Speaking of winter, kotatsu. There's never been a happier moment than when you're poking a hot pot while warming up, or squeezing keen and chilled ice.

There is only a short time to enjoy such a kotatsu, and spring is just around the corner. That's why I (the author), who loves kotatsu, will introduce the restaurant "Honke Kanoya" (Yoyogi, Tokyo) where you can enjoy the last "kotatsu rice" this winter to the fullest!


Honke Kanoya is a restaurant where you can enjoy delicious local cuisine and sake from Kagoshima. It is about a 3-minute walk from the east exit of JR Yoyogi Station. You can see the lanterns and signboards with a Showa era atmosphere when you go up to the 3rd floor of the building on the escalator.


When you enter the shop, you will find kotatsu in a row! Many people, from couples to group guests, enjoy a relaxing meal. In addition, even a nostalgic stove that used to be placed in an elementary school classroom! Involuntarily my chest is full of nostalgic.


There are also table seats and counter seats in the back of the store. Kotatsu seats are popular, so it is recommended that you make a reservation in advance.

When you put on the rented dora and enter the kotatsu, your cold body warms up at once. I don't want to go out anymore! I want to stay here forever ...!


The menu includes a rich lineup of drinks such as local Kagoshima shochu, in addition to Kagoshima's representative foods such as hot pot, black pork dishes, and fish dishes.

You can surround the pot with everyone, or you can sip shochu while pinching kakiage and sashimi. What a calm and happy time will flow.


Among the foods I ate this time, I especially liked "Sweet potato stick with honey butter" (630 yen), "Gane (fried root vegetables)" (half 320 yen), and "Satsuma Kajun chicken with yuzu pepper". And hot vegetables "(1,000 yen).

When you attach the thick and long sweet potato stick to the attached honey butter and bite it, the sweetness and slightly saltiness of the sweet potato, and the rich sweetness and richness of the butter spread luxuriously in your mouth. ..



Gane is a jumbo size that is 2 to 3 servings even if it is "half"! The beer that you drink while biting the freshly fried root vegetables in crispy clothes is irresistible.


Yuzukosho-yaki of Satsuma Kajun chicken has the best taste of crispy and fragrant chicken skin and juicy meat! With warm vegetables, it is a highly satisfying dish with a high volume and balance.


With the perfect situation of delicious food, sake, and kotatsu, I inadvertently stayed for a long time until the store closed. By the way, on this day, there are some customers who are celebrating their birthdays at other kotatsu seats. Everyone seemed very happy with the cozy atmosphere of the whole shop.

Before the cherry blossoms bloom in earnest, why not try blooming them in your memory with your old friends and childhood friends and kotatsu?

In addition, you can enjoy the Kotatsu seats at the head family until the end of April. After that, it will be a terrace seat.