Frédéric Cassel: Soleil

Did a slow jog, because it's still very hot and very humid with a little rain from the passing typhoon. Today was just to Ginza Mitsukoshi to visit Frédéric Cassel, though I walked from the scramble underground and passed by Dalloyau on my way back. I got the Soleil, which is a layered rare/baked cheese cake flavored with lemon, which is not very original, with some ornamental blueberries. For some reason this seemed perfect, so I'm going to say it was great until I can prove otherwise.

Très Calme: Ebene, Savarin Orange, Soleil

Over a couple days, I had a few more cakes from Très Calme, all good but none excellent. I also had the Mont Blanc again, which I might reclassify as excellent, but I should again emphasize that it is probably only excellent/great if you're not that into chestnut flavor, so the mildness in a meringue is a nice surprise.

The Ebene (my guess from the name  エベーヌ) is chocolate, like almost a block of chocolate on, although the bottom is not quite that hard, so I would probably a ganache, maybe with blackberry, since there is a blackberry on top and blackberry is not such a strong flavor that it would dominate chocolate. It's very similar to a chocolate tart. I've already thrown out all my receipts, but these were all 500+ yen with tax.

The Soleil was quick choice when I found out that there was no Mont Blanc. It is (mascarpone) cheese, I think with red fruit (strawberry and maybe raspberry shown). Also good. 

Finally, on the second day when we went back to get the promised Mont Blanc, we also go Savarin Orange. I hadn't see a Savarin in a class before, but obviously you need something to keep the rum in the sponge, so I have no objections and the orange worked well. Again, good.

Late run-day cake from Sadaharu AOKI: Soleil

Because I did not get very good cake in the morning, I tried getting something from a great shop in the evening at Isetan. This is the Soleil, which is seasonal. It's Mango and supposedly mint, although I wouldn't have know it from the taste. This was high-quality of course (at 680 yen, which will go up 7% this month due to the continued weak yen and increases in ingredient costs), but not great for me. That's not shocking, since I only especially like about half their cakes. Now, there is also a seasonal coconut mousse one, which I'll definitely skip.

Weekday run around the imperial palace and cake from Viron: Soleil

I did the long way to the moat route: down to Aoyama Road past Meiji Ginguu Gaien. I stopped for cake at Viron, which is pretty famous. I've had some good cake there. This time I got the Soleil, for 540 yen, which for some reason my camera would not take a picture of in the field. Too windy to run with cake and too windy where I was to eat it easily outside. Anyway, it is very summery, being coconut mousse above passion fruit Bavarian creme. Not great and I should stay away from coconut. I didn't mind the taste, but I still don't like the texture of shredded coconut, even as an adult.

Next time needs to be a great shop, to make up for this one. Also, I don't need to go back to Viron soon. There are other cafe/bakery/patisserie out there (if you don't mind the mixed languages).