The article features four restaurants in Fukuoka that pair soba with alcoholic drinks, introducing each one's distinctive dishes to accompany drinks and its sake selection. Focusing on combinations of stone-milled soba and local sake, it describes each restaurant's particular approach in prose rather than bullet points.
Ishibiki Handmade Soba Jizake Kisoji in Chuo Ward, Fukuoka City is known for purchasing unhulled buckwheat directly from farmers and milling it in-house. The owner, who is qualified as both a soba assessor and a sake sommelier, works with producers to bring the taste of the region to customers. On weekday lunchtimes, sake and other drinks are offered at a ¥100 discount.
Jutei Nakamura serves nihachi soba made with whole-ground buckwheat flour from Hokkaido. Popular dishes to accompany drinks include soba shumai, made with a mixture of chicken and shrimp served with soba. The restaurant also offers around 30 carefully selected types of sake at all times, as well as sea bream bone sake, priced at ¥900 per 180 ml.
Soba-mae Ideyaemon serves soba made with Hitachiaki soba, along with sweets-like dishes to accompany drinks made with organic cheese. In addition to sake, customers can enjoy natural wines. In keeping with the meaning of its name, the restaurant has an extensive selection of dishes to accompany drinks.
A sister restaurant of the Shinshu soba restaurant Murata, Akasaka Keyaki-dori Murata offers various types of soba, including juwari, inaka and nihachi soba, as well as a wide selection of dishes to accompany drinks before the soba. Other options include soba-yu wari, Japanese wine and sours, and the restaurant is known for its relaxed, casual atmosphere.