📜 Restaurant Details
Lakeside Aroma Rokkon is a restaurant transformed from a 180-year-old traditional house, opened in 2017 in the five villages of Higashiomi City, known as the birthplace of Omi merchants. Chef Sugimoto adheres to the philosophy of "providing guests with healthy and delicious dishes," offering carefully selected ingredients sourced from Shiga Prefecture, which are beloved by the local community.
The main ingredients used at Lakeside Aroma Rokkon range from wild vegetables and legumes to game meat such as wild boar and deer, as well as ingredients from Lake Biwa, including wild soft-shelled turtles, eel, and lake fish. At this restaurant, guests can enjoy daily specials made from fresh ingredients and fermented foods, as well as set meals paired with rice cooked in a kamado.
The restaurant's signature dish is the "Omi Beef Nuka-zuke Tanada Zen." This dish involves heating the Omi beef and letting it rest for a day before marinating it in a homemade nuka bed made from about 30 different ingredients for two full days, making it a labor-intensive and time-consuming dish. It is served in three ways: the first allows you to taste the original flavor of the dish, the second incorporates spices to enhance the taste, and the third is served as ochazuke (rice with tea), allowing you to fully appreciate the deliciousness of Omi beef.
The name "Rokkon" refers to the sixth sense, the source of perception. In a space that retains the architectural style of a 180-year-old Japanese building, guests can savor meticulously crafted dishes, providing a sensory pleasure that transcends the five senses.
