Shimbashi Soba Sake - Kurunjang

Best soba noodles, handmade everyday and the price is reasonable. My fav is the Sensai Kinoko soba which is vegan and comes with wild vegetables and mixed mushrooms. Have also had the chicken soba, it comes with yuzu kosho a spicy kind of relish with sour yuzu. The duck soba is okay. This is really great takeaway so don't worry about the quality dropping when you don't eat in.

First time having sobs noodles. Was pretty good, was nice and fresh.

We dined in for lunch today at Shimbashi Soba and Sake bar on Smith Street in Fitzroy. This cosy little Japanese venue produce their own soba noodles on sight. We chose a cold and hot soba dish and both were delicious. The cold chicken soba salad had peanuts ginger and subtle chilli in the dressing. The chicken itself was delicate and tender. <br/ <br/ My hot chicken soba bowl had a wonderful clear miso broth and came with chicken breast, chicken meatballs, mushrooms and seaweed. Both dishes were generously sized and enjoyable. So many other tasty dishes on the menu including sashimi, don bowls and tempura.... so would happily return again real soon.

We had the $65 banquet last night. Very impressed with the food and value for food.<br/ We have picked the sake pudding for dessert. Very light and fresh, with some citrus gel In the middle giving the pallet a nice clean. Highly recommended.<br/ <br/ We also had the Choya sake tasting. Honey, Yuzu and wiskume.<br/ Very Yummy choya sake. My favourite was the YUzu.<br/

My score 3.5 stars. J and I had dinner here on Tue 30th July before checking out the Gertrude St Projections (just found my missing pics in with my G St P vids). Booked through Zomato which was quick and convenient. Interior was pretty nice, place was pretty full. Service good, efficient, helpful. We got the $65 banquet for 2 people.<br/ <br/ Shared Salmon poke (small bite) Salmon cubes, rice crackers, rust coloured smoky paprika like thin shards of something, spicy oil. Yum!<br/ <br/ Shared Nasi Dengaku (small bite) Zucchini, red capsicum, large eggplant cubes, miso sauce with yuzu around outside. Dish of the night Super yum!<br/ <br/ J had Tempura Soba (main) Bowl of soba, mild smoky flavour, nori, Asian greens, red capsicum, sweet potato, green beans and eggplant. Tempura prawn, veg and white fish (all good) plus Tempura dipping sauce. Overall, ok, but fairly subdued flavours maybe we got our hopes up too much.<br/ <br/ I had Duck Soba (main) Soba started a little too al dente but got better part way through, the really smokey broth integrated better halfway through too. Bean curd, inoki, wombok, eggplant and tiny carrot slivers. The duck was hard to eat – a bit tough and hard to chew through (but not dry at least).<br/ <br/ Shared 2 scoops Matcha ice cream (forgot to photo) A bit icy, not the best Matcha we've had by a long stretch. Syrup and the powdery sprinkle made it more interesting than what it would have been otherwise. <br/ <br/ Shared Black sesame panna cotta (forgot to photo) – Interesting serving glass, cream was fluffy, black sesame seeds on top, PC was quite mousse like, but had really lovely flavour.  Quite a small serve.<br/ <br/ To drink we shared a glass of Chardonnay $11 (served a bit cold) and Savarro $12 (preferred to Chardy). Plus Red miso beer $13 (the pick of the drinks) and a Asahi Black $10 (ok). The miso beer was much more interesting than the Asahi and had better flavours.<br/ <br/ Standout dishes were the Eggplant side, then Salmon side and Panna cotta. Total bill $112.70