Best Special Menu In Kanazawa

Here're best Special Menu in Kanazawa. We released a ranking of reviews about Special Menu posted by travel influencers who have actually been to Kanazawa.

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1

The chef trained at a starred restaurant in Barcelona, Spain, then, Respiracion creates the Spanish cuisine assimilating culture and history at a hometown Kanazawa. Its superb paella and arrangement associated with Kenroku-en Garden, will fascinate our tastes and eyes.

Name

Respiracion

Address

67 Bakuro-machi, Kanazawa-shi, IshikawaGoogle Map

Tel

076-225-8681

Hours

12:00-15:00,18:00-24:00

Closed

Mon

How to get there

7 min by car, from Kanazawa Station

Parking

No parking area

2

A local specialty, Seared Yellowtail (Buri-no Tataki) which I had for the first time in Kanazawa, is so delicious that I want to tell my friends! At this restaurant, you can taste both of savory seared surface and sashimi with just enough fat. What's more, additional Rosy Seabass (Nodoguro) makes me satisfied very much.◎Ushioya is an originator of Seared Yellowtail (Buri-no Tataki) in Kanazawa, Japan. They use rare salt made from the sea water of Noto Peninsula, and sear it by hand. Ushioya has its restaurants at Higashi Chayagai and Omi-cho Market.

Name

USHIOYA Higashi Chayagai

Address

1-7-9 Higashiyama, Kanazawa-shi, IshikawaGoogle Map

Tel

076-201-8408

Hours

10:00-17:00

Closed

Tue

How to get there

3

Morihachi is a long established shop of wagashi, Japanese traditional confectionary. Their cafe opens in an old house at Higashi Chayagai District, Kanazawa. These lovely sweets has excellent sweetness with maccha (green tea), and superb smooth texture, which you can taste the Japanese prominent skills.◎Maccha & Sweets Set 700yen. They offered three different kinds of wagashi when we ordered for three people, what a nice kindness! What's more, coffee or Kaga Boucha (roasted Japanese tea) with Morihachi's sweets.

Name

MORIHACHI Higashi Sambancho

Address

1-13-9 Higashiyama, Kanazawa-shi, IshikawaGoogle Map

Tel

076-253-0887

Hours

9:30-17:30

How to get there

4

The seafood sent directly from the local fishery, the traditional Kaga Vegetables and various kinds of sake. You can eat all of Ishikawa's food. The seasonal sashimi is fresh and excellent with the local sake. And the local egg's omelet (dashi-maki) is very delicious, fluffy and mild.◎Open: 17:30-23:30 Regular holiday: Sundays

Name

ITARU

Address

3-8 Kakinoki Batake, Kanazawa-shi, IshikawaGoogle Map

5

A pancake café that is said to be the best in Kanazawa located on a corner of Higashi Chaya-machi. It contains full of air and its fluffy feeling of taste must make you addicted. You have to make a reservation because the café is filled to capacity as soon as they open.

Name

fluffy

Address

1-23-10 Higashiyama, Kanazawa-shi, IshikawaGoogle Map

Tel

076-225-8312

Hours

9:00-17:00 [2nd・4thTri]12:00-

Closed

Mon,1st・3rd・5th Tri

How to get there

6

Kaikaro in Higashi chaya-gai. They refuse the first time customers for Ozashiki (tatami mat room) at night, but you can look in the house and enter the café at day time. I recommend you a 'golden kuzukiri'. Both of the looks and taste are very gorgeous.

Name

Kaikaro

Address

1-14-8 Higashiyama, Kanazawa-shi, IshikawaGoogle Map

Tel

076-253-0591

Hours

9:00-17:00

How to get there

7

Gorgeous lunch with an ama-zake aperitif, 7-9 kinds in season, unpolished rice, miso soup, dessert uses melted rice, and drink. Only 30 dishes in a day, and you have to make a reservation!

