Patisserie Potager

Picture from Bento.com

So I've been eying this place for ages. I don't know that it actually qualifies as a cafe, but it's close enough for me. I found it on Bento.com's site on the cafe page, so it must count, right? Anyway, it's more of a sweets shop, but anyway...

As I said, I've been wanting to go here for a while, but being as how it's in Nakameguro, I just couldn't make myself go all the way out there. But, then I found someone who lives in the area, so it suddenly became "no big deal". So my friend who resides in Nakameguro and I hit up Patisserie Potager. Yes!

Now, you may be wondering what exactly is so great about this place. It's just a sweets shop, right? Well, no, not exactly. The sweets here all contain some sort of vegetable. There's cakes with carrots, tomatoes, and spinach in them, among other things. My friend chose pumpkin tiramisu, and I went with avocado cheesecake. What? We also had some organic coffee to go along with it.

So, how was everything? The size of the cakes was a bit small, but being as how I was eating cheesecake, I wasn't complaining. My friend and I, of course, tried a bit of the other person's sweet. The pumpkin tiramisu was good, but I preferred my own. (I love tiramisu, but I love cheesecake more.) The coffee wasn't anything special, but it was rather cheap.

As for the price, I ended up being treated to everything, so I ended up not catching the price or getting a receipt. I will say that I'm pretty sure that everything included (2 desserts and 2 coffees) was no more than about 1500. But I could be wrong, of course.

The cafe itself was nice. They don't have any seats inside, but there's a cute seating area outside. And with the nice weather and the breeze, it was a comfortable place to spend a few hours. I would go here again to try the other sweets if I was in the area. But it seems like the area has lots of other interesting places to check out, so I'll do that first.

Order: Pumpkin Tiramisu, Avocado Cheesecake, Two Hot Coffees
Review: A cute and interesting place to visit on a nice day.

Website: http://www.potager.co.jp/
Access: Nakameguro Station (A few minutes walk)
Address: 2-44-9 Kamimeguro, Meguro, Tokyo, Japan