French • Yugawara hillside
概要
Herlequin Bis (エルルカン・ビス) sits not in Yugawara's onsen district but on a hillside about 10-12 minutes' taxi ride inland from the station. The approach is genuinely demanding: reviewers who drive consistently describe the access road as the kind of 'narrow, steep, winding hill' they would not take again voluntarily (『絶対に自分で運転したくない細くて急な坂道』). Once you're past the climb, a short staircase drops down into the restaurant's site - a standalone glass-walled dining room ringed by a private bamboo grove, with sunroom-style terrace seats looking straight out into the bamboo. Cats and a senior shiba-ken make appearances. The feeling is less 'restaurant in a town' and more 'someone built a country house around a grove and opens it for lunch and dinner.'
Chef Itō ran a French restaurant in Ebisu (恵比寿) before relocating to Yugawara. His training bridges both French and Japanese high-end kitchens, and that shows up in the food: sauces get de-emphasized in favor of ingredient quality, vegetables come from the restaurant's own farm in Hiratsuka (平塚自家農園), and the cooking rotates strongly by season. Reviewers who visit in different months describe markedly different menus - winter leans on game (wild boar, venison, duck, foie gras) and stews; spring centers on kelp, scallops, and spring cabbage; summer pushes into spice-forward builds (cumin, turmeric, coriander). A Tabelog regular who has eaten here for a decade describes the chef's approach as seasonal-experimental, which is a feature for many visitors and occasionally a shock for regulars expecting the classic menu.
The course structure is consistent across the year. Lunch offers two tiers: the lighter **Rayons 木漏れ日** (around ¥4,950, tax included) with a main you pick between fish and meat, and the fuller **Saveur 陽射しの中で** (around ¥6,600, tax included) that adds course weight and sometimes an extra amuse. Dinner runs **Harmonies** (a half-course) and the full **季節のうつろい (Utsuroi)** at ¥12,000 tax-in. All courses then add a 10% service charge. Standing fixtures regardless of menu: a set of homemade pickles in the amuse, a self-farm vegetable soup, a cheese or pâté moment, and - always - the signature ブラジルプリン (Brazil pudding) at the end, which reviewers repeatedly call the best custard pudding they've eaten. Wine list is moderate and the sommelier recommendations are well-reviewed. Bring-a-car parties routinely order a bottle while one designated driver sticks to Perrier or a non-alcoholic sparkling 'Celebré.'
Three practical things. **Reservations are required and phone is the safest channel**; Table Check supports one-person lunch reservations online. **Closing day is Wednesday** (月・火・木・金・土・日 operating, 水 closed), and service runs 11:30-13:30 lunch, 18:00-20:30 dinner. **Getting there**: treat this as a taxi trip (¥1,770-2,200 from Yugawara Station, staff will call the return) unless you're already comfortable with steep mountain roads. Lunch shows the bamboo under daylight (木漏れ日 - 'sunlight through the leaves'), dinner offers the bamboo lit up under lanterns - two different visits, two different meals. Plan this restaurant as the day's centerpiece, not a side stop.
