About 11 km and Isetan cafe: Le Salon Jacques Borie

We went to the cafe Le Salon Jacques Borie at the Shinjuku Isetan and got cake. There, you choose the number of cakes and the drink that you want and they bring a cake cart around for you to choose. The selection of things that I would want is not large, but then this is only the second time I've been there, so that's not a big problem. The cakes are very good, as is their herb tea. I had a piece of a large Paris-Brest and a slice of apricot tart and also a couple bites of a very soft almond something, that was almost like a bread in sauce. Two cakes are 2400 yen, and one cake and tea or coffee is 2200 yen. That is before tax and 10% service charge. A desert wine was 1500 yen, I think.

It's been a few days since I've been able to run, and I can tell, and not just from the scale. I did a basic loop including the moat. The running felt fine at the time and the temperature was down and I could run hard, but my left foot is not in great shape now, so that's what I need to be careful about if I can't run for a few days.

It was decided that we needed new phones, so I'm trying out the camera on the new one. I took a couple night pictures along Shinjukudoori. These are statues along the route. The fishing boy gets different outfits, but the girl is stuck with a dress that is too short to be swinging around.

(Monday) run and tart

Monday evening there were a couple actual cool breezes, although mostly it was still hot as record heat continues in Japan. I ran down to Aoyama, around the moat loop (I guess Monday is not a big run day, because the numbers were less than 10% of what I was used to) but veered off north to go through Kudanshita Station area before coming back around.

I've got homemade tarts are home, so I bought an apricot tart from Paul (bakery cafe) at the Yotsuya Atre. It was good, a baked custard tart (or pie, I'm not sure what the difference is), but I also appreciated the almond butter tart made in a simple crust (versus the butter one of the actual recipe) that I made, so I'll keep that recipe for the filling. I'm still curious about what you co do substituting oil for butter, since olive oil is cheaper and easier to get your hands on.