CRIOLLO by Antoine Santos @Nakameguro

This French pastry shop's name has been associated with its best selling product, the Phantom Cheesecake, since the day it received publicity on a national TV program. The feature was such a huge success that the 2,000 of the cakes were sold within ten minutes of the broadcast. CRIOLLO has a few stores all around Japan, with the Nakameguro outlet being a big hit as it's right smack in the center of Tokyo. The founder and mastermind of the amazing creations available at the shop is Antoine Santos, an already well-known patissier in France that had the genius idea to merge the best of both French and Japanese pastry worlds together. He even incorporates Japanese-style flower arrangements as decorations on his cakes and desserts. The concept of CRIOLLO is to put the customers' wants and needs first, and then think about what the patissier desires to make. This French pastry shop pays attention to the preferred taste buds of the locals, infusing that into the French confectionery art without losing its core essence.