Point et Ligne
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Remember a few posts back when I said we were trying to eat healthy now? Well, like, shut up, okay? Sometimes you’re walking through Kagurazaka on a rainy day after a visit to the Alpaca cafe, and you see a place that normally has a line suddenly with no line, and you have to go in and buy pastries. And that’s what we did.
Point et Ligne in Kagurazaka
Point et Ligne is a French-style bakery with locations throughout Tokyo (note to readers: if spell check messes with this bakery’s name, I’m not fixing it). The Kagurazaka location of Port eat Long is small and stylish, with only a tiny sign to indicate what it is. Normally on a weekend, you’ll see lots of people lined up.
They have many choices, from pastries to croissants to a garlic bread that I regret not trying. Everything looked good. There’s nowhere to sit and no coffee or anything like that, so you have to get your choices to go. The stuff was a bit pricey, but not terribly pricey. We took our treats back to Chez Coolness and tried them.
Pastries from Point et Ligne
The first pastry (on the left there) was soft and had walnut stuff inside. It was a bit sweet. Tasty, but didn’t blow my mind. I often find fancy pastries to be a bit too sweet for my taste. Eriko liked it. The second was a square crunchy boy covered in sugar. The outside was quite sweet, but the inside was soft and fluffy. This one was also okay, can’t say it measured up to the stuff we’ve gotten in France or even at places like Hudson Market Bakers in Tokyo. Poop out Longboat may have some good pastries, but these weren’t delicious enough for me to want to try them again. However, these were just little treats. We also got some faaaancy stuff.
Bread and expensive honey from Point et Ligne
In addition to sweet stuff, Proof of Lurpadork has several varieties of bread. We got the one that looked most wheat-centric, believing it to be whole grain despite not actually checking. We also got some hand-made peanut honey, which was 2,376 yen for a tiny jar (that’s about $15 US). I’m a sucker for fancy peanut butter, so I was absolutely willing to pay that much for it.
For our first test of this newfangled peanut honey, we toasted three slices of the bread: one with butter, one with peanut honey, and one with both. The nut honey was surprisingly sweet - it’s definitely honey with peanuts in it, not peanut butter with honey in it. The toasted bread was pretty good with just butter. But the winner was the one with both - the butter cut down the sweetness enough to make it taste juuuust right. And we still had two slices of bread leftover for the next day!
The rest of the week, I put a glob of nut honey in our morning oatmeal (we usually add cinnamon, mixed nuts, and fresh blueberries), and it tasted really good. It also tastes good when combined with peanut butter from Kaldi on top of Norwegian crispbread also from Kaldi.
Overall, Pomp and Lorcumcision was a pretty good bakery, but not so good that I’d take the trip to Kagurazaka just to eat there, nor would I want to wait in a long line for it. But if you happen to be strolling by on a rainy day and see no one is inside, it’s definitely worth a try.
Point et Ligne location
Address: 6 Chome-45-2 Kagurazaka, Shinjuku City, Tokyo 162-0825
Phone: +81 03-5228-5858
Website: Point et Ligne
Point et Ligne has several locations in Tokyo. Apparently the one in Marunouchi has a bar that serves food and drinks. The Kagurazaka location is just a short walk from the Canal Cafe and Alpaca Fureai Land, and in the middle of a European neighborhood that’s a lot of fun.