Name

Yamato Shoyu Miso

Address

4 E 170 Ono-machi, Kanazawa-shi, IshikawaGoogle Map

Tel

076-266-8500

Hours

11:30-14:00

Closed

Wed,1st・3rd Tue

How to get there

8

A set breakfast of fastidiously prepared toasted bread, salad, fried egg and freshly ground coffee for 600 yen, from 7:00 to 10:00. If the café isn't crowded, you can ask for a change the fried egg to omelet.

Name

Café Sotsu

Address

1-8-26 Hikoso-machi, Kanazawa-shi, IshikawaGoogle Map

Tel

076-233-3113

Hours

7:00-17:00

Closed

Mon

How to get there

9

Aromatic smell and leisurely time fill up the calm café renovated from an old house built 150 years before, and it's an ideal place for a rest during your sightseeing. With roasted tea (houji-cha in Japanese), a Kanazawa's proud Japanese sweet is prepared together. They pick also the plates they use, so you can enjoy the tablewares, too.

Name

Saboissyo

Address

1-26-13 Higashiyama, Kanazawa-shi, IshikawaGoogle Map

Tel

076-251-0108

Hours

10:00-18:00

Closed

Mon

How to get there

10

When you visit Kanazawa, should eat a delicious seafood bowl: kaisen-don. Oumi-cho Shokudo restaurant has been loved by the local people at the Omi-cho market that is called a kitchen of Kanazawa. Kaisen-don with lots of fresh seafood on it and eat it in a lively restaurant, that must be superb!

Name

Oumi-cho Shokudo

Address

Aokusa-machi, Kanazawa-shi, IshikawaGoogle Map

Tel

076-221-5377

Hours

10:30-15:00,17:00-22:00 [Sun]10:30-15:00,17:00-20:00

11

Strawberry zenzai ¥1,100 (tax included). The shop, which was just reopened on February 10th, was quaint and had a very nice space. The zenzai, with its fluffy strawberry flavor, was very delicious. It also contains chewy rice flour dumplings.

Name

Cafe Kan Main-Store

Address

2-11-29 Owari-cho, Kanazawa-shi, Ishikawa, JapanGoogle Map

Hours

10:30-18:00

Closed

Wed

How to get there

7 min by car, from Kanazawa Station

12

¥3,600 (tax included). Sensai Enishi's specialty "Nodokuro Hitsumabushi" at Omicho Market. It's in a golden container and has gold leaf on it like Kanazawa, so it looks really gorgeous. I get excited even before eating. Fatty blackthroat seaperch is exquisite.

Name

Sensai Enishi

Address

88 Aokusamachi, Kanazawa-shi, Ishikawa, JapanGoogle Map

Tel

076-231-2211

Hours

10:00-14:00,17:00-22:00

How to get there

5 min by car, from Kanazawa

13

Drinking a delicious cup of coffee, you can enjoy solving riddles at this unique café. There are full of interesting devices here and there worthy of the name mystery café.

Name

Nazo-ya Café

Address

19-6 Yasue-cho, Kanazawa-shi, IshikawaGoogle Map

Tel

076-208-3728

Hours

7:00-22:00 [Sun]7:00-19:00

Closed

Tue

How to get there

14

People have made oshi-zushi on a festival day in Kanazawa since the old time. At this restaurant in Higashi Chayamachi, you can try to make it with mothers here, and enjoy eating the local dishes in Kanazawa.

Name

Kanazawa Sushi

Address

1-15-6 Higashiyama, Kanazawa-shi, IshikawaGoogle Map

Tel

076-251-8869

Hours

10:00-15:00

15

The first floor is a shop, and the second floor is a café that serves desserts and drinks of chocolate, tapas, and alcoholic drinks such as Spanish beer and wine. They sometimes hold events suitable for Kanazawa, and anyone can take part.

