After the coronavirus pandemic, Hamamatsu’s restaurants are starting to get crowded again.
There are many tourists and business travelers from outside the prefecture, and there are more opportunities to see people staying near the station heading to restaurants in town with a carry case in hand.
Today, Hamamatsu/Hamanako Daisuki Net will introduce restaurants where you can casually enjoy eating and drinking in Hamamatsu town.
“Sumibi Bar Mabuchi” is an Italian bar directly managed by a liquor store located in the center of Yurakugai, Sae-machi, Naka-ku, Hamamatsu City.It is a restaurant operated by a liquor store that has been in business for 325 years.
We offer a variety of dishes made in an open space with a charcoal grill and our proud stone oven, as well as a lineup of reasonably priced drinks that are directly managed by a liquor store.
We are particularly focused on wine, offering carefully selected wines at reasonable prices.
There are counter seats, tables, and sofa seats on the 1st and 2nd floors, and we can accommodate large and small banquets.
*Maximum capacity : 80 people
*Equipped with a large monitor that can be used for wedding after-parties.
If you want to have a quick drink, we recommend sitting at the counter! This is a special seat where you can enjoy charcoal grilled food right in front of you.
When we asked the staff member, Mr. Yamazawa, for a recommended menu using local ingredients, he recommended “Raw Seaweed and Whitebait Pizza.”
Neapolitan pizza baked in an authentic stone oven. The flavor of seaweed from Lake Hamana is utilized to create a pizza that can be eaten as a snack.
The chewy texture of the dough is made with great care and effort every day.
Other popular menu items include “Shizuoka-raised roast beef”, “3 types of tapas” with the chef’s recommendations for the day, and “Ajillo (various types)” that go perfectly with the unlimited baguette.
As for drinks, not only beer and sour drinks, but also a wide variety of wines are gaining popularity.
“Our wines are carefully selected by our sommelier and tasted in-house, so please try a variety of wine varieties and wines from various countries!”
He also introduced the all-you-can-drink menu.
From “Sumibi Bar Mabuchi” located in the center of Yurakugai, it is easy to move to other stores.
Nearby is Hamamatsu Shusse Yokocho, where you can enjoy Hamamatsu gyoza and local chicken from Shizuoka Prefecture.
There are many stores in town where you can grab a drink, so why not go hopping around and enjoy Hamamatsu’s food and drinks.
For souvenirs, we recommend Mercato Mabuchi, which is open until midnight on Fridays and Saturdays and is part of the “Sumibi Bar Mabuchi” chain.
It’s useful for local snacks or when you want to have another drink when you get back to your hotel.
Italian bar “Sumibibaru Mabuchi”:
Enjoy delicious fish in Sakamachi. Totoichi’s proud “eel sashimi” and Hamamatsu’s eating out culture
“People in Hamamatsu talk condescendingly, or rather reservedly, about local industry and culture.”
During my training at a top-class restaurant in Kyoto, I was surprised to find that they used a lot of ingredients from Enshu and Hamamatsu, such as shrimp potatoes, eel, shinko from Lake Hamana, conger eel, and melons for dessert, and I realized the charm of the local area from the outside. Mr. Kentaro Nakamura, the owner of Totoichi, said that he did.
Among the ingredients that are shipped to Tokyo and Kyoto but are not actively consumed locally, we will focus on seafood, where freshness affects the taste.
“When I want to eat fish, I feel like it’s a waste that the only option is a sushi restaurant, so I decided to open a restaurant in Hamamatsu that specializes in fish.”
[Lake Hamana Tourism] What is Kosai City’s summer tradition “Kosai Oiden Festival”?
Everyone, do you know about the “Kosai Oiden Festival”, which is one of the big events held in Kosai City?
There were years when the event could not be held due to the coronavirus pandemic, but last year (2022) we moved the venue from Washizu Station to Boat Race Lake Hamana and were able to hold it for the first time in three years while taking measures to prevent infectious diseases. .
This year (2023), the 28th Kosai Oiden Festival will be held on September 16th (Saturday) at the parking lot opposite Lake Hamana from the boat race, which overlooks Lake Hamana.
Touch the eel at Lake Hamana! Eel Tenpo eel farm tour
The rainy season is over and summer is in full swing. Supermarkets are busy selling “Doyo no Ushi” eel. For a long time, people believed that people should eat eel to get plenty of nutrients during the summer when people tend to get sick, and there are poems about eel in the Manyoshu.
We spoke to Mr. Masaaki Yamashita of Tenpo Co., Ltd. second generation Ikeban Co., Ltd., who runs an eel farm in Hamamatsu City, about eel, which Japanese people have a connection with and love.
Left/Mr. Shota Yamashita, 3rd generation pond keeper, Right/Mr. Masaaki Yamashita, 2nd generation pond keeper