After a great kakigori at Kooriya Peace, I was wandering around the neighborhood when I stumbled on a bakery, with zero prior knowledge of it.

Front entrance

Strictly speaking, it’s a bakery and restaurant in one.

Breads

I’ve been to countless bakeries in my life, but this is the first time I’ve seen bread this close to perfectly shaped. It’s as if it were born for Instagram.

Bread

Bread that looks good tastes good too.

Bread

There was something like a powerful aura coming off the bread here.

Salted butter roll

This is a salted butter roll. So bread this beautiful actually exists. Even inside this bakery, it stood out on its own. I brought it home and ate it, and it’s seriously delicious. The taste sits somewhere between a croissant and a plain white loaf. It’s worth going all the way to Kichijoji just to eat this bread.

Breads

Breads

Even really skilled bakeries don’t usually get to this level…

Breads

Inside

The day’s picks

I thought I’d tried pretty much every kind of bread out there, but there’s always another level above…

Menu

The lunch sets look reasonably priced too, so next time I’ll definitely have a meal here.

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