Local Cuisine Spots in Ishikawa Area

  • Kincharyo Main Restaurant
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    5.0
    1 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ishikawa Kanazawa-shi Teramachi 1-8-50
    This long standing local cuisine restaurant was established in 1933. Situated on a rise overlooking the pure waters of the Sai River, the restaurant possesses a 3,000 square meter garden sprawling along the slope. Over its years in business, the establishment has built up a reputation as one of Kanazawa’s foremost dining experiences. In isolated, detached rooms, customers can enjoy elegant regional Kaga cuisine incorporating the sophistication of Kyoto. Attention has been paid to every detail, from the local, seasonal ingredients to the visually delightful Kutani ware and Wajima lacquerware serving dishes. The restaurant is the perfect place to celebrate turning points in life, including wedding receptions, family banquets, and special birthdays.

    一度は訪れたい料亭でした。 出迎えを受け趣のある庭を通り離れ形式のお部屋へ、お料理は勿論、中居さんの細やかな心遣いに感激です。

  • Daimyo Jaya
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    4.0
    44 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Konohanamachi 7-5-1
    A renowned Kaga kaiseki course cuisine restaurant located a three minute walk from Kanazawa Station. Featuring an elegant Japanese atmosphere including private tatami rooms, a Japanese garden, and reception room, here you can enjoy seasonal meals weaving together the traditions of Kaga and the skills of a Kyoto-trained chef. The restaurant’s well-reviewed kaiseki course cuisine primarily focuses on seafood dishes made with seasonal items like blackthroat seaperch, crab, midwinter Japanese amberjack, sweet shrimp, firefly squid, and daggertooth pike conger, in addition to jibuni duck meat stew, a local Kanazawa dish. The restaurant’s “ogon” (golden) crab, so rare only one is caught every one or two thousand hauls, is also quite popular.

    My husband and ate at this restaurant tonight. There is a menu in English and we chose a prix fixe meal, a small assortment of sashimi and the crab risotto. The bill, including a beer and 375Ml of...

  • Ootomorou
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    4.5
    19 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Oyamamachi 2-27
    This Japanese restaurant is representative of the “Kanazawa Ryotei,” which convey the traditions of the Kaga Hyakuman-koku Clan. It is located in Oyama Town, Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture. This long-established restaurant served the Kaga Domain’s Maeda Clan for generations, with its Gozen cuisine and ritual dishes. The restaurant proudly serves dishes such as “Otai-no-Karamushi (Chinese-style steamed sea bream)” and “Shiki no Jibu (duck meat simmered in soy and broth soup)” in its course meals, and even carefully selects the vessels it uses in its “Shokado Bento” lunches. The building and furnishings are historic, and there is a stunning four-seasons Japanese garden. Reservations must be made to dine at the restaurant.

    金沢市尾山町にあります、金沢でもとびっきりの日本料理の老舗ですここは金沢駅の駅弁の大手です今日は新しく出来た一井庵で加賀れんこんのわらび餅です変わっていて美味しく頂きました。

  • Kagaya Kanazawa Shop
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    4.0
    109 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Kinoshimbomachi 1-1 Kanazawa Hundred Street Aun and
    This Japanese cuisine restaurant is in the Kanazawa Station shopping mall “Kanazawa Hyakubangai Anto.” They provide Japanese cuisine that uses in-season Kaga vegetables and fresh seafood from the Sea of Japan. In addition to the hometown cuisine “Jibuni,” there is the “Kagaya gozen” which offers you sashimi, fried foods, and rice with small fish, and also the “hirekatsu (fillet cutlet) zen” and “tempura zen.”

    Had lunch at Kagaya, the food in the bento box was nicely displayed, it was pretty. The food was delicious. Recommended.

