Au Bon Vieux Temps, Zephyr

Cycled to Au Bon Vieux Temps for cake again. This time I got Zephyr, which was 702 yen. The top is chocolate cream with alcohol, which both seem to be a specialties of theirs. The bottom is a steamed/baked mascarpone cheese and brown sugar (had to look up "vergeoise" from the Japanese phonetic French) cheesecake, which was almost nutty in texture. This cake is excellent, so I chose well again. That chocolate stick should be on top, though.

Being greedy, I continued on to Limevert, because I hadn't forgotten that they had a bostock (for 380 yen), but it wasn't really the type I like. I like double-baked, somewhat thick, but this was thin and rum-soaked with lots of sliced almonds (a large amount of almonds slid off even before I got it; it's not very stable ). It was still good.

Didn't do a good job of staying on the best path, so it ended up being 34 km of cycling, which is a couple more than I planned. My leg seems okay, but now my arm isn't too happy, so I may need to limit that.

I should mention sometime that I've had the Venezuelan Noir chocolate from Henri le Roux (I've given up on photographing them), and it was excellent, like their other chocolates. Now I want to get to Tokyo midtown to try the their new Kouign Amann flavor, lime.

Zephyr [Isetan]

Went to Isetan and took some notes on other cakes I've had (need to update P. Cover now), and got not cake, in this case, a little pie-let from the Zephyr counter of Isetan, which is a brand of Tokyo Fugetsudo, a huge company. This is made from Janathon apples (from Aoyama), but underneath is some kind of sweet (?) potato, I think. Anyway, definitely good apple pie for when I'm not in the mood for cake and only 480 yen.

Tomorrow I'll run, so I avoided it tonight. I may have to wait for the rain to end, so I'm not planning to get up early, and since I won't go that far, (just 25 to 30 km), that should be fine even for getting cake.