Gourmet / Alcohol Spots in Kumamoto City Area

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Kumamoto City

Category

Gourmet / Alcohol

KOKUTEI Kumamoto Ramen (Main Restaurant)

4.0

157 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Pref. Kumamotoshinishiku Nihongi 2-1-23

This ramen shop in Nishi Ward, Kumamoto City serves Kumamoto ramen made with garlic oil, noodles, and chashu pork they produce themselves. Their noodles are medium-thick and nicely textured. They go great with the shop's fragrant charred garlic oil which is slightly bitter and pork bone broth, which isn't too fatty and has a smooth aftertaste. Their carefully selected fresh eggs with beautiful yolks make the perfect addition.

I was told the ramen in Kumamoto is known for their garlic tasting ramen.... that being said made me very leary as garlic doesnt agree with my tummy these days. When re received the bowl, the...
Koran-tei Shimotori Main Store

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Kumamoto-shi Chuo-ku Anseimachi 5-26
Aoyagi

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Pref. Kumamotoshichuouku Shimotori 1-4-26 Link Place Building 1F

This restaurant located in Chuo Ward, Kumamoto City serves local cuisine. They offer a variety of raw horse meat sashimi dishes, spicy mustard filled lotus root, fresh Amakusa seafood, and seasonal Kumamoto fare. Their Honmaru Gozen Japanese style meal sets featuring local heirloom varieties of komatsuna greens, bean sprouts, and bobura squash revive the Edo period cuisine of the region.
Katsuretsu Tei (Shinshigai Main Restaurant)

4.5

439 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Pref. Kumamotoshichuouku Shinshigai 8-18 Hayashi Building 1F

This Japanese restaurant specializing in pork cutlets is in Chuo Ward, Kumamoto City. They use high-quality Roppaku Kurobuta brand pork raised on Kagoshima's Kirishima Highlands. Their signature tonkatsu fried cutlets are served piping hot and have a savoriness you're going to love. Extra helpings of rice, cabbage salad, and akadashi miso soup are included with the price of your meal.

We ordered combo loin and fillet sets with premium ebi. The portions were so large that we were filled to the brim. Though many items are free-flow, we had no need for it. We also had hot sake and...
Kumamoto Castle Sakuranobaba Josaien

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Pref. Kumamotoshichuouku Ninomaru 1-1-2

This is a sightseeing facility located in Sakuranobaba, at the foot of Kumamoto Castle, the symbol of Kumamoto. The facility consists of an area of souvenir shops, and eateries where you can try local Kumamoto cuisine, and Wakuwakuza, an experiential type exhibit, where you can learn about the history of Kumamoto Castle. A volunteer guide, who can show you Kumamoto Castle in about an hour, is always present at the general Tourist Information Center in the facility. It is a seven-minute walk from the “Hanabata-cho” tram stop.
Umazakura (Shimotori Shop)

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Pref. Kumamotoshichuouku Shimotori 1-12-1 Mitsuen Building 2F

This restaurant located in Chuo Ward, Kumamoto City serves local cuisine. They specialize in fresh and delicious fare featuring horse meat, a Kumamoto local favorite. You can try it raw sashimi style, steamed on a bamboo tray, or in a hot pot. They also have creative dishes you won't find at other shops like horse offal stew and Tataki (seared horse). They're famous for their horse steaks, which are particularly juicy when rare.
Suganoya Horumon Shinshigai Restaurant

4.0

32 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Kumamoto-shi Chuo-ku Shinshigai 2-10 Comfort Hotel Kumamoto 1F

Suganoya Horumon is a restaurant specializing in horsemeat located in Shinshigai 2 Chome, Chuo Ward, in the city of Kumamoto. In addition to the usual raw horsemeat, customers can try unusual organ meats raw, grilled, or in chitterling stews. The most popular menu items are Ganso Suganoya Chitterlings in Soy Sauce and Seven Types of Raw Horsemeat. There are also prix fixe meals featuring grilled horsemeat.

