Matchamisu

Matchamisu is a take-away dessert window in the Market Building at Covent Garden, built around an East-meets-West idea that fuses Japanese matcha with Italian dessert traditions. Its name comes from its signature, a matcha-infused tiramisu, and the concept sets it apart from the more traditional counters nearby.

The window is part of Buns and Buns Collective, a food destination in the market that brings three concepts under one roof, from grilled plates and handmade pasta to sweet matcha treats. Everything at Matchamisu is made fresh daily from high-quality ingredients, and drinks can be personalised, so it appeals to matcha enthusiasts and newcomers alike.

Matcha dessert in Covent Garden

The offer pairs premium Japanese matcha drinks, including iced matcha lattes and handcrafted matcha and coffee creations, with the Matchamisu itself and homemade tiramisu in a range of flavours. Combining a drink and a sweet in one quick stop makes it an efficient choice when you want both at once, and pairing a fashionable matcha focus with a familiar Italian dessert gives it a distinctive angle among the sweet stops in the market. The fusion is the real draw, offering something you will not find at the more conventional gelato and chocolate counters around it.

What to expect on a visit

As a window rather than a sit-down cafe it is designed for passing footfall in one of the busiest parts of the piazza, with a colourful frontage that is easy to spot. It opens from midday on weekdays and from late morning Friday to Sunday. For Japanese patisserie with a table, Sakurado is a short walk south, and the rest of the area's dessert shops in Covent Garden cover gelato, chocolate and doughnuts.