Gourmet / Alcohol Spots in Shiga Area

  • Tea Space Saraku
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Shiga Omihachiman-shi Sakumacho 17-1
  • Yachiyo Ekimae
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    4.0
    21 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Shiga Hikone-shi Asahimachi 9-1

    日曜日だと云うのに、まるで町全体がゴーストタウン、コロナの影響は絶大なもので、この観光地にも大変な悪影響が及んでいました。ここは入り易い食堂として何度か訪れたことはあります。座席間にビニールのカバーを設置するなど・・・色々と大変な時代ですねぇ。かつ丼食べたが、味も値段も雰囲気も全く普通の食堂の普通のコスパの普通のものでした。

  • Kasho Rokube
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    4.0
    8 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Shiga Nagahama-shi Motohamacho 10-27

    ここは和菓子専門店です。 久しぶりの黒壁スクエアに行って、まず最初に気になるのがこのお店。 和菓子が美味しいそうだったので前から食べてみたい。と思い。 今回、草餅をいただきました。 草餅の味わいと粒餡のしっかりした味わいが美味しかったです。

  • Tonkatsu-tei Amanoya (Former Iroha)
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    4.0
    8 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Shiga Omihachiman-shi Azuchicho Kamitoyoura 1012
    Just a seven-minute walk from the JR Azuchi Station, this restaurant offers Omigyu beef steaks and pork cutlets from Mochi-pork at reasonable prices. The Tokujo Tonkatsu Teishoku special grade pork cutlet set is recommended, which comes with a pork cutlet prepared to maximize the fatty flavor and tender meat, a salad, rice, and miso soup. With the Amanoya Teishoku one can enjoy a Omigyu steak and a mini roast in one dish. All vegetables are cultivated in Japan with minimal use of chemicals. The handmade dressings with no additives are sold in the store for customers to enjoy at home.

    店名が変更になったようです。安土駅から一番近い飲食店だと思います。平日のみのAセットを注文しましたが、ハンバーグ・エビフライ・コロッケ・キャベツサラダの他にご飯・味噌汁・小鉢が二つついて1430円。量も多く、とてもおいしかったです。

  • Himurean
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    4.0
    12 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Shiga Omihachiman-shi Nishimotocho 61
    20 minutes from the Ryuo Interchange on the Meishin Expressway via National Route 8. This soba noodle restaurant operates out of a Tangible Cultural Property-designated Japanese residence said to have once been the home of the owner of a shipping agent. The restaurant's flavorful soba noodles are crafted by hand using flour stone-milled from buckwheat grown amidst the Yatsugatake Mountains. The restaurant's tsuyu dipping sauce is rather strong taste and is made with top-class konbu kelp and dried bonito. The restaurant's popular local chicken nanban soba, winter-only duck nanban soba, and other hot soba soups are made with light soy sauce and a Kansai-style dashi stock with light soy sauce.

