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Set Meals & Bento

Looking for an affordable or portable meal in Hiroshima? Whether in the yoshoku (western influenced) or the washoku (traditional) style, what Hiroshima set meals have in common is a distinctly Japanese sense of culinary organization at budget prices. Discover your next bento lunch of wagyu beef over rice and enjoy it on a bench under the autumn leaves along the Motoyasu River. Find a place to sit down in a time-worn, Showa-era restaurant, elbow to elbow with the locals while you enjoy a teishoku set meal featuring a Japanese hamburger steak (hambagu). Eat in or take out Japanese home cooking with our selection.

Hiroshima Ryori Senmon Suishin Flagship Store (広島料理専門酔心本店)

For those who want to enjoy traditional Japanese food in Hiroshima, an excellent recommendation is the Hiroshima Ryori Senmon Suishin Honten or one of its other branches in the city. The restaurant was established in 1950 and has been loved by the people of Hiroshima for over 70 years. The restaurant offers two types of kaiseki course meals along with over thirteen different teishoku sets to choose from. The restaurant also offers a wide variety of Hiroshima’s local cuisine, such as boiled rockfish and small sardine tempura, so you can get the full flavor of Hiroshima.

Moment of Joy

The Hiroshima Ryori Senmon Suishin Honten serves Japanese cuisine using various fresh ingredients from the surrounding sea and mountains of Hiroshima. One of the menu’s specialties is kama-meshi (seasoned rice cooked in a pot), which offers a taste of seasonal Hiroshima ingredients and local Hiroshima rice. All the dishes on the menu share the same focus on the soup stock made from bonito and kelp. It is said that the dashi seasoning is the key to the taste of Japanese food, and the appeal of dashi is that each restaurant offers its own style of taste.