  • Toriyasai Matsuya Katsura Shop
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    Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Katsuramachi A 32-4
    "A restaurant owned and operated by Matsuya, a company which sells ""Toriyasai Miso,"" a famous miso used for seasoning from Ishikawa. Toriyasai Miso is frequently used in homes in Ishikawa Prefecture to create a spicy miso nabe hotpot filled with vegetables. This local comfort food has also been featured in the media and is now famous nationwide. The toriyasai nabe chicken and vegetable hotpot served by this restaurant is a simple affair consisting of just meat and lots of Chinese cabbage. Diners can order additional chicken or pork meat in their soup; the restaurant also offers a zosui vegetable rice gruel set meal."
  • Kaga Cuisine Bantei
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    Ishikawa Pref. Kagashi Daishoujihigashichou 4-11
    "A ryotei traditional Japanese restaurant which serves Kaga cuisine. The restaurant's vaunted duck dishes are made with live-caught duck, including duck caught using a ""sakaami"" net in the traditional way. Examples include jibuni duck meat slow stewed in a signature broth; grilled duck meat skewers, and kuwayaki sauteed duck. Of course, traditional duck jibuni served in a small lacquered bowl is also on the menu. The restaurant's dishes are served using beautiful Kutani ware and Yamanaka lacquerware, ensuring your meal will be a delight for the eyes as well. The restaurant has a variety of seating options to meet all manner of meal occasions, including counter seating, tatami mat seating, private rooms, and a banquet hall."
  • Japanese Food Haneya
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    4.5
    13 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ishikawa Pref. Kahokugunuchinadamachi Kouyoudai 1-12
    A ryotei traditional Japanese restaurant which serves kaiseki course cuisine made with local ingredients. The skilled chef in charge of the food has previously won the Kanazawa Chef School's cooking competition. The restaurant's menu makes abundant use of seasonal ingredients such as ayu in early summer and conger eel in mid-summer. The restaurant also actively participates in local events and each year helps develop a healthy menu under the organization of Ishikawa Prefecture's Health and Welfare Department Health Promotion Section. The restaurant is capable of handling a variety of course meal occasions, including banquets, catering, and tourist meals, and even has its own shuttle bus.

    内灘町向陽台にあります、基本的に和食ですが少し洋食もありますここは内灘町では有数の日本料理店です、懐石料理、フグ、はも料理もあります、ランチは昼膳、エビフライ、みそカツ膳、1200円で提供してくれます味は値段以上ですし接客もいいですね。

  • Amatsubo (Kakinokibatake Main Restaurant)
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    3.5
    32 Reviews
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    Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Kakinokibatake 4-7
    "A Japanese izakaya pub serving traditional Kaga cuisine and oden stew made with Kanazawa ingredients. The establishment's traditional Kaga dishes, made with select local ingredients, are created with a focus on being able to enjoy them together with tasty local liquors at reasonable prices. The establishment stocks its ingredients fresh each morning from the Omi-cho Market, known as the ""kitchen of Kanazawa."" The establishment also offers around 40 distinctly Kanazawa-style oden dishes at any given time, including awabu (steamed wheat gluten mixed with millet), rock octopus, and banjugai clams. The establishment carries an abundant selection of local liquors, including several varieties of local Tengumai sake, such as ginjo and kizake pure sake varieties."

    Very good place for fresh sea food. I especially like the crab and the sweet shrimps... Service is ok and fast. Restaurant is crowded at lunch time during week end.

  • Kenrokutei
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    3.5
    29 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Kenrokumachi 1-20
    "A restaurant adjoining a souvenir shop in front of the oldest water fountain in Japan in the Kenrokuen garden. The restaurant serves as an oasis for visitors who come to enjoy the garden's seasonal beauty. Serving regional Kaga cuisine and sweets, the restaurant's traditionally Japanese dining area can accommodate 120 customers. The restaurant's signature dish is its ""Jibu Soba,"" a unique take on the popular local dish jibuni duck meat stew. The dish consists of soba noodles topped with jibuni stew. The restaurant also offers the tsukemen noodles with dipping sauce-style ""Tsuke Jibu Soba"" as well as ""Jibu Udon"" for udon noodle lovers. The adjoining souvenir shop sells traditional crafts and souvenirs from Ishikawa Prefecture; popular sweets like the ""Kotoji Toro,"" modeled after the elegant stone lantern which serves as a symbol of the garden, are particularly recommended."