Name

CACAO SAMPAKA

Address

2-24-2 Nomachi, Kanazawa-shi, IshikawaGoogle Map

Tel

076-256-3338

Hours

11:00-22:00 [Sun]11:00-18:00

16

Kaga fu has been developed in the cultural climate in Kanazawa. A tea room of a long-established restaurant Fumuro-ya, you can enjoy tasting the creative and interesting dishes that its image you have may be exploded admirably.

Name

Kagafu Fumuro-ya

Address

2-3-1 Owari-cho, Kanazawa-shi, IshikawaGoogle Map

Tel

076-224-2886

Hours

11:30-18:00

Closed

Tue

17

Taro' is a restaurant specializes in Nabe (Japanese meal cooked in a pot at the table), and needs to make a reservation. Between September and June, Yose-nabe for the Locally grown fresh seafood and vegetables with a secret soup is really superb. It must be so delicious you can hardly bear it!

Name

Taro

Address

2-7 Kazue-machi, Kanazawa-shi, IshikawaGoogle Map

Tel

076-231-5152

Hours

12:00-22:00

18

They use the local foodstuffs such as meat, rice and vegetables of course, even soy sauce and seasonings. And no flour nor sugar for carry sauce. So this 'Kanazawa Curry' is healthy and doesn't cause upset stomach. I don't get tired if I eat it everyday.

Name

Kanazawa Nanahoshi Curry

Address

1-2-18 Hirosaska, Kanazawa-shi, IshikawaGoogle Map

Tel

076-232-5707

Hours

11:00-19:30

Closed

Mon

How to get there

19

The first floor of the shop is lacquer ware for everyday use, the second is Wajima-nuri (the local lacquer ware), the third is tools for tea ceremony and Kaga-makie (gold and silver lacquer) and the fourth is a café. A glossy lacquer ware and Japanese sweets beautifully arranged on it, is too good to eat. And more, of course, it's delicious.

Name

Sweets Shop Urushi-no Mi

Address

1-1-60 Hirosaka, Kanazawa-shi, IshikawaGoogle Map

Tel

076-263-8121

Hours

11:00-18:30 [Sat・Sun・Holidays]10:00-18:30

Closed

Wed

How to get there

20

Very thinly shaved ice containing air is so fluffy that seems to melt only at a touch. It's excellent with homemade syrup of seasonal food. You can eat it all easily though it looks big.

Name

Tsubomi

Address

3-1 Kakinokibatake, Kanazawa-shi, IshikawaGoogle Map

Tel

076-232-3388

Hours

11:00-19:00

Closed

Wed

How to get there

21

Very nice combination of hot melonpan (melon-shaped bun) & cold ice cream became popular in no time. Now you can eat it all over Japan, but you must eat the original one in Kanazawa main store!

Name

The Second Best Freshly Baked Molonpan Ice In The World (Sekai de nibamme ni oisii yakitate melonpan aisu)

Address

1-1-53 Hirosaka, Kanazawa-shi, IshikawaGoogle Map

Tel

080-9453-6086

Hours

7:00-19:00

22

Kanazawa is famous for its fresh and delicious fish. Among them, throat black is popular and there are some specialty shops. Among them, I went to the throat blackened main office. I only have black throat here, and I divide it like a hitsumabushi and eat it. At first it is as it is. Next, eat it with condiments and have it with throat black soup stock. This soup stock is really delicious.

Name

Nodoguromeshihonpo Itaru

Address

2-7-5 Kanamachi, Kanazawa-shi, Ishikawa, JapanGoogle Map

Tel

076-233-1147

Hours

17:30-23:30

Closed

Sun

How to get there

10 min walk, from Kanazawa Station

23

Ketchup rice, fluffy egg, fried whitefish and shrimp. On all of those, ketchup and tartar sauce are decoratively spread. For it has plenty amount, visit this restaurant after you become hungry. They have smaller size, too.

Name

Grill Otsuka

Address

2-9-15 Kata-machi, Kanazawa-shi, IshikawaGoogle Map

Tel

076-221-2646

Hours

11:00-19:50

Closed

Wed

24

People in this area call rosy seabass "nodoguro". You should eat the fish if you visit Kanazawa.

