Gourmet / Alcohol Spots in Niigata Area

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Gourmet / Alcohol

Horinouchi Yanaba

4.0

5 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Nigata Pref. Uonumashi Negoya 726-1

This restaurant, located a one-minute drive from the Horinouchi Interchange in Uonuma City, Niigata Prefecture, primarily serves river fish. Featured in various television programs in Japan, it is visited by many famous people. From April to December when it is open, customers can enjoy ayu set meals. The restaurant has private rooms as well as table and chair seating. The restaurant's entranceway is level with the ground, making it easy for senior citizens to enter. In addition to ayu broiled with salt, other recommendations include the springtime Japanese salmon; the always-available rainbow trout, char, and carp sashimi; and the tender kanroni sweet glazed fish. Note that the restaurant is not open in the evening.

美味しかったです！次回もまた食べに行きたいと思います！堀之内やな場さんへ行くことが出来ました！食べ仲間のお誘い受けての初訪問！堀之内インターからすぐの所にあります。とても雰囲気の良い店内へ！店内からも良い風景が見えて良い景色でした！そして、お料理とご対面！見るからに美味しそうなお料理です！炭火焼きのあゆ塩焼き！炭火焼きのにじマス塩焼き！こいのあらい！甘露煮と...
Seaside Isogai

4.0

1 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Nigata Pref. Itoigawashi Touzaki 1-1

Located along National Route 8 in the city of Itoigawa in Niigata Prefecture, Seaside Isogai is a seafood restaurant owned and operated by Isogai Seafood Shop. Its specials, which make use of fresh seafood caught in the nearby Japan Sea, change daily and are available only in limited quantities. Diners can enjoy fried seafood dinners or sashimi dinners featuring seasonal local fish, such as fire-tail devil and spiny red gurnard. Rice dishes with generous helpings of red snow crab from just down the coast at Nou and a three-colored rice dish with sea urchin are also available. In addition, group use such as banquets and memorial services is also accepted.

さすが、魚屋さん！具だくさんの海鮮丼！お手頃価格。テーブルにクイズの紙があって、正解者の中から抽選で商品券が当たる。1ヶ月後、2千円の商品券が届いた！磯貝鮮魚店で美味しいお魚を買いました！
Ajinoya Uonogawa

4.5

6 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Niigata Uonuma-shi Shimojima 70-1

A Japanese restaurant located 10 minutes from the Echigo-Kawaguchi Interchange. The restaurant’s expansive menu includes ramen and soba noodles, teishoku combo meals, pizza, and more. The restaurant’s popular pizzas, baked in an authentic brick pizza oven, have a crust that is crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside. The restaurant offers a wide variety of pizzas, from the standard margherita to seafood to pizza made with Koshihikari rice flour, and all are available for takeout. The restaurant also has a traditional sunken hearth and can accommodate large group charcoal grilling hearth parties.

国道17号沿いにあります。駐車場に入ると、薪の匂いがしてきます。お店に入ると、まず右手にパン屋さん。奥がレストランです。テーブル席の窓からは、魚野川の土手が見えます。今回は、メニューを見て魅力的に感じたフルーツサンド帝京長岡高校の学食でも出しているという唐揚げの親子丼、そして評判のピザを注文しました。フルーツサンドは今回はメロンでした。生クリームがたっぷり入って美味しかったです。ピ...
Kinpuku

Gourmet / Alcohol

Niigata Sado-shi Aikawa 2-9

A well-known kushiyaki grilled bamboo skewer restaurant which serves food so tasty, people are willing to cross an ocean to enjoy it. In this bar-like establishment, lit by indirect lighting, you can eat authentic charcoal fire-grilled kushiyaki skewers. Only counter seating is available and no reservations are accepted whatsoever. Aikawa’s most popular dining establishment, it is always filled with customers despite the fact you won’t know whether you’ll be able to get in that day until you go. In addition to standards such as regular meat cuts, gizzards, and cartilage, many locals come here to enjoy the novel special daily skewers. Also great is the restaurant’s large selection of beers and Sado sakes, as well as wines, which go surprisingly well with kushiyaki.
SADO Futatsugame View Hotel Restaurant Sunset

