L'atelier de Plaisir

There’s been an explosion in the number of top quality bakeries around Tokyo in recent years. L'atelier de Plaisir, located in residential Setagaya, takes the artisan craze to new heights. Their wide range of inventive options includes a bread with vanilla beans and six kinds of chestnut, truffle bread with cheese, as well as seasonal varieties — for example, a bread with sweet potato kneaded into the dough, topped with sesame seeds. If you’ve come to expect outrageous prices for quality bread in Japan, you’ll be thrilled to hear that L'atelier de Plaisir price theirs very honestly, so you can enjoy some top quality European-style baking, which doesn’t break the bank.