Local Cuisine Spots in Kyoto Area

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Category

Gourmet / Alcohol

Japanese Food

Local Cuisine

Imobo Hiranoya Honten

4.0

48 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto prefecture Kyoto city Higashiyama ku Maruyama park Chirene In front of the Minamige

Imobo Hiranoya Honten is a venerable Kyoto-style restaurant located near Maruyama Park and Chion-in Temple in a quiet, atmospheric building surrounded by shrines and temples. A long tatami room with a narrow street facade, as is typical of Kyoto, the restaurant has been serving kaiseki cuisine centered on imobo for 300 years. A traditional Kyoto dish, made by boiling taro with dried cod, it is simple but has a rich flavor, which brings customers back time and again for more. An Imobo Tray, with imobo and side dishes such as Gion tofu, is very popular and serves as an easy introduction to this dish.

A good choice to eat Kyoto traditional Imobou in an authentic Japanese Restaurant. I ate the summer limited edition set and I was not disappointed.
Kintame Kyoto Nishijin Main Restaurant

4.5

22 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Prefecture Kyoto City Kamigyo-ku Sembamon dori Itsutsuji Uruboru Town 576

This is an old Kyoto-style tsukemono (pickled vegetables) shop established in 1879 and located a three minute-walk along Senbon-dori Street from Senbon Imadegawa bus stop. The shop’s exterior with its large noren curtains has classic Kyoto charm. Aside from being able to buy seasonal Kyoto tsukemono, at lunch (only) the shop offers tatami “chazuke seats” inside for eating chazuke (rice with tea poured on). From the partition in the tatami room one can glimpse the washbasin and look out over the typical Kyoto machiya inner garden while dining—the height in sophistication. The popular Otsukemono Course contains a variety of foodstuffs including an assortment of seasonal tsukemono, sliced dried daikon radish, and light-brown miso zoni (soup containing rice cakes and vegetables).

北野天満宮にほど近い漬物の老舗です。漬物を買えるお店は数多くありますが、京町屋の坪庭を眺めながら本格的な漬物御膳を頂けるお店は中々ありません。人気のお店と聞き、予約してから伺いました。旬の漬物は勿論、旅行者の私達にとって「白味噌仕立てのお雑煮」も珍しく、大変美味しく頂きました。ショップコーナーでは、様々な漬物を購入可能、大量に購入して地方発送しているお客さんもいました。「近為御膳」1.980...
Yoshiya Oku no Niwa

4.5

9 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Ukyou-ku Sagatenryujitsukurimichichou 31

A five-minute walk from Keifuku Electric Railroad Arashiyama Station and a 10-minute walk from Saga-Arashiyama Station. This restaurant is located in the inner parlor on the first floor of the Yoshiya Main Restaurant, a restaurant which serves Saga cuisine and which is located a little ways east of the Togetsukyo Bridge on Sanjo-dori Street. Open to small groups from one to a maximum of 10 people, here customers can enjoy unique Kyoto cuisine such as a Saga boiled tofu tempura meal and a raw yuba tofu skin meal. The restaurant's original selections such as its yuba fondue meal, made with tofu skin and cheese, are also recommended. The restaurant has also been certified by the Kyoto Halal Council and can accommodate Muslim dietary needs. The restaurant's curry, croquettes, and karaage fried chicken are available for takeout.

I had spent the morning exploring so was hungry and wanted a proper sit down meal. I stumbled upon this place due to sheer luck really, but so glad I did. They had plenty of tables (it was quite...
Togetsutei Bekkan Shofukaku

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoto-shi Ukyo-ku Saga Nakanoshimacho Kanyuchi

A tofu and tofu skin shop next to Togetsu-kyo Bridge in the heart of Sagano. They are especially conscious of female customers and over traditional kaiseki course meals and healthy lunches focused primarily around tofu and tofu skin. During the daytime they offer a buffet with over 30 options including fresh fried tempura, Japanese rolled omelets cooked by the chef at the venue, and nigiri sushi. In the evening they offer tofu and tofu skin kaiseki meals, as well as seasonal bamboo bento box meals with seasonal ingredients in bamboo baskets. They're well known for serving meals befitting a traditional Japanese inn while sitting in their tatami room gazing out at the sites of Arashiyama including Mt. Ogurayama and the Ooigawa River.
Kyo no Obanzai Waraji-tei