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- データノート
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基本情報
店舗データ
住所: 神奈川県足柄下郡湯河原町宮上744-49
電話番号: 0465-62-3633
営業時間: Lunch 11:30-13:30 · Dinner 18:00-20:30
各ソースからのシグナル
スコア
| Food quality | 4.4/5 | highTabelog 3.65 across 316 reviews, Tabelog Hyakumeiten French EAST 2025. Chef trained at high-level French and Japanese kitchens; prior Ebisu restaurant. Consistent praise for the technique, seasonal focus, self-farm vegetables, and signature Brazil pudding. Minor but recurring complaints about game-meat toughness (supply-driven) and occasional inconsistency in the spice-heavy summer direction. |
| Value | 4.0/5 | highLunch courses ¥4,950-6,600 for Hyakumeiten-grade French with a bamboo-grove view are widely described as strong value. Dinner at ¥12,000+ is fair for the tier. Note that all prices add a 10% service charge, which some reviewers flag as easy to miss when budgeting. |
| Spaciousness | 3.5/5 | mediumSingle-room dining with terrace/sunroom section. Approximately 5-6 tables on a full service based on review counts of concurrent parties. Recently expanded into former foot-bath terrace space. Groups of 6+ have been accommodated but should reserve well ahead. |
| Seating comfort | 4.0/5 | highGlass-walled sunroom facing the bamboo is consistently named as the reason to come. Most reviewers specifically request or get the terrace-facing table; interior seats are described as 'the miss' by regulars. |
| Health friendly | 4.0/5 | highSelf-farmed (Hiratsuka) vegetables feature heavily; multiple reviewers specifically note that courses are light enough to not weigh you down after dinner. Vegetable soup is a standing course item. Not positioned as health food, but structurally lighter than a classical French program. |
| English ability | 1.5/5 | lowAll reviews in Japanese; no English signage evidence. Service is conducted in Japanese by the chef and one or two floor staff. Possible but not documented. |
| Kid friendly | 1.5/5 | mediumDescribed as 'adult time' (大人の時間) in a calm, older-skewing crowd. No explicit kid-hostile policy, but the reservation-only, course-only, bamboo-grove destination format is not built around families with young children. |
レビューより
お客様の声
「竹林に囲まれた一軒家のお店。こんな所にこんな素敵なお店があるなんて！という場所にあります」
A single-house restaurant ringed by a bamboo grove. The kind of place you think, 'how does a restaurant like this even exist here?'
「絶対に自分で運転したくない細くて急な坂道を登った先にあります」
It sits at the end of a narrow, steep hill you absolutely do not want to drive yourself.
「以前は恵比寿でやっていたそうですが縁あってこの地でやっているそうです」
The chef used to have a restaurant in Ebisu; a connection brought him to this land.
「和のテイストを感じる軽やかな食べ心地のフレンチ」
A light French with Japanese-tinted taste sensibility.
「デザートのプリンが過去イチと思うほど、濃厚でなめらかで感動レベルに美味しかった」
The dessert pudding was so rich and smooth I thought it was the best I'd ever eaten - emotionally-moving good.
情報源の相違点
データノート
食べログ・Google・ホットペッパーなど複数のプラットフォームで収集した情報に矛盾があった箇所です。誤った情報でせっかくの旅を無駄にしないよう、より保守的な解釈を採用しています。各ノートには矛盾点とその判断理由を記載しています。
- Name spelling: Our guide entry originally carried 'Herlequin Biz' (z); the canonical spelling on Tabelog, Hot Pepper, the town's tourism site, and the official domain is 'Herlequin Bis' (s) / エルルカン・ビス. We've corrected the display name while keeping the slug 'herlequin-biz' for URL stability.
- Access: Multiple long-time reviewers warn explicitly against self-driving the approach road - 'narrow, steep, winding, mountain-road' is consistent language. Taxi from Yugawara Station runs ¥1,770-2,200 and staff will call a return. We have defaulted the guidance to 'taxi unless you're comfortable' rather than 'accessible by car' - the latter is true but misleadingly optimistic.
- Service charge: All course prices on the menu list tax but NOT the 10% service charge, which is added at the bill. Reviewers who quote ¥12,000 and ¥6,600 are reporting the menu line; actual pay is ~10% higher. We've flagged this in both the averagePrice line and here.
- Pricing drift: Lunch course 'Saveur 陽射しの中で' appears as ¥6,050 in 2023 reviews, ¥6,600 in 2024, ¥7,150 in late 2025/early 2026. The lighter Rayons course drifted ¥4,400 → ¥4,950. We quote the most recent figures; expect further adjustment rather than stability.
- Cuisine direction: Menu rotates strongly by season; summer has leaned spice-forward (cumin, turmeric) in recent years, winter leans classical with game. Regulars note this as a feature, but visitors expecting 'classic French' at all times may be surprised. We have written the guide page to describe the rotation rather than pick a single genre.
- Tabelog score drift: Tabelog score during research went 3.64 (web-search snapshot) → 3.65 (live scrape, 316 reviews). Active reviewing; refresh cadence flagged per rubric §1.3.
- First-party website: herlequin.com returned a connection-refused error during our research pass. The official site may be intermittently available or down. The town tourism page (yugawara.or.jp/gourmet/1310) and Tabelog are currently the most reliable authoritative sources.
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