Yabukyu

"Zaru-soba" is a chilled noodle dish that is served with a dipping sauce and shredded dried laver on a woven bamboo tray, called a zaru. Because soba has a light flavor, it is often ordered with tempura. Today I added seasonal vegetable tempura. Soba is simple but profound. People have their o...wn preferences for noodles and soup stock. There are many soba restaurants in Tokyo, where soba is the home, but I like YABU-KYU's soba because it is well-balanced. Unfortunately, it wasn't available today, but next time I come, I'll shurely choice the SPRING vegetable tempra in spring season. You can feel Japanese spring in your mouce. This place is real. Visit: You2be:"The Far East Eating Out club":You can get more visual explanation.

Visited March 2024

My family and I visited this soba restaurant for lunch. The restaurant is located in a business district near Nihonbashi, and despite being a Saturday, there was already a line when we arrived before noon. The restaurant seems to be famous for its curry namban udon, a bowl of udon noodles with soup ...based on curry sauce. Interestingly, you can choose how spicy you want your curry soup. My family went for it, asking for mild spiciness, and it was very good. I had the maitake tempura seiro, that is, cold soba noodles with a side of maitake mushroom tempura, which was also delicious. A nice soba restaurant providing decent food.

Visited January 2018

This lovely restaurant is one of several located near the Ryogoku Kokugikan, where the sumo tournaments occur in Tokyo. The generous serving of soba is outstanding in a miso-based soup. I couldn't get over how fresh and full of taste the soba noodles were. They serve a lovely soba-based (buckwheat) ...tea when you sit down and have a variety of seasonal dishes. The tempura was also quite delicious and the hot sake very satisfying on a cold winter day. They do, in fact, have an English menu (ask for it) which gives some traditional background on how soba restaurants in the Edo period served their meals (start with sake, a light appetizer, followed by the soba). There was one young wait staff that spoke enough English to assist us in ordering 1 bottle of sake and 2 cups (rather than 2 bottles and 1 cup each). The wait staff was attentive and food served very quickly. We highly recommend this lovely little place just outside the JR train station

Visited January 2018

Wandered in this place one evening. No English menu, and staff did not speak English, but they asked around and got a kind customer to translate the menu for me. I had buckwheat soba noodles with shrimp and vegetable tempura. I thought they were good and the serving size quite generous. Service was ...quick, I thought my meal was very good. One negative is that smoking is allowed, and this being Tokyo, many people were lighting up. Moderate prices, about 1800-2200 yen range.

Visited September 2016