Desserts, January 2022
creamlabel’s strawberry cream cake The cake was good. A strawberry cream cake is the kind of thing that cannot taste bad if you use decent cream and pile big strawberries on top, but places like Paris B…
creamlabel’s strawberry cream cake The cake was good. A strawberry cream cake is the kind of thing that cannot taste bad if you use decent cream and pile big strawberries on top, but places like Paris B…
LESS is a dessert shop in Ebisu that I have been to before. This time I picked up a few things to give as gifts. Granola This is the funny thing: there is no shortage of granola in this world, yet the granola…
Every now and then I get a craving for the gâteau basque from Maison d’Ahni. And since they open early in the morning, it’s an easy stop on the way to work. A bag like this Wrapped like this This…
Noix de beurre is a dessert shop that always has a long line, so when one opened in Mitsukoshi I went to have a look. The packaging looks like this Financier The Korean ones are better. Seriously, why do peo…
Randy’s Donuts is the place in Yeonnam-dong with the insanely long line.. honestly, you could say it got famous because it showed up in Iron Man.. If it weren’t for Iron Man, I don’t think I&…
A new dessert shop has opened in Ebisu and everyone is talking about it.. apparently it has even been on TV. This place.. It is a fruit sandwich shop built around a vegan concept. The display It was such a b…
LESS is a dessert shop that has been getting good reviews lately. I was curious, so I went. The front entrance It is a small place. Tucked away in a corner, too. Somehow a place like this feels all the more t…
While going back and forth around Ebisu I came across a cake shop called AM STRAM GRAM. The style of the cakes is very close to Qu’il fait bon. The entrance Very stylish. Cakes They make them beautiful…
The cake shop at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Nihonbashi sells an incredible cake. It is called KUMO, and everyone says the queue is so long that it is hard to get one. KUMO It means “cloud” in Japanese. Th…
Enokitei, like Elena, is up in Yamate. It is a former mansion that has been converted into a cafe.. the line was incredibly long and I did not have much time, so I just bought the famous Cherry Sand and a few …
Yokohama has an area called Yamate. Think of it as an upscale residential neighborhood up on a hill. In Korea, “up on a hill” brings to mind poor hillside districts, but in fact upscale neighborhoo…
One day I went to the Shinsegae department store and found that Maison M’O had opened there. The queue at the main shop is always so long that I had been staying away for a while, but the branch is not l…