This year’s residence from Kyoto / IZAMA, Cherry blossom news from spring only

2020.03.24

At the Japanese restaurant “Isama” located in the Karasuma area of Kyoto, a popular lunch that tells the coming of spring from March 6, 2020 (Fri) to May 7, 2020 (Thu) We start menu “spring obanzai low dining table”.
“Isama / IZAMA” signboard lunch menu where you can enjoy “Obanzai” that incorporates seasonal ingredients in each season, specially prepared under the theme of “Ohanami” in accordance with the time when cherry blossoms in Kyoto bloom.

The main role of the three-stage weight is carefully packed with colorful dishes such as “colored cherry blossom chirashi sushi” where you can taste and taste the flavor of cherry blossoms and “Yamato steamed spam with steamed Japanese yam and seasoned mackerel”.
In addition, the small plates that color the spring obanzai low dining table have a unique aroma and bitterness, such as the “tofu bean paste” that uses tofu from “Hirano Tofu”, which is made using the abundant groundwater of Kyoto and is made using the traditional bittern method. A spring-only auntizai that offers “yomogi fu butterbur tofu white fan-fried” and “spring cabbage hitachi”, which use spring ingredients like butterbur butter, and “wakatake-ni”, which combines fresh bamboo shoots and fresh young cloth.

While enjoying the cherry blossoms, enjoy the spring banzai gozen to your heart’s content.

Spring Obanzai Gozen ¥ 2,300 (tax included)

Spring Obanzai Gozen

Sales period: March 6, 2020 (Fri) – May 7, 2020 (Thu)
Offer time: 11:30-13:30 L.O.

Content:
Tofu bean paste / Yomogi Fu butterbur butter fried white walnut / Simmered with bamboo / Spring cabbage soaked / whitebait
[Three-stage weight]
Ichinoju: Spring chrysanthemum white / Boiled egg / Hamimi dumpling / Octopus boiled / Fried bean curry fried / Petal lily root /
Komaki Yuba Yakime / Ebi boiled / Blue peach syrup
Ninoju: Steamed Yamato steamed mackerel
Minoshige: Aya Sakura Chirashi Sushi (Kanegami Egg / Aotaka / Myoga / Yukari / Japanese Vegetable / Inari Sushi)
[Bowl]
Soba noodles (warm)
* Contents may vary depending on the season and purchase

IZAMA

Address: 361 Rokugakucho, which goes down the hexagon at Shinmachidori, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto
Mitsui Garden Hotel Kyoto Shinmachi Bettei
Tel: 075-251-2500

>”IZAMA” Official Site

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