毎朝、昆布やサバ節など選び抜かれた素材で丁寧に引いた出汁が自慢。その旨味は「名物 権太呂なべ」をはじめ、蕎麦やうどんで楽しむことができます。京都の繁華街にある本店ビルは和風の佇まい。のれんをくぐれば打ち水され た石畳が奥へ続き、数寄屋造りの落ち着きのある店内は椅子席から座敷まで揃います。3階に広がる蕎麦の花は、権太呂所有の蕎麦畑でスケッチされたもの。花の中のカマキリは、Ki-Yanがこの壁画の構想を練っていたとき、偶然自宅に飛び込んできた珍客。そのままモデル採用?! となりました。

 Gontaro prides itself in its dashi-a homemade soup stock made of carefully selected kombu and mackerel flakes prepared freshly every morning. Enjoy the umami taste of this dashi in the Famous Gontaro Hot Pot, udon noodle soup or soba buckwheat noodle soup. This main branch of Gontaro is located in Kyoto’s busy shopping area in a modern building with an authentic sukiya-zukuri (an architectural style based on tea house aesthetics) style interior. The restaurant features both table seating as well as Japanese style tatami rooms. You can find Ki-Yan’s paintings of buckwheat flowers on the walls and the sliding doors on the third floor. These paintings are based on sketches Ki-Yan drew while in Gontaro’s own buckwheat fields. You can also find the motif of a praying mantis sitting on a buckwheat flower. While thinking about the composition of the paintings for Gontaro, a praying mantis jumped into Ki-Yan’s house, and he spontaneously decided to feature the insect as well.

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