    兼六園の霞が池を水源とした自然の水圧で水を噴き上げる噴水前にある茶店がこちらです。英語の案内もあって観光客に親切なところです。

  • Shunsai Bakazu
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    5.0
    22 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Otemachi 15-11 Otemachi Heim 1F
    "A Japanese restaurant serving original cuisine located close to the Omi-cho Market in Kanazawa. Here you can enjoy creative Japanese dishes crafted by the owner, who trained in a renowned restaurant in Osaka. The establishment is so popular, lines form in front of its door before it even opens. Emphasizing homemade, handmade and the use of select tableware, the restaurant's visually dazzling dishes can be enjoyed with Noto sake and local Kaga liquors. Particularly recommended (and particularly popular with women) is the ""Wateishoku"" lunch set, limited to just 30 customers a day. This variety-rich set comes with sashimi, takiawase, salad, and several different side dishes. Diners can choose between white rice and 15 grain rice. The set also comes with a post-meal cup of coffee."

    金沢市大手町にあります、大阪のミシュラン一つ星の名店で修行し金沢のミシュランビブグルマンに選ばれた選ばれた店主が作り出す料理が味わえる和食料理店です、特に数量限定のランチはいつもながら工夫が感じられるランチで何回食べてもあきません。

  • Juni no Tsuki
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    3.5
    5 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Katamachi 2-23-12 Central Core Building 1F
    A Japanese izakaya pub serving Japanese food located in Kata-machi a 15 minute drive from Kanazawa Station. The restaurant offers primarily vegetable-focused creative cuisine. The menu consists of dishes made with select local Kaga vegetables and seafood designed to enable diners to experience the season with all five senses. The restaurant has a soothing atmosphere and has a variety of seating options to meet various dining needs, including counter seating perfect for diners on their own, semi-private tables, and spacious sunken kotatsu tatami mat seating. The restaurant particularly recommends the sashimi assortment, made with fresh seafood from the Omi-cho Market; the hearty extra-large fatty blackthroat seaperch broiled with salt; and the steamed Kaga lotus root with Kaga vegetables.

    揚げ物に出汁やしめのご飯のお供など、何人かで訪問したのですが多くの友人が塩分が多いと感じていました。

  • Shiki-no Table
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    4.0
    15 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Nagamachi 1-1-17 Aoki Cooking School 1F
    "A regional kaiseki course cuisine restaurant located in a corner of the Nagamachi Samurai District overseen by regional cuisine researcher Etsuko Aoki. Located on the first floor of the Aoki Cooking School for which Aoki serves as headmaster, here you can enjoy a variety of distinctly regional Kanazawa dishes made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Diners are free to enjoy Kanazawa favorites like jibuni duck meat stew or wintertime kabura-zushi pickled turnip sushi as well as creative, new takes on regional course cuisine. If you like, you can also learn how to make them yourself. The most popular item on the menu is the ""Shiki Gochiso-zen"" meal. The meal includes jibuni and other dishes which will allow you to experience the four seasons of Kanazawa with all five senses. A five minute walk from Kanazawa Station or the ""Korinbo"" bus stop."

    We had our New Years Day brunch at Shiki no Table in Kanazawa and were very pleased with the food, atmosphere and service. This is a small family run restaurant with a very comfortable and cozy...

  • Riki
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    5.0
    2 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ishikawa Pref. Housugunanamizumachi Kawajima Ai 58
    "A chankonabe hotpot restaurant located close to Anamizu Station on the Noto Railway Nanao Line where you can enjoy authentic chankonabe made by a former sumo wrestler. A tasty dish that looks as hearty as it is, chankonabe is characterized by a flavor that is rich yet light created by stewing vegetables and meat in a soy sauce-based broth. The restaurants a la carte and nabemono stewed dishes made with local Anamizu seafood are also popular. Other recommendations include the ""Original Kaisen Tendon"" rice bowl piled high with seasonal fish, vegetable, and wild plant tempura, a style which has become a Noto specialty; and the small-sized ""Compact-don"" rice bowl."

    we travel down to Anamizu for oyster meal ちゃんこ鍋一品料理力, (ChankoNabeIchihinRyouri RIKI) Mapcode283 228 711 Tel 0768-52-2164 Open everyday 11:30-14:30, 17:00-21:00 I have difficulty trying to locate the...

