Japanese Food Spots in Saitama Area

  • Shoten Sushi
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    4.0
    35 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Saitama Kumagaya-shi Menuma 1515

    聖天様の参道にある妻沼名物のいなり寿しセットを販売しているお店です。お店の雰囲気や場所柄観光客が購入しているところをよく見ます。縁結び通りにある元祖の森川寿しは観光客向けの店が構えをしていないし、旧道沿いの小林寿しは離れた場所にあるので地元民向けのお店です。聖天寿しは3店舗の中で1番甘さ控えめで、1番酢飯の量が多めです。

  • Nakamuraya
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Saitama Saitama-shi Urawa-ku Takasago 3-2-12
    A long-standing eel restaurant that celebrated its 80-year anniversary in 2017. Their eel is cooked to order one by one over high quality Kishu Binchotan, the regional ubame oak charcoal, and so takes about 40 minutes to serve but has garnered a lot of fans. Along with broiled eel over rice, soy sauce-seasoned broiled eel, eel set meals, and unseasoned grilled eel they also serve full course meals though for these prior reservations are required.
  • Mandana
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    4.0
    8 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Saitama Saitama-shi Minami-ku Shikatebukuro 1-2-26
    A long-standing eel shop that first opened in 1886. The exterior of the shop has a graceful appearance with a small bridge and garden with trees and shrubs. On the inside you'll find the restaurant on the first floor, private rooms on the second floor, and a large banquet hall on the third floor allowing them to accommodate a variety of requests. The private rooms and banquet hall require advance reservations. Along with the traditional eel dishes their menu has a wide variety including authentic Japanese cuisine such as Shokado premium split bento meals, daily specials, and reception feasts.

    中浦和駅より徒歩5分程、巨大な店舗、ここまで大きい鰻店はお初です。 広い店内、団体専用上の階のようです。 鰻以外の川魚メニューから鯉の洗い、どじょうの柳川。刺身は臭みなくコリコリ食感、どじょうは小骨は柔らかく濃い目の味付が美味しい。 メインは白焼きと鰻重を注文。絶妙な焼き加減、中はふわふわ食感、風味と旨味を堪能。

  • Rakunokura Chez tomo
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Saitama Koshigaya-shi Kita-koshigaya 2-33-9
    A creative French restaurant that uses seasonal ingredients with a focus on local organically grown vegetables. The restaurant and gallery occupy a building that was once the personal library of a family from Tsuruoka City, Yamagata Prefecture that made their fortune in the brewing trade. The library is recorded as being first constructed in 1880 but lay dormant for some time until it was moved and restored. The shop is popular for its special atmosphere and stylish cuisine.
  • Masuya
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    4.0
    5 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Saitama Yoshikawa-shi Hiranuma 148
    A long-standing Japanese restaurant that's been open for 180 years. The shop maintains the traditions of what used to be called the Yoshikawa Gourmand as seafood restaurants lined the bustling waterways. In addition to eel dishes such as broiled eel over rice, eel rice bowls, and soy-sauce seasoned broiled eel cut in small pieces and serve on rice, they also serve catfish as both fried tempura and in bento lunches and you can even have a special banquet course meal with their homemade soba noodles.

    なまずが食べたくてますやさんに伺いました。コロナ渦でなまずの町吉川でも食べられるお店がかなり限られていました。吉川全体客足が減っていてなまずを仕入れるのがかなり厳しくなっているそうです。しかしますやさんは井戸水を使ったいけすでなまずを飼育できる環境にあるので大量に仕入れていけすで飼っていて必要な時に取り出してさばくため常に新鮮ななまずの刺身が提供できます。おかげでとてもおいしいなまずのお刺身を食べ...

  • Ryotei Kojiya
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    3.5
    6 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Saitama Yoshikawa-shi Hiranuma 173
    A restaurant that was founded at the start of the Edo period. Gaze out at the garden, preserved as it was with stone lanterns called “yukimi-dourou”, decorative red stones, and stone steps to leave your sandals on as you enjoy traditional local cuisine that can be hard to find anywhere else these days. Relax in the peace and nostalgia of the history and as you enjoy meals made with seasonal ingredients and seafood fresh from the local river including catfish and eel.

