Western Food Spots in Eastern Shinshu Area

  • Villa d’Est Gardenfarm and Winery
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    4.5
    35 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Pref. Toumishi Kanou 6027
    This winery located in the Kano district of Nagano Prefecture, Tomi City was opened in 2004 by the celebrated essayist and painter Toyoo Tamamura. It also includes a café, shop, and gallery on the premises. More than 15,000 grape plants are being cultivated in the vineyards, and the wine brewed at the winery has earned itself high praise, having won at domestic wine competitions for example. The café with its open kitchen offers cuisines with a French base made using fresh-picked vegetables and Shinshu-produced ingredients. From the terrace seats one can enjoy an outstanding tea time while looking out at the beautiful sunset.

    5 minutes into the mountains of Tomi youll get to the small winery. The view looking down into the valley and the mountains across it tells you youre in the heart of Nagano. Nice botanical garden...

  • Bakery and Restaurant Sawamura (Karuizawa Harunire Terrace)
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Kitasaku-gun Karuizawamachi Nagakura 2145-5
    A bakery and restaurant located inside Harunire Terrace, a mall consisting of various stylish, modern establishments connected via a wood deck. The establishment carries an abundant selection of over 80 breads made with natural yeast and flour mixtures adjusted to suit each variety's individual qualities in order to maximize flavor. Customers can get a Danish or panini to go and enjoy it out on the deck. Meanwhile, inside the establishment's bistro-style restaurant area customers can enjoy European cuisine made with an abundance of locally grown vegetables, seasonal desserts, and wines.
  • ’A FENESTELLA
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    4.0
    19 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Pref. Kitasakugunkaruizawamachi Nagakura 2622-5
    This Italian restaurant located in Karuizawa Town, Kitasaku County, Nagano Prefecture is popular for its authentic oven-fired Naples-style pizza. The Japanese-style architecture with stone walls gives one the impression that it was built by Italians as a vacation home in Karuizawa. They take pride in using not only local Nagano Prefecture-produced ingredients but also carefully selected seafood sourced from across Japan. The lunch special is popular as it offers a set of chewy pizza and an appetizer assortment together as a set.

    ナポリにいたとか言うオーナーが出して店で数年になるがグルメ通りに位置するお洒落な店である。 昔はサービスにきつい店の印象があったが今はそうでもない。軽井沢の野菜をうまく使ったオードブルとpizzaがおすすめの店です。 車が止めにくいので早めに行くのが良い。値段は軽井沢値段で東京の2割増し。

  • Yaki Curry-ya Mel's
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    4.0
    10 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Ueda-shi Sugadairakogen 1223-6088
    A restaurant located in the Sugadaira Highland in Ueda City, Nagano Prefecture. In business for over 30 years, the restaurant's signature baked curries consist of curry served over rice and covered with various toppings before being baked in an oven. The restaurant has many fans who have been coming here for years, and celebrities have also been known to patronize the establishment incognito. In addition to standard baked curries, the restaurant also offers a special baked curry combo which comes with French fries and fried chicken. With other menu options like the spicy salsa chicken curry, customers can choose from among an array of dishes as suits their hunger and tastes.

    菅平高原にあるおいしい焼きカレーのお店です。スキーのついでに立ち寄りましたが、ここのカレーが絶品なんです。いわゆるカレードリアのような感じで、おこげもあって香ばしさが抜群。まろやかなカレーの旨みが忘れられません。

