アフタヌーンティー・ラブアンドテーブル ルクア LUCUA大阪店

📍Japan, Osaka Umeda
Japan's popular afternoon tea features a signature fruit mille-feuille cake🍰

I've loved this place since the days of afternoon tea in Taiwan, and it's even better in Japan!

This is a special version of Love & Table, and you can only find the mille-feuille cake here🧁

It's located inside the easily navigable Lucua department store in Umeda. On weekdays, most diners are Japanese women, ranging from grandmothers to mothers with babies enjoying afternoon tea.

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Order details:
🍝 Set Meal (¥1,860 + 165)

• Pre-meal Bread:
  The appetizer bread is carefully made and delicious, served warm, with a solid texture and rich flour aroma.

• Cheese Sweet Potato Pasta:
  The pasta has a nice chewy texture.
  This is a seasonal menu item; the first bite is refreshing, and the flavors deepen with each chew, offering a rich taste.
  There are some shredded meat pieces that are quite tasty.

• Chestnut Mille-Feuille Cake:
  About one-third of a normal size.

• Coffee: Super bitter 😩 Not recommended.

The great thing is that there are set meal combinations, saving you from too many choices, and finishing a portion leaves you feeling very satisfied.

🍰 Fruit Mille-Feuille Cake Set (¥2,046 + 275):
This cake is the highlight of my visit to this shop 🤩🤩
Although it's not cheap, it offers a very satisfying experience.

Surprisingly, the layers of the mille-feuille are filled with delicious cream, making the overall cake not overly sweet; the fruit is also fresh and tasty.

Additionally, there's a drink included, and I upgraded to a seasonal item—a combination of grapes and black tea—you have to pour it over ice yourself. It's refreshing and not sweet.

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Would I revisit? Yes!