3 for places that are okay. But the service wasn't great. It's not a big deal that our server wasn't smiling at all because we're all wearing masks anyway. But she didn't say a word to us when she took our order and gave us our ice cream. When she wanted to pass through where other people were standing, she just stood there and stared at them until they moved - this is my main reason for the low rating.

  • 4/5 nisya y. 2 years ago on Google
    Sweet tooth of the day! Love the flavour and vibes. A bit pricey but stil worthy! I try their recommended menu, biscoff bubble waffle & strawberry cheesecake ice cream. Is just tht it is hard to find parking around the shop. But stil, you know lah how penang right?

  • 5/5 Zi H. 1 year ago on Google
    The ice cream taste nice. I ordered pistachios plus sea salt. RM13++ per cone with two flavours. Limited seats inside the cafe.

  • 4/5 Khisha P. 2 years ago on Google
    Ice cream is ice cream. But this ice cream is definitely off the charts. Out of the world. It's creamy and can literally taste it's flavour without feeling dull by its frozen feature. No dine option at the moment but worth it on the go.

  • 4/5 Ashleigh T. 2 years ago on Google
    The Urban Artisan now focuses on soft serves and ice cream only - no more dine in/food & drink options like before. Nevertheless, the ice cream is pretty tasty. Will try the bubble waffles next time!

  • 4/5 Athirah R. 2 years ago on Google
    Good food and nice staff..portion seems to be different from before cmco..but still okay..can't dine it so no place to eat..if you have sweet tooth this place is for you..

  • 2/5 Yong Sein L. 2 years ago on Google
    The taste is too artificial and melt quickly... worst when you cannot dine inside. Staff is friendly though, but for the price you pay you obviously have a lot of better choice around.

  • 5/5 Sofea S. 2 years ago on Google
    It’s a hype ice cream cafe & the taste is so good! The staff also nice. Recommend you guys to try the passion fruit ice cream.

  • 4/5 Annisa Z. 2 years ago on Google
    Bought the waffle but it’s just so so. The telur smells quite strong so it may be quite overwhelming for those who don’t like it. The blueberry and strawberry aren’t that bad. I think it’s just instagrammable but it is not that soooo good. First time nak try okay la but I won’t buy the second time. Maybe can try their ice cream next time


Call +60 4-227 7980 Open on Google Maps

Amenities


  • Parking
    • ✓️ Free parking lot
    • ✓️ Paid parking lot
    • ✓️ Paid street parking
    • ✓️ Difficult to find a space
  • Payments
    • ✓️ Debit cards
    • ✓️ Credit cards
    • ✓️ NFC mobile payments
  • Offerings
    • ✓️ Coffee
    • ✓️ Small plates
  • Accessibility
    • ✗ Wheelchair-accessible seating
    • ✗ Wheelchair-accessible car park
    • ✗ Wheelchair-accessible entrance
  • Dining options
    • ✓️ Lunch
    • ✓️ Dessert
  • Service options
    • ✓️ Dine-in
    • ✓️ Delivery
    • ✓️ Takeaway

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