Jean-Paul Hévin: Tarte au Chocolat

New month, new cakes from my favorite shop, Jean-Paul Hévin. Okay, it's not new, I've had it multiple times before, but it's been more than a couple years, so I haven't posted on it before. I got my cake early and then did the usual monthly tour of the shops in the areas south of Tokyo Station: main Sadaharu Aoki, Marunouchi Jean-Paul Hévin, and Viron on the west side; the Kyobashi Toshi Yoroizuka straight east to the other side along the road between the last two; and then down to Ginza for Frédéric Cassel in the Ginza Mitsukoshi dept. store, Origines Cacao in the new Ginza 6 complex, and the main Dalloyau. No new cakes at the first three, but finally Toshi Yoroizuka has that the cake I've been looking for all year (though I shouldn't surprised, because they told me back in winter or early spring that now the the time it was most likely to appear). Frédéric Cassel already introduced their new stuff, which I saw yesterday, but both Origines Cacao and Dalloyau still did not have any of the several cakes that I'm looking for at them and I don't need any new cakes yet.

Well, one cake found by touring is better than I've done most months. The run was about 11 km (with a little walking) and started out around 10 km/h for the first half, but the fact that I ran 28 km/h the previous day made me slow down later, so the average was around 9 km/h, even without carrying cake.

Today's cake was the standard Tarte au Chocolat, which I declare great for the usual reason that I like chocolate, this was definitely good chocolate, and it's from my favorite shop. Of course, I already suspected that I would have it again, since I have in the past, but I've had many cakes since then. I'll look forward to comparing it to something from another shop to see whether it's really special or just my bias for this shop. (I'll keep my eye open for any announcement of its discontinuation so I can get it in this cycle). Note, this is also their cheapest cake.