This place has a really long name, but it’s a bakery called Chevre, and its thing is baking bread in a wood-fired stone oven.

Here’s the place.

Well.. it’s a popular spot, so I figured they’d do things right. It’s out in a pretty quiet area, yet plenty of people were showing up.

The hot dog menu

They sell all sorts of hot dogs. Soft-serve, too.

The breads

Surprisingly, they were selling some seriously proper bread.

Onion bacon bread, raisin bread

Some loaves go over 1,000 yen, so it’s not cheap. But you can see they don’t skimp on the ingredients.

Pain de campagne, spelt levain campagne

There’s campagne, which I love. It doesn’t look all that hard-crusted, though.

Retro baguette

The baguette, at least, is reasonably priced.

Bagels

They had bagels in several varieties.. there was just so much bread that looked delicious.

Cream puffs and fruit sandos

These all looked great too, but they’re pricey and I couldn’t buy that much bread, so I only took photos. Bread at this level isn’t something you come across often, and I have no idea how such a great bakery ended up out in the provinces.

Fig campagne

It isn’t hard, but it had a really refined flavor. My guess is that good flour, a proper fermentation and baking over a wood fire are what make bread like this possible. It’s a unique taste you just can’t copy with a regular oven.

Bagel

I toasted the bagel too, and it was amazing.

The underside of the bagel

Who knew it would look this tempting.. It’s great having a top-level bakery nearby, but the prices are top-level too, so I’d better work hard and earn.

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