Chiyoda City, Tokyo, Japan｜星ノ灯 神田淡路町店

Absolutely fantastic. Delicious Japanese food (I had stewed tuna and tofu with a side tomato salad) and great selection of nihonshu. The atmosphere is very chilled out (great smooth jazz while I was here) and both the waiter and chef were very courteous. Not sure if they have English menus though. I’d say it’s best for polite company or a date.

First visit. For the first time, I ate Takato soba, which is pickled in spicy grated radish juice. In Shotaro Ikenami's book, there are several descriptions of eating it with radish soup that is so spicy that it makes you cry. When I looked into it, I found out that it was a way of eating that was reimported from Nagano to Fukushima. Adjust the taste by dissolving the grilled miso in the radish soup yourself. At first bite, it's so interesting! The taste of soba stands out from ordinary soba soup. Unlike wasabi, which is spicy and spicy, it is mildly spicy. It's spicy and interesting, but I thought it was a way to eat that came to the stomach later. If you grew up with this, you can understand the feeling of wanting to eat this. So, what about the normal soba noodles in this restaurant? I was worried about it and visited again two days later. This time it's normal soba noodles. The soba soup has a strong bonito flakes and is not sweet. The environment where I grew up tastes like this. This is my favorite flavor. It's not handmade, but I don't mind the thinness of this soba. Soba is also good. Favorite taste for high cost performance. The store is beautiful and it is understandable that there are many female customers. I found a good store near my workplace!

Takato soba only available in summer. Add grated daikon radish and miso to your taste and enjoy. It's refreshing and good. You can also eat grated daikon radish in the mentsuyu at other restaurants. privately I wonder if the grated radish should be more spicy. Even though the amount of soba was large, even women felt cool. It was delicious.