    お客様とのビジネスランチで訪問しました。 名物のナマズの天ぷらと揚げ物、鰻重をいただきました。写真を撮りたかったのですが、仕事中のため遠慮しました。 ナマズは珍しいですが、味は今ひとつ。鰻重も脂のノリは良くなかったです。 また中居さんも愛想が良くなく、あまりお勧めできません。

  • Kunto Ryori Hosoi
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Saitama Kuki-shi Kuzume 2-13-2
    A restaurant in a quiet residential area just about an eight-minute walk from Washinomiya Station on the Tobu Isesaki Line. They serve healthy cuisine with a special focus on where their ingredients come from including Saitama prefecture specially grown rice and soybeans from local contracted farms.
  • Shisuian
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Saitama Kodama-gun Kamikawamachi Shimoaguhara 955
    A directly managed store of Yamaki Jozo, brewing company that manufactures and sells miso, soy sauce, tofu, and other products made from rare domestic organic JAS certified ingredients that are grown without pesticides, chemical fertilizers, or herbicides. Domestic organically grown soy beans and a wide variety of seasonal vegetables are carefully grown to draw the most nutriment from the soil allowing you to taste creative dishes that will maximize the flavor of the naturally grown ingredients.
  • Kappo Kaede
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    4.0
    5 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Saitama Fukaya-shi Ozuka 334
    A restaurant that serves up Fukaya City's specialty Niboto vegetable hot pot and green onion cuisine. Fukaya's Niboto was a favorite of local industrialist Shibusawa Eiichi and this restaurant makes theirs with an abundance of Fukaya green onion and other local ingredients as well as their own original hand-made secret sauce. In addition to Niboto and green onion cuisine they offer a course meal menu, lunch menu, side dish menu, and banquet menu.

    記念館で教えて貰い入りましたが土曜の13時過ぎでしたが結構賑わってました。かなり待ちそうでしたが、諸事情によりテーブル席を希望して待ってたら別棟を開けてもらいました。普段は夜の宴会場なんでしょうか?カラオケ完備の部屋の和室でした。貼ってあるポスターなど部屋の雰囲気は割烹とありますが高級感は無く大衆食堂や居酒屋のそれです。まあその方が財布に優しいので大歓迎ですけど。メニューはなんでもあります。お勧め...

  • Koedo Kurobuta Teppan Kaiseki Ono
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    4.5
    3 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Saitama Kawagoe-shi Yanaka 27
    A shop specializing in Kurobuta black pork Teppan hot plate Kaiseki traditional course meals. They use 100% pure Kurobuta black pork sourced from English Berkshire pigs raised on their personal farm. Koedo Kurobuta black pork is raised entirely without antibiotics, and their feed and breeding environment are adapted depending on the season. They offer four different dinner courses and their Chef's Choice Course Meal, which requires advance reservation, is perfect for important celebrations or client dinner. Their lunch menu offers great variety including a Children's Lunch and a Monday and Tuesday only Ladies Small Plate Lunch.

    高校時代、川越によくいたのですが、大人になってからまた川越に行き、こちらのお店を初めて知りました。とても美味しくて満足でした。

  • Kyoutei
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    4.5
    9 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Saitama Osato-gun Yoriimachi Yorii 547
    A traditional Japanese parlor offering sweetfish cuisine away from the bustle of the city. Below your eyes flows the crystal-clear Arakawa River and on the opposite bank you can look out at the Hachigata Castle Ruins, a designated National Historic Site. Raise your head and gaze at the wonderous scenery of the Chichibu Mountains and enjoy the view as you dine on their variety of sweetfish cuisine. While it is a classic Japanese ryokan inn, it can be used only for meal, and both lunch and dinner have course meal options that include their sweetfish rice dish. Reservations are required.

    コロナブックスの「小さくて贅沢な宿」という本が1997年に出版されたのですが、その本で見た料理旅館にはいくつも訪ねています。自宅から一番近い場所にありながら、思い立って電話しても予約できたことがありませんでした。今回自分の還暦という事もあり、妻が電話したところ「つい先ほど予約がキャンセルになって日にちと時間を合わせていただければ予約できます。」とのことで7月の平日に東上線に乗っていきました。より今...

