I had been interested in this place for a while, so I traveled to Chofu to visit. It's about a 15-minute taxi ride from Chofu Station. The interior of the restaurant is lodge-style with a wood-burning stove and a large table where various herbs and liqueurs are displayed, creating a wonderful atmosphere. Outside, there is a garden with a variety of plants and herbs that you can explore while enjoying herbal tea. I went to the restaurant during an unexpected cancellation, so I received a detailed explanation and had a great experience. I opted for the free-flowing drinks, which allowed me to enjoy unique drinks made with herbs and fruits. The dishes were mostly based on herbs, with complex flavors and beautifully presented dishes cooked using a wood-burning stove. It felt like I was truly enjoying nature. It's amazing to be able to have this kind of experience in Tokyo. Highly recommended. Here are some of the dishes I tried: Ricotta cheese with dried tomato oil, Herbed edamame from Sora in Mitaka, Fresh Hiramasa from Hasegawa at Ine Port, Smoked fish with cedar leaves, Risotto, Smoked new cedar sprouts in oil, Grilled fish, Grilled celery root, Fish cooked until one-third reduced, Sour cream and prosciutto sauce, Sweet potato with a strong aroma, Short rib and beef, Whey ice cream similar to cheesecake, Cottage cheese and strawberry.

I used this place to celebrate my birthday. The restaurant is a bit inconveniently located, about a 15-minute taxi ride from Chofu Station, but the spaciousness and travel-like atmosphere make it very relaxing. Speaking of relaxation, the hospitality of the staff was truly wonderful. They provided support subtly and at the right timing. Each dish was made with high-quality ingredients, and you could tell that they were using good ingredients. The menu changes depending on the season. I recommend the free drinks. The staff even customizes herb liqueur for your beer. I'm really glad I chose this place!

I was amazed. It was a series of surprises. I don't know where to start, it was a three-hour experience like no other, with high quality that swept me away. I couldn't explain it, it was an unreal experience. The surprisingly stylish space made me feel at home while wandering around. The dishes that came out were natural yet innovative and delicious, making me gasp every time. The garden is also lovely, with leaves and fruits growing naturally that you can eat. The price is a bit high, but I feel like going back again. Thank you for the meal.

Visited a famous restaurant in Jindaiji, far from Chofu Station for the first time. In conclusion, it was a paradise of plants and hospitality. Visited with four children. The free-flowing drinks were mostly original botanical cocktails. Unique and easy-to-drink options like champagne cocktails with celery, sansho highballs, and lavender tonics were very enjoyable. They also had some rare Frank wines. The selection of sake was interesting as well. The excitement of choosing drinks was endless. The food mainly consisted of wood-fired dishes. The grilling of Spanish mackerel, celery roots, bamboo shoots, and aged meat was excellent. Although I was a bit concerned about the monotony of the flavors, adding more variety in sauces and spices would make it even better. Nevertheless, the meal was visually enjoyable and a delightful dinner. Throughout the meal, my daughter and son were running around, but they were accepted with wonderful hospitality without any reprimand, which was truly moving. Watching the children run around the spacious grounds while I enjoyed my cocktails without any pressure. I've been longing for a weekend like this. I might get hooked on this place.

