Yoshimura

A small soba restaurant around the Toshodai-ji and Yakushi-ji area. Since there is not much options around the temples and station, there are people keep coming for dining. The soba is nice while you would be delighted by the mixed vegetables tempura which is not oily but crispy. A little of salt (recommended by the staff) will enhancing the flavor. At last it will serve you a soba soup which you will mix with the serving sauce which is quite a unique experience.

Delicious soba menu.
But i love tempura with shrimp and wild mushrooms

I felt that it was a unique soba among the 100 percent soba noodles. I preferred to eat it with soup rather than with salt or wasabi on top.
The thick soba soup was also delicious.
Came to the store around 12:30 on weekdays. We were lucky enough to be able to sit without lining up, but the lunch and pressed sushi were already sold out.
The kakiage was very delicious.

R5.2.26 First visit
This is a soba restaurant located on the south side of Toshodaiji Temple where you can enjoy Juwari Soba. The zaru type is 100 percent soba. Kake soba (warm soba) type seems to be similar to Kuichi soba.

The location is perfect for visiting while visiting a temple, but it seems to be quite a popular restaurant, so I thought it would be easier to get in if you made a reservation.

There are 7 or 8 parking spaces in front of the store.

Inside the store, there are four tables for four people and five seats at the counter.

There is a paper to write your name on in front of the store, so it seems like you should write your name on it as soon as you arrive. We arrived 15 minutes before opening, so we were the second to fill in.

After the store opens, those with reservations will be called first, so I think it's better to make a reservation and come to the store.

There were about 10 groups of people when the store opened, but only 6 or 7 groups were actually allowed in during the first season, so you may not be able to get in even if you line up before the store opens.

This time I went with my companion.
I ordered the lunch set and my companion ordered the zaru soba and we shared.

For the lunch set, I chose Zaru Soba, but it came with a small bowl of sesame tofu. The small plate also contained fried vegetables, fried pumpkin, fried soba noodles, and two pressed mackerel sushi.

Zaru soba was a chewy, moist soba with a nice aroma.
First, I had it with salt, but the flavor of the soba was very good and I was able to enjoy it. Next, as usual, I topped it with wasabi and ate it with salt, and then I topped it with green onions and ate it with salt. After that, I ate it with the dashi soup and seasonings. Every combination brought out the flavor of the soba and was delicious.
The soup stock was made with kelp and bonito, and the soba noodles were easy to eat. The condiments were raw wasabi and green onions.

The small plate of fried soba noodles was crispy on the outside and moist and mellow on the inside, which my companion enjoyed eating. The mackerel sushi had a little bit of vinegar.

At the end, the soba-yu came out, and it was a creamy and fragrant soba-yu. I was able to enjoy the aroma of soba to the very end along with the dashi soup.

If I have a chance to come here, I would like to visit again.