For those that are thinking about visiting Shiroi Koibito Park after my article about it here and are not quite sure yet, the menu might help sway you towards it. The Chocolate Lounge does not feature any main type food, the closet you can get is the tea set. As the lounge name suggests, it is focused on chocolate. However, there are a wide variety of sweet dishes and drinks that incorporate milk, dark and/or white chocolate.
Just before we dive into it though, I’d love to know, what’s your favourite hot chocolate? I usually go for dark varieties, but lately, I’ve been enjoying white hot chocolate! Let me know in the comments down below, and if you’ve been to the Shiroi Koibito Park Chocolate Lounge, I’d love to know what dishes and drinks you’ve tried and what you enjoyed most.
Getting to the Shiroi Koibito Park Chocolate Lounge
To get to the Chocolate Lounge, head to Shiroi Koibito Park by car, public transport, or take a tour. I’ve put detailed information on parking and public transport routes on my Shiroi Koibito Park blog post ここに. From the park, there are two ways to get into the Chocolate Lounge. The first is by taking the paid self-guided factory and museum tour. This is worth doing, but if you are short on time, you can also get to the Chocolate Lounge via the Tudor House entrance. It is located on level 4F. It is a bit confusing to go this way though. You have to take elevator 1 or 2 from the store on level 1F up to level 2F. From there you have to cross to the other end of the level and take elevator 3 or the stairs up to 4F. Fortunately, they do bring you out near the lounge.
Admission fees and other costs
Admission to the Chocolate Lounge is free, but there is, of course, your food and drink cost. Food and drink prices are all shown in the photos below of each menu, but on average they are pretty competitive and are comparable to what you might expect to pay at a typical cafe for similar items.
Opening hours
Shiroi Koibito Park and Ishiya Chocolate Factory are open every day from 9:00 am until 18:00 pm with the last admittance at 17:00pm. The Chocolate Lounge operates at this time as well.
The menu is mostly filled with parfait’s, to be honest. That said, there is an assortment of other sweet dishes and both hot and cold drinks. Don’t expect anything savoury though, this is literally a cafe for the sweet tooth!
The menu is provided in both Japanese and English. That said, very little English is spoken by the staff here (or at least when we were there), so if you don’t speak Japanese, have your pointing finger prepared to point at the items you want from the menu.
That is of course after you are seated. I mentioned in my main article on the Shiroi Koibito Park and Ishiya Chocolate Factory tour that there is a queue system in place when it is busy, and it was definitely busy when we were there. So plan your visit to take into account that you might have to wait a little while to be seated. First, you go up to the friendly greeter at the entrance and let them know how many people you need a table for. They will take you straight to your seat if there is one available, if not, they will write your name down and ask you to wait. There is a small number of seats available for waiting so be prepared to stand. Once a table is ready for you, they will call your name out or just come and get you.
Once you are in and seated, you get your menu’s, and a waiter or waitress will be around soon to take your order. Once they have it, service is very prompt, and I’m sure you will enjoy every bit of the food and drink they bring you!
The Promotional / Flagship Dish
Oddly enough, what appears to be the flagship dish on the Shiroi Koibito Park Chocolate Lounge menu is actually the Rich Melon Parfait. As far as I could work out, there is no chocolate in this except for white chocolate soft serve ice cream. It’s definitely one you would want to share, probably with a minimum of four people! This thing is enormous, and at about $20 Australian, it ought to be.
Hot Chocolate Menu
This is the real reason to visit the Chocolate Lounge while you are at Shiroi Koibito Park, the hot chocolate. We were here in spring, but if you are travelling in winter, I imagine this would be even better!
There is a choice of five different options, two milk chocolate, one dark chocolate and two white chocolate:
- Milk Chocolate Valrhona – French
Smells like milk and rich caramel but with a slightly sour taste. - Milk Chocolate Felchlin – Swiss
Has a mild, smooth and milky flavour. - Dark Chocolate Valrhona – French
Smells like roasted nuts with a well-balanced cacao taste. - White Chocolate – 日本
Made with white couverture chocolate. - White Chocolate Valrhona – French
Delicate, smooth and lightly sweetened.
