People Queue Up for Take-Away Cheese Tart

By on September 20, 2015

Queueing up for food in Tokyo is part of the Japanese culture. People stand in long lines for anything that’s most buzzed about like a ramen shop or a newly opened tacos restaurant.

My Japanese friend gave me a wise tip on how not to get disappointed with food in Tokyo: follow the queue.

Yesterday, I queued up at a food shop called Pablo in Shibuya for what seems to have taken over last year’s pancake craze: a baked cheese tart.  It was heavenly!

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Pablo is a baked cheese tart specialty shop along the busy streets of Center Gai in Shibuya.  It is a take-away counter. Its eat-in shops are located only in Osaka where Pablo has 7 stores.

Prepared right before your eyes by a team of bakers, the tartlets come straight from the oven and will stay oven-fresh for six hours.

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The tartlets are glazed before they go into the oven.

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You can choose how you want your tartlet baked between ‘rare’ and ‘medium’ . With ‘rare’, you get a soft, gooey filling. If you want something easier to slice, go for the medium.

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The Green Tea Cheese Tart is one of their new autumn offerings.

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As it’s the season of grapes, I tried Pablo’s Muscat Cheese Tart. Compared to the Green Tea, it is possibly one of the best cheese tarts I’ve tried in Tokyo. It’s got a creamy texture, not too sweet and the muscats give it a nice autumny feeling. A must-try this month.

PABLO Shibuya   Shibuya Center Street, 21-9, Udagawacho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, 150-0042, Japan
TEL 03-3462-8268  http://www.pablo3.com/english.html

PABLO Shinjuku Metro Shokudogai B2F, 1-1-2, NIshi-shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku,  Tokyo, 160-0023, Japan TEL 03-5381-0826

 

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