熊本まで来たので、美味しい馬肉が食べたいと思い、「菅乃屋新市街店」さんへやってきました。私はギリギリ入店することができたのですが、私以降の方は満席でお断りされていました。人気のお店ですね。まずは、レモンサワーでスタート！！お通しは、馬のネギトロ、ミートソース味で超美味いっす！！ [レバー刺し] 数量限定というレバー刺しをまずはオーダー！！新鮮なレバー刺しは最初コリコリ食感で、口の中...
Komurasaki Kamitori Chuo Branch

4.0

68 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Pref. Kumamotoshichuouku Kamitorichou 8-16

Founded in 1954, this is a popular Kumamoto ramen shop located in the Kamitori arcade shopping area. Although pork bones are used as stock, the ramen is light and healthy with not so much fat content and mixes well with the thin noodles. The taste has been handed down from the first generation. The balance of fine bean sprouts, chashu (a thin roasted pork fillet), and charred garlic as soup toppings is exquisite. It is a seven-minute walk from the “Torichosuji” tram stop.

We were recommended by a staff from Hotel Wing International to try Tonkatsu ramen in this shop. Overall ramen is nice except the soup was a too salty for me. The pork was nice, melting and tender...
Tengoku Horse Meat Specialty Restaurant

4.0

25 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Pref. Kumamotoshinishiku Nihongi 2-13-12 Heaven Building 2F

This restaurant in Nihongi, Kumamoto City serves local fare with a focus on cuisine featuring horse meat. Items include horse steak, horse shabushabu (a Japanese hotpot dish of thinly sliced meat boiled with vegetables and dipped in sauce) and horse intestine stew, as well as raw horse sashimi. Their Special Selection Course provides the chance to try a variety of horse dishes.

熊本名物の馬肉料理を提供するレストラン。人気店との事ですが、平日のオープンと同時だったの直ぐに席に着けました。ミニ馬刺盛６種とひれステーキのスペシャル定食（3300円）をオーダー、ステーキは細切れで食べ応えが乏しかったです。 Paypayなどの電子マネーは使えませんでした。
Daikoku Ramen

4.0

57 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Pref. Kumamotoshikitaku Takahira 1-1-14

This ramen shop is located in Kita Ward, Kumamoto City. Their authentic Kumamoto ramen has won them lots of fans even beyond the prefecture. It features a super aromatic 100% pork bone stock perfectly paired with charred garlic. The deep flavors of half-cooked egg and sliced chashu pork go great with the broth. Their slowly simmered pork offal side dish is popular too.

月曜日のランチタイムでしたが、駐車場にはすんなり入ることが出来ました。以外にあっさりとしていて、食べ易かったです。シンプルにラーメンと餃子をチョイス。リーズナブルだし、駐車場もあるので、オススメです。
Suganoya Ginza-dori Shop

4.0

70 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Pref. Kumamotoshichuouku Shimotori 1-9-10 TM 21 building BF

Suganoya is a restaurant specializing in horsemeat, located along Ginza-dori Avenue in Shimotori 1 Chome, Chuo Ward, in the city of Kumamoto. Diners can enjoy horse meat in several forms: raw, grilled, in a stew, or in “sushi.” They can also try raw horse liver or rare organ meats. Full-course meals are available in the evening, and at lunchtime, diners can choose steaks or raw horsemeat set meals.

SUGANOYA offers horse cuisine which they make certain you understand before seating you. This is a nice gesture on their part as I can see being a clueless tourist and not knowing what you are...
Keika Ramen (Main Restaurant)

4.0

139 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Pref. Kumamotoshichuouku Hanabatachou 11-9K-1 Building 1F

This ramen shop in Chuo Ward, Kumamoto City is the main store of a national chain specializing in Kumamoto ramen noodles. The ramen features heaps of raw cabbage and Taarou, cubed pork belly simmered in soy-sauce based sauce. Taking full advantage of natural ingredients, they serve remarkably savory, aromatic and fresh ramen noodles. In addition to their hallmark Keika Ramen, their hearty bowls of noodles include their Taarou-men and Chashu-men.

Tasty and favorful ramen in Kumamoto. Just try one bowl. The noodle is in good condition (au dente) The gyoza is great as well. Close to Kumamoto Castle. You have to use the kiosk for ordering...
Hayashi no Ikinari Dango

4.0

21 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Pref. Kumamotoshichuouku Suizenjikouen 7-2

This shop in Chuo Ward, Kumamoto City sells Ikinari Dango Dumplings, a local sweet. Customers from around the country order their Ikinari Dango, made with domestically produced bean paste and sweet potatoes purchased from contract farmers. The shop's unique murasaki-imo manju buns are popular too, with purple sweet potato mixed into the dough. It is located on the approach to Suizenji Park, and when the weather is good, people like to sit and enjoy their sweets in the chairs in front of the store.

