French-Japanese bakeries are some of my favorites (I went to one almost every day when I was in…read moreToyko), so I was happy to find one in Bordeaux, with matcha flavored pastries, and other beautiful French pastries.
The bakery itself is beautiful, with light colored marble, high ceilings, and you can peek into the space in the back where the pâtissiers are making the pastries. The pastries are all beautifully displayed behind glass and they have a few tables so you can have a cup of tea, coffee and your pastries.
We got the matcha choux which was really nice. It had a layer of matcha crème pâtisserie on the bottom, then a layer of matcha crème chantilly in the middle. The choux pastry was nice and fresh and I thought the matcha flavor could have been a little more pronounced and stronger, but it was still delicious. Having the two textures of the crème pâtisserie and the crème chantilly was nice, but I preferred the crème pâtisserie layer more.
We also got an Oyatsu in the vanilla flavor (they had praline, matcha, chocolate, and a few other flavors) which was more like an egg/milk Asian bread/pastry with a more solid custard-like filling in the middle. The bread part was more bready (like a brioche or if you've ever had Chinese pastries) than a pastry or sweet bread that is more in the French-style. My husband liked this better than the matcha choux but I preferred the choux to this.
You can't go wrong with the pastries here - make sure you stop here when you come to Bordeaux as it's a little hard to find Japanese-French pâtisseries outside of Paris in France.