Savor Rich Seafood and Mountain Bounty! 11 Popular Restaurants to Enjoy Fukui Gourmet

Tonkatsu Ajidokoro Kura has a 40-year history and is a long-established tonkatsu specialty restaurant loved by locals.
Its signature dish is sauce katsudon, with the Hire Katsudon Set Meal topped with a fried egg being especially popular.
The cutlets are finished with a light texture using house-made sauce whose blend changes with the seasons and a specially blended breadcrumb coating.
The restaurant also offers a wide variety of dishes, including the Hire Katsu Set Meal, known for its tender meat.

Japanese-style Restaurant Takimasa is a Japanese restaurant where you can enjoy ingredients shaped by the changing seasons and the region’s rich natural environment.
Its focus is on bringing out the natural flavors of the ingredients while serving traditional tastes and local cuisine with heartfelt hospitality.
The menu includes dishes such as premium Wakasa beef shabu-shabu and sashimi gozen, along with local specialties like sauce katsudon and oroshi soba.
The much-talked-about Volga rice has also become one of its signature items.

Oshokujidokoro Shimomura is located in Ono City, Fukui Prefecture, and is also known as the birthplace of shoyu katsudon.
Its defining feature is a soy sauce-based sauce developed jointly with a local soy sauce maker.
The signature shoyu katsudon is served with cabbage and tonkatsu over rice, topped with grated daikon radish, green onions, and shiso leaves.
It is eaten by pouring warm soy sauce over it, creating a savory aroma and a pleasant vegetable texture.
The restaurant also serves Echizen City’s soul food, Volga rice, as well as Chinese dishes.

Food lovers from across Japan visit in search of the delicious signature katsudon created by the restaurant’s first owner.
The cooking process is very simple, but careful attention is paid to every step.
First, high-quality pork loin and leg meat are carefully selected and sliced to the proper size.
To create a pleasing texture, the pork is coated with fine special breadcrumbs and fried crisp in lard.

Fukufuku Chaya is located inside Fukufukan, the Fukui City Tourism and Local Products Center.
It is a dining spot that serves Fukui’s local cuisine and plays a role in sharing the region’s food culture with a wide audience.
Its signature dish is Echizen kani-don, appealing because you can enjoy the flavor and texture of crab year-round without losing its quality.
Echizen oroshi soba made with buckwheat flour from Fukui Prefecture is also popular. The restaurant also offers around 10 kinds of local sake to enjoy with your meal.

Echizen Soba and Coffee HAMAan in Echizen City, Fukui Prefecture, is a new-style soba restaurant where you can spend time like in a cafe after your meal.
The shop’s pride is its Echizen 100% soba, made with stone-milled buckwheat flour from Fukui Prefecture blended according to its own original recipe.
It is carefully handmade by skilled artisans who adjust their technique depending on the temperature and humidity.
It also pairs perfectly with the shop’s rich white dashi, prepared in-house and known for its depth, richness, and umami.

Marusanya Tsuruga Ekimae is a seafood restaurant loved by locals.
Skilled chefs bring out even more flavor from Fukui’s delicious fish and exceptionally fresh ingredients, made possible by its roots as a fish wholesaler.
In addition to sashimi, the menu includes Fukui specialties such as hamayaki mackerel, Echizen soba, grilled heshiko, and sauce katsudon.

Habutae Mochi Sohonpo Matsuokaken is known as the long-established shop where Fukui’s famous sweet habutae mochi originated.
Founded in 1897, this Japanese confectionery shop has continued to preserve the original flavor.
The sweet was created when the founder expressed the texture of silk through Japanese confectionery.
Its signature item is habutae mochi, known for its delicate, supple texture.
Its soft texture melts gently in the mouth like silk, followed by the mild sweetness of glutinous rice.

Located in Eiheiji Town, Fukui Prefecture, this local Japanese confectionery shop is known for having been founded after World War II.
Its three signature products are Habutae Furoshiki, Orifuku, and habutae mochi, all widely recognized as its three great specialties.
Habutae Furoshiki comes in several flavors, including plain, kinako, dainagon red bean, and black sesame kinako.
Traditional habutae mochi and fresh habutae mochi are also available.

Muranaka Kansendo Main Store & Patisserie KANSENDO is a long-established confectionery shop.
Founded in Fukui Prefecture in 1910, it has continued producing and selling Japanese sweets.
While carrying on the traditions passed down since its founding, the shop has remained rooted in the local community.
Its signature product is habutae mochi, known for its silky smoothness and supple texture.
There are also assorted sets featuring habutae mochi. Seasonal limited-edition items and a wide variety of products are part of its appeal as well.

Habutae Kurumi is made by kneading slowly simmered Japanese walnuts, together with their sweet cooking syrup, into habutae mochi, then sandwiching it in five layers of choux pastry.
Take one bite, and you’ll taste an exquisite balance between the sweetness of the habutae mochi and the salty richness of the butter in the pastry.