Gourmet / Alcohol Spots in Fukui Area

  • Yoroppaken Main Shop
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    4.0
    213 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukui Pref. Fukuishi Junka 1-7-4
    A famous restaurant visited by fans from far and wide and said to be the originator of sauce katsu-don, a local Fukui Prefecture specialty consisting of breaded pork cutlet soaked in Worcester sauce and served on a bowl of rice. It’s said sauce katsu-don was invented when the owner returned from a trip to Germany and, seeking to popularize the Worcester sauce he encountered there in Japan, created the dish to serve at a food fair in 1913. The shop’s pork cutlets, breaded with small panko bread crumbs, deep fried, and drenched in Worcester sauce, are so juicy and tender they can be cut with chopsticks. Served with several cutlets piled high on a bowl of rice, the shop’s sauce katsu-don is also visually impressive. The nearest station is Fukui Station.

    Came here for my kids as they are fan of fried stuff. In the end, we all enjoyed it. Ordered the set that comes with huge piece of prawn, minced pork and port cutlet. They are lightly coated, crispy...

  • Yo-Roppaken restaurant (Tsuruga Main Restaurant)
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    Fukui Pref. Tsurugashi Aioichou 2-7
    Yo-Roppaken is the restaurant that, back in 1913, created the first “Sosu Katsudon” (a bowl of rice with a breaded and fried pork cutlet on top, served with Worcestershire sauce), the result of intensive experimentation by the restaurant owner (who had encountered Worcestershire sauce while working in Germany) to develop cuisine using Worcestershire sauce that would appeal to Japanese palates; today, “Sosu Katsudon” is a famous Fukui specialty dish. Other popular dishes at Yo-Roppaken include Pari Don (which uses menchi-katsu—a fried cake of minced meat—instead of a pork cutlet) and Shrimp Don. Yo-Roppaken is located around eight-minute drive from JR Tsuruga Station.
  • Taniguchiya
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    4.0
    81 Reviews
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    Fukui Pref. Sakaishi Maruokachoukamitakeda 37-26-1
    Located along National Route 364 in Kamitakeda, Maruokacho Town, Sakai City, this well-established tofu shop was founded in 1925. The signature abura-age (deep-fried bean curd) uses underground water from Mt. Hakusan and choice domestic soy beans for its tofu which is crisply and aromatically fried up with rapeseed oil. At the restaurant you can try dishes that use abura-age like “takeda no abura-age gozen” and at the retail shop, you can purchase freshly fried tofu, as well as sweets using tofu or soy milk.

    旅館で出されたこちらの油揚げが美味だったので、訪問しました。レストランは10:30開店だと聞き、11時に伺ったのですが、すでに大混雑。いろいろなメディアで採り上げられている、有名店だと知りませんでした。あきらめて併設のショップで油揚げ、豆腐、おからを購入しました。そちらはすぐ買えました。山の中の一軒家で、看板が目立つので、場所はわかりやすいと思います。

  • Echizen Soba Village
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    Fukui Pref. Echizenshi Makarachou 7-37
    Founded over 90 years ago, Echizen Soba Village is a place where you can see and experience the different aspects of soba-making. Of course, you can enjoy fresh, meticulously-made soba, and perhaps purchase the Echizen soba and Fukui products they sell. For soba-making workshop, please make reservations several days in advance.
  • Kenzo Soba
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    4.0
    92 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukui Pref. Yoshidaguneiheijichou Matsuokakasuga 3-26
    A soba noodle restaurant operated by a man who has won the All Japan Famous Amateur Soba Chef Competition two years in a row. The restaurant operates out of an old private home with a charming exterior. Kenzo Soba’s juwari soba noodles, made with 100% domestic buckwheat flour, are appealingly firm and slippery. The restaurant’s specialty Kenzo soba noodles, eaten with a broth prepared with spicy daikon radish juice, create an exquisite balance between the natural flavor of the noodles and the spiciness of the daikon. The oroshi soba, topped with a mountain of grated daikon radish, is also popular. The nearest station is Matsuoka Station.

