Desserts I Ate in the Winter of 2013
Lately I have been eating dessert at home a lot more. To tidy things up, I am posting them all in one go. Snob and Exquis from Au Bon Vieux Temps Both are cakes I had tried once before, and I bought them ag…
Lately I have been eating dessert at home a lot more. To tidy things up, I am posting them all in one go. Snob and Exquis from Au Bon Vieux Temps Both are cakes I had tried once before, and I bought them ag…
On my way home I happened to stumble on a Cacao Sampaka cafe. I go to the Cacao Sampaka near Tokyo Station fairly often, but I had no idea they had opened a cafe this big in Aoyama. It does not look like much …
With spring here I felt like going out somewhere, and while wondering where to go I decided to try Blue Note Tokyo, which I had never been to. Honestly the point was going to Blue Note Tokyo itself, so I did n…
Asahi Beer has its headquarters in Asakusa, and there are quite a few restaurants run directly by the company. 23banchi Cafe is one of them, and with head-office staff stationed there, the beer can only be goo…
Hikifune is a neighborhood one or two train stops from Asakusa. There is a well-regarded cake shop there called Avignon, so I set aside a little time on the weekend and went over. The front entrance The sig…
The number one soba restaurant in Tokyo on Tabelog is in Asakusa. It is a handmade soba specialist called Daikokuya, a place I had tried a few times but always gave up on because the line was so long. This tim…
I had already reserved Moriizo chocolates for Valentine’s Day this year, but another chocolate looked so good that I simply could not resist buying it. It is called Honey Bee Garden, a Valentine’s …
Sumida Bar Vigor is a Spanish bar near my place. It sits right in front of the Skytree and stays open pretty late. I went for Valentine’s Day.. which means this post is already a month late. House-made …
Aburasoba Tsubaki is an aburasoba specialist in Ueno. It is a spin-off of Chuka Soba Tsubaki, the well-known ramen shop. The front entrance It was late, but the place was packed, and with just one person wo…
For dessert I moved on to a place called Higashi-Mukojima Coffee-ten (東向島珈琲店). I had heard it is famous for its rare cheesecake. The front entrance A cafe with a clean, tidy atmosphere. The owner seemed you…
I heard there was a cafe in a renovated old house, a pretty well-known one, near my place, so I went over for a weekend lunch. The front entrance Koguma means bear cub. That is why there is a bear on the si…
Plaisir, a cake shop in Sangenjaya, is one of the very best cake shops in Tokyo, but it is so far off the beaten path that I only just got around to going. The front entrance You get off at Sangenjaya Stati…