  • karuizawa GUMBO
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Kitasaku-gun Karuizawamachi Karuizawa 10-3
    "A restaurant situated along Hanareyama-dori Street in Karuizawa, Karuizawa Town, Kitasaku County, Nagano Prefecture. The restaurant serves ""yoshoku"" Japanese-style Western food, including beef tongue stew, Hayashi rice, and hamburg steaks made with a special demi-glace sauce slow-stewed over a seven day period, as well as steaks, spaghetti Napolitan, and highland lettuce salads. Enjoy your meal along with homemade breads crafted with the delicious water of Karuizawa. The restaurant also has a terrace seating area where you can sit with your pet."
  • Kyu Karuizawa Hotel Otowa no Mori Restaurant KEIKI
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    4.0
    11 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Kitasaku-gun Karuizawamachi Karuizawa 1323-980
    A restaurant located inside Kyu Karuizawa Hotel Otowa No Mori situated on Manpei-dori Street in Karuizawa, Karuizawa Town, Kitasaku County, Nagano Prefecture. Day or night, the restaurant serves course meals made with seasonal Nagano ingredients. In addition, in the morning the establishment offers an American breakfast with Karuizawa sausages, a Nagano vegetable salad, and more, and customers can enjoy their meal while taking in a view of the hotel garden.

    This is only a cheap family restaurant, this place is just a big joke. Service and ambience:you know things arent right when you see a disposal wipe at your table instead of being served a warm...

  • Atelier de Fromage Karuizawa Pizzeria
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    4.0
    79 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Kitasaku-gun Karuizawamachi Karuizawa Higashi 22-1
    A restaurant situated along Karuizawa Hon-dori Street in Karuizawahigashi, Karuizawa Town, Kitasaku County, Nagano Prefecture. Owned and operated by Atelier de Fromage, which makes and sells cheeses crafted using fresh milk from its own farm and other local farms, the restaurant serves pizzas, cheese fondue, baked cheese curry, pasta, and meat dishes made with the company's own cheeses.

    Stopped by this izakaya out of a severe need to use the restroom but it turned out to be a delicious detour in our night. The location offered many cheesy options alongside a wide offering of adult...

  • Bistro Provence Karuizawa
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Kitasaku-gun Karuizawamachi Sengataki 197 Hotel Soyokaze
    A French restaurant located inside Hotel Soyokaze situated along the Asama-Shirane-Shiga Sawayaka Highway in Nagakura, Karuizawa Town, Kitasaku County, Nagano Prefecture. Serving cuisine from Provence in southern France along with a view of Yatsugatake, for dinner, the establishment offers full course meals, while for lunch customers can enjoy casual meal courses. Pets are also allowed in the restaurant.
  • Trattoria Primo
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Pref. Kitasakugunkaruizawamachi Karuizawa 330-8
    Trattoria Primo is an Italian restaurant located about 15 minutes on foot from Karuizawa Station. It’s a popular restaurant from where you can enjoy the scenery of the forest through a large wall of glass. People are often waiting to get a table at this sought after restaurant. The restaurant boasts authentic Italian cuisine using a range of local highland vegetables, and the pizza served on a hot iron plate, as well as pasta dishes are particularly well liked. The exquisite spaghetti, alla partinove, with the sharpness of tomatoes and flavor of cream is one of their most popular pasta dishes. The restaurant is light and airy with a soothing fragrance of wood.
  • Cafe & Restaurant Paomu
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    4.0
    19 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Pref. Kitasakugunkaruizawamachi Karuizawa 806-1
    A cafe and restaurant located on the old Karuizawa Ginza Shopping Street in Karuizawa Town, Kitasaku County, Nagano Prefecture. Here you can get some special handmade Western-style food including juicy Shinshu beef steak, and hashed beef, eaten with a special Japanese sauce, and the revived Mikasa Hotel curry, famous in Karuizawa. Their Karuizawa pudding which was awarded the National Grand Prix prize for best present is also very popular. This extravagant sweet is made only with milk from the highlands of North Karuizawa, specially-made fresh cream and egg yolks.

    ... Paomu :Cafe & Restaurant จัดเสิร์ฟความอร่อยในสไตล์ตะวันตกทั้งมื้อเช้า มื้อกลางวัน และชุดน้ำชายามบ่ายที่แสนอบอุ่น. *เฟรนโทสต์เนย รสชาติหวานหอม สลัดผัก ของหวาน คารุอิซาวะ พุดดิ้ง/Milky...

