Akane: Specialisté

Could leave home until about 2 pm, so I went some place new (relative to blogging), which means that they would have something that I haven't had. I cycled, because it was above 30 degC, though cloudy. It's about 12 km, so not so far, in Ota-ku. Unfortunately, this south area remains somewhere that I never need to go. There were other customers buying a smoothie before me and cookies after me (and something else in a bag that I suppose could have been a cake). I got the "Specialisté", which is a rare cheese cake with a little pineapple and I think the other fruit was peach. The cake is unique, as it was much closer to soft cheese than any cake I've ever had before (versus a cheese mousse), sort of gelatinous in a cheese-like way. Also, it looks like it has a mini-macaron on top, but it was actually an unexpectedly hard cookie. Or maybe it was normal rare cheese cake that sat around too long, but it seems unlikely that they are that incompetent, as they've stayed open for a number of years now.

The fruit was nice and the cheesecake did not taste bad but not good, so I'll just label it okay. I regret not getting something else, though the choices of cake were few and not exciting: traditional gateau chocolate, a mousse/cream chocolate cake that looked promising but was banana (never a good sign), and a Mont-Blanc. Didn't notice a shortcake, to fill out the standards, but maybe it was sold out.