Originally Posted by
AlwaysAisle
Japonaise Bakery is still there. But compare with when I lived at Boston area my pre-Los Angeles days selections today are more like mix of Japanese bakery items and typical American bakery. I do remember Japonaise Bakery used to have Curry-pan and Yakisoba-pan, but today none.
Both
Ebisuya (Medford) and
Maruichi (Brookline) have Parisienne baked goods, but Maruichi has more selections and more stocks. Maruichi has far more selection of take out bento, add to far better selections of Parisienne items and meat and sea food selections are better, too. Ebisuya has been around Boston for long time but I think Ebisuya has to keep up with Maruichi. Hope this will be healthy competition which will keep both competitive.
There's an outstanding Jpn bakery called Cream Pan in LA (Tustin) which was apparently started by a guy who trained at Japonaise in Brookline. Hence Cream Pan has some of the exact same products sold at Japonaise, even though they're on opposite coasts, but for some reason Cream Pan makes them far better than Japonaise. But Japonaise was still pretty decent I thought, and I was just thankful they existed when I was there. Maruichi was not there when I was in Boston, but yes Ebisuya is so hard to get to as it is and therefore I would think you're right that they'd have to work hard to keep up with this newer store. We usually went to this Korean/Japanese store called Reliable Market rather than trek all the way out to Ebisuya.