DINE AREA

Taste for yourself Vermicular's view of cuisine in this dining area. To VERMICULAR VILLAGE's south are two buildings devoted to a restaurant and bakery cafe.

Restaurant
Gaze upon the beauty of the water flowing through Naka River Canal as you dine on authentic Vermicular cooking using the inherent flavors of ingredients used. Numerous dishes are served in Vermicular style, allowing for insight into the brand.

Bakery cafe
VERMICULAR VILLAGE's bakery cafe is located on an expansive site overlooking Naka River Canal and offers diners freshly baked bread and stews using Vermicular pots and pans. Takeout is available, but since you're here, don't miss out on the stunning scenery and ambience of terrace seating along the Naka River Canal as you dine.

Chef's table
The restaurant's second floor is home to executive counter seating surrounded by a kitchen in a cozy space where the world's top chefs offer special savory tastes you'll find here and nowhere else. (Open only during events.)

STUDIO AREA

Don't miss the chance to take part in workshops and cooking classes for a better feel of just what Vermicular is in the STUDIO AREA. This spot offers everything a user could want: Education, shopping, instruction, and product maintenance. It is also the base from which the Vermicular brand reaches the world, giving way to creative inspiration.

Cooking classes
The Vermicular concierges and exclusive chefs hold periodic cooking classes using Vermicular products. What's more, top chefs from around the world too offer special classes in addition to parent and child cooking lessons.

Flagship Shop
Take the entire Vermicular lineup in your hands and examine them—something you can't do anywhere else in Japan. You can also purchase limited VERMICULAR VILLAGE products and new, pre-sale items. But it doesn't stop there; concierges answer customers' questions and requests as they conduct live performances in addition to the chance to try products for yourself at this interactive shop.

Cookbook library
VERMICULAR VILLAGE even offers a library filled with 3,000 Vermicular and other books centered on cuisine from around the world. Read through them as you enjoy a coffee and baked treats.

Lab
See Vermicular cookware up close and in action in this lab showcasing features of the brand's production, such as casting, precision processing, and enameling. There are also periodic workshops available to let you try manufacturing for yourself. This lab is even a workshop for the exclusive development of Vermicular items specially requested by international chefs at the top of their tier.

Customer support center
Vermicular Concierges—the pros on every way to use the brand's products—make their home here and even offer their services to you with usage instructions, recipes, and troubles you may be having.

Staff-only floors like the Artist's Workshop from which Vermicular products and recipes are developed; the Studio, where photos and videos of new recipes are shot for media releases; and other areas are also opened up to the public.

Cast enamel pots developed by Aichi Prefecture's own long-standing manufacturer

Vermicular is a cast iron enamel cookware manufacturer which emerged from a small, backstreet workshop in 1936 with the aim of creating The World's Foremost Pot to Accentuate Ingredients' True Flavors. Its products offer an unmatched sealing performance born from craftsmen knowing no limits. Vermicular is tireless in its pursuit to realize anhydrous cooking which effortlessly brings out the inherent flavors of ingredients.

Vermicular has gained a renowned reputation today, but many may not know how much work goes into their products. It is said that nearly three years is required to create a product from their over 10,000 item lineup. Cast iron enamel pots are only possible from a limited number of companies around the globe due to their surprisingly difficult manufacture. Creating Vermicular's unsurpassed sealability is truly no mean feat.

Even so, Vermicular trudged through a long trail of trial and error before it was able to finally create The World's Foremost Pot to Accentuate Ingredients' True Flavors in 2010. Word of mouth spread about the flavors possible with anhydrous cooking and its products became such a hit that there was a maximum wait of 15 months before you could get your hands on certain items.

And in 2016, a cast iron enamel pot for cooking rice was combined with the ideal heat source providing automated heat control to create the Vermicular rice pot and its easy, delicious rice cooking. The product was picked up by the various media outlets before sales began, which helped contribute to a total of orders for this hit numbering in the 130 thousands (as of the end of September 2019).