(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.