・To・To

Choose a Japanese-style parfait and one bowl brings together shiratama rice dumplings, sweet bean paste, matcha and vanilla ice cream, chiffon cake, black sesame soy milk pudding and kuromitsu syrup. One diner described how a spoonful of ice cream with grains of genmaicha brought the flavours together: matcha, the toasty notes of roasted rice tea and sweetness. Another visitor praised the generous assortment, with matcha ice cream, black sesame pudding, shiratama and rice-flour chiffon cake among the treats to enjoy one by one. It’s an appealing choice if you’d like to sample several different sweets in smaller bites.

For a single sweet, try the rice-flour chiffon cake. Choose hojicha syrup, caramel syrup, or kinako (roasted soybean flour) with kuromitsu, and give the same cake a different character with your topping. A sandwich-style version is also listed, filled with azuki beans and sweet bean paste, fresh cream, kuromitsu and kinako. One diner who ordered the rice-flour chiffon cake with café au lait recalled that, despite considering other options, they ended up choosing the chiffon after all. Another paired it with ginger ale, showing that drinks needn’t be limited to sweet lattes.

Japanese tea is another way to round out a sweet. The selection includes sencha, gyokuro, hojicha, genmaicha and matcha. A diner who chose the matcha set with three kinds of monaka—crisp wafer sweets with a filling—particularly liked the small version filled with cream cheese, strawberry and sweet bean paste. They also found the bean paste not too sweet and the matcha easy to drink. Hot Japanese tea is offered as a choice of two kinds, making it possible to compare the teas as well as find a cup to suit your dessert.

For a summer treat, consider the matcha or hojicha shaved ice. One visitor who enjoyed a seasonal grape version with a child noted that it was a manageable size, though that flavour should be understood as something they found during that particular visit. ・To・To is a café for Japanese tea and traditional sweets, with dine-in seating; it is also described as suitable for solo diners. Whether you’re in the mood for a substantial dessert or a quiet pause with tea and a small treat, there are plenty of combinations to choose from.