Name

Sushi Reki Reki Omi-cho

Address

27-1 Jitsukenmachi, Kanazawa-shi, IshikawaGoogle Map

Tel

076-254-5067

Hours

11:30-14:00,17:30-21:00

Closed

Mon

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Lunch Restaurants

USHIOYA Higashi Chayagai

2 Reviews

A local specialty, Seared Yellowtail (Buri-no Tataki) which I had for the first time in Kanazawa, is so delicious that I want to tell my friends! At this restaurant, you can taste both of savory seared surface and sashimi with just enough fat. What's more, additional Rosy Seabass (Nodoguro) makes me satisfied very much.◎Ushioya is an originator of Seared Yellowtail (Buri-no Tataki) in Kanazawa, Japan. They use rare salt made from the sea water of Noto Peninsula, and sear it by hand. Ushioya has its restaurants at Higashi Chayagai and Omi-cho Market.

Yamato Shoyu Miso

1 Reviews

Gorgeous lunch with an ama-zake aperitif, 7-9 kinds in season, unpolished rice, miso soup, dessert uses melted rice, and drink. Only 30 dishes in a day, and you have to make a reservation!

Kanazawa Nanahoshi Curry

1 Reviews

They use the local foodstuffs such as meat, rice and vegetables of course, even soy sauce and seasonings. And no flour nor sugar for carry sauce. So this 'Kanazawa Curry' is healthy and doesn't cause upset stomach. I don't get tired if I eat it everyday.

Local Specialty Restaurants

USHIOYA Higashi Chayagai

2 Reviews

At a restaurant 'Ushioya' in Higashi Chayagai District, Kanazawa, you can eat Donburi (rice bowl) and Zosui (rice porridge) of seafood caught in Ishikawa Prefecture. I ordered Ushioya Special Set for which the chef decides the seafood on that day. That was a really gorgeous Donburi with their specialty Seared Yellowtail (Buri-no Tataki) and sea urchin egg!◎Ushioya is an originator of Seared Yellowtail (Buri-no Tataki) in Kanazawa, Japan. Rice bowl of Seared Yellowtail which is the best seller, and Rosy Seabass with rice in soup stock (Nodoguro Chazuke), and so on. I love the seafood of the Sea of Japan!

Yamato Shoyu Miso

1 Reviews

Gorgeous lunch with an ama-zake aperitif, 7-9 kinds in season, unpolished rice, miso soup, dessert uses melted rice, and drink. Only 30 dishes in a day, and you have to make a reservation!

Saboissyo

1 Reviews

Aromatic smell and leisurely time fill up the calm café renovated from an old house built 150 years before, and it's an ideal place for a rest during your sightseeing. With roasted tea (houji-cha in Japanese), a Kanazawa's proud Japanese sweet is prepared together. They pick also the plates they use, so you can enjoy the tablewares, too.

Sweet Shops

MORIHACHI Higashi Sambancho

1 Reviews

Morihachi is a long established shop of wagashi, Japanese traditional confectionary. Their cafe opens in an old house at Higashi Chayagai District, Kanazawa. These lovely sweets has excellent sweetness with maccha (green tea), and superb smooth texture, which you can taste the Japanese prominent skills.◎Maccha & Sweets Set 700yen. They offered three different kinds of wagashi when we ordered for three people, what a nice kindness! What's more, coffee or Kaga Boucha (roasted Japanese tea) with Morihachi's sweets.

fluffy

1 Reviews

A pancake café that is said to be the best in Kanazawa located on a corner of Higashi Chaya-machi. It contains full of air and its fluffy feeling of taste must make you addicted. You have to make a reservation because the café is filled to capacity as soon as they open.

