Cake: (Boutique) Troisgros: Sacher Abricot and Savarin au Rhum

Busy today, so no running. Was over at Odakyu, so I tried Troisgros, since they have a fairly large area in B2 of Odakyu that I noticed recently, with a cake counter (with no staff for awhile), a bread counter, and other sections that I did not notice in detail. This is actually the Boutique, and the same name is used for a café on the 8th floor and a restaurant. I haven't been that impressed by the quality of cake at the actual cafés or counters at Odakyu, but this looked above average, so I tried it.

I got the Sacher Abricot for 572 yen and the Savarin au Rhum for 540. Both were okay, but neither was great. The Sacher Abricot is feuillantine praline and chocolate biscuit (both good) with chocolate ganache and apricot (good, although too little to compete well with the chocolate, a common problem with chocolate mousse cakes). I suppose the mousse was the ganache, and made up the bulk and seemed watery to me (I don't know what that really indicates, but I don't like it), so it had merits and demerits. One Savarin au Rhum is much like another to me, but this seemed fairly average. There was another chocolate that I might have gotten if I was choosing both cakes today, but I'm not in a hurry to go back, despite it's location. It still remains true that Isetan is about the whole good place for cake among the department stores, although I know of a couple individually good cakes at Takashimaya.