    蕎麦は香が良くて、喉越しも良かったですが、サクサクの天ぷらも最高でした。価格もリーズナブルでしたし、スタッフ対応も良かった

  • Andeken Oi-Hachiman Main Store
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Shiga Omihachiman-shi Takakaicho 551
    This locally popular Western confectionary shop is located a five-minute walk from JR Omihachiman Station. The shop's signature cheesecake, its most popular product, is a souffle type made with Gouda cheese and has a delightfully moist and fluffy texture. The shop also sells a matcha cheesecake accented with bittersweet matcha green tea powder from the end of May to September. Some other recommended selections from the shop's lineup of baked sweets include baumkuchen, still made by hand one at a time according to the same recipe used when the shop first opened; and financier cakes redolent with the elegant fragrance of almonds and browned butter. The shop also has a tearoom for customers to enjoy.
  • Ritto Arare Hompo
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    Shiga Ritto-shi Ohashi 4-4-21
    A one-minute drive from the Ritto Interchange National Route 8 exit on the Meishin Expressway. This Japanese confectionary shop makes all of its arare (rice crackers) according to an old-fashioned method which involves hand-toasting them over a charcoal fire. The key ingredient is silky Shiga habutae mochi, a local Omi specialty product, and the shop takes great pride in painstakingly toasting its arare by hand over a charcoal flame. The shop's signature and exquisite Konze arare was awarded the minister's prize in the 20th National Confectionary Exposition, and the Konze snack sets make for popular souvenirs and gifts. The shop sells a wide variety of arare snacks, including nori-maki (wrapped in nori) and mame-koban (mochi ovals with soybean chunks); the Shio no Hana, which comes in nori, shrimp, and konbu flavors; and the miso-flavored Karikori are particularly popular.
  • violette stella
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    4.5
    2 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Shiga Ritto-shi Nakazawa 3-5-11
    A 15-minute drive from the Kusatsu-Tanakami Interchange or the Ritto Interchange on the Meishin Expressway. This French restaurant operates out of a detached house surrounded by trees located in a residential neighborhood in Ritto City. The restaurant serves healthy cuisine crafted primarily using painstakingly grown seasonal vegetables from the restaurant's own farm and other local specially contracted farms. The seafood used in the dinnertime chef's choice course is shipped straight from Yawatahama City, Ehime Prefecture; for an added fee, you can have the meat used for the course changed to Omi beef. The restaurant also offers a kids plate and allows customers to bring in hypoallergenic foods and baby food. Reservations only.

    この地域の中ではトップクラスの料理が味わえるフレンチです。 お店の売りである野菜が美味しいだけでなく、魚料理・肉料理も最高です。 ここでしか味わえないソースも魅力です。 個室ではありませんが、気楽に過ごせる雰囲気があって良いです。

  • Itokiri-mochi Ganso Enjudo Honpo
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    4.0
    24 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Shiga Inukami-gun Tagacho Taga 599
    A 10-minute walk from Ohmi Railway Tagataishamae Station. This longstanding Japanese confectionary shop, established in 1879, is located in front of the gate leading to the Taga Taisha shrine. Operated by the sixth generation owner, the shop continues to make itokiri mochi rice cakes, a local Taga specialty product notable for being made exclusively with rice flour and for their smooth texture and delicate flavor. In addition to standard itokiri mochi, the shop also sells spring-only Japanese mugwort itokiri mochi, summer-only itokiri mochi shaved ice, and Ogon Kichi Takarabo itokiro mochi only during the first three days of January and on Setsubun (February 3rd). The itokiri mochi sets, crispy Itokiri Brulee with matcha or sencha green tea, which can be eaten on-site, are also popular.

    多賀大社参拝の後、名物の糸切餅を食べてみたいので、3個入りの販売があったので購入しました。 賞味期限が短いので、沢山入った箱入りは食べきれず、イートインに寄るほど時間がなかったので、3個入り販売があって助かりました。 糸で切れるほどの柔らかさのお餅で柔らかいこしあんを包んであり、ドライブ途中の休憩で食べるのにちょうど良い甘さで美味しく頂きました。 お店はかやぶき屋根、創業は明治13年の老舗です。

