
Kohei Tanaka, owner of the restaurant.
Born in Ichijoji, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto. Trained at several bakeries in Kyoto. After working as an instructor at a vocational school, he started his own business in the local Plaza Shugakuin arcade.
January 22, 2020 open
Chef Tanaka studied architecture in college. When he visited France on an architecture training trip, he was impressed by the taste of French bread and enrolled in a vocational school to become a baker. After graduation, he worked at various bakeries to hone his skills, and then became an instructor at his alma mater before setting up his own bakery in 2020. He chose a former stationery store in an arcade as the site for his new store, hoping that it would be a catalyst for increasing foot traffic in the local shopping district.
“Because we eat bread every day, we want to make bread that is close to our daily lives,” says Chef Tanaka. Aiming to make bread as simple as possible, carefully selected domestic, organic, and additive-free ingredients that do not use eggs or honey. The wheat, which is the key to making bread, uses wheat from Hokkaido and Kyushu, and is carefully made over time with low-temperature fermentation for a long time.
From left, dessert bread raspberry croissant filled with pulpy raspberry cream, 330 yen. Aromatic bread, a kind of French fougasse, 310 yen. Pain au levain, a kind of French meal bread, 490 yen (a quarter). The whole is a whopping 30cm in diameter.
Chef Tanaka's passion has been well received by the people of the town, and every day the store is visited by local residents one after another. Not only the madams who come to buy bread for breakfast, but also many of the neighborhood children prefer baguettes to sweet breads and side dishes, saying, "I love the French bread here. Tanaka Bakery has become a representative bakery in the area. The chef continues to bake bread today with his heart for the people who eat it.
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