Great Eating in Kanazawa, Part 4 of 4

Restaurant: Yumeri / ゆめり
Neighborhood: Kanazawa behind the Rifare Building / 金沢市　リファレビルの後ろ
Style: Japanese / 和食
Website: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/ajiraku/yumeri/

My friend Yasuko had suggested two places right away to eat. Itaru was the first, but Yumeri was the second, and on my last night in Kanazawa I managed to get reservations here (which are always suggested, it's quite often booked). Just like you would hope, my last meal in Kanazawa was the very best!

Yumeri was started by a chef who previously trained at Itaru, so it also is a Japanese restaurant emphasizing seafood. Accordingly, for the third night in a row we started out with the sashimi moriawase, and it was the capper of all the great sushi I had in Kanazawa (and once again the buri was probably the single best). We followed that up with quite a variety of other seafood, based mostly on the chef's recommendations, and every single dish was fantastic.

The atmosphere here is generally more upscale than Itaru or Hirosaka-tei and the prices are also somewhat higher; although we didn't have much to drink it still came to over 6000 yen per person. Still, it was a great deal for a sumptuous meal.

Yumeri is very conveniently located if you're around the station area. Follow the main road heading SE away from the station, and in less than five minutes you'll come to a huge building called Rifare; Yumeri is on the street behind Rifare. There's no particular English menu or English speakers here, so be sure to have a Japanese speaker with you (especially so you can ask the chef about tonight's recommendations!).