Okayama Local Gourmet BEST 5! Pick up the local specialty menu

In the center of Okayama city, there is a large collection of local dishes using the sea of Setouchi and local ingredients! We picked up recommended menus from popular restaurants that have been loved for many years, including shrimp meshi, demikatsudon and Bara sushi. Please enjoy the variety of flavors of Okayama by all means!

"Shokudo Yamato" boasts a rich demi sauce that Okayama citizens love

"Shokudo Yamato" is a famous local restaurant that has been loved for a long time, and the three most popular menus at the store are "Katsudon", "Chinese Soba" and "Yakimeshi". It is a reputation that only a simple menu makes a clear difference from other stores. It is said that "katsudon" is a dish that is made from freshly fried cutlets with plenty of secret demiglas sauce, while demiglas sauce is made from Chinese soba soup. Please enjoy the unique taste of this shop.

■ Shokudo Yamato

Address: 1-9-7 Omote-cho, Kita-ku, Okayama
TEL:086-232-3944
Opening hours: 11-19 o'clock (15-16 o'clock is noodles only)
Closed: Tuesday (the next day if it is a public holiday)
Access: 4 minutes walk from Oka Electric Castle Station
Parking: None

Black look is big impact! ”Ebimeshi-ya Mannari Store”

"Ebi-meshi" is a local menu in which shrimp and other ingredients are added to the rice and fried, and finished with a sauce like a dry curry. It is common to have a nishito egg.

"Ebimeshiya" is an original store of Okayama Ebi Meshi, founded in 1966. The classic ''Ebimeshi'' 990 yen is seasoned with a spicy secret sauce and is lighter than it looks! The shrimp and the nishiri egg are good accents. Western dishes such as hamburgers and shrimp fries are also available, and potov and ice cream that can be added for 150 yen are also popular.

■ Ebimeshiya Mannari store

Address: 2-53 Mannari Nishi-cho, Kita-ku, Okayama
TEL:086-251-6221
Hours: 11-14: 30 (LO), 17-21 (LO)
Closed: Wednesday
Access: 3 minutes from Okayama Station on the JR Kibi Line (Momotaro Line), get off the Bizen-Sanmon Station, and 25 minutes on foot
Parking: 35 cars

QUIET VILLAGE CURRY SHOP with a gentle taste that has been loved for more than 20 years

"Okayama Curry" is a local curry made by a peach farmer with a hidden taste of peach chutney, and there are about 50 shops in the city of Okayama that offer Okayama curry.

"QUIET VILLAGE CURRY SHOP" is a restaurant specializing in curry on Dutch Street, which has an overwhelming following from curry lovers inside and outside the prefecture. The curry, which is based on home cooking in the Bengal region and uses only good spices without chemical seasoning, has a taste that is friendly to the body. "Three seeds" 1300 yen is a dish of chicken, dal (beans), and three daily curries. You can also top spice eggs for 150 yen, and it is a nice point that all curry menus have small chai.

■ QUIET VILLAGE CURRY SHOP

Address: 1-6-43 Omote-cho, Kita-ku, Okayama
TEL:086-231-4100
Open: 11:30-15:30 (LO)
Holidays: Monday, other unregular holidays
Access: 3 minutes walk from Oka Electric Castle Station
Parking: None

Okayama ramen "Fujiya" with pork bone soy sauce soup

"Okayama ramen", which is eaten mainly in the city of Okayama, has a lot of pork bone soy sauce soup; it is characterized by medium-to-thin straight noodles, and is also notable for its unique toppings.

"Fujiya" was founded in the Houkan-cho in 1950 and is said to be the source of Okayama ramen. The pork-bone-based soy sauce-flavored soup is very good with medium-fine noodles, and the special char siu, which is made from a mixture of rose meat and loin, is easy to eat and peroli. "Char-siu noodles" 930 yen, a masterpiece in which such a specialty char-siu fills the bowl, is a must-eat.

■ Fujiya

Address: 2-3-8, Houkancho, Kita-ku, Okayama
TEL:086-253-9759
Hours: 11-19:30 (LO) * Ends as soon as it is sold out
Closed: Wednesday
Access: 5 minutes from JR Okayama Station
Parking: Three cars

Sushi restaurant "Fuku zushi" that keeps the taste of tradition

"Bara zushi" was repulsed by the fact that the first lord of the Bizen Okayama Domain, Mitsumasa Ikeda, issued a frugality order in the Edo period, saying that "food is one soup and one dish". It is said that the beginning was to put a variety of ingredients on rice and make it "Issai". It is a historic local dish to be served mainly on Halle Day, and is characterized by a large amount of ingredients such as seasonal fish and vegetables from the Seto Inland Sea.

In the long-established sushi restaurant "Fuku zushi", which has been running for three generations since 1956, you can taste local dishes that focus on the flavors of the Okayama tradition with one dish or course dishes. "Okayama Chirashi" 2200 yen is full of mama-kari, conger and local seasonal vegetables, and it looks gorgeous and is full of food.

■ Fuku zushi

Address: 2-16-17, Houkancho, Kita-ku, Okayama
TEL:086-252-2402
Opening hours: 11:30-13:30 (LO), 17-20:30 (LO) * Day only on Sundays
Holidays: Monday, 1st, 3rd, 5th Tuesday
Access: 7 minutes from JR Okayama Station
Parking: Two cars

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