Gourmet / Alcohol

Niigata Sado-shi Washizaki 1116-2

A restaurant adjoining the Sado Futatsugame View Hotel, a resorthotel standing on the northernmost tip of Sado. Identifiable by its red, triangular roof, inside customers can enjoy fresh seafood just brought in at Washizaki Fishing Port. Customers rave that here, you can enjoy all the delights that the delicacy treasure trove of Sado has to offer, including Koshihikari rice certified to have been grown without harming the Japanese crested ibises which make their habitat in the area, plump seafood, local shiokara fermented squid paste, and Sado wakame seaweed. The restaurant’s large windows command a view of Sado’s picturesque Futatsukame, and many customers who come here try to get a window seat.
Miyoya

5.0

3 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Niigata Santo-gun Izumozaki Machi Hagurocho 101-1

A Japanese kappo cuisine restaurant and inn operating out of a two-story building adorned with two plaster angels and characters spelling the establishment’s name. Here you can stay in a room commanding a view of the Sea of Japan just outside. The establishment is also renowned as one of the leading restaurants in the prefecture, and customers rave about the outstanding seafood, bought fresh from Izumozaki Fishing Port just a stone’s throw away. The restaurant serves food from the Sea of Japan prepared with as little manipulation as possible in order to draw out the innate flavors of the high quality, fresh ingredients. The establishment’s eastern facade, facing the Hokkoku Highway, is 37 square meters in area and is a registered Tangible Cultural Property. The establishment two-story structure is capped by a tiled, gabled roof and is acclaimed as an excellent example of Western-style architecture prevalent between the late Meiji period and the Taisho period.

食事は旬の魚料理が食べられ、部屋は三人で泊まるには十分の広さでくつろげます。日本海を眺められる、景色もオススメです。
Restaurant Jinya

Gourmet / Alcohol

Niigata Santo-gun Izumozaki Machi Amaze 6-57

A restaurant adjoining Roadside Station Echigo-Izumozaki Tenryo-no-Sato. Located on the second floor of the Izumozaki Tourism & Local Products Information Center, here you can enjoy seafood delicacies of unparalleled freshness. Particularly recommended is the Jinya Gozen meal; limited to just a few customers each day, it comes with takikomi gohan rice made with Izumozaki’s famed turban shell, sashimi, and mozukusu seaweed in vinegar. The chewy turban shells pairs perfectly with the seafood flavor of the rice. Other popular choices include the shogayaki meal made with an abundance of tender, juicy Nagaoka pork sauteed with ginger; and the seasonal seafood rice bowl.
Kanazawa Sohonpo Inada Main Store

Gourmet / Alcohol

Niigata Joetsu-shi Inada 4-11-5

A long-standing Japanese confectionary shop in business since 1896. The shop makes and sells the Shutsujin-mochi, a confection inspired by the mighty Echigo-born military commander Uesugi Kenshin; as well as a variety of other superb Echigo confections. The Shutsujin-mochi was inspired by the legend of Uesugi Kenshin giving his troops mochi rice cakes before a decisive battle to give them strength and improve morale. The confection’s mugwort rice cake, brown sugar syrup, and toasted soybean flour combine to create an exquisitely delicious treat. The confection is also “Made in Joetsu”-certified, a qualification given to outstanding local specialty products by the Joetsu City government.
Ryori-ya Kurofune

4.0

3 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Niigata Joetsu-shi Koyasu 1195

An authentic Japanese restaurant in a residential area off the Joshin Bypass. Guests dine on contemporary kaiseki banquet cuisine among chic, dark toned decor. Their creative dishes add Western and Chinese-style arrangements to Japanese fare featuring regional, seasonal ingredients. Their ample lunch menu includes Shinshu soba noodles, sashimi sets, tempura sets, stone cooked wagyu beef sets, etc. Everything they serve is made with great care and is a feast for the eyes. The restaurant is decorated with a Taisho period pendulum clock, pottery, antiques, and more. Lots of people drop by for drinks at night.

