Heritage: La Mûre

Got my most difficult cake shop goal for this week out of the way early by getting to Heritage before they closed (and it was earlier enough that there was a good selection). Unfortunately, I'm not remembering the name of the cake well, so I should have made a note while I had the time. The name in Japanese seemed close to La mûre (500 yen), which is French for blackberry, so I'm going with that rather than L'Amour, but I'm not confident. Anyway, this was chocolate biscuit with maybe blackberry (certainly not as strong as raspberry). It was not a strong fruity taste, not super sweet, not super creamy, or at all nutty, so it didn't really press any of the usual buttons for me. But it was definitely good and over time afterward I decided that I respected it and consider it an example of excellent quality. Certainly, I was happy to eat it and enjoy my tea. So I've three cakes from a shop that seems excellent, which is my currently goal for this level of shop (in the bottom half of the top ~31 cake shops for Tokyo).


For running, I had to start out fast, which was only 3.2 km at 12 km/h, and I took a long way home going past Iidabashi for another 4.5 km at 10 km/h. Then, because that still seemed short to deserve cake, I took the Gaien Walk around as far as the Lawson 100, which was another 3.6 km at a deliberately slow 9 km/h.