[Tokyo] Weekends only soba restaurant Nichiyoan (日曜庵) in Shibamata

Recently I really eat soba so frequently. I feel I’m elderly man 😛 I went to Shibamata to eat soba with my friend the other day. Nichiyoan (日曜庵) is popular soba restaurant. But they are open only on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Speaking of Shibamata, it is very famous as “Tora-san” and Shibamata Taishakuten temple.

Menu. Everything is cold soba.

I found they have limited soba. Suzumi soba. I decided to eat it.

First, we ate sobagaki. I like sobagaki.

The sobagaki was brought to our table with wasabi and perilla oil. It’s texture was like freshly pounded rice cakes ! It’s very springy and tasty ! The flavor of soba was great. And we ate it with perilla oil and also it was good. Delicate flavor of perilla spread in my mouth.

After a while, my soba was served. Suzumi soba. With Japanese ginger, green onions and plum.

“Suzumi” means cool or cold in English. As its name, it is only Summer season. I think it won’t be served next month. This soba is very narrow like somen. The soup have Laminaria ochotensis and green tea from Shizuoka prefecture. I say honestly. I don’t like the soup because it’s seasoned very very lightly. Elder lady next to us enjoyed it. I think it’s for enjoying the flavor of green tea.

Usually we mix sobayu and leftover strong soup and drink it, but my soup was very weak. So my friend gave me his soup. This sobayu was very strong and tasty,