Life-changing experience at a unique experiential restaurant Maruta Mitaka Station, 15 minutes by bus. DINNER Course 24,000 yen (tax included) A must-visit in a lifetime. This restaurant sources ingredients from local producers and uses wild ingredients to create exquisite dishes with the help of an indoor fireplace and skilled cooking techniques. The restaurant has an Edible Garden where you can explore before the course starts. You can enjoy a welcome drink made with herbs from the garden and even mix your own herbal blend. The bar counter is a fun place to order drinks tailored to your preferences, with staff willing to offer suggestions and create unique concoctions. The drinks, including those with a cherry blossom aroma, were delightful. - Steamed dish with shirako: A unique dish with a delicate aroma and rich flavor, the shirako used was different from the usual types and was delicious without any fishy taste. - Grilled sawara: A fresh and fragrant dish with a sawara fish grilled on a cedarwood plank, offering a crispy surface and a tender, moist interior. - Mitaka bamboo shoot: A simple yet impressive dish featuring a large bamboo shoot locally sourced from Mitaka, with a crunchy texture and a flavorful sauce. - Root celery: A rare vegetable prepared by grilling over fire, offering a tender and tangy flavor that complemented the dish well. - Grilled anglerfish: A first-time experience with anglerfish cooked to perfection, providing a firm and satisfying texture that highlighted the fish's natural taste. - Wagyu beef steak: A favorite dish featuring wagyu beef sirloin, cooked to perfection and bursting with rich flavor. - Whey ice cream: A dessert made with whey, offering a concentrated cheese-like flavor with a light and refreshing taste, paired well with rock salt. - Yuzu peel compote: A unique dessert using whole yuzu peel, providing a refreshing and innovative flavor that stood out among other desserts. The meal ended with a buffet-style tea and sweets service, including sweet potato chips, DIY marshmallow roasting, and a caramelized cake made with a wood-fired technique. A fulfilling and unforgettable dining experience.

Maruta is located quite far from the nearest station, so taking a bus or taxi is recommended due to the considerable distance on foot. As the reservation time approaches, you will be guided inside and receive a wonderful baptism-like ceremony. You will be taken on a tour of the grounds, almost like a room tour, making it feel more like an event than a meal. The cuisine is wood-fired, using the aroma of firewood generously in the dishes, and it gives the impression of cherishing the natural deliciousness of the ingredients. Personally, when I eat delicious food, I approach it with the same sense of excitement as going to a concert or live performance, so this experience was very much to my liking.

A rich and fulfilling experience. A restaurant that embraces natural coexistence in its storytelling. Located near the Jindai Botanical Garden, this restaurant boasts a vegetable garden. From the moment I entered until I left, I was able to fully enjoy everything. In Japanese, it is called "sustainable," but beyond that, the dishes exude a sense of wildness and primitiveness at their core. The ingredients are simple. Various flavors and accompaniments that have been carefully prepared add a colorful touch to the taste. Despite having a different focus compared to glamorous and lovely restaurants in the city center, this restaurant left me equally impressed and moved. It truly was a feast! P.S. I forgot to take a picture, but the dessert of roasted sweet potato was a dish that showcased the unique skills of this restaurant, and its surprisingly delicious taste was a pleasant surprise!

The quality of this restaurant is outstanding, even surpassing the distance it takes to get there. It was my first visit, invited by a friend. The place has a stylish and stylish atmosphere with a mindset of coexisting with the earth and nature. The food and drinks are full of energy. I felt that this is a great restaurant! The experience at the store was very satisfying and worth the price. The staff's cheerful customer service and hospitality were excellent. I highly recommend this place for gatherings, even for about 10 people who love delicious food. Oh, it was great!

You can enjoy dishes made with plants collected from the naturally rich garden. The balcony in the garden is accessible for relaxation after the course. The meat and dessert were especially delicious. The menu included dishes like taro shoot and mushroom mochi, beet and rice chips with fermented butter, crab flan with benibana borogiku sauce, grilled eggplant with musashino usubahagi and semidry ginseng, venison, and black wagyu sirloin aged for 30 days. The meats are enhanced by the accompanying grilled oil. For dessert, there was black fig, butternut miso, and kinmokusei ice cream. The tea sweets were firewood cake, amber sugar, and chestnut pouch.

