Oak Wood at Isetan (Shinjuku)

Since I ran 35 km yesterday, I did my indoor workout (and made some mushroom/pumpkin/onion/carrot dumplings, which were delicious) and met my modest but increasing goal in terms of sets of various lifts and push-ups.

The visiting shop at Isetan now is Oak Wood from deep in Saitama pref. Their website does not look promising, as far as the cake varieties, but I had decided that they might have good cake from seeing Isetan. I got what they claimed is their specialty (which agrees with the website), their Chocolate and Chestnut Éclair for 450 yen. No explanation is needed beyond the name and the picture. I've never really seen the appeal of éclair over bread, cake, donuts, etc., and I'm not a fan of chestnuts, which is the seasonal thing now, so this was reach for me. But if I'm going to judge a place, I'll let it choose the item. I'm still not ready to think of this as cake, but as my éclair experience goes, it was pretty good, so I'm I can believe that they know what good cake tastes like and try other things. In particular, the combination worked and I had no problem with chestnut fatigue. Now I just need to find a route that I would want to run to get there.