The building was an antique shop. It is one small room, a minute from the station, and it now holds two separate businesses that take turns in it. In the daytime it is Maya no Canelé, a specialist making canelés with rice flour — the kind of thing people here buy as a gift to take to someone’s house. In the evening the room opens again as Parlor Room, run by the owner’s husband, and fills with the neighbourhood.
Same room, different shops. This page is about the evening one.
The room
It is compact, and it is full of people enjoying themselves. A neighbourhood place, with the easy atmosphere that comes from that.
What to order
The food leans towards things you eat while drinking: small plates, made with care, not thrown together.
Rocket salad — bitter rocket, cheese, olive oil. Nothing more than that, and it does not need more.
Fries with habanero mayonnaise — good hot chips on their own; the house sauce doubles them. This is the one to have with beer.
Fig and salami bruschetta — baguette with cream cheese, fig and cured ham. A golden combination with a glass of wine.
Green beans sautéed with pancetta — the green snap of the beans against the salt and savour of the pancetta.
Pasta of the day — the night I went, fettuccine in mushroom cream. Properly made, the sauce clinging the way it should. Good enough to come back for on its own.
The drinks are chosen well
Craft beer and wine, with taste behind the selection rather than a list assembled at random. The whole menu is built around drinking — small things, one after another, over a couple of hours.
How to use it
Kita-Kamakura Station is close by, which makes this a natural stop on the way back from the temples: an easy hour before the train, rather than a formal dinner. If you have spent the day walking around Engakuji and Kenchoji, this is the room to end up in.
Opening hours are not listed here because they are not confirmed — check before you go, and remember the name on the door depends on the time of day.
