Masuya

The Vegetable-Packed Sesame Miso Soba Special is a distinctive choice for lunch at Masuya, combining the rich flavour of sesame miso with the smooth texture of grated yam. It is featured as an Arakawa Manten Menu dish and pairs cold soba with cherry tomatoes, cucumber, carrot, wakame seaweed, fish cake and shredded nori, among other toppings. One diner who mixed it thoroughly wrote that the sesame miso clung to the noodles, while the grated yam made each mouthful pleasantly smooth. It is an option to consider if you are looking for a lunch that includes vegetables.

For something a little lighter, there is also grated-daikon soba with fragrant agedashi tofu. The bowl comes with plain tofu and tofu coated in aonori seaweed, alongside grated daikon. One report says it was available with either hot or cold soba; the cold noodles were praised for their firm texture, and the diner was also served soba-yu, the hot water used to cook the noodles. Choose a warming bowl or cold soba to suit your mood.

Some diners come for the katsu-don instead. One visitor described tucking into a bowl topped with freshly fried cutlet that still had a crisp texture, simmered with egg, while taking care not to burn their mouth. Diners have praised both the soba and rice bowls, and the menu also includes options such as curry nanban and eel rice bowl. This neighbourhood soba restaurant offers different choices, whether you are in the mood for a simple bowl of noodles or a rice bowl as the centre of your meal.

At lunchtime, one diner ordered mori soba alongside a set meal of mackerel simmered in miso. A lunch menu is available, and the restaurant is described as suitable for solo diners. Please note that payment for dining in is cash only.