(Tu) Tokyo Fuugetsudou Ginza: Framboise Chocolat

As a safety measure, and because of problems in the past, I avoided running for a full 48 hours after my flu shot. To enforce no running, I got another cake from the (self-proclaimed) patisserie next to Yotsuya Sanchoume that is within my neighborhood. It's been years since I've tried here, but not without reason. This is more of a café and it is also a chain. They've got a pretty big seating area and lots of packaged baked goods for gifts, for when you need to bring a present of food and you care enough not to just get what's sold at the convenience store, but maybe not beyond appearances. They also have a regular cake counter and probably take orders for whole cakes.

I got the Framboise Chocolat, intrigued by the idea of a chocolate raspberry dome cake. As I suspected, this was a bad idea, and it was not executed poorly, though not incompetently, so I'll hold my rating at "ok" rather than "bad". (Also, bad really requires a bad taste, and though the raspberry was not good and the chocolate left no impression at all, it was okay). Not sure why the bottom chocolate layer had a sort of chocolate ball in the middle, which was not significantly different in texture from the rest of it, being a fairly firm but not gelatinous mousse. No reason to go here instead of a chain coffee shops, at least for fresh cake. I assume that they continue to exist here because there isn't another patisserie near this station, it's part of a big chain, and the building is old so their rent is probably low, though it could be a matter of being a franchise and the owner not really having a better option at this point.

Sucre-rie: Framboise Chocolat

Walked to a new shop. Speed was definitely around 6 km/h for the first 2 km, but no timing after that. Probably slower the next, while I ate a delicious croissant from P. Shima, and then maybe faster, but slow enough not to strain anything. I'll try farther definitely 6 km/h tomorrow night, if things go as planned.

The shop is Sucre-rie in Nihonbashiningyōchō. Sign on the door at 4:30-ish was that they were sold out of cream puffs, so that is presumably one of their specialties. Not much looked tempting, but a few. I tried Framboise Chocolate, for 500 yen, which is chocolate mousse with raspberry-flavored cream. As chocolate mousse goes, that part was good, though not something I need anymore. The raspberry cream in the middle was sufficiently generous (often you get a tiny amount of cream center in chocolate mousse cakes), but didn't really make it special. Also, it was a little painfully sweet, but I would forgive that, taking into consideration that it could be expected to be eaten with some usual beverage, such as milk or tea, but at the end I hit a tiny piece of bland spongish cake (probably a base), which seemed completely out of place (I would expect something crisp or crunchy), so I'm rating this just okay, so probably will never get back there. This is why going to new places stopped being my main aim.

Got a picture. Should have gotten closer, though don't like to stand in the middle of the street.