    有名店なので待ち時間を覚悟しないとダメです。何とか30分待ちで入店。おろしそば660円を食べました。美味しかったですが、少量なのであっという間に完食。この後永平寺を予定していたので、逆に良かったですが、がっつり派の方は大盛りで。

  • Soba Yasutake
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    4.5
    13 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukui Fukui-shi Bunkyo 7-9-35
    A soba noodle shop that focusses carefully on their ingredients. They serve a 100% buckwheat soba made with local native grown Fukui gensoba buckwheat that is stone ground and only mixed with water. The tempura is not pre-made and is fresh-fried after you place an order. They offer a variety of local sake and shochu liquors to pair with the soba. They offer several private rooms which are used for important family ceremonies including memorial services. In addition to their soba noodle course meals they also offer affordable lunch options and service a la carte.

    2022年1月の土曜日に妻と訪れました。上品そうな佇まいと店内です。冷たいそばは、十割太打ちと十割細打ち。温かいそばは十割太打ち、若しくは二八そばから選べます。妻は、あげ焼きおろしそばを太打ちで、私はおろしざんまいを注文しました。太打ちそばはしっかりとしたそば感とモチモチの感じ。出汁は甘めであげ焼きの味が強く感じます。おろしざんまいは、おろしそば、とろろそば、辛味しぼりおろしです。細打ちでもしっか...

  • cafe MARE
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    4.0
    28 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukui Fukui-shi Onyucho 70-3
    This cafe in Fukui City, Fukui Prefecture is a 55-minute ride from JR Fukui Station on the Keifuku bus line towards Ayukawa and a five-minute walk from the Onyu bus stop. Located on the Echizen Coast, guests can enjoy a sweeping view of the Sea of Japan from the cafe's deck. Some of the offerings on its menu include its Mare sandwiches, which are made with fresh vegetables and pastrami, as well as spaghetti made with squid and mentaiko (spicy walleye pollack roe), and clam chowder packed with the savoriness of crab. The cafe also offers customizable shipping containers.

    Mare is a coffee bar on the Echizen Coast. Because it is only one of a few (we could only find one other), we were overjoyed to find good coffee in a wonderful location. The coffee was great, but...

  • Habutaemochi no Furusato
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    4.0
    28 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukui Pref. Yoshidaguneiheijichou Matsuokayoshino 35-21-1
    With over 300 years of history, “habutaemochi” is a famous sweet of Fukui, and you see how it is still made at the Habutaemochi no Furusato. They offer you warm tea inside, and you can try 11 varieties of habutaemochi with your tea. The wholesaler sells not only habutaemochi, but also local specialty goods and crafts.

    羽二重(求肥)餅がこの地域の特産で、メインのお土産。 羽二重餅のいろんな味付け・変化を楽しめる。餅のいくつかは試食出来るので間違いない。甘さが苦手の人には辛いお菓子も揃っている。 ここを出ると滋賀県琵琶湖東南部のドライブインまで2時間ノンストップで走ることが多い。

  • Echizen Soba-Dokoro Katsushoku
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    4.0
    11 Reviews
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    Fukui Katsuyama-shi Kori Machi 1-264
    A soba noodle restaurant in Kori-machi 1 Chome, Katsuyama. They offer Fresh Ground, Fresh Stretched, Fresh Boiled soba noodles made with buckwheat flour that's ground with a millstone every day. In addition to the popular Oroshi Soba they are also known for their Soy Sauce Cutlet Rice Bowl made with their homemade sauce.

    恐竜博物館へ行く前の13時頃に入店すると、店内は混んでいたが運よく4人用のテーブルが空いていたが、かなり小さめのテーブルだった。 丼ものセットが充実していて、カツはしょうゆかソースか選べたが、ソースのミニカツ丼セットを注文。 おろし蕎麦は、薄口でほんのり甘いつゆが太めの蕎麦に合っていて、ネギとかつお節が掛かってあっさり風味で美味かった。ソースカツ丼は、薄くて硬めのカツに濃いソースが掛かっていて、普...

  • Eiheiji Soba-tei Ikkyu Atelier Kashu
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    4.0
    32 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukui Pref. Yoshidaguneiheijichou Shihi 28-9-2
    Offering soba, sweetness, and even souvenirs, the Eiheiji Soba-tei Ikkyu features a relaxing atmosphere you can stretch out in, as well as a full selection of set meals, from oroshi soba, Eiheiji Temple soba, zenzai, soba dango dumplings, and more. The sweets and powdered green tea are also popular. The shop never takes a day off.