1個から販売していただけて、冷たいお茶を「暑いからね、飲んでくださいね」とその場で食べない自分にもお気遣いいただきました。ホカホカのいきなり団子もとても美味しかったです。
Ramen Kei-Daishogun

4.5

9 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Pref. Kumamotoshichuouku Honjou 5-10-48

This ramen shop is located in Chuo Ward, Kumamoto City. It's known for its light flavored pork bone stock. Their popular Roast Pork Ramen features thick chashu pork slices with a nice, fatty texture that have been slowly marinated in a sauce made with carefully selected seasonings. The rich soup coats the noodles nicely. This shop gets lots of repeat customers, even from other prefectures.

熊本ラーメンなら大将軍一択。もう他に考える必要はない。比較もいらない、説明もいらない。店は狭いが回転は速い。美味しいものを食べるとき、箸が進んであっという間に食事は終わるものだからだ。
Menshonin

4.0

18 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Pref. Kumamotoshichuouku Izumi 3-4-18 Suminaga Building 1F

This ramen noodle shop is in Chuo Ward, Kumamoto City. It's unusual for Kumamoto in that they serve Niboshi Chuka Soba, a noodle dish incorporating Aomori dried sardines. The mellow broth with its sardine accents goes great with the firm, wavy noodles. It's one of their hallmark items, along with their thick and rich Kumamoto tonkotsu pork bone ramen, Noko Shonin Ramen.

ミシュランビブグルマンに選ばれた名店に初めて入りました。通常木曜日が定休日みたいですがブログで見たらGWの関係なのか開いていましたので行ってみました。案の定お昼時でしたがガラガラですんなり入れました。背脂煮干しを注文しましたが5分もしないうちに出てきました。背脂入りでもあっさりと感じるもののしっかりした出汁スープに中太ストレート麺が合ってます。ブラックペッパーとか薬味がなかったので、あれば途中か...
Suganoya (Kumamoto Johsaien Sakuranokoji Store)

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Pref. Kumamotoshichuouku Ninomaru 1-14

This restaurant in Chuo Ward, Kumamoto City specializes in cuisine featuring fresh, high quality horse meat. They serve different cuts of horse meat as sashimi, as well as relatively accessible horse meat croquettes that are great for eating while walking around town. Items like their horse meat curry buns are popular presents.
Shiromiyagura

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Pref. Kumamotoshichuouku Hanabatachou 1-10 Kumamoto Castle Nagahori-mae

This restaurant located in Chuo Ward, Kumamoto City serves local cuisine including spicy mustard filled lotus root, hitomoji-no-guruguru (boiled green onions tied in a knot), and raw horse meat sashimi, a local Kumamoto favorite. These dishes are featured in their Aso Kaiseki sets which showcase the flavors of Kumamoto. Their Shiromi Kaiseki sets mainly consist of seasonal Japanese fare. All-you-can-drink options and other plans are available, too. They have private rooms and a banquet area where you can dine while gazing out at Kumamoto Castle. Reservations are required.
Ginnan Buffet-style Restaurant

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Pref. Kumamotoshichuouku Ninomaru 1-1-2

This restaurant located near Kumamoto Castle serves fare made with locally source, seasonal ingredients, including a wide variety of creative and regional dishes. They also always have about 40 kinds of dessert on offer, so there's something for everyone. In the evening, they also have pork seiro mushi and shabu-shabu made in a traditional steamer with meat from a local Aso farm for an additional charge.
Chez Tani, Kengun Store Chez Tani, Kengun Store

4.0

1 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Kumamoto-shi Higashi-ku Hanatate 3-15-14

熊本市東区花立にある[シェタニ健軍店]さんにお邪魔です。道沿いよ大きいスーパーのすぐ裏手にあり駐車場も10台程駐車出来ます。オーダー・クッキーシュー→167円...
Chez Tani, Ryudan Store

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Kumamoto-shi Minami-ku Mawatari 2-3-36

Kumamoto Kumamoto City

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Kumamoto Areas

Kumamoto lies in the center of Kyushu, a calm prefecture perfect for easy strolls around the historic center and lazy evenings in the natural hot springs at Kurokawa Onsen. For a slightly more strenuous activity, head to Mount Aso, whose surrounding hills offer hiking opportunities aplenty with views over the active volcano.