落ち着いた店内でとても良い雰囲気を出しています。ランチタイムに行きましたが、料理が美味しく、特に刺身が美味しい。
Sennari

3.0

1 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Niigata Joetsu-shi Koyasu 1363

This Japanese restaurant is so popular with locals, ask about where to get good kamameshi rice dishes in Echigo and its name is sure to come up. Situated on a corner of the Koyasu apartment complex intersection close to Niigata Prefectural Central Hospital, here customers can enjoy piping hot kamameshi. The restaurant notably uses salts as the base flavor for its kamameshi instead of soy sauce. The resulting kamameshi is simple and thus conversely allows the innate flavors of the ingredients used to make it shine through. The restaurant makes its kamameshi to order, and on weekends it fills up with customers practically instantaneously. In addition to kamameshi, the restaurant also serves eel and chicken dishes as well as tempura and donburi rice bowls.

接客も丁寧で釜めしが有名なお店。完全に好みだけど、少しお出汁の味が濃いかな。定食はコースの様に色々ついててお値打ち。いつも食べ過ぎて単品にしておけばよかったと後悔する。定食のいか天と西瓜の食べ合わせは毎度気になる。一度も大変な目にあったことはないんだけどねー。
Umi no Sachi Ajidokoro Gunchan Naoetsu Restaurant

4.0

42 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Niigata Joetsu-shi Nishihoncho 1-14-2

A casual izakaya pub just a five-minute walk from Naoetsu Station. Enjoy the flavors of Niigata in a lively atmosphere reminiscent of a sushi restaurant. Enjoy the seasonal local seafood flavors caught from the Sea of Japan right nearby. Come taste the changing seasonal seafood cuisine that varies as they deal only in whatever they can source from what's caught. Their menu includes a wide variety of dishes including assorted sashimi, grilled fish, poached fish, and fried fish and no matter how many times you visit there will always be something new to try. They also offer rice bowls and local sake made with their own home-grown rice.

東京では食べれないお刺身が出てきますが、メジャーでないだけにそこまで美味しいという感じではなく、ちょっと期待しすぎでした。
Takahashi Magozaemon Shoten

5.0

1 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Niigata Joetsu-shi Minamihoncho 3-7-2

This long-standing shop, established in 1624, has been making Japanese ame hard candies continuously since the Edo period. Standing along the old Hokkoku Highway, the shop sports a history-laden facade. Inside, the shop continues to make and sell awa-ame syrup, okina-ame and sasa-ame candies, and other Japanese confections. Okina-ame, made by hardening mizu-ame syrup with kanten algae gelatin, was once carried by the lords of Takada Castle when they made their biannual trip to Edo to give as gifts. Their chewy texture and light flavor makes it hard to stop eating them once you start. Sasa-ame, sold since the Bunka period, consist of thoroughly kneaded awa-ame syrup wrapped in a kuma bamboo grass leaf. The vaunted delights even make an appearance in Natsume Soseki’s celebrated novel, “Botchan.”

It was a cold and rainy winters day when we decided to sightsee around Joetsu and it was a longer walk than we thought to find this shop but we were determined to make what felt like a pilgrimage...
Kotobuki-zushi Uchino Restaurant

3.5

3 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Niigata Niigata-shi Nishi-ku Makio 22-1

This conveyor belt sushi chain which refuses to be “just” a conveyor belt sushi restaurant takes great pride in the freshness of its sushi. Seeking to deliver to its customers the freshest seafood possible, the chain is headquartered in the Niigata Central Wholesale Market. Here in the Uchino branch, you can enjoy seafood purchased that very day at the auctions held at 5 a. m. in front of the chain’s headquarters. The restaurant’s spectacular tuna butchering shows, held every Saturday evening, entrance children and adults alike. Also great is that you can eat kamatoro, fatty tuna from around the collar bone which can only be gathered in very small amounts from any one fish, at reasonable prices.

