Seafood, Noto Beef, and Gold Leaf Sweets Too: 15 Popular Restaurants to Enjoy Kanazawa Gourmet

Aenokoto is a specialty restaurant for nodoguro rice bowls located inside the yatai village Tooryanse KANAZAWA FOODLABO.
It is popular with locals for its thick-cut domestic nodoguro, served with different toppings and cooking styles.
The signature menu item is the Raw Nodoguro Rice Bowl, limited to 5 servings per day.
Other options include the Charcoal-Grilled Nodoguro Rice Bowl and the Half-and-Half Nodoguro Rice Bowl topped with sashimi and flaked fish.
Another feature is that you can finish the meal by pouring broth over it to enjoy it as ochazuke with a different flavor.

A seafood rice bowl restaurant where you can enjoy a meal in a refined Japanese-modern space created by renovating a 110-year-old machiya townhouse.
The signature dish is the Kanazawa Condiment Seafood Bowl. You can freely choose from around 30 kinds of toppings, including Hokuriku seafood, kelp, and meat, and enjoy them over red vinegared rice.
In addition to the seafood bowl, the set also comes with assorted nukazuke pickles, monaka soup, and dessert.
The restaurant is also particular about using young vegetables and microgreens grown on its own farm for the condiments.

Uogashi Shokudo Chuo Ichiba Branch is located inside the Kanazawa City Central Wholesale Market and serves fresh fish delivered directly from the market in generous portions.
The signature menu item is the Fisherman’s Araisodon, piled so high with toppings like shrimp and octopus that they spill out over the bowl.
There are 3 weekday lunch options, including the Fish Lunch. The restaurant also offers at least 16 set meals, including the Premium Sashimi Assortment Set Meal with sashimi, fried items, and small side dishes, and the Fish Lover’s Set Meal topped with 10 kinds of seafood and other items.

A Japanese restaurant on the 2nd floor of Omicho Ichibakan where you can enjoy fresh seafood at reasonable prices.
Every dish is hearty, made with ingredients the owner purchases at the market every morning.
One of the most popular dishes is the Seafood Hitsumabushi, topped with fresh sea urchin, salmon roe, gold leaf, and more.
Since it is dressed with sesame soy sauce, you can enjoy it in different ways, such as eating it as is, adding condiments, or pouring hot broth over it.

Founded in 1962, Kaga Ryori Daimyojaya is a long-established kappo restaurant located Approx. 5 minutes on foot from Kanazawa Station. You can reasonably enjoy Kaga kaiseki cuisine made with seafood from the Sea of Japan and Kaga vegetables. It is highly trusted by luxury local ryokan and frequently featured on gourmet TV programs. It is known as one of the leading Kaga cuisine restaurants in Kanazawa.

A shop operated by Hakuichi, built on the former site of Higashiyu, a public bathhouse once beloved in the Higashi Chaya District.
The interior retains the open atrium from its bathhouse days, creating a spacious atmosphere where you can shop at a relaxed pace.
At the attached cafe, you can also try the Gold Leaf Kagayaki Soft Cream, a lavish soft serve that originated at the Higashiyama branch and uses a full sheet of gold leaf.
The gold leaf is placed on right in front of you after ordering, so it is also recommended for taking videos.

Hitenryu is run by three sons who inherited the founder’s desire to establish yakiniku culture in Kanazawa.
The signature yakiniku menu item is the Carefully Selected 4-Cut Platter, featuring premium cuts of Noto Beef.
You can enjoy premium kalbi, premium shoulder belly, premium inner round, and diced steak.
Besides yakiniku, Kanazawa Reimen is another specialty of the restaurant. Its soup, simmered for 10 hours with Noto Beef knuckle bones, beef tendon, and local vegetables, has a mild yet deeply rich flavor.

