Requests to Customers

• Smoking is prohibited inside the restaurant all day. Thank you for your cooperation.
• Our tea is buckwheat tea, so please be sure to let us know if you have any allergies.
• Many of our dishes use buckwheat flour and wheat flour, and we have a place to make buckwheat flour by hand inside the restaurant, so even dishes that do not normally use buckwheat flour may contain buckwheat flour, so please be sure to let us know if you have any allergies.
• Fried foods, grilled foods, fish pastes, etc. are cooked after receiving your order, so it may take some time. Also, the order in which they are served may change depending on the cooking procedure.
• We may run out of items depending on the supply situation or if there is a large number of orders on the day, but we appreciate your understanding.

Soba noodles

Explanation of soba noodles

Toichi-soba

This soba noodle is made with buckwheat flour and 9% wheat flour as a “binder.
It retains the flavor and taste of 100% buckwheat soba while adding the easy-to-eat taste of 80% buckwheat soba.
After making 100% buckwheat and 80% buckwheat soba for many years, we have arrived at Juichi Soba, the soba noodle that best makes use of the Kirishita soba from our local Shinanomachi region.
We hope you will give it a try.

Buckwheat

Our genuine buckwheat producer, Mr. Ishikawa Hiroyuki, consistently produces high-quality buckwheat and was awarded the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Award in 2001.
Mr. Ishikawa produces a type of buckwheat called “Kurohime-Kirishita- Soba” in Shinano-machi, Nagano Prefecture, which has long been known as a producer of high-quality buckwheat.
We grind the buckwheat delivered to us by Mr. Ishikawa in a stone mill.

Explanation of the soup for eating soba noodles

Mori-tsuyu soup is a cold soup made with soy sauce, stock (made from bonito flakes, mackerel flakes, kelp, etc.), mirin, sugar, and sake.
Kake-tsuyu soup is a warm soup made with soy sauce, stock (made from bonito flakes, mackerel flakes, kelp, etc.), mirin, sugar, and sake.

The story of Soba-yu

Soba-yu is warm water in which soba noodles are boiled.
The nutrients in buckwheat are water-soluble, so they dissolve into the warm water when boiled. That is why it is said that by drinking soba-yu, you are getting all the nutrients from soba.
In Chinese medicine, buckwheat is said to have an antipyretic effect, which is why it is thought to be a favorite to eat in midsummer, even though the flavor has diminished.
Eating cold soba noodles will cool your stomach and intestines, so please drink plenty of soba-yu to warm up your stomach and intestines.
Please let us know if you would like a refill of the soba-yu.