Shiseido Parlour

What a wonderful place to visit when in Ginza Japan. Salon de Café is a soda fountain type of parlor. On the first floor you can buy strawberry cheesecake sold exclusively for Shiseido. The building has different floors with bars, restaurants, and parlors.

Not quite sure if I enjoyed the space and the décor. Enjoyed the service more than anything. The cake set was delicious, but it was not the best patisserie I ever had. The wait line was about 20 minutes. Would rather try another tea house than wait 20 minutes or go to tsubakiya. Think Paris has better patisserie than what the store offers.

Shiseido is known throughout the world for cosmetic products, but who knew about the sweets. Shisedo Parlour is a building of sweet goodness. The first level is the store selling chocolates and all kind of desserts. The upper levels are the restaurants, and we went up to the third floor to the café for our afternoon snack. The wait wasn’t too long. It was 30 minutes or so, but it got pretty crowded in the waiting area with so many people.
I love the environment. It reminded me of English tea at the Peninsula. I got pretty confused by the menu at first, because I couldn’t find any of the cakes other people were enjoying. It turned out to be the combo set, and they carried out the showcase for your selection. I was happy with my choice, and the cakes were quite good. The presentation, flavor, and sweetness really came together.
It was hard for me to rate this place, because I was looking at it in relative terms. There are so many high caliber establishments in the Ginza area like Laudree Salon and Dalloyau. In the end, Shiseido Parlour stands side by side with some of the world famous from France.

Salon de Shiseido. Who knows Shiseido now has her own parlours, cafés and restaurants ?
After shopping at Shiseido The Ginza located in the next building, we popped in here and took an elevator up to the Salon de Shiseido.
It is a little formal and a very classy restaurant. Originally we just wanted to find a place to have some cold beverages due to the intense heat. I thought this just going to be a café like the Parlour de Shiseido we went days ago near Daimaru.
The staff gave us a menu and we decided to just get some green tea ice cream.
So this review will just going to be based on the ice cream, service, décor and ambience. Everything hit the right note, definitely my kind of place. I wish they have more variety of cakes and tea. This place reminded me of this café named Antoinette (my favorite café in Singapore). Everything is pretty, classy and elegant.
Price a tad on the high side, but it is definitely a place to chill and relax.