  • Mamanote
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Shiga Konan-shi Bodaiji Nishi 4-6-28
    An eight-minute drive from the Ryuo Interchange on the Meishin Expressway. This handmade chiffon cake shop operates out of a remodeled room in a home in a residential district. The shop's chiffon cake is made with healthy ingredients, just like the desserts a mother makes for her children to enjoy. The shop uses no baking powder or other leavening agents, producing fluffy chiffon cakes using only the natural properties of fresh egg whites from eggs from specially-contracted farms. The shop's plain chiffon cake is its most popular product and, in addition to enjoying it as is, customers are also encouraged to try toasting it. There's also the popular premium plain chiffon cake, a rich chiffon cake made with 1.6 times the normal amount of egg yolks.
  • Nishiki Chaya
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Shiga Koka-shi Kokacho Oharanaka 1034
    A 10-minute drive from the Koka-Tsuchiyama Interchange and Konan Interchange on the Shin-Meishin Expressway. This restaurant has been serving Japanese cuisine crafted from seasonal ingredients for over 50 years and spanning two generations. The restaurant's signature medicinal herb meal incorporates medicinal herbs picked on the mountains of Koka and includes sushi, tempura, and popular medicinal cooking cuisine; the lunchtime meal is only available from March to November. The restaurant's traditional kaiseki course meal can be ordered by small groups as well as large and includes hotpot dishes made with choice, seasonal ingredients, including sea bream and sweetfish in spring, daggertooth pike conger and eel in summer, matsutake mushrooms and skipjack tuna in fall, and blowfish and crab in winter.
  • Kashicho Noda Shop
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Shiga Koka-shi Konancho Noda 594-4
    Six minutes from the Konan Interchange on the Shin-Meishin Expressway via Prefectural Route 133. This longstanding confectionary shop has been making confections inspired by the local area of Koka, home of the ninja, since 1873. The shop makes many ninja- and ninjutsu-themed confections. Of particular note is the vaunted Koka Ninpo Kunoichi Monaka, an exquisite traditional monaka wafer cake filled with delightfully smooth, elegantly sweet Hokkaido Tokachi bean jam. This confection was awarded from the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, The shop's Western-style confections are also recommended, such as a rich, melt-in-your-mouth cheesecake made with the choicest ingredients.
  • Kikouchi Sakumi
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Shiga Koka-shi Konancho Noda 812
    A 10-minute drive from the Konan Interchange on the Shin-Meishin Expressway. This soba noodle restaurant is dedicated to making it possible for its customers to fully enjoy delicious soba, and accordingly gives precedence to those with advance reservations and does not allow people under the age of 18 inside. The owner stocks choice, top-quality unhulled buckwheat from agricultural cooperatives and farmers in Fukui Prefecture. The restaurant than makes its own coarse-ground flour using this unhulled buckwheat as-is, mixing it only with water to create fat juwari soba noodles made with 100% buckwheat flour which are flavorful, aromatic, and chewy. The Tanoshimi Set combo meal is particularly popular and comes with mori chilled soba noodles with dipping sauce, soba tofu, and buckwheat seeds with grated yam. Reservations are accepted from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. the day before.
  • Kushikatsu Musashi
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    5.0
    1 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Shiga Koka-shi Shigarakicho Nagano 1180-1
    A five-minute walk from Shigaraki Kohgen Railway Shigaraki Station. This kushikatsu (fried food skewer) restaurant operates out of a one-story bungalow next to a 7-Eleven which can be reached by taking a left on National Route 307 traveling from Shigaraki Station. Many of the restaurant's patrons are repeat customers from across the prefecture and beyond, and at night the establishment bustles with potters, ceramic artists, and other local regulars. The restaurant's menu consists of 27 varieties of kushikatsu, including shrimp wrapped in shiso leaves, and shiitake mushrooms stuffed with minced shrimp. The Kushi Omakase (chef's choice) course is particularly popular - delicious skewered foods are prepared and deep-fried right in front of your eyes, one at a time, until you say to stop. The non-skewer katsudon pork cutlet rice bowl, drenched in a vaunted homemade tangy sauce, is also recommended.

    お昼の営業 11時~14時 夜の営業 18時~LO...

  • Uosen
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    4.5
    6 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Shiga Koka-shi Shigarakicho Nagano 1334-2
    A seven-minute walk from Shigaraki Kohgen Railway Shigaraki Station. This longstanding traditional ryotei restaurant was established in 1913 and serves Japanese cuisine made with fish from Lake Biwa, locally-grown vegetables, and other ingredients from Shiga. The restaurant's delicacies, hailing from the area's seas, mountains, lakes, and countryside, are also beautifully arranged on elegant Shigaraki ware tableware. The restaurant's signature Shinobi Sushi, the invention of an owner two generations removed from the current one, is a type of mackerel oshizushi (pressed sushi) accented with shiso seeds and gourd pickled in rich tamari soy sauce. Designated a recommended souvenir product by Shiga Prefecture, the Shinobi Sushi also makes a popular souvenir and gift. The restaurant's delightful seasonal tenshin (dim sum) is also recommended.

    Had a set menu lunch here. The kaiseki style food was excellent, and the service charming. Sake kasu pudding was delicious and unusual.

