Blanc et Noir (ブラン・エ・ノワール)

Blanc et Noir, sweetened cold coffee under a floated layer of milk in a champagne glass. The house calls it the Queen of Amber, and it's our first cup.

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Café de l'Ambre

Coffee · kissaten · Ginza · Ginza, Tokyo

8-10-15 Ginza, Chūō, Tokyo 104-0061

Sekiguchi Ichirō opened this Ginza coffee house after the war to serve coffee and nothing else, roasting the house's own beans and brewing each cup through flannel. It still does it the founder's way.

The proof, in the house's own words

Why the Blanc et Noir

Strong evidence

Craft
Beans roasted in the house and picked over by hand before grinding.
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Technique
Two clean layers that never mix: evaporated milk over the coffee.
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Tradition
The founder's style, ground in the mill made for the house.
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Local choice
The café's own creation; regulars just ask for No. 7.
“Queen of Amber”
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We'd add

Our runner-up

Demitasse (ドゥミ・タッス)

A demitasse, black coffee brewed one cup at a time through flannel. After the cold one.

Beans roasted in-house
Flannel drip, cup by cup
Unchanged since 1948

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