Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2010

Autumn is here, and hotel chefs are celebrating the season with exquisite new sweets. At the Hotel Century Southern Tower (www.southerntower.co.jp), the South Court Lounge & Bar serves up a mont blanc made with French chestnuts and mascarpone cheese (pictured; ¥1,350). Available from October, the dish is limited to 20 servings per day… At the Grand Hyatt Tokyo (www.tokyo.grand.hyatt.com), Fiorentina Pastry Boutique offers the chausson aux pommes (¥500), a traditional French pastry filled with apples, and the pera caramella (¥2,300), a pound cake made with Japanese pears… Japan gets its first taste of the famed moon cakes from the Shangri-La hotel group. A specialty of the hotel’s property in Hong Kong—where they sell out even before going on sale—the cakes are available at the Lobby Lounge of the Shangri-La Hotel Tokyo for ¥3,500 per box of eight (www.shangri-la.com).