Cake-off Viron's Gateau Chocolat over Rue de Passy's Mille-Feuille Praliné Citron

Second-to-last cake-off for August was a third-round competition between a great cake of this year, Rue de Passy's Mille-Feuille Praliné Citron, versus an old favorite, Viron's Gateau Chocolat. Both entered with one win and one loss. In fact, I found after the competition that Gateau Chocolat had gotten flagged for possible removal previously. But actually, while I'm still happy with both cakes as great cakes, I appreciated the chocolate purity of the Gateau Chocolat more, so it takes the win this time. Mille-Feuille Praliné Citron can finally take a rest for at least a little while, with two losses.

Cake-off: Rue de Passy's Mille-Feuille Praliné Citron over En Vedette's Mont-Blanc

Three cake-offs ago, I went by Rue de Passy for their Mille-Feuille Praliné Citron, which has no problem, and then stopped at the Shibuya Scramble  Square to get the Mont-Blanc from the En Vedette counter. Unfortunately, between the heat and road vibration, the soft middle of the mont-blanc sank. It wasn't that noticeable eating it, but I feel a little bad that I have to choose the Mille-Feuille Praliné Citron. Still, this is only a second-round cake-off, so even with two losses, The Mont-Blanc can still get a third round, just it seems to be available year round, so I don't want to rush it, to keep it available for seasonal opponents. 

Cake-off: Frédéric Cassel's Framboisier over Rue de Passy's Mille-Feuille Praliné Citron

Still trying to catch up. This was the first cake-off of August. Having just been in Rue de Passy, I saw that they had their Mille-Feuille Praliné Citron back in the lineup, so I finally had something to do a first-round cake-off with Frédéric Cassel's Framboisier. I could confirm both these as great (always a big issue for the first round), but I can't resist massive amounts of pistachio cream, so I have to give it to the favorite's cake, Framboisier. However, the Framboisier is at the end of its run, so it's the loser that will get the next cake-off.

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Rue de Passy, Mille-Feuille Praliné Citron

Started my Sunday run by heading down to Rue de Passy in Meguro-ku. They are on my exceptional shop list and were near the bottom, so I had been giving the top of the quite fine group a chance to challenge them but no replacement, so I finally went for the next two cake from them, #8. I ate in, which is usually the most convenient thing to do, but can affect the results. I decided that the Mille-Feuille Praliné Citron was the most promising even before noticing that it was the one recommend by the chef. The chef gave a good recommendation, as this was a great cake. Neither the praliné or the citron was very strong, but all the parts balanced well and I liked how a more buttercream filling rather than custard worked with mille-feuille. Not sure that it was actual butter cream or just there was enough nuts in the praliné to give that effect, but it worked either way. Too great cakes in less than a week: I feeling like I'm doing pretty good.

On the way I kept a sharp eye out for what shops were open, as I found too closures Saturday night and hadn't noticed some others. Lotus is looking different these days, and is hard to spot. I decided that Chavity right before them deserves to be a site on the neighborhood running map, but I'll need a different photo, as I got serious glare on the one I took. I'll also add Candyapple in Daikanyama-chou. Down near the Daikanyama Stn. the entire Tenoha shop block seems to have closed, so I'll probably need to revise that 10.4 km loop, but I'll put it off until its time do that clump.