This is a wonderful restaurant. Both the drinks and dishes are original and of high quality. The appetizer of simmered black cod, the flavorful and fresh sashimi, and the top-ranking baked potato salad (with a perfect balance of potato texture and spicy cheese topping) were all outstanding. I forgot to take a photo, but the colorful chicken dish had a Chinese-style aroma with hints of star anise, along with a balance of acidity and umami.

We had a quick first round at this place before heading to our second spot. We ordered a 3,500 yen course which included dishes and a 3-hour all-you-can-drink option. The female staff members had lovely smiles, explained the dishes well, and were quick to refill our drinks. It was a cozy and welcoming atmosphere. It was a good decision to make a reservation as the place was full on a Friday night. It's quite rare to find a place that offers a 3-hour all-you-can-drink option.

It had been a while since I last went drinking in Nakano and I was lost in choosing a restaurant. I happened to come across this place which caught my attention because they offer Ryukyu cuisine, which is rare in Tokyo. The variety of vegetables and the selection of beer, sake, and shochu were impressive. The appetizer of simmered fish and colorful vegetable sticks were delicious. The oven-baked potato salad was a hit with the men, and I particularly enjoyed the beef tendon with ponzu sauce. The originality of the dishes, ranging from vegetables to meat and fish, was very appealing. They had Heartland beer on tap, but also offered bottled beer, which was a relief. The selection of sake and shochu was extensive, with options like sweet potato, barley, rice, buckwheat, sesame, perilla, and awamori. It was a great place for a drink, and I would love to go back.

I visited for dinner on a Sunday at 6 pm after several years. The restaurant had a bright and clean interior, with a wide variety of vegetable-based dishes. They also offered a selection of drinks including shochu sours, Hoppy, wine, sake, which would appeal to female customers. A female staff member explained the menu to us in detail. - Sashimi trio platter: We had a platter of three types of sashimi, including firm and juicy sea bream, rich and fatty yellowtail, and flavorful red Fuji salmon. It was available to order for two people. - Basket of fresh vegetables: A simple but luxurious salad made with fresh vegetables. It includes colorful and unique items. - Vegetable and cheese foil bake: A dish where the bitterness of bitter gourd accents the match between vegetables and cheese. - Baked potato salad: A delicious baked potato salad with a homemade feel, where you can enjoy the sweetness and flavor of oven-baked potatoes. It also included cherry tomatoes and a tomato-infused sake, as well as the refreshing sake "Kunimine" and Heartland draft beer.

This is a place where I always rely on. The food is delicious, and you can enjoy good food and drinks. I will recommend this place to friends who like vegetables and fish. There are many types of sashimi with a lot of white fish, which I like, and the variety of shochu makes eating enjoyable. The waitress is always willing to kindly answer questions about the food and drinks, so I end up ordering more. The seating has a good distance between tables, and the atmosphere is not crowded, making it easy to have conversations. Of course, the food and drinks are delicious, so I highly recommend this place.

Exiting from the north exit of Nakano Station, there is a stylish izakaya in a cool drinking street called Showa Shindo, which offers a wide variety of vegetable dishes. The restaurant has counter seats, table seats, and even private tatami rooms in the back. While vegetables are the main focus of the menu, there are also plenty of meat dishes and egg dishes available. The selection of drinks is decent as well. They offer a wide variety of vegetables, including some rare and unique ones that you may have never heard of or seen before, which makes dining here quite interesting. Dip the vegetables in special miso or mayonnaise like in a bagna cauda to enjoy the original flavors of the vegetables. The steamed and grilled pork with shochu is absolutely delicious. You can hardly taste the shochu, but the pork is incredibly tender and juicy. The tamagoyaki (Japanese rolled omelet) is filled with colorful vegetables, making it not only visually appealing but also delicious.

If you're going to Nakano, I recommend this place! The interior is clean and the food is delicious!

I don't know about the previous restaurant, but I might like this one. It seems like the vegetables they sell are delicious, and most importantly, the dishes are interesting. - Appetizer: Steamed chicken with tartar sauce. It was delicious, probably made with local chicken from Iwate. - Tomato tempura with a white dashi-based dipping sauce. Topped with powdered cheese and basil, it had a slightly Western taste. Frying tomatoes seems like a difficult task, but it was a fascinating dish. I love tomatoes, so I enjoyed it. - Sliced squid liver marinated in soy sauce. The homemade marinated liver was not too salty, and it was excellent. Squid is becoming rare nowadays, so it felt special. - Goya and myoga (ginger) in dashi broth with bonito flakes. The flavor was delicate, and it was clear that the dish was freshly made. I wished they brought out the bitterness of the goya a bit more. - I asked for a steamed vegetable dish, which included various uncommon vegetables like hinona kabu, black cabbage, purple shishito pepper, pumpkin, green beans, zucchini, okra, carrot, and red turnip. They source their vegetables directly from farms, and as a vegetable lover, I was excited to try them with a side of rock salt. - The draft beer was Heartland, served in a glass. - I had Marunishi's sweet potato shochu on the rocks, which had a sweet taste. - I tried "Okami" shochu from Kokubu Shuzo, which is aged in oak barrels and has a unique vanilla-like flavor. It didn't taste like typical shochu, but it was interesting. I had it on the rocks. The bill ended up being over 4,000 yen, but it was worth it. The owner seemed quiet and focused on cooking, while the female staff, possibly the wife, managed the floor with a great attitude. The place was apparently taken over as is from the previous restaurant, and I hope they continue to do well.

The restaurant used to be called "Hidamari Farm" and catered to women with vegetable dishes, but it has now been renamed "Hinada" and reopened. I decided to visit for the first time to write my first review of the restaurant in Nakano. The interior is mostly the same as before, with a gentle feel using natural wood materials. The beer served was Heartland in a medium-sized bottle. The chopstick rest shaped like vegetables remained the same as the previous restaurant. The appetizer was stir-fried nanohana and lotus root. The menu still focuses on vegetables, but it seems to target a slightly older age group than before. The squid and squid liver soy sauce dish seems like something a mature drinker would enjoy. Posting photos of the menu items would serve the minimum requirement for a first review. There are reviews these days that seem to be clearly for the purpose of a first visit, ordering only a glass of wine or coffee. However, is that really enough? I felt like I wanted to try at least one of the restaurant's signature dishes. So, I chose the vegetable omelette. It contained pumpkin, carrots, onions, and red turnip, resembling a pound cake in appearance. It was likely cooked in a terrine-like mold and steamed, resulting in a different texture than omelettes made in a frying pan. It had a texture similar to a lightly flavored Western-style chawanmushi or an unsweetened Japanese-style pudding. I also wanted to try the deep-fried mackerel and new potatoes with homemade tartar sauce, but it was over my budget, so I settled the bill at this point. Despite my pretentious writing, my budget for the first visit was under 2,000 yen.

The taste is good as the title suggests. The basket of fresh vegetables is filled with freshly picked delicious vegetables that you may have never heard of. I think they also value the ingredients in other dishes. However, there are two disappointing points. The first is that it is not smoke-free, and all seats allow smoking. Even though they are using delicious ingredients, when people around you start smoking, the smoke completely overwhelms the deliciousness. I don't intend to be hysterical about smoking, but in a restaurant that values the ingredients like this one, if all seats allow smoking, you can't really taste the ingredients. The second point is that the handling of white wine was terrible. I asked for organic white wine, but guess what, it wasn't chilled! So, I asked for a cooler, and they brought one, but it was a cooler for keeping the wine cold, not one with ice, so the white wine that wasn't chilled to begin with didn't get cold. These two points were disappointing. I probably won't visit again...