A coffee stand and rice-flour bakery in Honjo-Azumabashi called HS bake & coffee. A hair salon sits at the back of the shop, so some guests stop in for a haircut and then a coffee, while others come just for the rice-flour sweets and coffee. The shop runs both businesses side by side.
— Rice-flour sweets and the sound of scissors
Rice-flour baked goods come out of the oven while scissors clip away in the salon next door. The two businesses share one small space. The rice-flour baked sweets have a chewy texture special to rice flour, with a gentle sweetness that does not rely on wheat. The coffee menu also lines up items that pair well with rice and Japanese ingredients, such as a seasonal banana and black-sesame drink and a matcha latte. The shop quietly offers two kinds of time in Honjo-Azumabashi, an old-town area between Asakusa and Tokyo Skytree.
A small coffee stand at the entrance of a hair salon located further inside ☕
They have hashed cakes without wheat flour, eggs, dairy, or white sugar, along with organic and house-made drinks with carefully chosen ingredients.
Currently sweets are limited to hashed cake and gelato. The gelato can't be ordered solo — it's offered only as a set with hashed cake. There are currently two kinds of hashed cake.
I was aiming for the lemon & pistachio cake, but it seems you can't add gelato to that alone, so I had a plate with two half-size cakes (the lemon-pistachio plus the standard banana & black sesame) and gelato — a half-and-half plate.
The gelato is vegan, made by TUTTO in Kiyosumi-Shirakawa ♪
The Yame Gyokuro Matcha was delicious! I'm happy to have had gelato from a shop I had wanted to visit for years ♡
For a drink, I had the domestic-organic matcha latte with soy milk on ice. Most matcha lattes use a pre-sweetened mix, but as expected from a shop offering white-sugar-free sweets, an unsweetened option is available — happy about that ♪
The coffee also seems to be carefully sourced. There's apparently a barista, but they weren't there that day — the staff serving were salon staff.
Two counter seats, a bench for 2-3 people, and a dog-friendly terrace seating about 2-3 people. Whether you'll be seated right away depends on luck (lol).
The staff were all pleasant, with comfortable BGM shared with the salon, a cute shop design, and a current menu lineup — a pleasant shop ☆