Starbucks loves to experiment with creative new menu offerings in Japan, and now the chain has set tongues wagging again, with the announcement that it’ll be offering a special afternoon tea exclusively at the Starbucks Reserve Roastery Tokyo. Called the Roastery Pasticcini Flight, this afternoon tea will be served at the Roastery’s Teavana bar, and features sweet pastries (known as “pasticcini” in Italian) from the Princi bakery on the ground floor. This Italian twist on a traditional afternoon tea includes bite-sized cakes and baked goods with autumnal flavors, three of which are totally new.
The Mele, for example, is one new delight that catches the eye with its apple-like topping, made from caramelised jelly, that sits atop a delicate, noodle-like pastry made with finely shredded phyllo dough known as kadaif. Another new sweet is the Rum Raisin Fromage, which consists of cream cheese, white chocolate mousse and a salty, crumbly dough. Topped with homemade rum-soaked raisins, which also sit inside the cream cheese mousse, this dessert has delicious notes of cinnamon and cloves that give it bagfuls of spicy sweet autumnal flavor.
The third new treat is the Vignolata, an Italian sweet containing choux pastry, or “bigne” as it’s known in Italian. With delicious swirls of caramel-flavored buttercream and handmade praline in the filling, this little pastry lets you enjoy multilayered textures and nutty, creamy flavors in every bite. In addition to the three new au.