4.0

12 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoto-shi Nakagyo-ku Mibuhigashiotakecho 14 (Onmaedori Rokukaku Nishiiru Hokuto Kado)

This restaurant is located on Rokkaku Street a three-minute walk from Saiin Station. Look for its red door curtain and paper lanterns. The restaurant serves heart-warming obanzai (Kyoto-style home cooking). Its counter is packed with a stunning selection of around 25 dishes such as simmered bamboo shoots in the spring, or blanched eggplant in a soy-based broth in the summer, sweet-potato vines cooked in sugar and soy sauce in the fall, and simmered Yodo round daikon in the winter. Guests can choose which of the seasonal obanzai made with seasonal vegetables on display they wish to eat. Many people purchase their additive and artificial color-free chirimen-sansho (a preserve of dried young sardines and Japanese pepper) to take home as a side dish for rice or as an appetizer to enjoy with drinks.

有名人が通っているとのこと。舌は肥えているんでしょう、たぶん。でも有名人だからの対応が心地いいのでは? と思います。味はこれよりおいしい店を何店も知っています。値段が表記されていないのは、時価? 客を値踏みして値段を決める? いつのまにか有名になるとだめになる店になりました。
Bubuya

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoto-shi Higashiyama-ku Gionmachikitagawa 297

This chazuke (green tea broth over rice) shop is managed by Kyoto pickle specialist Gion Kawakatsu. Located about seven minutes' walk from Gion-Shijo station, the shop is found in front of Yasaka-jinja shrine and is marked by its red lanterns and wooden pickle barrels. They offer a chazuke dish with 11 kinds of seasonal pickles, including soy sauce-preserved burdock root, cucumber tsuntsunzuke with wasabi and soy sauce, and more. These pickled vegetables are an excellent, healthy source of fiber, minerals, vitamins and other nutrients that are often lacking in modern diets. The gentle, warm chazuke is also an excellent way to refresh your tired body. They also have rice with whitebait, whitebait chazuke, and eel chazuke.
Kiyomizu Gojozaka Yubasen

4.5

30 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoto-shi Higashiyama-ku Gojohashihigashi 6-583-113

This yuba tofu skin restaurant is on the pilgrimage route from Gojozaka to Kiyomizu-dera Temple. Yuba first began as part of the Buddhist cuisine acceptable for priests to eat. It offers fresh-made yuba, full of the mildly sweet aroma of soybeans. Their most popular meal is the Kyo-yuba zen, a set with their yuba trio platter, yuba sashimi, and agedashi fried yuba in broth. They also have rice, akadashi miso soup, and desserts on their full menu of yuba cuisine. They also sell fried kumiage-yuba (soft unshaped yuba) or sweet stewed yuba to take home, all made in the workshop on the second floor.

Not due the food or service but simply as it was closed and Trip Advisor did not mention that. We walked some way to the restaurant purely based on the rating and reviews at 8pm Monday 27th May and...
Murasaki no Wakuden Daitokuji Branch

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoto-shi Kita-ku Murasakinonrinincho 28

This gift shop is on Kita-oji street, near the Kyoto Botanical Garden and Kamo river, about ten minutes' drive from Kitaoji subway station. The word Omotase in the name is how one refers to gifts received, rather than gifts given, and this shop offers a variety of bento lunchboxes and stewed foods from venerable Kyoto restaurant Wakuden to receive. Their Wataboshi, based on the traditional Japanese bridal hood, is a manju bun made with chestnut paste wrapped in thin gyuhi mochi. The smooth chestnut paste and fluffy gyuhi earn them great popularity. The second floor of the same building also has a soba restaurant with counter seating.
Ryokan Nenrinbo

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoto-shi Kita-ku Takagaminekitatakagaminecho 40

