About 65 popular stores such as Chinese Soba Tomita gather in Ikebukuro!

2020.01.09

The Seibu Ikebukuro head office will hold a special event “Aji no Gem”, where you can enjoy gourmet food from all over the country. Enjoy warm menus such as tsukemen and takoyaki, popular fruit sandwiches and parfaits, and local food.
HOT encounters start on Wednesday, January 8, and rice ball-shaped sweets also debut!

Eat-in inevitable

A line shop in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture. Homemade noodles using domestic wheat with pork bone seafood soup.
[Chiba] Chinese soba tomita / rich tsukemen (1 cup) 901 yen

“Sky Berry” from Tochigi Prefecture, which is now in season, is full of fragrance and freshness.
[Tochigi] Fruit Dining Palette / (Left) Skyberry Strawberry Parfait (for One) ¥ 1,980
(Right) Skyberry Strawberry Sandwich (1 pack, 3 pieces) 1,383 yen

Looks like a rice ball! New sense sweets first appearance

The appearance is rice balls, and the contents are cakes. A total of nine new sweets that are currently being talked about. (Cookies & cream, Mont Blanc, Tiramisu, Earl Gray, Strawberry, Cheesecake, Grapefruit, Green Tea, Chocolat)
[Osaka] OMUSUBI Cake (1 each) 432 yen

Gourmet warm in winter

An exquisite balance of crunchy feathers, doughy dough, and low-sweetness bean jam.
[Kichijoji] Professional confectionery Honpo / Amone / Tai confectionery (Tsubuan, custard, 1) 216 yen

Sweet potatoes are baked sweet potatoes from a farmer that has been carefully baked to bring out the sweetness. With cold ice.
[Saitama] Potato and TATA / Grilled sweet potato ice cream (milk, pistachio, black sesame, 1 piece) 481 yen each

There are six types of anmaki, with moist dough and bean paste with bean paste from Tokachi, including custard and chestnut bean.
[Seizoku Pond] From 251 yen for Daruma / Anmaki (1)

Wrap the meat filled with shark fins and umami in soft dough and steam in the in-store kitchen.
[Akasaka] Turandot Woryui / Shark’s Fin (1 piece) 801 yen

Happy, gourmet meat gourmet

The taste of 100% Wagyu beef supervised by a butcher shop is simple and lively.
[Daikanyama] HENRY ‘S BURGER / Double Cheeseburger (1 piece) 1,281 yen

Thick sliced cutlet sandwich boasted at a meat wholesale retail store, and a rare lunch of a butcher shop Sendai beef that has been established for over 50 years, a lunch box that can eat and compare Zabton and Misuji.
(Left) [Ueno] Meat Oyama / Pork Loin Cutlet Sandwich (1 cut, 3 cuts) 1,296 yen
(Right) [Miyagi] Meat Ito / Sendai Beef Eating Comparison Lunch (1) 2,301 yen

Daily limited gourmet

[From Thursday, January 9, 10th (Fri), 13th (Monday, National Holiday) 10:00 am each day]
[Kyoto] Chez Agata / Luxury terrine of freshly ground matcha (one, half) ¥ 2,385 [30 limited each day, one per person only]

[From Tuesday, January 14 and Wednesday, 15th 10:00 am each day]
Atelier Ukai / Foolsek, small cans (1 can) 2,501 yen [Limited to 50 cans per day, 1 can per person]

[From Saturday, January 11 and Sunday, January 12 each day at 10:00 am]
[Oizumi Gakuen] Japanese confectionery Daigo / Nihira (2 pieces, simple box) 1,061 yen [Limited to 50 boxes each day, 2 boxes per person]

[From Wednesday, January 8 to Thursday, 16th, 10:00 am each day]
[Nagasaki] Iwasaki Honpo / Kakuni-Kirioshito (180g) 540 yen [Limited to 40 sets per day, 3 sets per person]

[From Wednesday, January 8 to Thursday, January 16 from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm]
[Gunma] Oginoya / Toge pot rice cooker (1 piece) 1,101 yen [finished as soon as it runs out]

Atelier Ukai / Foolsek, small cans

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Tel: 03-3981-0111(main representative)
Opening hours: 10:00~21:00
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