One might be surprised to find a restaurant under a railroad track, yet, the Koganecho Kitchen Studio is one unique location and one special place. Located about a three-minute walk from Koganecho Station on the Keikyu Main Line, Koganecho Studio is the collective name for the cultural and artistic facilities operated by the Koganecho Area Management Center. One corner of the studio is a shared kitchen, where the owners change daily. On Sundays, Donguri Kitchen, opened in May 2022, operates under chef and pâtissier Yuki Fukumoto, who owns Donguri Tart Shop, a reservation-only specialty shop in Noge.
Donguri’s fare is simple and natural keeping in mind the unique taste of each ingredient and then matching it with other ingredients to produce a magical taste and beautiful artistic presentation. Both lunch and dinner are a set menu ranging from ¥1300 to ¥1500 (depending on the menu) for an appetizer, salad, and main dish with rice. Fukumoto uses local ingredients from Kanagawa Prefecture and pesticide-free vegetables from Yamanashi and Hokkaido. All sweets are handmade with usually five on the menu and you may also add dessert and drink set for an additional ¥800. Fukumoto believes that food, which forms the basis of human life, should be the most accessible art form. When you eat delicious and beautiful food, your life will be in order.
In addition to lunch and dinner, customers may also submit a haiku, after which you may receive a “haiku-kki”, a cookie with a haiku written on it. Haiku in any languages are accepted. Fukumoto, aka “Donguri Papa”, is also a haiku poet of the “Shikabaneha” Haiku School. Haiku written by customers will be published on Donguri Kitchen’s Instagram.