On Sunday Mewby and I had the pleasure of lunch with writer/photographer Sean Lotman. Sean's wife manages the Honke Owariya soba noodle business, a family company which is pretty famous in Kyoto. The business actually dates from 1465, though they "only" started making noodles Sean told me about 300 or 400 years ago, as they were originally a confectionary business. They still … [Read more...]
Soba no Mi Yoshimura
蕎麦の実よしむら is a great place Mewby and I only recently discovered, though we must have passed it hundreds of times. I'm not sure why we didn't go in before. Perhaps we thought that soba (buckwheat noodles) was all they did. Or perhaps we thought it was too expenive-looking. We were wrong on both counts. Though the prices are surprisingly reasonable, Yoshimura certainly looks … [Read more...]