  • Restaurant Kazurabe
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    4.5
    10 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Pref. Kitasakugunkaruizawamachi Karuizawa 726 Tsuya Plaza 2F
    Restaurant Kazurabe is a French restaurant in Karuizawa Town, Kitasaki County. It’s a well known restaurant for authentic French cuisine at affordable prices in a relaxed atmosphere. Popular on the menu is their alpine beef hamburger full of meat juices and served with seasonal vegetables. For dessert, the strawberry sorbet made with full-flavored strawberries from Komoro is also popular. Here you can also taste Bayonne ham, a rare treat in Japan. The restaurant has some picture books too so the children can be kept entertained.

    ガイドブックで知り、たまたま行ってみた店でしたが・・・店舗自体は雑居ビルの2階にあり、いわゆる “フレンチレストラン...

  • CERCLE
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    4.0
    17 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Prefecture Kitasaku-gun Karuizawa Town Hoshino Harunere Terrace
    CERCLE is a French deli along the Japanische Romantische Strabe in Karuizawa. Their food incorporates elements of Italian cuisine and others, and the approximately 30 different varieties of items are prepared using select ingredients. Both takeout and eating in are allowed. The bistro and wine bar offer lunch set, dinner course, and a la carte options as well. You can choose from over 100 types of wine.

    冬らしく温かい飲み物をいだだきました。 クラムチャウダーは具がたくさんあり、かつスープはなめらかでした。 パテやチーズなど、ワインのつまみにとしていただける惣菜がたくさんありました。お酒も長野の有名な日本酒、あかねさすがありました。

  • Hoshino Resort Karuizawa Bleston Court Yukawatan
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    4.5
    47 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Prefecture Kitasaku-gun Karuizawa Town Hoshino
    Bleston Court Yukawatan is space of beauty and sophistication where guests can enjoy extraordinary “Nippon French” cuisine. The ingredients are all locally Shinshu grown and include wild vegetables and mushrooms, gifts from the mountains. Guests can also experience the delights of the seasons with their five senses. A shuttle bus runs from JR Karuizawa Station.

    The restaurant is tucked into a nice quiet backyard that you enter after a wall through the garden. Small restaurant with capacity of maybe 20pax, with all couple tables facing the garden view...

  • Lindenbaum
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    3.5
    8 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kaguizawa-machi Kitasaku-gun Nagano Prefecture Minamigakaoka 641-109
    This restaurant has a wide-ranging menu including relaxed home-cooking and bistro cuisine from the south of France and Italian Mediterranean seafood cuisine. Its pointed green roof is how you will find this bright restaurant. It also boasts over 80 types of wine so customers can enjoy comparing different wines on a monthly rotation they dine there. A nice touch is the informal lunch even on Saturdays and Sundays. The nearest station is JR Karuizawa Station.

    家族で軽井沢のガラス工芸体験に行く途中、南欧料理の看板に惹かれ、こちらのレストランでランチしました。 塗り壁に囲まれた空間は温かみがあり、家庭的な雰囲気です。 ランチメニューは4種類程あり、子供用のランチはありません。 私は手作りハンバーグセットを、妻と子供はパスタを選びました。 チーズがたっぷりのハンバーグで、チーズが絡まったソースはパン向きの味です。 ハンバーグはジューシーというよりは、チーズ...

  • Hermitage de Tamura
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    4.5
    45 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Pref. Kitasakugunkaruizawamachi Nagakura 820-98
    A popular French restaurant nestled in the abundant nature of Karuizawa. Its name, which means hideaway in French, is perfect for it with a quiet, refined interior atmosphere and specially made French cuisine that accentuates the flavours of the ingredients. The chilled peach soup is a summer speciality; it is a superb dish with a wonderful consommé flavour that spreads throughout the mouth with the rich aroma of ripe peaches. There is a rush for reservations every summer.

    窓側の席でした。 近くに大声で話し、大きなゲップのアジア系ツーリストが残念でしたが、今年入店したと言う男性スタッフがカトラリーをガシャガシャ投げながら下げるなど、乱暴でがっかりです。 お料理はそこそこ美味しかったですが 全国から取り寄せたものをほんの少量ずつ出しているだけ。 シャンパン、ワインもあまり出回らない値段のわかりにくいものを高く出しているだけでセレクションが疑問です。 フレンチなので、ワ...

