Origines Cacao: Andarujii

Caught Origines Cacao at Isetan on their last day and got Andarujii (couldn't figure out the source word, so this is just the Romanji of the Japanese). The run was the neighborhood run trying the South Aoyama 3&4 and Nishiazabu loops and connector in reverse. Overall, it was easier, but I missed a turn that looks straight when you're coming from the other direction (it branches and I stayed on the main branch when I should have left it) and had to double back but otherwise this seems to be the way to go. Next I'll do South Aoyama 1 and 2 Loops and the nearest Akasaka loop, which are all fairly straightforward. After that it get's complicated, but will probably have to wait until next year.

The cake, which is a chocolate mousse outer around a substantial lemon cream core, was definitely excellent. I've had good luck a couple days in a row. I didn't actually need a 10th cake from there yet, but they aren't at Isetan so often and it's been quite a while since I've had one of their cakes, since I got ahead of myself with them and they haven't brought back one of the cakes that I thought was great for a year. Maybe next year.

Voisin: Delice Framboise

Cool again today, which is to say, rain, but not heavy or constant. I finally got around to visiting Voisin after finding out that they had moved within weekday range. They are still about 9 km, but open until 8 pm, so no problem if no overtime. I just used this round the other day, though by bicycle. Most of the way is out Honan-dori/Avenue, which I was really liking because, at least if you get past Shinjuku Station (I went underground at Isetan and came up just past the west bus area), the crowds thin out fairly soon and then I had a nice side walk and made almost all lights. Also, I managed to avoid stepping on the fist-sized frog cross the sidewalk, so I consider that good luck.

Despite the walk underground both ways, which I including in my timing, by speed was above 8.5 km/h average (though faster out). At Voisin, I got the last Delice Framboise from not a huge selection near closing time. This is raspberry, pistachio, and chocolate. Unfortunately, this was not really working for me. Maybe it tasted like it was supposed to, but it seemed more like just an odd-tasting chocolate with a good amount of raspberry. It was never bad, but it was not until the last bite that I really got used to it, just as chocolate and raspberry, so I'm going to have to go with a rating of "okay". I could get back there again some day to given them another change (or more likely, try them again when they are at Isetan), but it's a pretty low priority.

(Tues) Dalloyau: Tarte Mangue

Had a long run under the impression that Eclat des Jours was open Fri to Tue, when actually they are open Thu to Mon, but sometimes Tue (yesterday was not one of those open Tue times). On the plus side, the return run was much more comfortable without carrying cake. My backup was Dalloyau, which added less than 1 km (total run was about 22 km; 10 km/h out but 9 km/h average over the total). Another disappoint was that it did not rain as forecast, so it remained hot. My purpose in want to go to Dalloyau was to get the Tarte Mangue (540 yen).

The tart was the usual high quality. It was firm custard on sablé, or something similar, with a layer of mango gelatin on top. It was definitely good but very mild and not very interesting to me. To the best of my knowledge, that catches me up on all available fresh cakes at Dalloyau, but hopefully there will be something new next week with the start of the new month, though some shops wait for the first full week or maybe just the first weekend in the new month to introduce new cakes.