Mealtop, the patbingsu place in Apgujeong
As it happened I stopped by the Hyundai Department Store in Apgujeong to buy a Tory Burch bag -_- and while I was there I had Mealtop’s patbingsu as a snack. Patjuk for the winter solstice I never got…
As it happened I stopped by the Hyundai Department Store in Apgujeong to buy a Tory Burch bag -_- and while I was there I had Mealtop’s patbingsu as a snack. Patjuk for the winter solstice I never got…
After my lunch date wrapped up… another cake date came up, so I headed for Roppongi. Fiorentina, the lounge-cum-cafe on the first floor of the Grand Hyatt Hotel, is very famous for its cakes, and its cak…
I do like chocolate, but I had never paid much attention to Japan’s chocolate specialists – until a visit to Patissier Inamura Shozo the other day changed my mind. Turns out Japan has places that d…
I picked up a copy of Sweets Bancho’s The Ten Supreme Sweets at Sanseido, read the whole thing that evening and went straight into analysis mode. ^_^ Turns out there are so, so many cake shops I still ha…
imi (意味) is a dessert cafe that just opened in Hongdae. Apparently the name comes from the Japanese word for “meaning.” Ah, so that’s what it means… Since it was new I went to check it …
I go back and forth to Tokyo so often, and visit the famous dessert shops every time I’m here, that by now I’ve been to almost all the major ones I wanted to try. The one that (probably) caps it al…
Before every trip to Tokyo I usually go through the Tabelog rankings from top to bottom, and this time there was an Akasaka cake shop I’d never seen before, so I pushed myself to go. It was enough to mak…
I’d known for a while that Pierre Hermé has a café at its Aoyama shop, but only this time did I finally manage to drop by. It’s a café with a rather unusual concept, so I’d wanted to visit at…
After lunch I had a bit of time to kill before dinner, so I made the rounds of some of Tokyo’s famous sweets shops. The first stop was Mont St. Clair. It didn’t take as long to get there as I’…
After agonizing for ages over what to have for dessert, I went to Pierre Hermé in the basement food hall of the Mitsukoshi department store in Nihonbashi. I wanted to try the real Ispahan. The shopping bag …
On the day I flew back from Tokyo, I liked Dominique Saibron’s bread so much that I bought a few pieces in the morning, brought them home, and called a late-night meetup. The breads I bought that mornin…
After digging deep into desserts for a good while, I’ve lately started getting into bread too. It’s probably mostly because great bakeries have been popping up all over Tokyo like mushrooms after t…