The French dessert shop, which opened in 2018, surprisingly chose not to choose commercial areas such as Chunxi Road, but chose Caotang Road on the edge of the Second Ring Road, close to Du Fu Thatched Cottage and Huanhuaxi Park. With its ocean-blue façade and large glass windows, this romantic dessert shop is easily recognizable compared to the old streetscape of the neighborhood.
Although it has not been open for a long time, the price of acorns, which is advertised as "using imported ingredients" and "pastry chefs with overseas study experience", is not low. Priced at 70 yuan, Qianqian and Stuttgart are two popular mousse cakes, full of fruit elements, especially popular in summer. It is a typical mimic fruit mousse in French sweetness, which resembles a peach in appearance, and is also dotted with small water droplets and green leaves on the top. When you knock it open, you can see a layer of cream mousse, which wraps the innermost mass of peach pulp. However, the filling is made of canned fruit pulp and jam, and the sweet and sour taste is decent. Stuttgart's long strip appearance is added with passion fruit mousse, mango mousse, mango jelly, cheese layer, and a soft crust base, you can feel the sour, sweet, fragrant, and crispy four flavors under one spoonful, and friends who pursue a sense of layering may wish to give it a try.
Dongguli, which looks like an acorn, is the store's façade, priced at 78 yuan, but the taste does not match the price. The restaurant uses two layers of dark chocolate shells with different textures to simulate the texture of the hazelnut skin, and the inside is milk chocolate mousse and caramel hazelnut sauce, and salt flowers and Tahitian vanilla pods are added to add flavor. Although the appearance can be described as almost real, the two layers of chocolate shells have to take into account the shape, sacrificing the aroma of the chocolate itself, and the sweetness is not real and natural enough. The caramel hazelnut sauce inside performed slightly better, and when you cut it, you can see that it retains a flowing texture, but the taste is not much different from Ferrero.
Acorns will be available in limited editions depending on the season, and customers will be invited to try them before they are officially released. Local dessert lovers should be on the lookout for a chance to try new products and meet like-minded people.
The spacious interior of the store is not as crowded as the commercial area, so it will not feel noisy and crowded, and the sober white color scheme makes it possible to spend an afternoon comfortably. But in all fairness, the decoration of acorn is no different from other Internet celebrity cake shops, irregular chandeliers, marble tables and other collocations have long been commonplace, combined with the same products without much highlights, the price of 150 yuan per capita is really high, and it is discounted in terms of cost performance, so its ranking will be appropriately downgraded.
