Frédéric Cassel: Éclair Chocolat

It was hot today, not as hot as a lot of this summer, but it was also cloudy, so it did not cool off much in the evening. I went to Ginza to visit Frédéric Cassel at Ginza Mitsukoshi, but went underground from the corner of Hibiya Park. Coming back, I actually circled north as far as the International Forum, just to remind myself how to get there underground (I still want to see if that is a shortest route), because I was at Ginza last weekend and needed to get to Tokyo Station in the rain. Anyway, besides walking a lot underground for the crowded bits, I kept my speed down to 9 km/h out and 8 km/h back, running 9.5 km total.

Although I had seen some things I wanted more when I visited Sunday morning, today I had to be satisfied with my next choice, their Éclair Chocolat (600 yen), though there were still too other less attractive choices, a slice of roll cake and another flavor variation on the Mille-Feuille Finger (whereas, what I really want is the chocolate regular mille-feuille that I saw Sunday, but that might be a weekend only thing).

The éclair was definitely excellent and I had determined to call it great, but I've backed down on that. I can compare chocolate éclairs someday separately from cake-offs. This particular éclair is rather thin/flat and has a fairly thick crust, but the filling is also rather thick and it actually balanced out so that it seemed rather different from other éclairs, though my experience is still insufficient.