  • Minazushi
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Saitama Chichibu-shi Onohara 91-3
    This sushi restaurant is located along Prefectural Route 82 in Oonohara, Chichibu City. You can enjoy the “iwana sushi” that uses Chichibu Arctic char, “tochi-no-ha sushi” pressed sushi wrapped in a Japanese horse-chestnut leaf, Edomae-sushi, donburi bowl, and a la carte dishes. You can try the Arctic char sushi and a special seafood rice bowl they only make ten servings of a day at lunch time on weekdays.
  • Echigoya Honten
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    4.5
    8 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Saitama Hidaka-shi Tagi 509-4
    This restaurant is located along National Route 407 in Tagi, Hidaka City. Starting with unaju (grilled eel over rice), the restaurant provides a varied menu featuring eel dishes, seasonable seafood sashimi, grilled chicken skewer, tempura, and more. The rice dishes use Koshihikari rice grown in Uonuma.

    近隣には鉄道の駅は勿論、バス停もないため、専ら車での来店となります。周辺の店等と共同で使用する駐車場であるからか、駐車スペースはかなり広いです。 店の外観から、30-40席程度のレストランと思うかもしれませんが、意外と席数は多く、テーブル席・お座敷席合わせて60-70席、もしくはそれ以上あるかと思われます。ところどころに散りばめられたように置かれた調度品も素晴らしく、店全体の品性の良さを感じさせま...

  • Uoai
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Saitama Iruma-gun Ogosemachi Ogose 728
    This unagi eel restaurant is located along Prefectural Route 30 in Ogose, Ogose Town, Iruma County. Established over a century ago, the restaurant uses a secret sauce that has been handed down, and provides eel dishes such as unaju grilled eel over rice. The catfish tempura rice “Zudon,” as well as the “Yuzu Katsudon” made with yuzu citrus from Ogose, are also popular.
  • Katsuyoshi
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    4.0
    1 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Saitama Iruma-gun Moroyamamachi Morohongo 1290
    This tonkatsu pork cutlet shop is located in Morohongo, Moroyama Town, Iruma County. It is one of the local shops that offers “Buttamagedon,” a gourmet dish using pork and eggs boiled in a sweet and spicy sauce on top of rice grown in Moroyama, utilizing the fragrance of local yuzu citrus.

    JR毛呂駅から徒歩数分の所にあるかつ芳。ランチで自由定食830円を注文し、選べる2品でとんかつと和風ハンバーグを選択。ボリュームあり味も良く、コスパが良いトンカツやだった。

  • Tamaiya
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    4.5
    8 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Saitama Hiki-gun Ogawamachi Otsuka 178-2 Seiun Brewery
    This restaurant is located along Prefectural Route 11 in Otsuka, Ogawa Town, Hiki County, and is adjacent to the Seiun Sake Brewery. With fresh organic vegetables harvested from Ogawa Town, their dishes are prepared with shikomisui, a soft water prepared specially for making sake. Their lunch menu consists of three different courses prepared with ingredients that include organic vegetables, locally grown rice and sake lees. Reservations must be made in advance for dinner.

    秩父旅行時に偶然知った「晴雲酒造株式会社」が経営しているレストラン自然処玉井屋。蔵をリノベして作られたレストランだそうです。雰囲気があり、知ってる人は知ってる店らしいので口コミ評判もとても良かったんです。予約なしで飛込みで行ったら平日にも関わらず待つことに。 大正時代の文庫蔵を改装したギャラリー玉井屋が隣接してありそこで時間を過ごすことができます。15分位で席があき、座敷席に案内されました。ラン...

  • Teppankaiseki Kurama
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    1-668, Mihashi, Omiya-ku, Saitama-shi, Saitama, 330-0856
  • Uobei Kawaguchi Ryoke
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Saitama Kawaguchi-shi Ryoke 1-23-10
  • Omiya Rikyu Cafe & Restaurant Shikitei
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    1-816-7 Omiya Rikyu 3F Uetakecho Saitama shi Kita-ku Saitama Ken
  • SUSHIRO Wako Shirako
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    3.5
    18 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Saitama Wako-shi Shirako 2-2-25

    ・4人で〆て、約6,000円(1人約1,500円...

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