Wifey got the milk chocolate Felchlin, and I got the dark chocolate Valrhona.
They were both fantastic and very chocolatey.
You probably wouldn’t want to have more than one, especially if you also have a chocolate dish.
Other Hot Drinks
- Coffee
- Cafe au lait
- Cafe Cappuccino
- Espresso
- Caramel Macchiato
- Hot milk
- Tea – Straight, lemon or milk.
Cold Drinks
Surprisingly, there is only one ice chocolate in the cold drinks menu plus a cafe chocolate (which I believe is an iced mocha). Even so, I’d love to go back and try it. It has corn flakes in it! Your options in the cold department are:
- Iced coffee
- Iced cafe au lait
- Iced tea with lemon, milk or black
- Iced chocolate
- Cafe chocolat
- Orange juice
- Apple juice
- Coca-Cola
- Ginger Ale
Alcohol and Soft Serve Ice Cream Menu
It’s a little odd to have these two together if you ask me, but they are. I really wanted to try the mixed chocolate and white chocolate ice cream, but we opted to share a parfait instead, and in hindsight, the ice cream would have been too much on top of that!
Your alcohol choices are:
- Original wine
- Original cocktail
- Draft beer
- Black beer
- Chocolate milk with baileys (iced or hot)
And your soft serve ice cream options are:
- White chocolate
- Chocolate
- Chocolate and white chocolate mix
Chocolate Fondue
This is one of the dishes that the Shiroi Koibito Park Chocolate Lounge is known for, chocolate fondue. It’s not cheap though, and after seeing some other people have it, it’s definitely a sharing size. I bet the chocolate is delicious!
Tea Set
The Ishiya Original tea set is the only ‘meal’ on the menu (if you could call it that). It’s the set menu that the Chocolate Lounge is famous for. It gives you a sharing tea set for two that lets you try a variety of options from the menu including all of the Ishiya Chocolates:
- White Shiroi Koibito Cookie
- White roll cake
- White Baumkuchen “Tsumugi”
- Blueberry Mifuyu
- i-gateau
- White chocolate Shiroi Koibito soft serve ice cream
- Your choice of 2x hot or cold chocolate or coffee drinks from the menu.
Not sure what all of those things are?
Roll cakes are a favourite in 日本 and are basically a jam and cream scroll, but with an enormous variety of other fillings and cake flavours. In this case, the emphasis is on white chocolate.
A Baumkuchen is a German cake that has rings like a tree trunk, and its name literally means tree cake. I’ve always wanted to try one but never actually have. The Tsumugi, or ‘Shiroi Baum’, is one of Ishiya’s specialities. Read about it on their website ここに.
The blueberry Mifuyu is the third dish that comes from Ishiya’s line up. It features a filling, blueberry in this set, layered with puff pastry in the same way as a mille-feuille or custard slice. It’s then coated in chocolate. Yuuuuum. You can also read more about it on the Ishiya website ここに.
Then of course, if by now, you don’t know, the Shiroi Koibito cookie is what Ishiya is most well known for, and is what Shiroi Koibito Park is named after. These cookies really are amazing. It’s no wonder they are so popular in 日本! They are a pair of langue de chat cookies with chocolate sandwiched between them. Somehow, the chocolate centre is almost fudgy. It’s also on the Ishiya website ここに.
Jumbo Parfait Menu
It would almost be wrong not to try one of these jumbo parfait’s, but they are gigantic, and you are going to need to share! There are two choices in this enormous size.
- Jumbo strawberry parfait
- Jumbo chocolate banana parfait
Parfait Menu
The standard parfait size is still pretty substantial and is shareable between two people as well. Two of these parfaits share the same flavours as their jumbo counterparts, but you also get one additional flavour to try.
- Chocolate parfait
- Strawberry parfait
- Caramel coffee parfait
デザートメニュー
Yes, there is a dessert menu, just in case you didn’t feel you had encountered quite enough desserts already. You have two options:
- White roll cake
- Shiroi Koibito parfait
So, if you are keen to try some more of the Ishiya sweets without going for the tea set, you can do so here. The Shiroi Koibito parfait contains Shiroi Koibito cookies and some Tsumugi white Baumkuchen.