  • Shogyotei
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Higashiyama 1-38-30
    "A restaurant serving fresh-caught seafood from the Sea of Japan located at the foot of Mt. Utatsu. The restaurant's signature ""Nodoguro Ishiyaki Gohan"" is particularly popular. Consisting of blackthroat seaperch served over rice in a stone bowl, the dish can be enjoyed three different ways in one sitting-first, as is; second, with your choice of condiments on top; and third, by pouring dashi stock over the rice to create a ""chazuke."" The colorful ""Saika Gozen"" comes with a variety of small dishes; only available on weekdays, it is particularly recommended for women who want to enjoy numerous foods without getting too full. The restaurant also offers a large selection of a la carte choices. The restaurant's 25-80 person banquet hall and 100 person Western-style White Room can be used for weddings, parties, and memorial services."
  • Shoya no Yakata
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    Ishikawa Pref. Suzushi Mauramachi 10 - 1
    "A restaurant located in Okunoto operating out of an eye-catching old Japanese home with a thatched roof. ""Shoya no Yakata"" means ""house of the village headman"", and as its name implies, the building was once used by a line of village headmen before being moved here and remodeled. The interior decor also exudes a sense of extreme age. From the restaurant's tatami mat seating area, diners can watch boats traveling between the nearby islands on the ocean when the weather is clear. The view of the sun setting into the ocean in this area has been selected as one of the 100 most beautiful in the country and is a must-see. The restaurant creates dishes using Noto beef and fresh seafood; its specialty is the seaweed shabushabu set meal. The most popular item on the menu, however, is the Noto beef steak rice bowl topped with a rose of tender Noto beef. In summer, the restaurant offers oyster dishes limited to just a few customers each day."
  • TSUBAJIN
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    4.5
    31 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ishikawa Kanazawa-shi Teramachi 5-1-8

    For us, Tsubajin sits atop the pinnacle of Japanese dining experiences in Kanazawa. The building has been immaculately maintained throughout its 270 years and exudes Japanese style at every turn...

  • Kayabuki-an Mii no Sato
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    5.0
    1 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ishikawa Wajima-shi Miimachi Koizumi Urushihara 14-2
    A restaurant with a distinctive thatch roof sign standing on the intersection of Prefectural Route 271 and Prefectural Route 1 on the western edge of Ishikawa Prefecture Kenko no Mori. The entire area is a hotel where visitors can experience the Noto way of life, and the centerpiece is this restaurant operating out of a thatch roof home built over 150 years ago and moved to this location. Enjoy vaunted Noto mountainside cuisine, such as the Satoyama Marugoto Teishoku, an assortment of seasonal Noto dishes; and the Noto Satoyama Curry made with flying fish dashi stock.

    The owner who runs this restaurant, also rents out this beautiful recently renovated 150 year old house which we originally booked for two nights. The area is gorgeous, and though you could get here...

  • Nihonryori Benkei Hoterunikkoh Kanazawa
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    4.5
    108 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hotel Japan Airlines Kanazawa 6F, 2-15-1, Honmachi, Kanazawa-shi, Ishikawa, 920-0853

    Diner. It was far too expensive for the quality of the meal. We paid 300.000 Y for a more than average meal. Very disappointing.

  • Hatchoya Eki-no Kura Kanazawaekiten
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    4.0
    63 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    The 100th Avenue anto west, 1-1, Kinoshinbomachi, Kanazawa-shi, Ishikawa, 920-0858

    Close to our hotel, on floor 3 in the railway station. We had an amazing dinner here which by Japanese standards was really reasonably priced too. The staff were welcoming and friendly. Lovely...

  • Kanazawa Yokoyama
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    rashiku Kanazawa 1F, 1-4-7-1, Higashiyama, Kanazawa-shi, Ishikawa, 920-0981

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Long, thin Ishikawa prefecture runs along the Sea of Japan up into Noto Peninsula. Highlights of the seaside towns lining the west coast include Kanazawa, often described as a "Little Kyoto" thanks to its old wooden tea houses and geisha culture as well as its picturesque Japanese garden, Kenroku-en.

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