Hotel New Otani’s directly managed hotels (Tokyo, Makuhari, Osaka) will hold a ‘Chestnut and Grape Sweets Fair’, featuring autumn’s delicacies, ‘chestnuts and grapes’, available for a limited time until November 30th.
The ‘Super Mont Blanc (3,780 yen, takeout price)’ includes an Italian marron glacé-filled almond tart, coated with chocolate, black sugar meringue, and black honey bean paste, harboring sweetened chestnuts from Kumamoto Prefecture, and squeezed with chestnut paste from varieties such as Hyogo Prefecture’s ‘Tamazawa’ and ‘Ginyori’. The cake uses chestnuts even in the dough, so you can taste chestnuts from any part. The ‘Drinking Mont Blanc (2,200 yen, service charge not included, Tokyo only)’ blends Hyogo Prefecture’s steamed chestnuts with specially made vanilla ice cream, topped with ‘Chestnut Whip Cream’ allowing you to enjoy the aroma of chestnuts and Uji matcha.
Additionally, using domestic grapes, offerings include the ‘New Extra Super Grape Shortcake (3,564 yen, takeout price)’ containing and topped with ‘Shine Muscat’ and ‘Pione’ grapes boasting 18 degrees of sweetness, ‘Grape Jelly (1,674 yen, same)’ made with grape juice, and ‘Iwaizumi Yogurt Jelly (Grape) (1,404 yen, same)’ which tops Iwate Prefecture’s Iwaizumi yogurt jelly with grape juice jelly.
