SOBA CAFE & BARU BWCAFE will release its spring season-limited soba

24.January.2018 | FOOD

SOBA (buckwheat noodles) CAFE & BARU BW CAFE which sells original soba dishes will sell their new menu “Haruiro Vege Pota Tsuke Soba” from the 1st of February.

 

SOBA CAFE was created under the theme of “making a soba shop where women can enter alone,” and the café opened on the 24th of December 2014. The store located along an alley close to Shin Okubo and it is popular among women and their original and unique soba dishes and fruit nabes (pot) which are suitable to be uploaded on your SNS, has been gathering much attention.

 

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Their new menu “Haruiro Vege Pota Tsuke Soba” uses lots vegetables such as fresh potatos and corn and one can eat soba with a warm dipping soup that tastes like potage. The dipping soup and ground vegetables go well with soba since it uses a Japanese-style broth. Also, the baked cheese used as a topping adds a mildness and special aroma to the dish.

 

Let’s enjoy their brilliant, springy and photogenic original soba dishes.

 

■Information

SOBA CAFE & BARU  BWCAFE

Address: 2-7-5, Okubo, Shinjukuku, Tokyo

Business hours: 11:30 to 23:00 (LO 22:00)

Fixed holiday: Sunday

TEL:03-6278-9658

URL:http://tabelog.com/tokyo/A1304/A130401/13177140/

 

Haruiro Vege Pota Tsuke Soba

Price: 850 yen (tax included)

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