Sarashina Horii

Sarashina Horii (株式会社更科堀井) is a soba restaurant company founded in 1789 (Kansei 1). Its head office is in Moto-Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo, and it operates restaurants including its Azabu-Juban main store, a Tachikawa store, and a Nihonbashi Takashimaya store. Its signature offering is white sarashina soba, made using only the core of the buckwheat kernel.

According to the Horii family tradition, the business was founded in 1789 (Kansei 1). The first generation had been trading in Shinshu cloth and turned to running a soba shop, setting up near the Hoshina family's Edo residence in Azabu Nagasaka-cho. The sign read 'Shinshu Sarashina Soba Dokoro Nunoya Tahei'. During its peak in the mid-Meiji era it is said to have delivered to the empress and imperial households. It fell into decline from around the early Showa depression and was forced to close in 1941 (Showa 16). After the war the shop was rebuilt, but as it became a company organization with outside participants, the registered trademarks 'Nagasaka Sarashina' and 'Nunoya Tahei' left the Horii family's hands. In December 1984 (Showa 59), Ryozaemon Horii opened 'Sohonke Sarashina Horii' in the Azabu-Juban shopping street, without leaving the Azabu area, with the wish to revive the family business tradition of over 200 years since the mid-Edo period under the Horii family descended from the founder.

Traditional Edo-era soba house known for white sarashina soba.

• Sarashina soba

  The shop's specialty: pure white soba made using only the core of the buckwheat kernel, with a slight sweetness and good throat feel.

• Mori soba

  Dark-colored soba made mainly from buckwheat from Sakai-machi, Ibaraki Prefecture, milled in-house and hand-made.

• Futouchi soba

  Country-style thick soba made by mixing in-house-milled soba flour with hand-milled flour including the husk; 100% buckwheat, no binder.

• Seasonal kawari soba

  Colorful soba made by incorporating seasonal ingredients into sarashina soba; varieties include yuzu-kiri and yomogi-kiri depending on the season.

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2. 2更科堀井について | 総本家 更科堀井:更科そばsarashina-horii.com
3. 3会社概要 | 総本家 更科堀井:更科そばsarashina-horii.com
4. 4更科堀井のそば | 総本家 更科堀井:更科そばsarashina-horii.com
5. 5Sarashina Horiiwikidata.org