B-grade Gourmet Spots in Kochi Area

  • Towa Shokudo
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    4.0
    15 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kouchi Pref. Takaokagunshimantochou Towakawaguchi 62-9
    This diner is located inside Roadside Station Shimanto Towa on the side of National Route 381 in Towakawaguchi, Shimanto Town, Takaoka County. Their Towa Shiki Gozen set meal features a number of regional items made with Towa’s seasonal ingredients. The menu also includes set meals, donburi (rice bowls), udon noodles, curry, and more made with ingredients including eel sourced locally in Kochi Prefecture, Shimantodori chicken, and Shimanto pork. Every Sunday, the diner offers a lunch buffet that includes items such as the Towa delicacy shiitake no tataki (fried shiitake mushrooms with vegetables).

    料理はおいしかった。ポークカツカレーがおすすめです。 The food was delicious, I recommend the pork katsu curry. The view from the restaurant is beautiful.

  • Tsuzuki Seafood Restaurant
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    4.5
    11 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kouchi Pref. Kouchishi Harimayachou 1-4-12F
    Tsuzuki Seafood Restaurant serves fresh seafood and regional cuisine in a location about a ten-minute walk from JR Kochi Station near Harimayabashi Bridge. It is said to be the restaurant that invented Yakikiri no Tataki, in which bonito is seared over a fire, seasoned, and then sliced thinly to be eaten while hot. Customers can choose either counter or table service. A selection of the catch of the day is offered at the counter, including thickly-sliced Bonito Tataki, dishes made with octopus, and moray eel. This restaurant is popular not only with tourists but also with local residents. In addition to seafood, Ryukyu Island-style marinated dishes, Tosa-style sushi roll, and other simple local dishes are available, along with local Tosa sake.

    情報によると塩たたき発祥の店ということ。 間違いなく旨い、他の店では味わうことのできない美味しさ。ポン酢などは邪魔に思えるくらいにかつおのうまみが味わえる。店主のこだわりでチェーン店のようには品物は出てきません。それが駄目な人と一緒には僕は食べたくない、と言いたくなるくらいそのこだわりと一緒に味わえる気持ちです。

  • Hashimoto Shokudo
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kouchi Pref. Susakishi Yokomachi 4-19
    About 10 minutes on foot from Tosa-Shinjo Station on the JR Dosan Line, this shop is famous for local Susaki cuisine and nabe-yaki ramen. The unpretentious shop maintains a cozy feel, and you can sit and enjoy steaming hot nabe-yaki ramen at either the counter or the tables/raised seating. The chicken-based stock is a pleasant soy flavor, with thin straight noodles, and completed with chicken, fish cakes, onions, and raw egg. The remaining soup makes great porridge if you add in some rice. Souvenir ramen is also available for purchase.
  • Ichiba no Meshiya Hama-chan
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    4.0
    11 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kouchi Pref. Takaokagunnakatosachou Kure 6370-2
    This diner is located inside the Kure Taisho Town Market in Kure, Nakatosa Town, Takaoka County. It offers set meals and donburi (rice bowls) featuring fresh seasonal seafood including their katsuodon (skipjack tuna on rice), seared skipjack tuna set meals, and more. Restaurant’s staff char-grills a dried fish at the restaurant’s entrance and guests can eat it.

    いつも行列の絶えないお店です。中でも、一押しメニューはカツオ丼です。新鮮なカツオをふんだんに使い、ご飯が見えなくなるほど。極力、地元産のカツオを使用しているので、絶品です。

  • Ganso Perayaki Nishimura
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    4.5
    4 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kochi Tosashimizu-shi Chuocho 6-1-1
    This shop is famous for serving the local “soul food” perayaki, a kind of savory griddle cake. It's like a thin okonomiyaki made with scallions and dried whitebait tempura, and it's topped with Soda-bushi katsuo flakes. There are four flavors of sauce: sweet, normal, spicy, and soy. Prices vary by size. This shop first made pera yaki in 1957. You can sit around a large iron griddle and enjoy it piping hot.

    夏の盛りにランチで行きました。炭火焼とのことで、お店の方は冷房も入れず、厚さに負けず、作っていらっしゃいます。暑いので持ち帰りにしました。お店の方と距離が近いので、涼しい時期にお店で食べることができるなら、地元情報とか教えてくれそうだな、と思いました。

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The largest of Shikoku’s prefectures, Kochi is endowed with some of the island’s most exceptional sand beaches lining the Pacific Ocean, which narrows into the Shimanto-gawa, a huge river that stretches 196 kilometers into the prefecture, passing verdant mountains and hosting countless riverside activities. Whether you’re a pilgrim or not, Kochi’s 16 Buddhist temples that make up one leg of the Shikoku Pilgrimage are worth a visit, particularly Chikurin-ji for its five-tier pagoda.

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