I went for a birthday dinner and made a little trip to Chofu. I made a reservation for the lunch session since the lunch and dinner menus were the same. We arrived a bit late for the 11:30 opening time. The restaurant was surrounded by greenery, creating a unique and almost otherworldly atmosphere. Inside, the space was simple and we were given a brief explanation before being encouraged to explore the garden while enjoying a pre-meal drink. The garden had natural insect repellent spray available as there were bugs around. We tried various homemade syrups and alcohols blended based on our preferences. It was fun but a bit challenging. We were given a wooden stick for each drink we ordered to keep track. My husband had a Holy Basil-based drink while I had a Berry-based one. We explored the garden with our drinks in hand. We were seated by a bonfire for a pre-meal drink and had the experience of toasting mochi on a stick over the fire. The staff guided us through the garden, explaining the names of herbs and allowing us to add leaves to our drinks. There were even rental homes in the garden, with a resident who grew bananas for their leaves to be used in cooking. We enjoyed a snack that looked like shrimp chips with raspberry sauce. My husband quickly switched to a Rosemary-based drink. The next dish was pumpkin, mushrooms, and pear, all locally sourced. We then watched as eggplants were grilled in the garden before being served with a potato and green yuzu sauce and smoked horse mackerel. The eggplants, sauce, and mackerel were delicious. We then had a dessert-like drink with rosemary and a plum-based wine soda. The meal continued with a crab flan, followed by dishes of swordfish tartare, pickled myoga, and semi-dried carrots. The meal concluded with a sweet potato dish and a sweet potato-like dessert. The food was delicious and creatively presented, making for a memorable dining experience.

Store name: Maruta Budget: 20,000 yen Address: 1-20-1 Fuchuji Kitamachi, Chofu, Tokyo I visited the Western cuisine restaurant "Maruta" located deep in Chofu for the first time. The restaurant is adjacent to the Edible Garden, "Fuchuji Garden," where you can enjoy wood-fired dishes while feeling the greenery. They are particular about organic ingredients sourced from producers across the country. The dishes may seem simple at first glance, but they showcase complex and sophisticated techniques. One dish that left a lasting impression was the grilled edamame, where the sweetness of the beans was incredibly expressed, combined with a cream that gives a sour taste. The drinks were also intriguing, especially a unique combination of champagne with basil liqueur. It was a wonderful restaurant where you can experience food as an art. It seems like it would be fun to have a private party with close friends. Thank you for the meal! I also post on Instagram, so I would be happy if you could follow me. #Chofu #Maruta #woodfire #grill #Fuchuji #hidden gem #private house #popular restaurant #highly rated on Tabelog #reservation only #steak #fire cooking #edamame #bread #mushrooms #all delicious #experiential restaurant #Chofu gourmet

Reservation: Yes Number of visitors: 2 Duration of stay: 3.5 hours Price: 25,000 yen per person I made a reservation because I often heard good reviews about this place. It was a very enjoyable experience where you can pick and eat herbs from the garden, and try baking rice cakes over a bonfire. They offer unique cocktails and mocktails that you can't find anywhere else. The food is delicious, and I was impressed by the ambiance and presentation. It seems like it would be even more fun for a private party, as they are willing to accommodate certain requests. It's a perfect spot for a date, where you can truly experience something out of the ordinary.

Today's visit was to Maruta. Maruta is a wood-fire cuisine restaurant located near Jindaiji in Chofu, Tokyo. It is about a 15-minute drive from Mitaka Station and is operated near the Jindai Botanical Park. I had been very interested in this restaurant for a few years, and it had become the top restaurant I wanted to visit in Tokyo. This time, I was invited by a friend and visited for the first time. Maruta is an experiential wood-fire cuisine restaurant where you can enjoy a unique space not found elsewhere in Tokyo where many people gather around the dining table. This time, I opted for a course with all-you-can-drink for 30,000 yen, and before the course started, we had the experience of wood-fire cooking on the terrace. The drinks also included cocktails made with ingredients from their own garden, and the dishes also made ample use of ingredients from their own garden. Truly a local production for local consumption experience in Chofu. I got to experience something that I thought was impossible to taste in Tokyo, outside of the 23 wards in Chofu. The dishes included Grass Mochi Mountain Vegetables Soy Sauce, Mitaka-produced Edamame Beef Fat Apple Mint Smoked Cream, Nasu Fermented Tea Leaves Lemon Verbena Jalapeno Matsudai Cucumber, Warasa Fermented Soy Milk Sauce Wild Vegetable Red Rose Bogigiku Spring Chrysanthemum Egoma Daikon Leaf Oil Flavor, Inagi-produced Kogane Yamadori Suskeyamadoritake Yamadoritakemodoki, Kihada Kajiki Maguro Tomato Lemon Oil Water Marigold Leaf Garlic Chips, Carrot Wood-fired Ume Vinegar and Carrot Sauce Onion Homemade Meat Sauce Powder Mitsuba, Fish Roe Homemade Ponzu Kikurage Minced Egoma Akita Beef Sirloin 80 Days Tasmania Pepper Red Beef Ichibo, Wood-fired Cake Chiba Melon Cleve Nile Melon Semi-dried Blueberry Financier Herb Ume and Peach. The course ended above. It was a wonderful course that truly allowed me to experience the essence of an experiential wood-fire cuisine restaurant. The quality of the alcohol was also very high, and I found myself drinking more than I intended. Each wood-fire dish allowed me to fully taste the flavors and experience the unique local production for local consumption in Tokyo. I look forward to experiencing a different season's cuisine in November. Thank you for the feast.