  • Fuka / Kaze no Yume Gallery
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    4.5
    2 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Pref. Uedashi Tonoshiro Nagamine 2846-4
    Visitors can overlook the city of Ueda from the “Fuka / Kaze no Yume Gallery” which has been relocated to a hill with a height of 800 meters into an old Niigata private house, finished in a western style. The cafe offers a lunch menu and the “Fuka Lunch”, changed weekly, is recommended. Also the multipurpose space in the Kaze no Yume Gallery is available for hire to the general public. The space of woven wood and plaster walls has a calming atmosphere. It is approximately 15 minutes by car from the “Ueda Sugadaira Interchange” on the Joshin-etsu Expressway.

    棚田を見学後のランチに行きました。 大きく素敵な建物はカフェとギャラリーになっています。 窓側の席からは素晴らい景色が眺められゆったり食事を楽しめました。 食事、デザートも美味しくリーズナブルで旅の良い思い出です。

  • Cento Due 102
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    4.0
    5 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Pref. Kitasakugunkaruizawamachi Karuizawa 167-7
    The owner of this-home Italian restaurant goes to Italy seeking the most current seasonal ingredients to use with delicious ingredients from Shinshu. It is a place to comfortably enjoy a meal with wine. You can choose select wines from all over Italy by the glass or decanter to match any scene. Their morning menu is available from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. It is approximately a 15-minute walk from JR Karuizawa Station.

    We have been regulars at this restaurant since it opened and have been big fans, however something was very different this time round and I have to say this was the worst dining experience we have...

  • monzenyoshoku fujiya
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    4.0
    34 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Pref. Kitasakugunkaruizawamachi Karuizawa Karuizawa/Prince Shopping Plaza Flavored town

    まだ夕方の早い時刻だったので席も疎らで、奥の方はほとんど空いていました。店に入って直ぐのベンチシートとクッションの置いた席にとおされましたが、次に来店した幼児を連れた若い夫婦を隣のテーブルへ 他に沢山空いているのに。 案の定子供がぐずり出し、ゆったりと食事を楽しむはずがずっと落ち着かない時間を送る羽目になりました。外から見て活気の有るように見せたいのか、厨房から近く歩かなくて済むからか理由は不明で...

  • MODESTO
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    5.0
    9 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Pref. Kitasakugunkaruizawamachi Nagakura Hirano 3430-5
    MODESTO is a restaurant with a modern and calm atmosphere where visitors can enjoy Italian cuisine using a large quantity of locally grown vegetables. On a fine day patrons of the restaurant can enjoy seating on the terrace, one part also allowing pets. The restaurant also takes requests for wedding and parties. There are only two course menus for lunch and dinner but both are very satisfying. An a la carte menu is also available.

    Excellent Italian food! Great quality of food, good wine list, very friendly staff. Highly recommended for lunch and dinner .

  • Atelier de Fromage (Karuizawa Hotchi Ichiba Garden Restaurant)
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    5.0
    3 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Pref. Kitasakugunkaruizawamachi Karuizawa 2564-1
    A cafe and restaurant located in the Karuizawa Town farmer's market in Hotchi, Karuizawa. Owned and operated by a cheese workshop located in Mihari, Tomi City, the restaurant serves baked curry, cheese fondue, Hoe pork sausage and local vegetable pizza, and other dishes made with delicious cheese.

    軽井沢発地市庭にあるお店です パスタやピザなどチーズを使ったメニューが美味しかったです チーズソフトクリームもありました

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Nagano prefecture is an exciting mix of mountains, hot spring monkeys, and preserved Edo history. At the heart of the Japanese Alps, Nagano is one of the country’s most popular destinations, whether in winter for its snow sports and the much-loved Jigokudani Monkey Park or in the warmer months for discovering the undulating hills on foot. For fantastic Edo architecture, head to the Kiso Valley for a 60-kilometer stretch of quaint wooden buildings that marked the Nakasendo route 200 years ago.

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