From October 14th, Isetan Shinjuku will be holding a sweets event themed around chestnuts, a quintessential autumn delicacy. It's a seven-day event where you can fully immerse yourself in chestnuts, introducing a total of 10 brands, including classics like Mont Blanc and chestnut kinton, as well as a variety of Japanese and Western sweets like pies, Danish pastries, and dorayaki, as well as roasted chestnuts made with carefully selected sources that allow you to enjoy the flavor of the ingredients. This time, there will be a number of live demonstrations and sales that will give you the chance to enjoy a live feeling. Japanese sweets include dorayaki and daifuku filled with whole chestnuts, and chestnut kinton, which allows you to enjoy the taste of chestnuts directly. Western confectioneries include the fragrant "Marron Pie" and "Marron Tart," as well as freshly squeezed "Mont Blanc."

A stunning sight and experience

<Hotel New Otani Patisserie Satsuki>>
Hotel New Otani's pastry boutique boasts overwhelming popularity for its hotel sweets. The desserts are packed with carefully selected ingredients and exquisite combinations.


Super Mont Blanc (1 piece) 3,564 yen
With the addition of new ingredients such as "Kuzumochi Lactic Acid Bacteria(R)" from Funabashi-ya and "Matcha Soy Milk Kudzu" made with Uji matcha from a long-established tea shop in Uji, Kyoto, and "Caramel sauce" made with Wasanbon sugar, this Mont Blanc has evolved even more deliciously. In the center of the Mont Blanc, candied Japanese chestnuts from Kumamoto Prefecture are gently enveloped in moderately sweet almond milk, and Japanese ingredients such as brown sugar bean paste and soy milk white ganache are added as accents. The Mont Blanc paste is made with Japanese chestnuts, which are ripe for eating at that time of year.

Pre-sale of popular flavors every year

<Grand Marble>
A Kyoto-based Danish pastry specialty shop. Beautiful marbled Danish pastries. Made with carefully selected ingredients, our artisans painstakingly weave each one with care, sparing no effort or time.


Japanese Chestnut Mont Blanc Danish (1 piece) ¥1,944 *Pre-sale at Isetan Shinjuku Store
A limited-time item that's popular every year. Generously woven with Japanese chestnuts, the Danish pastry dough is filled with the flavor. While the product will be available for general sale starting in November this year, it will be available for pre-sale at Isetan Shinjuku.

Enjoy the juicy texture of these sweets live with our live demonstration sales

<Monte Blanco>
"Monte Blanco" was born from the desire to deliver Mont Blanc cream squeezed right before our eyes. The sight of a generous amount of Mont Blanc cream being squeezed out and filling the plate so much that it overflows will bring a smile to your face.


[Demonstration Sale] Mont Blanc Chestnut (1 piece) 681 yen
The Mont Blanc cream is a blend of Japanese chestnuts from Kumamoto Prefecture and red bean paste from "Osaka Honke Surugaya". The cream has a mild sweetness and is filled with finely sliced chestnuts with their skins from Ehime Prefecture, adding an accent to the texture.

<Marco 102>
This is an Italian restaurant run by chef Marco Molinari, who has won numerous international competitions, including the World Pasta Competition. His crispy apple pie is a popular item, but this time he is introducing his first-ever chestnut pie.


[Demonstration sale, limited quantities] Marron Pie (1 piece) 451 yen *Pre-sale at Isetan Shinjuku store
A specialty of the Naples region of Italy, this pie is made with a flaky, shell-shaped sfogliatella pastry mixed with two carefully selected types of chestnut cream.

<Seigetsudo Main Store>
Founded in 1907 (Meiji 40) in what is now Ginza 7-chome (formerly Kobikicho, Kyobashi Ward). Since then, this long-established Japanese confectionery shop has been committed to providing customers with Japanese sweets that are made with carefully selected ingredients and heartfelt, reliable techniques, and a spirit of hospitality.


【Demonstration Sales】 Chestnut Daifuku (1 piece) 432 yen *Exclusive to Isetan Shinjuku Store
The mochi dough is a combination of koganemochi from Niigata Prefecture and habutae flour, which has been devised to give it a strong texture and the fine, smooth texture of the habutae flour, and is wrapped around chestnuts from Ibaraki Prefecture.

<Shichirika>
A Japanese confectionery brand founded in 2017 with a desire to make delicious, healthy Japanese confectionery that is in line with the times, with a commitment to tradition and innovation in mind, available to many people.


【Demonstration sale, limited quantities】 Chestnut kinton (1 piece) 486 yen *Exclusive to Isetan Shinjuku store
Chestnuts from Kumamoto Prefecture are peeled by hand and made into a paste. Sugar is added to this to bring out the chestnut's original natural flavor, and a craftsman carefully squeezes the paste out of each one.

Enjoy the taste of carefully selected ingredients

<Kurihachi>
This brand of roasted chestnuts uses only unsmoked chestnuts from regions personally selected by the owner, who has traveled all over Japan to taste them himself. They are skillfully roasted using the owner's many years of experience and intuition. Enjoy the different flavors and aromas depending on the region.


Iwama chestnuts from Ibaraki Prefecture and Nakayama chestnuts from Ehime Prefecture. Both (150g) ¥1,350, (220g) ¥1,944
*The origin of the chestnuts varies depending on the day.


Related Information
Food Collection Shop News:
https://www.isetan.mistore.jp/shinjuku/shops/foods/foodcollection/shopnews_list/shopnews08.html
*Scheduled to be released at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, October 7th

*All prices include tax.



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