Kamakama - A Good Kamameshi in Kamakura

Restaurant Review by CCC

I want to introduce the restaurant Kamakama. Kamakama is about a 5 minute walk from Kamakura Station. Kamakama is a clean and small restaurant, and the number of seats is 21. It is open from 11:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. It mainly serves kamameshi.

I ate the mushroom salad and the shirasu nishoku kamameshi. The mushroom salad was laid on a big dish with potherb mustards and there were mushrooms on top. It had dressing on it (sorry, I couldn't understand what kind of dressing). In this salad, there are many baked mushrooms, velvet shanks, shiitake mushrooms, maitake mushrooms, shimeji mushrooms, and so on. The variety of mushrooms had a nice flavor. This salad was good and its quantity was large.

The shirasu nishoku kamameshi was a small pot of cooked rice and there were boiled whitebaits and raw whitebaits on its surface. It was served hot individually. The rice was brown and cooked with a special soup stock that was really tasty. The raw whitebaits were very small, lustrous and translucent, and they had a slightly bitter but good taste.

There is a special way to eat kamameshi. First, mix the contents of kamameshi in your pot. You make cooked rice with various ingredients, but in this case, you should avoid mixing hot rice and raw whitebaits. Second, serve the contents in your bowl from your pot and eat. At that time, leave a few of the contents in your pot. Finally, serve the last contents in your bowl from your pot, and add spices and nori to the contents as you like. Then pour a good and hot soup stock in your bowl; this makes an ochazuke. And then eat it! It's great! This shirasu nishoku kamameshi was delicious, as it had cooked rice with various ingredients and an ochazuke.

Fishermen are permitted to catch whitebaits for a limited season, so please be careful that you eat raw whitebaits in that season. But Kamakama has other various menus, drinks, dishes, and kamameshi. They are very good. So, why don't you eat a good kamameshi at this restaurant?

Address: 2-11-8 1F Komachi, Kamakura City
Phone: (046) 725-3590