Pierre Gagnaire: Finger Ruby Fig Framboise

I'm behind visiting exceptional cake shops as I was dealing with challengers from below (some of whom are now part of the problem with the exceptional group). This time, I went to Pierre Gagnaire, another hotel shop like yesterday's, but the best I've found. Since I've never had ruby chocolate before, I resisted the yuzu chocolate mousse and got the Finger Ruby Fig Framboise. Of course, I still don't know what ruby chocolate tastes like, just this cake, so setting aside whether ruby chocolate is essentially a chemically created hoax, fig and raspberries is not a combination I've had a lot of, so whatever ruby chocolate brings (not cacao taste, apparently), it goes with it and harmonizes this well. Or at least, the fig taste was really strong at first, and then the raspberry came to the forefront, and then it just what what it was. I also had a solidness that I liked, and stood up well to being cut into small pieces with a plastic utensil, as I braved the strong wind and ate it outside at the tables around the adjacent building to the hotel. I'm calling this cake great. Not sure when fig season ends, so this may not see it's way to a cake-off, as that isn't likely to happen any earlier than mid-October.

I ran to Pierre Gagnaire, by way of Tokyo Midtown rather than the shortest way, and after cake went and did some neighborhood run loops nearby, 3 really small loops. I also tried the new Hirakawa-chou--Kioi-chou loop, but didn't know where to turn to get to the road circling the temple to bypass the intersection next to the Prime Minister's residence. Now I should be able to remember to look for the wide stairs between the two hotels.