回転すしではありますが、非常にクオリティが高いお寿司を提供するお店です。毎週土曜日夕方六時半頃よりマグロの解体ショーをやっています。
Sasagawa Mochiya

4.0

2 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Niigata Niigata-shi Chuo-ku Nishiborimaedori 4-739

This Japanese confectionary shop, established in 1883, was the inventor of Niigata’s famous bamboo leafdumplings. The shop’s fifth and sixth generation heads continue to make these dumplings according to the same recipe but also seek to make new and innovative products. The bamboo leaf dumplings are the shop’s signature product, and for these tasty treats, it’s all about the ingredients. Using ingredients produced in the prefecture as much as possible, the shop still makes them the old-fashioned way. Japanese mugwort is stocked from specially contracted farms growing them on embankments in the prefecture, and the bamboo leaves used to wrap the confections comes from kumai bamboo leavesgrowing amidst the mountains of Asahi and Ide. The dough is made using an original flour stone milled from Niigata-raised Koshihikari rice.

創業１００年以上の老舗、笹川餅屋です。歴史ある外観です。笹団子、笹田舎まんじゅう、枝豆まんじゅう、水ようかんを購入。笹団子は間違いない美味しさ。個人的には枝豆まんじゅうが気に入りました。水ようかんも上品な甘さで美味しく頂きました。
Tokimeki Ramen Bandaijima

Gourmet / Alcohol

Niigata Niigata-shi Chuo-ku Bandaijima 7-1

A ramen restaurant complex standing across from the Toki Messe Niigata Convention Center, a multipurpose convention complex with an integrated, full-fledged exhibition hall, conference rooms of varying sizes, and a hotel. Ramen restaurants such as Aoshima, a Nagaoka ginger shoyu (soy sauce) ramen restaurant; and Marumi, a casual, neighborhood Chinese-style ramen restaurant, stand along the wood deck of the complex’s Ramen Street. Situated just across the street from Toki Messe’s main entrance, it’s easy to stop by here after attending an event at the convention center. As it is also located right next to the Bandaijima Parking lots, it is easy to come here by car as well.
Yukido Chuo-dori Shop

Gourmet / Alcohol

Niigata Shibata-shi Tsukioka Onsen 231

This shop makes select Japanese and Western-style confections and is located in Tsukioka Onsen, a hot spring district which was established in 1915. The Chuo-dori location makes and sells Western-style sweets. Particularly popular are the Lemon Bijin; these vaunted confectionary masterpieces consist of two types of lemon chocolate covered with a thick, moist cake outer coating. The treat is a revised version of the shop’s lemon cake, a favorite from long ago, now reappearing as a seasonal item. The cake contains lemon peel, and a refreshing lemony fragrance fills the air the moment you peel back the wrapper. Sold in the middle of Japan’s sultry summer, customers are encouraged to cool the confection before enjoying it.
Tsuki no Oka

Gourmet / Alcohol

Niigata Shibata-shi Tsukioka Onsen 408 Wakuwaku Farm

A trend-setting confectionary shop located just beyond the hustle and bustle of the Tsukioka Onsen hot spring district, the inner parlor of Echigo. Operating out of a century-old Japanese home moved to this location, the shop sells Japanese and Western-style confections made with local ingredients. Vaunted Yu Bijin Manju are made and sold by long-standing manju shop Yukido inside the establishment; these exquisite confections are made with molasses crafted from Okinawan kokuto brown sugar mixed with Yoshinohonkudzu and covered with a melt-in-your-mouth outer cake coating. In the middle of Japan’s sultry summer, customers are encouraged to cool them in a refrigerator before eating. The cream cheese-filled Tsukioka Cheese Manju; and Shio Daifuku dumplings, made with salt harvested on the Sasagawa Nagare coast, both made by Mochidokoro Maikiya, are also popular.
Izumiya

