Monday to Sunday

Originally opened in 1985 in South Korea, the shaved ice (bingsoo), coffee, and cake cafe Mealtop was one of the earliest businesses at Buena Park’s substantially Korean dining, shopping, and entertainment center The Source, occupying a fairly spacious, clean, and prominent third floor space near K Soul Food and dPot: a light and bright cafe contrasting with the first floor’s darker coffee, tea, and souffle pancake shop Basilur (now closed). In 2023, Mealtop rebranded to Monday to Sunday – known in Korea as MontoSun – and expanded its menu to include a handful of savory brunch toasts, such as avocado, salmon, ricotta basil, and bacon cheese.

Despite many years of walking past and occasionally stopping into this location, we’ve only sampled their oversized macaron cookies (~$3-5) and drinks, which are comparatively reasonably priced: coffee and tea variants generally run from $4 to $7, including sweet soda-like “ades” and various lattes. We couldn’t justify spending $12 or $13 for their milky shaved ice variants, or $15 to $17 for the savory toasts (sweet injeolmi pancakes are $12, injeolmi toast is $13). Particularly on the toast side, Monday to Sunday’s prices have been and remain higher than rival Korean bingsoo shop Sul & Beans, which notably has both Buena Park and Irvine locations.