Morning at Ameen’s Oven in Wakamatsucho near Hankyu Shukugawa Station a Tabelog Top 100 Bakery

I went to have breakfast at “ameen’s oven” in Wakamatsu-cho, near Hankyu Shukugawa Station.

At ameen’s oven, the bread-making is based on fermenting domestically produced wheat flour with homemade yeast before baking. They are also particular about using organic, pesticide-free organically grown ingredients or domestically produced ingredients whenever possible.

ameen’s oven has even been selected as one of the Top 100 Bread Shops!

What kind of breakfast can you have there?

Breakfast at ameen’s oven

This time, I had the Today’s Toast & Mini Salad Morning Set　600 yen (excluding tax)

The toast options that day were four kinds: iyokan citrus, apple wine, hard bread, and raisin.

For some reason, the “iyokan” caught my attention, so I ordered the iyokan toast.

The vegetables came with a yogurt-flavored dressing. The orange pumpkin-based vegetable dish was really delicious.

The toast had iyokan peel kneaded into it, so it was a little like marmalade jam.

It was fluffy and sweet, and although it was smaller than a regular slice of bread, it was satisfying and really tasty.

ameen’s oven Menu

This is the breakfast and lunch menu.

This is the drink menu.

For tea, it seems they serve pesticide-free black tea from the Hathikuri Tea Garden in central Assam, India.

For coffee, they apparently use beans from Glaubell, which carries coffee grown using methods that are gentle on both people and the planet.

You can really feel their attention to detail not only in the bread, but also in the tea and coffee.

This explains their bread-making and ingredients.

• They ferment domestically produced wheat flour with homemade yeast and bake it
• They use ingredients as close to the producers as possible, where they can hear the voices of the people who grew them
• They do whatever they can themselves
• They avoid processed products and process ingredients themselves as much as possible
• They avoid animal-based ingredients such as eggs, milk, and butter as much as possible

One sentence in the explanation says, “Being able to bake bread with tomatoes grown by a friend, and to prepare bread with herbs from a friend’s field, is something wonderfully rich.”

I really found myself agreeing with that. This is what true richness feels like, isn’t it?

Inside ameen’s oven

ameen’s oven is both a bakery and a cafe.

You can go there to buy bread, or choose some bread and use the cafe space.

Here’s what the inside looks like.

The Bread Section

Doesn’t just looking at bread make you feel happy??

It does for me 😀

They also sell jam.

They also have stollen made with homemade yeast.

Whenever I see stollen on sale, I always think, “It’s already the end of the year… this year went by so fast.”

Cafe Space

The cafe space has one large round table, where everyone sits around the same table.

When I visited, there were two other groups of customers.

In the center of the table, there were all kinds of books lined up, from books about bread, cheese, and coffee to books about insects and travel, so it looks like you could enjoy yourself even if you came alone.

There are also terrace seats.

It’s a little cold at this time of year, but on a nice sunny day, having tea outside sounds lovely.

Bread from ameen’s oven

Since I was there, I bought these three kinds to take home.

Because all of the bread is fermented with homemade yeast, the flavor continues to mature even after baking. Apparently, as the days pass into the second and third day, the acidity becomes milder.

I ended up eating it all in one day without getting to experience how the flavor changed over time, though…

Store Information for ameen’s oven

If you’re walking absentmindedly, you might accidentally pass right by it.

The address is 1F, 6-18 Wakamatsu-cho, Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture.

Parking is here ↓↓