We used this restaurant for a family anniversary. I was looking for a nice restaurant that could be used for a special occasion, and I found this place through a search. The website looked lovely, so we decided to go here! Currently, the restaurant only operates on weekends. The lunch menu used to be around 5,000 yen, but now they only offer a unified course for 18,000 yen for both lunch and dinner. Drinks are not included. We made a reservation for the evening. The opening hours seem to change according to the sunset time. When we arrived by car, we had trouble finding the entrance to the restaurant. There were stylish buildings lined up, and we almost rang the doorbell of the owner's house, but the actual entrance to the restaurant was a bit further back. Once we stepped inside, it felt like being surrounded by nature in a Yamanashi resort. We could see a fire burning. The restaurant was in a modern natural building at the back, and they seemed to cook with firewood. We ordered drinks and watched them being made. The staff used herbs like shiso and mint they had picked to make soda-based drinks. We didn't drink alcohol since we drove, but they had a variety of natural wines available. The drinks were beautifully colored, and we enjoyed them while toasting mochi snacks (mochi mixed with wild plants) over an outdoor fire. It was a series of surprises from the start. We strolled through the garden and explored the grounds. As the sun set, dinner began. We could go outside whenever we wanted, which was nice. We were served crispy papadum-like crackers with a unique butter made with flowers and various ingredients. Then, we had grilled edamame with a sour cream-based sauce, grilled long eggplant, and grilled bamboo shoots, all surprisingly delicious. The fish dishes were also excellent, sourced from a local fisherman. We forgot the details, but there were two fish dishes that were very tasty. Next came the meat dish, made with beef from dairy cows that would usually be discarded. The meat was lean and firm, cooked to perfection. We forgot to take a photo after slicing it, but it was red and cooked just right. We enjoyed it with freshly ground pepper, natural salt, and ginger. Dessert was a boozy adult's savarin cake with cream and dried fruits, accompanied by a mini pool. We also ordered freshly ground coffee, which was delicious. The restaurant was almost full, with around 16 guests. The concept of the restaurant is coexisting with nature, being eco-friendly, and utilizing ingredients that would otherwise go to waste. It was a wonderful experience, and I felt a strong connection to their philosophy. While there are many stylish restaurants in the city, this kind of place is rare. It was a valuable and special dining experience, focusing on the quality of ingredients and creativity. The idea that natural foods are the most delicious was truly evident.

A restaurant near Jindai-ji Temple that specializes in wood-fired cuisine. The restaurant is operated by a landscaping company and has a theme of "wood, share, wild, local first". Guests can enjoy dishes cooked over open flames, as well as pick and eat herbs grown in the courtyard. The experience is truly unique and goes beyond the typical dining experience. The relaxed atmosphere makes it hard to believe you are in Tokyo. The dinner course includes dishes like mountain vegetable rice cakes, beet and rice chips, cold soup with squid and dried mushroom, charcoal-grilled bamboo shoots, fermented sauce with bamboo shoots and lotus roots, aged mackerel, and more. The desserts include mugwort eclairs, Jerusalem artichoke cake, loquat seed cake, and kumquat jelly. The Mild Black beer and Yama-Momo and Rosemary kombu tea are also recommended. Overall, it was a one-of-a-kind dining experience with delicious food and a unique atmosphere.

