Lady M’s Green Tea Crêpe Cake. Photo: T.Tseng via Flickr
Known for their bon bons and signature mille crêpe cakes, Lady M has opened its newest shop in the neighborhood. The luxury confectionery brand, with locations across the U.S. and Asia, blends French pastry techniques with Japanese sensibilities, according to their website. It opened its first-ever shop on the Upper East Side in 2004.
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The new shop is located at 1 West 60th Street between Columbus and Broadway.Despite the name “mille” (1,000), Lady M’s signature crêpe cake consists of 20 thin crêpe layers, each separated by a light pastry cream, with the top layer slightly caramelized. The creation was invented in 1985 by Lady M’s founder, Emi Wada, and sold at her Paper Moon Cake Boutiques shop in Japan. The cake comes in two sizes: six-inch for $70 and nine-inch for $115.
Lady M also offers mille crêpe cake variations, including green tea, tiramisu, onyx coffee, and pistachio, among others. When they opened their Rockefeller Center location in Midtown in 2002, The Infatuation reported, “We’re incapable of walking by a Lady M without stopping in.”
“Even if we manage to take a few steps past the entrance, we eventually turn around and give in to the gravitational pull of this dessert shop,” The Infatuation continued. They touted the original signature mille crêpe as their favorite, while also noting that they offer “regular” cakes, but the crêpe cakes are the real draw here.
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The Los Angeles Times had a different opinion about Lady M’s cakes when they celebrated its arrival out west in August 2013. Highlighting the strawberry shortcake ($100), chocolate and vanilla checkerboard cake ($115), and couronnes de chocolat ($102)—a chocolate sponge with mousse, topped with white chocolate shavings—they described them as “exquisite.” Couronnes de chocolat translates to “the crown of chocolate.” These cakes come in nine-inch servings.
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