4.5

4 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Niigata Shibata-shi Chuocho 2-1-17

A Japanese confectionary shop standing right in between Shibata City Hall and Niigata Prefectural Shibata Hospital. This shop has been making confections according to the same unchanged, traditional recipes since 1890. The shop’s signature Goma Manju buns are made with high grade Hokkaido adzuki bean paste tenderly wrapped in pounded top class Niigata millet mochi. Made with great attention paid to how the mochi is pounded, the sesame seeds are toasted, and even the degree to which they are ground, from the time they are children local residents love these confections’ simple, unchanged flavor. The Kurumi Ganjiki, made with domestic walnuts known for their pleasant aftertaste coated in mizuame syrup and wrapped in fragrant sushi nori, is a traditional Shibata confection passed down unchanged since long ago. They are also known as “sazare-iwa.”

老舗のお菓子屋さんで商店街にあります。ごま饅頭をたべましたが、ごまのおはぎのような感じで美味しかったです。ごまは、甘さ控えめですが、中のあんこがちょうどよい甘さでした。甘さがもっとほしい方のために追加の砂糖がついてきます。
Sasakawa Nagare Jizakana Dokoro Tenpiya

4.0

3 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Niigata Murakami-shi Kuwagawa 975-44

A restaurant adjoining the waiting room for the Sasagawa Nagare Steamship. Here customers can enjoy choice dishes made with fresh seafood from the local Kuwakawa Fishing Port and produce from local farms. The popular and hearty Sasagawa Nagare Onigiri Set comes with onigiri rice balls made with Niigata-grown Koshihikari rice and salt from the Sasagawa Nagare coast, sun dried local fish, and seasonal sides. Diners are recommended to eat on the second floor where they can enjoy their meal along with a view of fish being dried in the area. The establishment also serves rich, cream Iwagaki oysters and plump broiled squid.

民宿の主人から聞いて訪ねた。レストランが併設されていて焼きたての魚介なども食べられるが、お目当ては干物。開店前についてしまい少し待ったが、普通の店では売っていない地魚も含め、見るからに美味しそうな干物がずらり。ワンパック500円、小ぶりだが山盛りにパックされている。カナガシラと小鯛とハタハタを買い求めた。店内の冷蔵ケースに、期間限定のモズクがあり、店の人に美味しいよと勧められこれも購入。自宅に帰っ...
Yoshigen

4.5

2 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Niigata Murakami-shi Teramachi 4-18

This long-standing Japanese kappo cuisine restaurant has been in business for over 180 years, since the late Edo period. Here you can enjoy the bounties of Murakami’s land and sea, including salmon and Murakami beef. Both the lunch and dinner menu consist exclusively of course meals. The full salmon course and toubanyaki Murakami beef course each come with over 10 dishes. The restaurant is reservation-only, with the exact contents of your meal being determined based on your preferences and budget. The establishment is replete with tatami mat rooms of varying sizes and can accommodate everything from individual diners to large groups and can be used for engagement ceremonies, Buddhist memorials, and all manner of engagements. The restaurant’s stately Japanese building bears walls and ceilings crafted by master artisans, and windows made with old glass, and the structure has been registered a National Tangible Cultural Property.

雰囲気、味、空間、サービス、価格、全て満足です。季節料理コース5500円、席、デザート、ビールで1人8000円強。現金のみ、が、少し残念。広いお部屋で、贅沢なひと時をすごせました。駐車場もかなり広いです

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Found along the northwestern coast of Japan, Niigata prefecture is celebrated for its high-quality rice and breathtaking nature, most notably its spectacular mountains, whose white peaks draw in snow sports lovers from far and wide over the winter months. Hit the slopes at Yuzawa, pick out your favourite modern artist at Echigo Tsumari, or take a ferry over to Sado Island for an extra adventure.