Restaurant Review Japanese / SOBA / SUSHI NEW
Matsugen
241 Church St. (at Leonard St.), New York, NY 10013 TEL: 212-925-0202 Lunch: Sun, Tue-Sat: 12pm-3pm Dinner: Sun, The-Thu: 5:30pm-1am, Fri,Sat: 5:30pm-2am *Kitchen closes one hour before the bar.
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The long awaited arrival of Jean Georges group’s new soba (buckwheat noodle) restaurant in collaboration with Jean Georges personal favorite Matsugen restaurant, known for their authentic, fresh, high quality foods, finally opened its doors last month. Using buckwheat imported directly from a farm in Hokkaido prefecture, they make their buckwheat flour for the noodles in-house with a stone mill that enables the restaurant to serve up fresh hand-made noodles on demand, and the three steps of milling, kneading, and boiling are taken very seriously here, which shows in the great consistency of their noodles. Rin soba (using only the center part of the buckwheat with a delicate texture), Inaka soba (country style soba, coarse with the use of the husk of the buckwheat), and Seiro (somewhere in between Rin and Inaka). But soba isn’t the only top notch Japanese food you can experience here. Everything from sushi to homemade tofu and shabu shabu, Matsugen covers a wide spectrum of traditional Japanese food with true authenticity and high standards. This is a place one can truly appreciate the Japanese culinary tradition. Matsugen Soba
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Soba topped with Scallion, Bonito, Yam, Sesame, Okra, Wasabi, Cucumber, Myoga, Shiso, Egg, and Nori, it is a delightfully refreshing dish where the amazing consistency of the hand-made soba is the star of the show.
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MatsugenSoba $16
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