Your dessert type
✦ The Purist
One perfect mousse, eaten at the counter, in silence.
You notice when the sugar is a gram too high. For you a great pastry is craft: the cut, the balance, the fruit at exactly the right ripeness. You would rather eat one Ambroisie in Kyobashi than a whole tier at a palace, and you plan your mornings around a counter that opens at eleven.
Your perfect afternoon: Hidemi Sugino at opening, eaten in, then the George V tea for the vanilla, and a bar from Minimal to end the day.
Your houses
The Purist: your houses
BoutiqueTokyo · Kyobashi, Chuo
Hidemi Sugino
Eat-in only
BoutiqueParis · Avenue de Breteuil, 7e
Mori Yoshida
Japanese exactness in the 7th
HotelParis · Avenue George V
Four Seasons Hotel George V
Flowers and vanilla
BoutiqueSingapore · Shaw Centre, Scotts Road
Tarte by Cheryl Koh
One form, perfected
BoutiqueTokyo · Jiyugaoka, Meguro
Pâtisserie Paris S’éveille
The French repertoire, perfected
The other types
Who else is at the counter
❖ The Classicist
The Paris-Brest the way it was meant to be, and nothing clever.
◆ The Chocolate Devotee
Seventy percent, a fresh cream centre, and the box is yours.
♛ The Tea Ritualist
Three tiers, a pot that never runs cold, and a second round of scones.
✧ The Avant-Gardist
The lemon that is not a lemon, and the queue is part of the fun.
❦ The Grand Café Romantic
Red velvet, a torte with a seal, and the afternoon is yours.