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 这里. 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.
营业时间
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 这里.
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 这里.
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 这里.
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
甜品菜单
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.
- Tsumugi 同上，但要搭配咖啡、茶或牛奶。
更多冻糕有人吗？ Chocolate Lounge 菜单的最后一页充满了可供您选择的小冻糕。不像其他的都是用冻糕杯新鲜准备的，这些小杯是预先准备好的，装在一次性塑料冻糕杯里（不是真的玻璃，如果是塑料的，是杯子吗？）。这些特殊的冻糕也可以带走，这样您以后就可以品尝到令人惊叹的美味。
这些是菜单上最小的冻糕，大小适中。也就是说，两个人仍然可以轻松分享这些坏男孩。
您在此范围内的选择是：
- 草莓
- Gianduja 巧克力
- 布丁阿拉莫德
- 双浆果
- 葡萄和猕猴桃
- 巧克力和香蕉
- 芒果布丁
- 热带
我和妻子分享了 Gianduja 巧克力，我们很高兴我们选择分享。它尝起来很棒，但它是如此丰富。里面还有一点我们没想到的惊喜。 Gianduja 是含有大约 30% 榛子酱的巧克力，太棒了！不过底部还有一杯咖啡利口酒，老婆实在不喜欢。所以，如果你不喜欢咖啡的味道，要注意一些事情。
优点
- 他们的定价非常有竞争力。没有任何东西看起来很昂贵或机会主义定价。
- 饮料和菜肴质量上乘，味道棒极了。
- 如果你想带一个回家，你会觉得有点奢侈，用镀金的高档杯子喝水，每个杯子的价格超过 $80 澳大利亚。
- 在游览完一些美味佳肴后，这是一个放松的好地方。
- 菜单用英语和日语写成。
- 乘坐汽车或公共交通工具很容易到达，旅游巴士也停在这里。
- 根据您的时间安排，您可以在大休息室窗户正对面的钟楼上观看跳舞的机器人动物表演。
缺点
- 可能需要排队才能获得一张桌子，等待的人没有多少座位。
- 它也可能很忙，使它变得非常响亮。
- 如果您不参加考试，可能会有点混乱 工厂和博物馆之旅.
- 无论您如何到达那里，当您导航进入休息室时，这都是停车的公平方式。
- 这并不完全是一个骗局，但没有美味的选择，所以不要去那里期待一个完整的咖啡馆范围。这只是糖果。
总体
Shiroi Koibito Park Chocolate Lounge 是参观工厂和博物馆后放松身心的好地方，甚至只是体验使石屋成为著名的巧克力和饼干制造商的糖果 日本.它可能很繁华，所以要准备好等待，但在我看来，等待是值得的。我们尝试的糖果非常好，只是有点颓废（如果你走的是巨型冻糕路线，或者很多），巧克力饮料很美味。
我可能不会为了巧克力酒廊而去这里，但如果您正在参观白井恋人公园，参观工厂，或者只是住在附近，那么这是您旅途中值得一游的地方！
Hotels near the Shiroi Koibito Park Chocolate Lounge
白井恋人公园步行范围内没有任何酒店。最近的车站靠近JR车站，也有一些靠近东西地铁线。对于大多数选择，我会看向靠近东西地铁站的市中心。以下选项是距离地铁站最近且在步行范围内的选项。
您还可以使用下面的搜索框搜索附近的酒店。
Helpful links
- 白色恋人公园官方网站 （英语）
- 白井恋人公园餐厅信息 – 白井恋人公园网站（英文）
Don’t forget
我很想听听你最喜欢的热巧克力是什么。请在下面的评论中告诉我。如果您来过这里，我也想听听您对 Shiroi Koibito Park Chocolate Lounge 的看法，以及您最喜欢的菜肴和饮料是什么。
首次发表于： 2017 年 12 月 3 日 @ 16:59
