Saturday, October 30, 2010

Winners of Tokyo Best Eats 2010

Best soba: Honmura An?s Tenzaru soba

This tasteful little soba shop puts detail first. And it keeps it simple. Honmura's dining room is modern and elegant. Raw concrete surfaces combine with thick wooden slabs for tables. Contemporary art and fresh flowers add life. But it's in the food where it really counts.

Satterwhite?s most highly recommended option, and our winner for best soba dish, is the tenzaru soba -- a bamboo tray piled with cold soba noodles along with prawn tempura. ?It comes with tempura-fried pumpkin, nori seaweed, enoki mushrooms, and a big plump prawn thoughtfully sliced into three pieces,? says Satterwhite. 

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Marla Sokoloff

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