    蕎麦が美味しい。途中でゆずこしょう入れたりすると味が変わって尚良い。名物のソースとんかつ丼もあってボリューム満点。ごま豆腐もしっとりしておいしかった。

  • Shokusai Goen
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    4.0
    23 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukui Obama-shi Obamahiyoshi 57-2
    A seafood restaurant located along Kaigan-dori Street in Obamahiyoshi, Obama City. They serve meals using fresh local seafood caught every morning out in Wakasa Bay. Experience the changing flavors of Wakasa Bay with options including their Goen Seafood Rice bowl loaded with seasonal fish as well as Iwagaki oysters in the summer and blowfish and crab in the winter.

    平日ランチで限定日替わりランチ定食いただきました。790円とリーズナブルでした。お茶がポットで付きます。造り定食も美味しそうでした。

  • Itojunwado Main Store
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    4.0
    18 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukui Ono-shi Motomachi 9-21
    A confectioner located along Shichiken-dori Street in Motomachi, Ono City. This long-standing shop was founded over 100 years ago and is known for their famous Imo-Kintsuba treat. It's only sold for a limited time starting every year in September and many people come even from other prefectures in search of the sweet flavor of local Ono grown sweet potatoes.

    いもきんつばを焼いているのが外からも見えます。 何と言っても、良い香りにそそられます! 焼きたてを買えるので、店内でアツアツのうちにいただきました。 とっても美味しかったです!

  • Yuubuan Soba noodles restaurant
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    4.0
    35 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukui Pref. Fukuishi Chuou 1-9-1 (inside the galleria arcade)
    Located near the Galleria Motomachi shopping arcade in Fukui City, Yuubuan is a well-known restaurant where diners can enjoy Fukui Prefecture’s famous Oroshi Soba noodles. Yuubuan offers a range of simple yet delicious dishes, featuring Soba noodles made with 100-percent buckwheat flour (with no added wheat flour) that are prepared with great attention to noodle size and to boiling them properly, served in a broth that contains a generous helping of grated Daikon radish. The restaurant particularly recommends the “Oroshi Soba Three-fold Indulgence” meal, which allows diners to enjoy two plates of Soba noodles each with three types of broth: Oroshi (grated Daikon radish), Wasabi, and Tororo (grated yam). Yuubuan’s sister restaurant Amida Soba Fukui-no-i is located in the Happiring mall at the West Exit of Fukui Station.

    福井のあみだそば遊歩庵さんへ訪問。 越前おろしそば(並)を食べました。 蕎麦自体は悪くなかったけど、一味足りない印象でした。空いていました。

  • Sobadokoro Bairin
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    Fukui Pref. Onoshi Tsukimichou 2-6
    Bairin is a soba noodle restaurant located a five-minute walk from Echizen-Ono Station on the JR Etsumi-Hoku Line (Kuzuryu Line) in the city of Ono, Fukui Prefecture. Its noodles are made from locally grown buckwheat and the nationally famous water of Oshozu spring. One of its most popular menu items is the kind of Oroshi Soba common in Fukui: soba topped with sliced scallions, dried bonito flakes, a generous amount of grated daikon radish, and a soy-sauce based sauce. The Omotenashi-zen set meal contains two servings of Oroshi Soba and the locally famous taro. Also popular are the Sansai Soba, with the crisp textures of wild plants, and the well-known Oden (seafood stew).
  • Kosekikan Riuzen
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    3.5
    13 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukui Pref. Yoshidaguneiheijichou Aratani 37-10
    Kosekikan Riuzen is a soba restaurant located along the Eiheiji Highway in Yoshida County, Fukui Prefecture. The restaurant carries on the soba making techniques, from throwing to cutting, that has become familiar in Eiheiji, to produce fragrant soba. The restaurants Riuzen Soba, with nameko mushrooms, grated daikon radish, grated yam with mixed with watershield, with a sesame-flavor sauce, is its flagship dish. A Shojin Ryori (Buddhist vegan) meal, featuring such dishes as Sesame Tofu, is available by reservation only. The restaurant also sells sweets, such as Soba Dango (sweet dumplings) made with pure buckwheat flour and smeared with honey and soy flour, and Riuzen Dango, made using walnut paste or sesame paste.

