Angelina: Strawberry White Mont-Blanc and Orange Caramel Mont-Blanc

Angelina: Mont-blanc and White Strawberry Mont-blanc

Thursday through Saturday, I was semi-busy, so all the running was on my neighborhood course trying to review and confirm loops forward and backward, as I work through my list outward. Not sure where I left things off, but I've most recently completed the Jinguumae--Kita-Aoymama--Shibuya, Minami-Aoyama 3&4, and Kasumigaoka-machi--Kita-Aoyama loops, so those are probably, which brings me up to 32 km confirm. Of course, at this point, not that I've finished with the closer ones, I spend a lot more time reaching them than running them.

Angelina: Orange Caramel Mont-Blanc

Friday evening, I intended to visit the Salon de Thé Angelina, which initially survived its department store being renovated and renamed but apparently was closed at the end of the last year. The cake counter remains selling only the mont-blancs that they are famous for (they used to have a couple other cakes as well). Now, they have 4 varieties, not including the full-sized mont-blanc. This time we got the smaller regular mont-blanc, which I've had before, plus the seasonal and monthly variations, which are Strawberry White Mont-blanc (the name might not be in that order, but but I don't want to call it White Strawberry Mont-blanc), which I think is a white chocolate paste and a strawberry in the middle, and Orange Caramel Mont-blanc, which does not have an orange in the middle, but does obviously have some orange on the outside. I liked the orange and caramel better than the strawberry, whereas my partner's preference went the reverse, both of which were pretty predictable. These were all good, including the regular version, but I'm not that into the traditional monc, even if these are fortunately all mild in terms of the chestnut taste, which can be strong in some mont-blanc. I think this shop will take up permanent, or at least as long as they continue the counter (I have to wonder who the actual maker is these days, whether it's another shop a kitchen in the department store), residence as just a good shop, which is not a horrible thing, by any means.