Kaikaro

1 Reviews

Kaikaro in Higashi chaya-gai. They refuse the first time customers for Ozashiki (tatami mat room) at night, but you can look in the house and enter the café at day time. I recommend you a 'golden kuzukiri'. Both of the looks and taste are very gorgeous.

Seafood Restaurants

USHIOYA Higashi Chayagai

2 Reviews

A local specialty, Seared Yellowtail (Buri-no Tataki) which I had for the first time in Kanazawa, is so delicious that I want to tell my friends! At this restaurant, you can taste both of savory seared surface and sashimi with just enough fat. What's more, additional Rosy Seabass (Nodoguro) makes me satisfied very much.◎Ushioya is an originator of Seared Yellowtail (Buri-no Tataki) in Kanazawa, Japan. They use rare salt made from the sea water of Noto Peninsula, and sear it by hand. Ushioya has its restaurants at Higashi Chayagai and Omi-cho Market.

ITARU

1 Reviews

The seafood sent directly from the local fishery, the traditional Kaga Vegetables and various kinds of sake. You can eat all of Ishikawa's food. The seasonal sashimi is fresh and excellent with the local sake. And the local egg's omelet (dashi-maki) is very delicious, fluffy and mild.◎Open: 17:30-23:30 Regular holiday: Sundays

Oumi-cho Shokudo

1 Reviews

When you visit Kanazawa, should eat a delicious seafood bowl: kaisen-don. Oumi-cho Shokudo restaurant has been loved by the local people at the Omi-cho market that is called a kitchen of Kanazawa. Kaisen-don with lots of fresh seafood on it and eat it in a lively restaurant, that must be superb!

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Respiracion

2 Reviews

The chef trained at a starred restaurant in Barcelona, Spain, then, Respiracion creates the Spanish cuisine assimilating culture and history at a hometown Kanazawa. Its superb paella and arrangement associated with Kenroku-en Garden, will fascinate our tastes and eyes.

Cafe Kan Main-Store

1 Reviews

Strawberry zenzai ¥1,100 (tax included). The shop, which was just reopened on February 10th, was quaint and had a very nice space. The zenzai, with its fluffy strawberry flavor, was very delicious. It also contains chewy rice flour dumplings.

Sensai Enishi

1 Reviews

¥3,600 (tax included). Sensai Enishi's specialty "Nodokuro Hitsumabushi" at Omicho Market. It's in a golden container and has gold leaf on it like Kanazawa, so it looks really gorgeous. I get excited even before eating. Fatty blackthroat seaperch is exquisite.

Higashichayagai

USHIOYA Higashi Chayagai

2 Reviews

A local specialty, Seared Yellowtail (Buri-no Tataki) which I had for the first time in Kanazawa, is so delicious that I want to tell my friends! At this restaurant, you can taste both of savory seared surface and sashimi with just enough fat. What's more, additional Rosy Seabass (Nodoguro) makes me satisfied very much.◎Ushioya is an originator of Seared Yellowtail (Buri-no Tataki) in Kanazawa, Japan. They use rare salt made from the sea water of Noto Peninsula, and sear it by hand. Ushioya has its restaurants at Higashi Chayagai and Omi-cho Market.

MORIHACHI Higashi Sambancho

1 Reviews

Morihachi is a long established shop of wagashi, Japanese traditional confectionary. Their cafe opens in an old house at Higashi Chayagai District, Kanazawa. These lovely sweets has excellent sweetness with maccha (green tea), and superb smooth texture, which you can taste the Japanese prominent skills.◎Maccha & Sweets Set 700yen. They offered three different kinds of wagashi when we ordered for three people, what a nice kindness! What's more, coffee or Kaga Boucha (roasted Japanese tea) with Morihachi's sweets.

Kaikaro

1 Reviews

Kaikaro in Higashi chaya-gai. They refuse the first time customers for Ozashiki (tatami mat room) at night, but you can look in the house and enter the café at day time. I recommend you a 'golden kuzukiri'. Both of the looks and taste are very gorgeous.

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