Gay Ol' Times with Cake

What the fuck are we doing?

It wasn't that long ago the wind still carried a chill breeze and the rain (a damnable thing too, don't get me wrong,) cooled down the streets. But then the clouds cracked and the same words were on everyone's lips; "Summer is coming!" Because we've all been watching Game of Thrones too much.
 Summer's come to Tokyo and it's suddenly infernally hot. The humidity factor's enough to make it so that if you step out of a shower you're doomed to be wet for the rest of your day
 As much as it's tempting to stay home and just do nothing but enjoy the air-conditioning, few things get me out of Hermit Fortress as quickly as the call of Cake, and the time has finally come to cast ourselves into the Sweets Forest in the distant land of Tokyo's Setagaya district.
 Knowing very little if anything about the place, four young adventurers set out for answers. I'm joined by Dario, Ken, and a newcomer - Ken's girlfriend Zara, who I'll properly introduce eventually.

Sweets Forest monickers itself as The Sweets Theme Park, but that may be blowing things up a little too big. With a title like that you'd expect the place to be enormous, and well, you do end up underwhelmed. Not that Sweets Forest loses any points for presentation. At least they got the forest thing going on. Sometimes it does take big gay pink trees to get my appetite for sugar going. I'm clearly not part of the intended target audience - that would be school girls, as evidenced by the number of them here.

What Sweets Forest actually is is a food court for cake, crepe, ice cream, waffles, bubble tea, sorbets, and any other dessert that can give you diabetes. I've covered Sweets Paradise before but this is quite different in that Sweets Forest is comprised of 8 different shops. So if you want to try a little bit of everything, you do have to go from shop to shop and put what you get on your table each time, but maybe it's not expected of customers to want to try everything. And although the quality of what's offered here is somewhat better than what's offered at the Sweets Paradise chain (of course, this varies from shop to shop within Sweets Forest,) this isn't the place to go if you're looking to scarf down lots. You won't get an "all you can eat for 90 minutes" deal here, and each item will run you down 500¥ or more.
Still, cake, right? Bring a date!