It's not uncommon to smell the sweet, fresh-made scent of crepes wafting in the breeze as you walk around Tokyo. There are many tiny stalls dotted around the city that will make crepes with fresh fruit or jam, cream or custard, ice cream or cheese cake. Some are good, some are not; but for an authentic French crepe, one must either fly to gay Paris or simply visit your local Breizh Cafe. Brieizh offers not only desert crepes, but also savoury buckwheat galettes (non-sweet pancakes) filled with cheese, egg, assorted vegetables and meat. The desert menu has light sweet crepes topped with fruit, jam, sauces and ice cream. In particular,
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| Dame Blanche |
the chocolate sauce is rich and mellow; it obviously hasn't come from a bottle labelled Hershey's. Breizh prides itself on the quality of its ingredients and this is what makes the crispy galettes and soft crepes so amazingly delicious. It's hard to recommend just one galette, most are great and the same goes for the crepes.
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| Complete Tomate Champignon |
It's more worthwhile to go to Breizh for lunch during the weekdays as they have a special lunch course that is much cheaper than dinner. At Shinjuku Takashimaya, the weekday lunch course is offered from 11am to 3pm. There is a different menu for dinner, weekends and holidays. For the weekday galette lunch course, you can get a classic galette of your choice, salad and drink for ¥1480. With one of: soup/dessert crepe/ bowl of ice cream, it becomes ¥1680. The last course choice is a Caesar Salad galette with a drink and soup for ¥1680. The lunch galettes offered are the
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| Complete Artichaut |
simple "complete" ones. For example, the "complete tomate" has egg, shoulder ham, Swiss gruyere and tomato. (On the dinner menu, this galette alone is ¥1280.) The desert crepe lunch menu comes directly from the dinner menu but is more limited. For the drink choice, there is a wide variety of coffees and teas but they also offer 3 types of alcoholic cider: dry, sweet or organic.
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| Soup, salad and a cup of cider |
If you choose the soup course, be careful to inquire as to the soup of the day. The pumpkin soup is fantastic, but not all are. I recently had a soup at Breizh where the consistency reminded me of potatoes and there seemed to be a hint of onion, but it was so bland that I could not tell what it was. All in all, not one I would choose again.
Briezh also offers seasonal galettes and crepes. The seasonal crepes usually feature fresh fruit but I've recently had several where the fruit had been preserved. There are several branches of Breizh Cafe such as Le Bretagne in Omotesando Station - Yokohama station, Tokyo station, Akasaka station, etc. The Breizh Cafe on the 13th floor of the Shinjuku Takshimaya building is smoke-free.
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