Nikusho Jade Kanazawa is a yakiniku restaurant in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture, operated by JA Zen-Noh Ishikawa.
You can enjoy the melt-in-your-mouth texture of Noto Beef and Noto Pork.
The signature menu item is the Special 3-Cut Platter, featuring three rare cuts of Noto Beef.
Other popular dishes include Kagayaki, which combines Noto Beef and pork, and Yuzen-yaki, enjoyed with egg yolk and meringue.

A steakhouse located a 6-minute walk from JR Kanazawa Station, the gateway to Ishikawa Prefecture.
Alongside teppanyaki, which slowly cooks wagyu at a low temperature to bring out its natural flavor, the restaurant also offers a grilling style using wood fire.
In addition to Noto Beef, carefully selected branded meats from around Japan are always on the lineup.
Plenty of seasonal Kaga vegetables are also incorporated to pursue flavors unique to the region.

Founded in 1830, the long-established Kanazawa ryotei Otomorou traces its roots to chefs of the gozensho kitchen who served the Kaga Domain. These chefs, known as “knife samurai,” prepared banquet cuisine to entertain not only the domain lord and samurai working in the castle, but also distinguished guests from other domains who visited Kaga.
At Otomorou, countless books and materials written mainly during the Edo period by cooks of the time have been collected. Based on these records, the restaurant recreates the banquet cuisine once prepared as a display of the Kaga Domain’s prestige and serves it to modern guests. You can enjoy dishes once eaten by samurai in a dignified tatami room.

Kuroyuri is a restaurant where you can enjoy Kaga local cuisine and local sake, centered around Kanazawa oden.
The specialty is Kanazawa oden.
Popular ingredients include umigai sea snail caught in Kanazawa and the Sanin region, and kuruma-fu, grilled wheat gluten wrapped around a stick.
The broth is made with two kinds of bonito flakes, dried sardines, and kelp. It is known for its sweetness and clean taste.
You can also enjoy dishes such as the Kitokito Set Meal, featuring an assortment of fresh fish sourced from Omicho Market.

Ippukuya is a specialty oden restaurant located inside Omicho Market in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture.
It offers more than 20 kinds of oden made with Kanazawa seafood.
Popular ingredients include kuruma-fu wheat gluten, bai-gai sea snail eaten by pulling the meat out with a skewer, Akamaki, a standard kamaboko in Hokuriku, fukashi, and tamagoyaki.
The broth is salt-based to bring out the flavor of kelp and is known for its light taste. You can also enjoy dashiwari by adding broth to hot sake.

A long-established Kanazawa oden restaurant that has been operating since 1927 in Katamachi, said to be Kanazawa’s premier entertainment district.
It is known for offering more than 30 kinds of oden ingredients at affordable prices.
In addition to classics like daikon radish, you will find Kanazawa oden specialties such as traditional grilled wheat gluten kuruma-fu and bai-gai sea snail with its pleasantly chewy texture.
There are also plenty of other unique ingredients such as Akamaki, a kamaboko with a firm bite.
You can enjoy the flavor of the secret broth thoroughly infused into each ingredient.

A French restaurant on the 2nd floor of Shiinoki Cultural Complex, a cultural facility created by renovating the former Ishikawa Prefectural Government Building. Along with signature dishes inherited from the main restaurant in Lyon, France, a city famed for gastronomy, you can also enjoy original menu items that make the most of Ishikawa’s bounty from the mountains and sea.
The signature dish is Rossini of Japanese Black Beef Tenderloin, featuring tender beef fillet topped with sauteed foie gras and truffle sauce. Truffle Soup, once served to the president of France, is another popular item inherited from the Lyon flagship restaurant.

A shop operated by Hakuichi, built on the former site of Higashiyu, a public bathhouse once beloved in the Higashi Chaya District.
The interior retains the open atrium from its bathhouse days, creating a spacious atmosphere where you can shop at a relaxed pace.
At the attached cafe, you can also try the Gold Leaf Kagayaki Soft Cream, a lavish soft serve that originated at the Higashiyama branch and uses a full sheet of gold leaf.
The gold leaf is placed on right in front of you after ordering, so it is also recommended for taking videos.