Not only seafood! 7 recommended gourmet spots in Kanazawa

The specialty of Hokuriku is seafood. Kanazawa is no exception. In Ishikawa Prefecture, surrounded by the Sea of ​​Japan, a variety of seafood such as Nodoguro, Seiko Crabs, and Noto’s Rock Oysters will color dining tables throughout the year.

Even at the conveyor belt sushi restaurants throughout the country, you will find it more delicious than eating at urban restaurants.

When you visit Kanazawa, we want you to try reasonable and delicious seafood dishes such as sushi, seafood bowls, and sashimi. However, seafood is not the only attractive food in Kanazawa.

In this article, we will introduce recommended gourmet spots other than seafood.

Enjoy eating cheap delicious food!

Kanazawa may have a classy image because it is simply expressed as “an ancient city” or “small Kyoto”, but there are also cheap and delicious foods that will satisfy your stomach!

Here are some of the most recommended ones.

“Kanazawa Curry” is characterized by a rich roux

Kanazawa curry is served on a nostalgic silver boat-shaped stainless steel dish that retains the taste of Showa period.

The name “Kanazawa Curry” itself has a short history and is said to have been around since 2005.

Rich roux hangs over Ishikawa’s delicious rice, and shredded cabbage and cutlet are on the side.

This cabbage is doing a good job!

Several famous shops now have their own curry, but the original is called “Curry Champion”, which is popularly known by the citizens of the prefecture as “Chancale”.

First of all, please enjoy the rich curry you can’t taste anywhere else.

“White gyoza” where people line up every day

White gyozas are fried in plenty of oil to express the expression “simmer in oil” and wrapped in thick skin.

It’s a popular store where people line up at any time, but it’s a famous gyoza that you want to eat at least once.

You may enjoy sitting on a U-shaped counter that surrounds the kitchen and waiting while watching the clerk baking the gyozas. There is a private room on the second floor for a fee.

The head restaurant is not in Kanazawa, but in Noda City, Chiba. But this restaurant became popular because it was introduced by the media as “Kanazawa’s Soul Food”.

Generous “Hunton rice” with fly on omelet rice

It is a local gourmet from Kanazawa, famous throughout the country.

Its history goes back to the late 1960s.

Mr. Noboru Yamashita, who was the president of German Bakery at that time, devised the wisdom with Western food chefs when he opened the restaurant German Bakery Grill in Katamachi, the center of Kanazawa.

The origin of the name is said to be “a coined word that combines Hungarian Han and tonne, which means tuna in French.”

At present, various Western restaurants offer their original recipes, so it may be interesting to compare them.

Here are the most famous restaurant.

Common to the three Hokuriku prefectures? ! Speaking of ramen “No. 8 Ramen”

The No. 8 Ramen, which Kanazawa citizens have eaten since childhood, is a ramen chain that plays an important role in Hokuriku and throughout Japan and overseas.

Why was it named “8 Ramen”?

The reason is that in February 1967, the first store opened in Kuwahara-cho, Kaga City, on the border between Ishikawa and Fukui Prefectures, along Route 8 that runs from Niigata Prefecture through Hokuriku to Ritto City in Shiga Prefecture.

The main menu, “Vegetable Ramen”, is made from carefully selected water with five soups that can be selected from miso, soy sauce, salt, tonkotsu, and butter flavor.

They are particular about cabbage and test cultivation of the best cabbage with farmers all over Japan. Even though it is a chain, its taste is full-fledged, so be sure to visit there.

Reservation required popular restaurant

Next, we will introduce restaurants that offer special dishes made with plenty of ingredients unique to Kanazawa, recommended for those who want a bit of luxury.

Hakkou Shokuhin Bijin SHokudou (Fermented food beauty cafeteria)

It is a restaurant where you can enjoy fermented foods run by Yamato Soy Sauce Miso, which manufactures and sells fermented foods such as soy sauce and miso in Ishikawa Prefecture, which is said to be the “fermented food kingdom”.

Reservation required “fermented food beauty lunch” changes the main dish every month.

The lunch is made up of approximately 8 types of small bowls that use plenty of soup and fermented foods in the “sleeping brown rice” provided after cooking in a pressure cooker and aging for 3-4 days.

It is not only delicious, but it also has a colorful appearance.

“Fermented food beauty lunch” is limited to 30 meals a day, so we recommend early reservations.

There is also a menu of raw amazake curry, sweets and drinks.

You can enjoy gastrointestinal food at the restaurant.

“Fumuroya” where you can enjoy kaiseki cuisine with a cool wheat bran

Since its establishment in Keio in the late Edo period, “Fumuroya” has been making traditional wheat bran while inheriting the manufacturing method at the time of its opening.

The Owaricho store continues to hold traditional seasonal events for merchants throughout the seasons, such as the New Year’s Day, the festive occasions of the night, Tanabata, Tsukimi, and the winter solstice.

In addition, they communicate culture through store decorations.

You can enjoy a rich and colorful cuisine in each room.

You can also enjoy sweets that have been devised based on the characteristics of wheat bran, such as anmitsu and parfait, after dinner.

“Tsubaijn” where you can enjoy the taste of a long-established restaurant while feeling the history

If you want to enjoy the finest hospitality and cuisine, we recommend Kanazawa’s well-established restaurant, Tsubajin.

Its history continues from 1752.

Historical greats such as Ito Hirofumi, Muro Ikusei, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Mishima Yukio, Yokoyama Taikan, and Yamashita Kiyoshi visited, and they seemed to be impressed by their taste.

Enjoy Kaga cuisine that is made only by the culture of one million stone and can only be tasted here.

Summary

We introduced seven carefully selected gourmets other than seafood recommended in Kanazawa.

All of them are enjoyable by those who are tired of seafood and who are not good at seafood.

There are still a lot of things that couldn’t be introduced here and new attention spots. When you come to Kanazawa, please explore with your own feet!