Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan｜Koedo Country Farm Kitchen

If you're in the area and miss this wonderful niche for lunch, you missed out on some amazing Kawagoe home cooking.

Healthy, delicious vegetables

It is located a short walk straight across the street from Renkei Temple. If you don't know about it, you won't be able to enter because it looks like a small greengrocer's storefront and doesn't really look like a restaurant. The signboard says that you can eat there, but even if you take a quick look inside, it looks like there are side dishes lined up. For a long time, I didn't notice how fake it looked. Actually, if you go up the stairs from the back left of the store, the second floor is the eat-in space. Large plates of mainly vegetable dishes are lined up on the first floor, and those who order take-out can fill up their own containers and buy them to take home, while those who eat them can put them on their own plates and go up to the second floor to eat. There is a plate course where you can only serve once, and a buffet where you can go up and down the stairs many times, so I chose the buffet. By the way, when I imagined a small glass and added a 200 yen glass of beer, I was surprised to see that it was full of Heartland Beer. For other people who eat on the go, just one plate will be enough, and for those who want to take their time, there is a chance that they will change to a different dish when they run out of large plates. There are many different types of platters and plates, and if it's your first time, you might be overwhelmed by the amount of information and get confused, like I was. Cooked rice and rich vegetable soup, white rice and curry, a little pasta, gapao/grilled ginger, boiled vegetables/salad, etc. + beer...my stomach is full. I gave up on dessert and enjoyed the all-you-can-drink soft drinks and a cup of coffee at the end. I went in after 2:30pm on a weekday, and it seemed like it was full until a while ago. In fact, it was a highly recommended restaurant for vegetable lovers. It's a small shop, so you might want to take some time off to visit.