  • DINING CAFE TAKUMIYA
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    4.0
    3 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Shiga Koka-shi Minakuchicho Motomachi 4-16
    A 10-minute walk from Ohmi Railway Minakuchi Station. This restaurant and cafe, located in the former post station town of Minakuchi-juku which once flourished along the ancient Tokaido Highway, still exudes an atmosphere reminiscent of an Edo period hatago tavern. Decorated in Japanese modern style while retaining the elegant charms of the old townhouse out of which the restaurant operates, here customers can enjoy cuisine crafted by the experienced owner, who operated a Japanese-style delicatessen for years. The exquisite and flavorful thick-cut Matsuzaka pork deep-fried cutlet lunch is particularly recommended. The Mizukuchi pudding, a local favorite, is a popular dessert choice.

    昔の民家を改装したカフェで落ち着いた店内です。 靴を脱いで上がります。席数はそんなにないので、団体利用の時は予約をした方がいいです。

  • cafe alivio
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    3.0
    1 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Shiga Takashima-shi Katsuno 1320
    A five-minute walk from JR Omi-Takashima Station. This cafe is located in Takashima Village Building No. 8, which is just north of the Omizokoguchi Intersection along Prefectural Route 300. The establishment also operates as a bar after 8 p.m. on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The second floor is a reservation-only salon. The cafe serves a daily special chiffon cake made with seasonal fruit, enabling customers to enjoy the various, changing flavors of the seasons. The cafe also offers a spicy curry and other lunch choices, and takeout is available. Also recommended is the cheesecake plate, which comes with cheesecake made using sake lees from a local sake brewery.

    少し湖岸沿いに 開けたところに・・・アリビオ なにかな・・・ 少し しっかりした大きな建物でグリーンの屋根が 旅館かな・・ 有料老人ホームかな・・・と思いました。

  • Sumimaru
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    Shiga Takashima-shi Katsuno 1615
    A five-minute walk from JR Omi-Takashima Station. This Japanese seafood restaurant can be reached by heading northeast on Prefectural Route 300 and taking a right at the Omi-Takashimaeki-guchi Intersection. During the daytime, the establishment operates as Fushimiya, a restaurant primarily serving daily meal specials. At night, customers can enjoy charcoal grilled and other fresh seafood cuisine. Menu highlights include daikon radish topped with thick-cut chashu roast pork filet, and crab soup. In winter, the restaurant offers an abundant array of nabe hotpot dishes. The seafood the restaurant serves comes from across the country and was fresh-caught that very morning.
  • Ikiiki Mizubunka Kabatakan
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Shiga Takashima-shi Shinasahicho Asahi 707
    A 10-minute walk from JR Shin-Asahi Station. This local cuisine restaurant adjoins Shinasahi Central Park right next to the Yasuragisoguchi bus stop. The restaurant serves meals based on the concept of local production for local consumption and uses safe, healthy ingredients. Ccustomers can enjoy the unique flavors of Takashima with choices like tonchan (local speciality seasoned chiken) and shoimeshi seasoned rice meals. The Nonohana Gozen meal is particularly recommended. The Hime Gozen daily meal special is limited to just 20 customers a day. The restaurant also sells homemade products and offers a conference room for rental. Normally, the restaurant is only open until 4 p.m., but with an advance reservation you can enjoy dinner here as well.
  • Nature
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    4.0
    3 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Shiga Takashima-shi Shinasahicho Warasono 2759-11
    This cafe and restaurant can be reached by heading northwestalong the road from the Konpira Daigongensha Shrine. Operating out of the remodeled home of a husband and wife who worked as a French chef and patissier in a hotel, the restaurant also occasionally hosts live music events. In addition to limited time and Sunday-only reservation required cake buffets, around Christmas the restaurant sells party sets for enjoying at home. From a luxurious Premium Course lunch to an inexpensive combo meal limited to just five customers a day, this restaurant has something for everyone.

    Had Japanese food for breakfast and lunch so really looking for some western food My wife and I had a pizza pasta set much to our surprise it came with a beautiful salad and soup A family...

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Visitors to Shiga prefecture are almost always hopping east across the prefectural border from Kyoto, and they are almost certainly Lake Biwa-bound. Covering an area of 670 square kilometers, Lake Biwa makes up the bulk of Shiga prefecture, with beautiful lakeside paths that offer myriad walking and cycling opportunities, connecting a string of museums, shrines, and picturesque views that finally lead you to Hikone Castle on the eastern side of the lake.

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