Building on the success of Chef Masahiko Yomoda’s lockdown takeaway offerings, Ishizuka’s fan favourites are now available on its newly launched online bakeshop.
Venue manager Louise Naimo says reopening for service late last year didn’t stop the restaurant from receiving regular requests for their bento boxes and baked goods to be made available for takeaway again. At this stage, there are four items on the online bakeshop’s menu, but the plan is to “gauge how the current menu is received and move from there”.
Think an upmarket $90 picnic bento box, suitable for two to four people, with daily rotating dishes ranging from miso chicken to beef katsu and the perennial mainstay of fresh bread accompanied by a nori garlic butter. Suitable for the same number of people, the $55 matcha tarte tatin departs from its French apple namesake with matcha crème and pastry flaked with Japanese gold leaf. The $85 A5 Kagoshima wagyu, foie gras and black truffle pie is as indulgent as it sounds, so it’s lucky it serves two people.
Naimo’s favourite offering, however, is the $25 Ishizuka kasutera, otherwise known as a castella, a special type of wagashi (Japanese traditional confectionery).
“It has this incredible cloud-like fluffiness and is sweet without being cake-sweet. It’s sort of like a moist, silky, fluffy, light cheesecake…but it doesn’t taste cheesy or cakey. It’s really difficult to describe without trying it!”
To enjoy the four offerings of Ishizuka Bakeshop, make your delivery order two days in advance or place an order for pick-up between 3–5pm Thursday to Sunday. Delivery is available up to 15km from the CBD.