    永平寺近くの蕎麦屋です。 永平寺の参道近くにも沢山の蕎麦屋がありましたが、永平寺に行く途中に見つけて気になったので永平寺からの帰りに寄りました。 満席で多少待ちましたが、20分程度で入店出来ました。 2種類の味を楽しめる蕎麦を注文。 強いコシはありませんが、比較的美味しいお蕎麦でした。

  • Hokkyoso
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukui Yoshida-gun Eiheijicho Shihi 24-35 (Eiheiji
    "A five-minute walk from the ""Eiheiji"" bus stop and a 10-minute drive from the Fukui-kita Interchange. This restaurant and gift shop is located not far from the Eihei-ji Temple. Here customers can enjoy course meals consisting of Japanese cuisine and traditional shojin ryori Japanese Buddhist vegetarian cuisine, and also add a la carte dishes such as kaisen nabe seafood hotpot, crab legs, and sauteed nozawana leaves. One of the restaurant's biggest draws is its use of very fresh ingredients, from edible wild plants to seafood from the Sea of Japan. The gift shop area carries not just local specialty products from Fukui Prefecture and the Hokuriku region but also renowned confections bearing the Eihei-ji Temple name. The Eihej-ji chestnut kintsuba flour dough sweet bean cakes can only be purchased here. The shop also offers a home delivery service."
  • Awara Onsen Yataimura Yukemuri Yokocho
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    Fukui Awara-shi Onsen 3-201
    A food stall park facing the rotary at Awara-yu no machi Station in Awara Onsen 3 Chome. The food stalls cover a wide variety of genres including Okonomiyaki, seafood, kushiage (deep-fried skewers), oden stew, ramen, and French cuisine. There are currently nine stalls operating.
  • Yuki An Kameya
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    Fukui Echizen-shi Higashisenpukucho 27-37
    A soba shop in Higashisenpuku-cho, Echizen. This longstanding popular shop is known for their specialty Oroshi Soba served with grated spicy radish. Their most popular menu item is Ten-Oroshi-Soba with soba noodles and tempura served in broth mixed with the grated daikon radish.
  • Yamani Seafood
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    Fukui Pref. Sakaishi Mikunichouantou 64-1
    Located near the famous Tojinbo Cliffs in Mikuni-cho in the city of Sakai, Fukui Prefecture, Yamani Seafood is a purveyor to the Imperial Household Agency. A venerable business founded during the Meiji period (1868–1912), it sells fresh seafood caught in Mikuni Harbor and processed seafood. It boasts a wide range of seafood, including Echizen crabs, deep water shrimp, and flounder. In the onsite restaurant, customers can enjoy generous servings of seafood over rice, sashimi made from fish caught that day, or fish roasted on the beach. Customers can choose one of the famous Echizen crabs from the live storage tank and have it prepared any way they want.
  • Kura
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    Fukui Fukui-shi Kitayotsui 1-1-8
    A tonkatsu breaded pork cutlet restaurant situated along National Route 8 in Kitayotsui, Fukui City, Fukui Prefecture. The restaurant’s tonkatsu, created with homemade panko breadcrumbs and fried in select oil, is a perfect balance of crisp outer crust and juicy pork. The popular hirekatsu rice bowl is covered with a special sauce giving it a flavor unique to Fukui. The Tengen pork roast cutlet set meal and the restaurant’s reasonably priced lunch sets are also well-reviewed. The interior, decorated in Japanese-modern style, is quiet and laid back. In addition to regular table seating, the restaurant also has raised tatami floor and tatami mat seating.

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Northeast of Kyoto, the ancient Tojinbo Cliffs separate Fukui prefecture from the Sea of Japan in a stretch of land well worth exploring. Water sports and seaside delicacies are available in abundance as the spectacular rugged coastline flattens down into beaches to the west of the prefecture, while inland, Fukui is home to Zen Buddhist temples and historic ruins.

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