Bien-être, Caprice

As planned, I did a shorter run today, under 10 km round trip and a little over 1 hour, carrying cake on the way back and with a kilo of nuts from Nikunohanamasa, to Bien-être, where my only choice of a new cake was Caprice (by my guess of the phonetic Japansese) . As usually these days there, the tables were full with people eating parfaits, though there were few cakes left for anyone who wanted cake anyway, maybe just 4 pieces that I can remember.

I didn't read the card in detail (I'm tired when I go), but there is definitely fig and I believe cassis (currant). The blueberry is just decoration (though eatable). I might be giving the shop the benefit of the doubt, but I think this was excellent. I've complained about some fig cakes recently, but this gets both the balance of fruit flavors and the texture/moisture right, so excellent isn't out of line. I was lucky to get cake. I know they've had other cakes I haven't tried yet recently, so I hope that I can get something next week as well. Bien-être is on verge of taking over as my #3 favorite shop. They don't has as many great cakes as my current #3, but they also have fewer duds.

Sunday: Lettre d'Amour [Closed]

It was convenient to stop at Lettre d'Amour and go to the cafe space, which had only one other person around noon on a Sunday, which shouldn't surprise me, given the general lack of customers there. I ordered the Caprice set, which was 1550 yen + 8% tax with a pot of tea, although I see that the receipt was rung up as if it were 870 yen and called Set Putiful (?), so I'm confused. I would say that this is a sampler, but the tiny cakes don't necessary correspond to current small cakes and it supposedly is not a stable lineup. Left to right, the first is cheese on the top layer, a delicious maracon, a little hard tart, perhaps rare cheese cake, solid chocolate with a candy coating, and probably pistachio mousse with raspberry inside and strawberry on top. I'll say this is great, but I don't really try to compare cafe sets with regular patisserie cake. Still, I'd be happy to go back, although there is also a Dalloyau cafe just down the street by Meguro Station, so that also would be tempting.