It's almost unbearably cliche. Tiny, "demitasse" cupcakes in the Omotesando subway Echika.
Following the big cupcake boom back in the States, TABLES has taken the recently re-booted cupcake, miniaturized it, and is offering it in more flavors than you'll find for macaroons...and they're adorable! Just look at some of these:
Fig, orange, green tea, red velvet, pink berry, black vanilla, white chocolate...
one of my favorites was the gingerbread:
We stumbled across it changing trains in Omotesando, near Shibuya last month. The cakes were just the right size to make for a little pick-me-up treat. We actually ended up getting several. Luckily, there is a good coffee bar facing TABLES so we could have a good cuppa with the cup cakes. I took this picture from where we were sitting:
It's the kind of thing I'd have walked right past if I hadn't drifted into the kitchenware store behind it. Even after I saw it, I almost gave it a miss because at first glance it looked like any other confectioner. But now it's one of our Omotesando stops. If you're in Osaka, they're there, too.
Every flavor we've tried is top-notch. They're priced right. Easy to carry home.
...and they're just gorgeous to look at.
Here's a menu, but the items are always changing:
This is one of my killer holiday gifts this year. Everyone I've given them to loves them.
Yes, I've got that American competitive gift-giving thing.
My gift has to be the coolest thing you get.