It was very fun and delicious, I definitely want to come back. The drinks include a variety of alcoholic and non-alcoholic cocktails made by the staff. The unique ingredients are interesting. The presentation is consistent. The taste of the food was also wonderful and the portion size was quite large. I am very satisfied.

Great atmosphere, service, food, and drinks are all fantastic. Every dish is surprising and I was moved by the stories of the producers and the food itself. It's fun to chat with the staff, who are knowledgeable and can teach you a lot. The drinks are not fixed on the menu, so deciding with the bartender is enjoyable. There are no downsides, it's hard to find any. If I had to say something, it would be that the location could be more central. Overall, a restaurant that fully utilizes its indoor and terrace space for an experiential dining experience. I visited during the day, but I'm sure the atmosphere is just as great at night. The ingredients used are not fixed, so the menu changes regularly, and there are a wide variety of dishes. I had a very satisfying experience spending about 3 hours there and would definitely want to go back again.

I was introduced to this restaurant by a friend and decided to give it a try. The atmosphere of the restaurant was amazing, with high ceilings and plenty of space between tables. Even though there were people moving around to look at the food, drinks, or step outside, it didn't feel crowded at all. The outside area had wild plants growing, and sometimes you could even eat them. The menu changed depending on what was in season, and they had a special menu for kids, like roasting marshmallows outside. The staff was very attentive to children, almost like a daycare service. When it came time to pay, I was surprised by how cheap it was, and then found out that the kids' meals were actually free! I tried to pay, but the staff insisted it was complimentary. They even encouraged me to come back with my child to enjoy another wonderful time. I'll definitely be visiting this place again!

A highly recommended restaurant where you can enjoy exquisite food with all five senses, to the point where you don't want to tell anyone about it. The courses made from ingredients sourced from local producers or wild ingredients are all incredibly delicious and impressive. The evening session starts at sunset. Upon being seated, you are first taken to the garden to enjoy mushroom soup by the bonfire (see third photo). Drinks are complimentary, and you can order at the bar counter inside the restaurant (see sixth photo). The staff will mix and make your drink based on your preferences. Every dish is delicious, but personally, the root celery in the second photo was the highlight for me. The dessert was consistently delicious until the end, with the wood-fired cake being particularly memorable. After the meal, you can enjoy the quietness of the location by the bonfire with a drink in hand for as long as you like. Despite being a remote location about a 10-minute drive from Chofu Station, the peacefulness of the area adds to the atmosphere created by the restaurant. They change the contents of the courses based on the available ingredients and the season, making it a place worth visiting repeatedly.【Reviewer's Gourmet Instagram】@summer_foodlog

The course, which started with a soup made from grass and nutmeg boiled in the garden, was a memorable experience, with a pleasant distance reminiscent of being welcomed into a friend's home. The dishes were full of surprising flavors that I had never tasted before. The drinks included original cocktails such as gin mixed with tonic water infused with Western wasabi and kombucha fermented with rosemary, which were prepared right in front of us, adding to the enjoyment of the meal.

This is a wood-fired cuisine restaurant located in Chofu. It is a standalone house with a cozy atmosphere, and it also has an edible garden called Jindaiji Garden. Currently, it is only open on weekends, and the doors open at sunset. There are two large tables where everyone gathers around to enjoy together. For a welcome treat, they serve mozzarella marinated in meat sauce and grilled over a fire. The freshly picked rose geranium adds a nice touch. The drink menu offers all-you-can-drink for 10,000 yen. The sommelier, Mr. Toyama, has a unique background, having worked at Sio in Yoyogi and helped launch Rula in Kyoto. The selection includes not only wine but also sake, kombucha, and cocktails, with some quite unusual options. The pairing of mezcal with Kurosawa sake, mint cocktail, and Usbahagi liver was amazing. They also offer sauce-making experiences for children using spices and herbs, as well as opportunities to crush spices on the spot to enjoy their fragrance. It was the best restaurant experience I've ever had. This is a must-visit restaurant!