[Higashiginza] Nile Restaurant, Japan's oldest Indian restaurant specializing in cuisine
If you like curry, there is no one you don't know. Nile restaurant in Higashiginza. It is a very famous restaurant that goes without saying that I will introduce it now, but in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the shop, a correspondent who likes curry more than three meals would like to make an article.
Founded in 1949! A restaurant that lasts for three generations
The founder, A.M. Nile, is an independent activist in India and has lived a turbulent life. On the homepage of the shop, you can learn a part of its history. There are very interesting stories about how he played like a spy film while continuing his independence movement, and his involvement with another famous curry in Shinjuku.
G.M. Nile, the second generation who inherited the spirit of goodwill between Japan and India, made Nile Restaurant famous all at once. It is widely used in television and magazines as an opinion of the curry world, so many people know it under the name "Nile-san." For myself, who was originally a heavy listener of Coskin Radio (*), Tsutomu Sekine often talked about his favorite curry and Nile restaurant, so GM. Nile is a talent belonging to the entertainment office Asai Planning. There is an image.
※Nicknamed a legendary variety program on TBS Radio, which Tsutomu Sekine and Kazuki Kosaka have been broadcasting for nearly 30 years.
The third generation Yoshimi Nile is currently standing in the shop. Mr. Yoshimi, who grew up under the spice genius education of his father, G.M. Nile, has written many recipe books and is also active as a member of the Tokyo Spice Bancho, a 4-member Japanese-India mix cooking unit. With an idol-like appearance that looks much younger than the actual age, he certainly earns a new generation of fans.
This impressive wall painting is like a symbol of Nile Restaurant, which is on the top page of the homepage and on one cover of the third generation Yoshimi Nile's book. You can see it on the 2nd floor in the shop.
The taste has not changed since its establishment! The famous "Mur Guy Lunch" that can be ordered at dinner
Mur Guy Lunch is an original one-plate dish of Nile Restaurant. Oh, if you look closely, isn't the Muru Guy lunch drawn on the wall? It is a must-have menu ordered by most customers who visit the store, and it is a great standard for the shop side, so when the clerk takes an order, it is implicit understanding that "Mur Guy lunch (for the number of people) is good." The exchange of promises that could become this habit is a secret pleasure when visiting the Nile Restaurant.
Chicken stewed for a long time is soft enough for table knives.
Mul Guy (murgh) is Indian word chicken. Muru Guy lunch is cooked for 7 hours, and it is accompanied by yellow rice, hot vegetables, and mashed potatoes. This Muru Guy lunch has a style of eating, which means "mixing all the ingredients on the plate".
Watch this curry handbag!
The clerk's line, "Eat me" is too famous, and if you search for this word, Nile Restaurant will be the best hit, so I personally think it's okay to treat it as a whole C anymore.
And if you mix it well as told and taste it, the spicy curry combines the taste of the local chicken and the sweetness of the hot vegetables, the mouth becomes mellower and the taste becomes deeper, and by mixing it, you can see that the Muru Guy lunch will be more complete.
Make sure you mix the mur Guy lunch well before eating. It is ourselves, no one else, who finally creates the ideal state of Muru Guy Lunch, where all of the tastes on the plate are condensed into the scoop of a spoon.
The clerk quickly removed the bones to make it easy.
There is enough amount for adults to be satisfied with one plate, but it does not lean after meals, probably because of the use of specialty high-quality ingredients. It was a magic dish that muttered immediately after eating, "Let's come back again."
Deep relationship with Kabukiza Theater
It's on the second floor. Pink color tone that calms the middle-aged heart.
Nile Restaurant is located along Showa-dori, a 2-minute walk from Higashi-Ginza Station.
Because it is close to the Kabukiza Theater, it is not hard to imagine that there are many Kabuki actors among regular customers, but the second generation G.M. Nile, who grew up here, became familiar with the world of Kabuki and the accompaniment Joruri, Kiyoharu, seems to be the skill of Natori. You're really talented.
I believe that the history of Nile Restaurant, which is full of mutual love with the local community, will continue for a long time.
If you go there, the sense of security that you will always be can't be replaced by anything.
I want to go to eat Muru Guy lunch, the treasure of Higashiginza, regularly in the future.
Indian food specialty store Nile Restaurant | Ginza NAIR’S RESTAURANT
https://www.ginza-nair.com/
4-10-7, Ginza, Chuo-ku
03-3541-8246
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