Kumamoto Specialty: Horse Meat Cuisine

I recently traveled to Kumamoto 🙋♀️

When it comes to Kumamoto, horse meat is a must-try, and this restaurant is so famous that you can't go wrong visiting it❣️

Even though it was a weekday, the restaurant was bustling with customers☺️

▶︎ Sugano-ya Horse Grilled Course…6,500 yen
・Small dish (Horse marrow with ume and hijiki)
・Yukhoe salad
・Four types of local appetizers
・Four types of horse sashimi
・Simmered dish (Horse tendon stew)
・Fried dish (Almost all-meat cutlet)
・Four types of grilled horse meat
・Rice
・Soup
・Dessert

Additional items for the course:
・Liver sashimi…950 yen
・Upgrade rice to lean meat sushi…800 yen

A la carte additions:
・Salted tongue
・Premium short rib
・Fried offal

The course is highly recommended as it allows you to try a variety of dishes in small portions.

If you're unsure, go for the course and add any extra dishes that catch your eye.

The appetizers included Kumamoto specialties like karashi renkon and hitomoji guruguru, which were delightful to sample in small portions.

The four types of horse sashimi were:
・Marbled
・Lean meat
・Koune (horse mane fat)
・Futae (rare cut)

It was a treat to enjoy rare cuts, but I personally loved the lean meat the most♪

The four types of grilled horse meat were:
・Harami (skirt steak)
・Karubi (short rib)
・Binta (cheek meat)
・Filet

Each cut was incredibly tender and delicious♡

The liver sashimi can be ordered separately, but if you order the course, you can add it at a discounted price, which I highly recommend.

Also, the fried offal we added as an a la carte item was absolutely delicious and paired perfectly with drinks.

As expected of a famous restaurant, the service was excellent🥰

Sugano-ya Shinshigai Branch

📍 2-10 Shinshigai, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto City, Kumamoto Prefecture
🈺 17:00–22:00