Paul Lafayet

I’m a regular here. To be honest, the coffee here is good but not great. So, why am I a regular here? I think most likely to due convenience and the friendly service here.
The pastries are decent, but I don’t usually order them. They have a lots of macaroon, but I’m not a fan of macaroons. Coffee is what I come here for.

Ok I have to admit that I don’t know much about birthday cakes and high-​end desserts… Every time I’m responsible for buying the birthday cake for a friend’s birthday, I’ll start picnicking.
**** PANIC MODE ****
OH SHOOT I need to buy a cake where can I buy a cake what kind of favorite I should get what price range is acceptable and not too crazily expensive or embarrassingly cheap? OMG OMG OMG
Here were the options:
1. ⁵⁰⁄₅₀
2. Call a friend
3. Ask the audience
Well then I did text a friend.
**** PANIC MODE ENDED ****
She gave me a name «Paul Lafayet». I don’t even know who he is. I searched about it and found a store in IFC. Great, called and made sure they were open and would have ready-​to-​buy celebration cakes. For a usual store in IFC, opening till 9pm is very promising.
I got to there, and it’s a rather small shop, sharing with LGB. It’s great that they «standard» cakes were not so standard — they were all pretty impressive. I got the Chocolate Charlotte. All cakes have one standard price HKD$ 320, it’s on the high end of cake’s price range (I think?!). But I got a free Crème Brûlée from HSBC platinum card, so yeah, I was pretty happy with that.
We served the Crème Brûlée first as the birthday cake to the birthday girl, as a prank, and surprised her with the actual Chocolate Charlotte. We all loved it. We have all gone into the situation before where the cake is way too big as an after-​dinner dessert, even for sharing. But this cake got a perfect size. Staff was nice enough to notice I was buying a birthday cake and offered to put a small «Birthday Cake» tag on the cake.
And the taste. OH. Now I get it. The chocolate favor was so good that it wasn’t too sweat, but also not too dark (dark chocolate should never be allowed on a birthday cake, imho). The chocolate base and lady fingers were both very crunchy and made the whole cake a good mix of different texture.
Loved it. And I’ll now remember the name Paul Lafayet.