Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

Simple is best!　There is only one type of lunch. But it's popular. The secret was in the exquisite steak!

The French restaurant "Che Otake", located just a little off Ningyocho Street, may be missed even if you check the location on a map. My eyes just go to the signboard of the yakiniku shop on the first floor, and the handwritten lunch menu affixed to the board at the feet is hard to notice, but it is noble to hand-drawn even to the French national flag.

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If you go right at the back of the red sign, you will find the stairs to the second floor.

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Lunch steak is 200g of Mexican Wakahime beef sirloin. It's clean to be 1,000 yen including tax with salad and rice.

As you climb up the narrow stairs, you will find a space divided by Japanese shop curtain on three sides. The front is a kitchen, the left is a table seat, and the right is counter seat + table seat. There are no seasonings or toothpicks on the counter or table, as well as paper napkins.

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The chef who organizes lunchtime by himself is clean. If a customer sits in a chair, a piece of meat rides on an iron plate. Two passengers ride two tickets.

The word I say is just a word, "Lice is less."

There are three plates of rice, salad, and steak in front of you. The dishes are unified in white and clean.

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I'm glad that the salad with homemade delicious French dressing is generous. It's clean to have one type of lettuce or Sunny Lettuce (sometimes in the case of cresses, a big hit!?) 。

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The meat is 200g, and the salad is also cleson!

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The steak is simply seasoned with salt and pepper only. It's clean to have nothing to do. All the baking methods are medium rare and clean.

Rice goes on to the salty taste of the steak. The customer's tongue is clean with the rotation of "meat ⇒ leaf ⇒ meal"!

You don't have to stay long after eating. The payment will be made with Hilary and one thousand yen bill. I left the store with a toothpick found on my way home. What a clean lunch (!) What's it?

This filthy and exquisite steak is unforgettable and I want to come here again. Every time I leave the store, only my heart is undeveloped.

★At night, "She Otake" is a full-fledged French restaurant that has been opened for two and a half years, where a chef trained at the Michelin Star store in France will shake their original skills.

Please try to experience the innocence of lunch at this shop once.

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●Shop: She Otake
●Address: 2F, Kitsuki Building, 1-5-8 Nihonbashi Ningyocho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
●Business hours
　　　Lunch [Mon-Fri] 11:00 to 15:00 (L.O.14:00) ※Sunday sales
　　　Dinner [Free] 18:00-23:00 (L.O.22:00)

 

 

[Famous Stores I Want to Retain]

This time, we interviewed the Japanese sweets "Chizuki Shigeru".

　
"Shigeru Chizuki" is famous for its large dorayaki. Many people may overlook this shop. The tiled roof at the entrance of the rattle and open glass door ... All Japanese private houses built shortly after the war looked like this.

There are no Japanese shop curtain or banners that resemble a Japanese confectionery shop, and only one piece of paper written "Dorayaki" is placed on the glass door from the inside. In the season, only "Mizuyokan" and "Kashiwamochi" paper is added here. Isn't it difficult for people to visit for the first time? I'm worried about it.

　
From making Japanese sweets to selling, we talked to his husband, Takayasu Mochizuki (75 years old), who is working alone.

　

Takayasu's grandfather was engaged in kimono-related work in Ningyocho. However, the payment of customers may be delayed, making management difficult and unavoidable. After the end of the war, Takayasu's father learned how to make Japanese sweets because he was in the same country as the owner of Ueno's famous store "Eisen Okano". Then, in 1947, he opened a Japanese confectionery shop at home. Takayasu is the second generation master.

　
When you enter the entrance, there is a showcase in front of you. The standard products are ultra-large format "Dorayaki" (160 yen), small but hard baked and delicious "Kuribun" (140 yen), and "Middle" (140 yen), which sandwiches the bean paste on the spot As a seasonal product, "Kashiwamochi" at the time of the spring "Sakuramochi", "Kashiwamochi" at the end of the spring, summer festival, summer, summer. All of them are gems made with special attention to Hokkaido Dainagon red beans.

Inside the showcase, there is also a small rabbit figurine. Speaking of which, it is a very cute design with the motif of Chizuki Shigeru's wrapping paper and rabbits. I see, it's a rabbit with rice cakes in the moon. Actually, it seems that this was designed by Takayasu's grandfather. The Japanese-style design sense is outstanding because you can do the kimono-related business.

By the way, if you say Shigeru Chizuki's push, it's "dorayaki" anyway.
A big dorayaki in a bag. Its size is about 10.5 cm in diameter, weighs more than 150 grams, so that the bag cannot be closed, and the tape that is fastened seems to stick to the dorayaki body.

This time, I took the plunge to listen to what I had been wondering. "How do you put this dorayaki in a bag?......That's right. If you don't break the bag, you can't take out the contents and eat it.

In fact, it seems that the wind is applied to the freshly made dorayaki, put it in a bag without overlooking the moment when the surface is thirsty, lightly hit it and put it with weight. If you remove the timing, you will not be able to enter anymore.

Mr. Chizuki Shigeru seems to have not advertised at all, but he still hears the rumor and seems to occasionally come TV coverage. There are many celebrities signs in the store.

There is also a sign from Edo Family Nekohachi, who had a birthplace in his neighborhood, and Ken Ogata in relation to Nekohachi. Other things like Dankichi, Kimiko Mori, etc. And one thing new is Kumiko Fujiyoshi's signature that he came to the store on TV coverage in May this year. After all, it seems that the number of customers will increase after receiving TV coverage.

"Shigeru Chitsuki", a Japanese confectionery standing quietly on the south side of Hamacho Park. I want Takayasu to keep making the specialty dorayaki forever.

　
Finally, I asked you about the succession of this shop, but you said that there are no heirs at present. Actually, Takayasu had a son, but unfortunately he had an incurable disease and died a few years ago. I wish you all the best again.

　　

Chizuki Shigeru (Japanese sweets)

Address: 2-52-5, Nihonbashihamacho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
Contact 03-3666-59
Business hours (Mon-Fri) 9:30-18:00
Regular holidays ：(Saturday, Sunday, Holiday)