A. Lecomte, Gateau au Muguet

Since I was nearby and shop hours were about to be shortened (but not closed, unlike the first emergency restriction period), I stopped at Shibuya Scramble to get a second cake from on of the (possible) fine shops. Not that this is really on the second, since the main shop is near an highly frequented area before I starting blogging. This is pretty standard cake from them and attractive to me, so it's probably not my first time I've had it, though it would have been several years ago at least since the previous time.

The name is Gateau au Muguet, from the A. Lecomte counter at Shibuya Scramble Square, and the inside is just pralin cream, which was good, but not so exciting. This cake won't overshadow your tea but it's not interesting enough to keep this shop in the fine category. At least it's good enough to keep from wanting a pause in visiting such shops.

A. Lecomte: Patricien

Run and cake pretty much went exactly as planned: about 11 km/h out and 10 km/h back with cake, for about 9 km total to A. Lecomte in Minamiazabu, which is next to Hiroo station on the east side, where all the embassies are. The shop was not heavily staffed and someone had ordered a bunch of things as gifts, so it took them a while to get to me (otherwise, there were no other customers but a couple that came in for the tea salon in the basement). I choose the Patricien (パトリシアン; 540 yen), which is one of their standards, besides being photogenic. It's got praliné and hazelnut flavored creams under that chocolate coating, but is fairly light. I like heavy, but this was definitely good hopefully is a good representative of this shop. I've had a few of their other cakes at other times and didn't find anything that was special. Now, I'm trying trying to a visit to all the probably good shops on my map to get in at least one blog entry.