Centre the Bakery: Best Bread & Toast Experience in Tokyo

A Must Try! Centre the Bakery in Ginza.

Bread lovers & Toast fans, head straight to Centre the Bakery in Ginza for the most fun and delicious bread and toast experience.

About Centre the Bakery & La Cantine

Centre the Bakery is located on the edge of Ginza near the Tokyo International Forum. It is the sister bakery of Viron bakery, a popular French bakery and bistro in Shibuya and Marunouchi.

Centre the Bakery specializes in white toast with flours from Hokkaido, the UK, and the US.

You can easily find it by spotting the perennially long lines out the door. There are two lines: one on the right for the bakery where you can buy fresh loaves of bread and another on the left for La Cantine to dine in the cafe.

La Cantine is a great place for lunch or an afternoon snack. The menu offers soup, salads, and an extensive sandwich list as well as French toast, cheese toast, croque madame, and more. For sandwiches served without the crust, you will be given the crusts which have been lightly toasted in a cup. You can further toast the crusts in the store’s designated crust toaster.

On the menu, you will note that every item specifies which bread will be served: JP for Japanese, NA for the US, and EB for the UK. There is also a dinner menu that serves hot entree and bread (but no toast at night).

Centre La Cantine Experience in Photos

For your first visit, you must order the Toast Set. Within the Toast Set, you choose if you want the Jam set, Butter set, or Jam & Butter set. Then you choose if you want 2 or 3 slices of bread – definitely choose the 3 slices so you can compare all the three kinds of flours.

After ordering, the interactive experience begins. You get to choose your toaster on the shelf. One toaster per table even if you order more than one toast set. The toasters have a green sticker which marks the recommended toast setting for the bread.

When your table is set, you will also be given a placard for your specific Toast Set. The placard guides you for the tasting and toasting recommendations as well as which slice is which and which butter is from where. It also guides you for how to use the jam set considerately as it is shared the next customer.

The Jam & Butter Toast Set with a glass of Hokkaido milk. The price may seem steep, but you have to appreciate the quality and the whole experience. Look at those thick slices of bread. Feel the clean and lovely setting of the restaurant and the high-quality toasters. You are not just paying for bread, you are paying for the entire toast experience.

Toast time! Even if your table orders multiple toast sets, each table can only have one toaster to share with everyone. Do note, though, there are some toasters like this Breville that have a larger capacity to toast more slices of bread.

Set your toaster to where the green sticker lies on the toaster. The cafe studied each toaster to find the best-recommended setting. The toast set placard will also recommend whether some slices should be eaten fresh or toasted or both.

If you don’t like bread, you will find this place astoundingly expensive and not worth it. If you love bread, toast, bakeries, Centre the Bakery and La Cantine is going to be amazing for you and worth every yen.

Hours & Information

Centre the Bakery | Map | TripAdvisor Reviews
1-2-2 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo

Bakery
Daily, 10am to 7pm (may close early when sold out)

La Cantine
Cafe Hours, 10am to 5pm
Dinner Hours, 6pm to 11pm (Dinner menu, toast not served)
Sundays and Holidays, 10am to 8pm

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