Baumkuchen Menu
Just want to try Tsumugi, the white Baumkuchen? It turns out, you aren’t the only one. You have a choice of how you would like it:
- Tsumugi with your choice of whipped cream, chocolate sauce or caramel sauce.
- 紬は上記と同じですが、コーヒー、お茶、ミルクと一緒にどうぞ。
もっとパフェは誰ですか？チョコレートラウンジメニューの最後のページには、選択できる小さなパフェがたくさんあります。すべてパフェグラスで作りたてのその他のものとは異なり、これらの小さなものは事前に準備され、使い捨てのプラスチック製パフェグラスで提供されます（プラスチックの場合はカップですか？）。これらの特定のパフェは、後で驚くべきものを味わうことができるように、あなたと一緒に持ち帰ることもできます。
これらはメニューで最小のパフェであり、1つに最適なサイズです。そうは言っても、2人はまだこれらの悪い男の子を簡単に共有することができます。
この範囲での選択は次のとおりです。
- いちご
- ジャンドゥーヤチョコレート
- プディングアラモード
- ダブルベリー
- ブドウとキウイ
- チョコレートとバナナ
- マンゴープリン
- トロピカル
妻と私はジャンドゥーヤチョコレートを共有しました、そして私たちは共有することを選んだことをうれしく思います。美味しかったですが、とても濃厚です。また、予想外の驚きもありました。ジャンドゥーヤは約30%のヘーゼルナッツペーストが入ったチョコレートで、最高でした！しかし、下のセクションにもコーヒーリキュールがあり、妻は本当に好きではありません。だから、あなたがコーヒーフレーバーに興味がない場合は注意すべきことがあります。
Pros
- 彼らの価格設定は非常に競争力があります。高価なものや日和見的な価格のものはありませんでした。
- 飲み物と料理は優れた品質と素晴らしい味です。
- 家に持ち帰りたい場合は、$80オーストラリア以上の金メッキが施された豪華なマグカップから飲むと、少し贅沢な気分になります。
- おいしいものを持ってツアーに参加した後は、リラックスするのに最適な場所です。
- メニューは日本語だけでなく英語でも書かれています。
- 車や公共交通機関で簡単に行くことができ、ツアーバスもここに停車します。
- タイミングによっては、大きなラウンジの窓の真向かいにある時計台で、踊るロボット動物のショーが始まるのを楽しむことができます。
Cons
- テーブルを確保するための待ち行列があり、待っている人のための座席はあまりありません。
- それはまた多忙で、かなり騒々しいものになる可能性があります。
- あなたが取らない場合に到達するのは少し混乱する可能性があります 工場と博物館のツアー.
- どのようにそこに着くかに関係なく、それはあなたがラウンジにあなたの方法をナビゲートする時までに駐車から公正な方法です。
- これは必ずしも短所ではありませんが、おいしいオプションはないので、カフェの全範囲を期待してそこに行かないでください。ただのお菓子です。
全体
白い恋人パークチョコレートラウンジは、工場や美術館のツアーを終えてくつろいだり、石屋をショコラティエやクッキーの有名なメーカーにしたスイーツを体験したりするのに最適な小さなスポットです。 日本。にぎやかなので待つ準備はできていますが、私の意見では、待つ価値があります。私たちが試したスイーツは素晴らしく、ほんの少し退廃的（またはジャンボパフェルートに行くならたくさん）とチョコレートドリンクはおいしいです。
チョコレートラウンジだけでは行かないかもしれませんが、白い恋人パークを訪れたり、工場見学をしたり、近くに滞在したりするなら、ぜひ立ち寄ってみてくださいね！
Hotels near the Shiroi Koibito Park Chocolate Lounge
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Helpful links
- 白い恋人パーク公式サイト （英語）
- 白い恋人パークのレストラン情報 –白い恋人パークのウェブサイト（英語）
Don’t forget
あなたの好きなホットチョコレートの種類を聞いてみたいです。以下のコメントで教えてください。また、白い恋人パークチョコレートラウンジへのご感想や、お好きなお料理やお飲み物をお聞かせください。
初版： 2017年12月3日16:59
