Kawasemi, a famous soba restaurant in Meguro, Tokyo. The place is a little deep, but it's always full of people. "Futari Seiro" is delicious because you can compare the taste of thin soba and thick coarsely ground country soba.

Shops on the banks of the Meguro River

Kawasemi is located a short distance across the river from the west exit of Meguro Station, going down "Gyoninzaka" and passing through "Gajoen". There are many restaurants around, and it is interesting that there is a lunch spot in the middle of the residential area.

The store is calm, but people line up at noon to make it lively. Wait for a while and sit down at the counter. Try ordering "Futari Seiro" (1,250 yen, tax included), where you can eat two types of soba at once. Rice is also included for lunch.

Surprise "Takikomi gohan"

When you drink cold tea and wait, the rice is served first. However, I thought that no side dishes would be a problem, and seasoned it like cooked rice. It can be eaten as a single item. The slightly soy sauce taste is gentle and nostalgic.


When you come to a soba shop, you first feel at home with rice.

Thin buckwheat noodles and thick buckwheat noodles

Next comes a thin soba noodle as a bamboo steamer. The color is white and the texture is smooth. It is well entwined with soba soup, and since it has no peculiarity, you can feel the fragrant tuyu firmly. It goes well with crispy condiment green onions and spicy wasabi, and makes me feel like I'm really enjoying the swanky food that has been around since the Edo period.


Then, "coarsely ground countryside soba" comes out. This is a rough buckwheat noodle with thick pieces of black buckwheat. Anyway, when I look around, it's chewy. This is the place to enjoy the chewy texture. The soba flavor also seems to be encouraging.


If anything, I prefer thick, coarsely ground countryside buckwheat noodles, but the contrast is clear and I feel that I can enjoy it more because I compare it with thin buckwheat noodles.

Even if I try to scrutinize which one is better, it disappears in a blink of an eye while I put it on the tuyu alternately and taste it. It's a little unsatisfactory when combined with the rice that came out first. When I was wondering if I should have made it big, Soba-yu came.

Soba hot water makes your stomach sick

Soba-to has a stronger soba scent than countryside soba. If you break the soba soup with this and drink it, you can see the taste of the tuyu again. At first, enjoy the strong taste of tuyu, and as you break it up little by little, you can enjoy the lighter and softer taste of soba hot water. By the time I finished drinking everything, I was hungry.

Take a big breath and then stand up. At one lunch, I thought I saw the various faces of the soba dish one after another.