This restaurant is about 30 minutes' drive from Kyoto Station, inside a hotel in the Takagamine area, near to a number of ancient temples like Genko-an or Koetsu-ji. It is surrounded by the beauty of the foothills of the Kitayama mountain range, known as Kitayama Cedars, and offers the fruits of the mountains all year round in various seasonal dishes. In summer they have hamo pike conger, in fall matsutake mushrooms, and in winter they have blowfish, all served in dishes that are as pleasing to the eye as they are to the palate. The shop is loved for how its dishes bring out the flavor of their ingredients to their utmost, whether it's hamo shabu-shabu hotpot or sushi, matsutake rice, or boiled blowfish. Their mini-kaiseki Nenju Manpuku Zen and Koetsu dim sum meals, featuring the flavor of the seasons with a Kyoto flair, are also quite popular.
Taro-ya

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Prefecture Kyoto City Nakagyo Ward Shijyo Town Shinchoncho Kaeru First Eye East Entrance Kannondo Town 473

This izakaya is located a four-minute walk from Karasuma Station in Kannondo-cho, Nakagyo District, Kyoto City. It features a wide selection of Kyoto-style home cooking, from standards to seasonal recommendations, and of course the “obanzai” in large pots lined up on the counter. In particular, the croquette with special demi-glace sauce is popular.
Kyoto Cuisine Kotoume

4.0

4 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Higashiyama-ku Gionmachiminamigawa 506-1

This restaurant for Kyoto cuisine is located close to the southern entrance of the Kyoto sightseeing spot Yasaka Shrine’s Minami Romon gate, and is the sister shop of Kyoto Cuisine Ume-Mura where Ito Hirobumi regularly stayed. Located in a restored old Japanese house, its appearance is also attractive for its full Kyoto ambience. For lunch the popular choice is the Koto Bento lunch box in which sashimi, fried food and takiawase (different types of boiled food) are packed into a container shaped like a plum, while for dinner the gorgeous and authentic Koto Kaiseki course is popular. Amidst a relaxing Japanese-style atmosphere enjoy the taste of traditional Kyoto cuisine that makes the most of the flavors of seasonal ingredients and is prepared with delicate craftsmanship. The closest station is Gion-Shijo Station.

It sits at the corner of Yasaka shrine and entrance to Maruyama Park. Nice location but traffic is low volume. Perhaps the pricing is not catered to the masses! The bento boxes looks wonderful and it...
Obanzai Nanohana

3.0

19 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Prefecture Kyoto City Nakagyo-ku Oimasu-machi Temple Hexagon down Le Iseyamacho 338

This Kyoto obanzai shop on the restored first floor of a machiya (townhouse) which was used as the residence of the female owner-manager, has seating that includes views of the inner courtyard as well as horigotatsu (recessed, heated floor seats), and the restaurant has a relaxed home-style atmosphere. The obanzai, which is perfected by the okami’s preferred raw materials and seasonings, is Kyoto-style home cooking that is easy on the body. The limited lunch set is popular for allowing guests to try four types of obanzai dishes with tempura, soy milk gratin or namafu (wheat gluten) dengaku (tofu (or fish, etc.) baked and coated with miso) and rice all at once. The closest station is Kawaramachi Station.

Obanzai means side dishes in Kyoto dialect. They serve authentic washoku, but not special, and customer service is terrible anyway. Their service is too slow and poor attitude. Please dont go...
Torimatsu

4.5

35 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutangoshi Aminochouamino 146

This establishment, located in Kyotango City, Kyoto Prefecture, is a sushi and kaiseki cuisine fine dining restaurant. Here, one can enjoy the traditional regional Kyotango City dish, bara-zushi, Various ingredients, such as marinated mackerel, bamboo shoot, kanpyo, shitake mushrooms, and slivered egg are garnished on top of sushi rice, prepared according to their own special style. Nigiri-sushi or donburi are also available.

京丹後名物と聞く「ばら寿司」 Instagramで知って行ってきました。コロナ禍の夏休み、平日のランチ時に訪問。ピークの正午を外して14時くらいにお邪魔しましたが、満席で30分待ち。待てないので「ばら寿司」をテイクアウト（弁当）にしました。個人的にはちらし寿司系はあまり好みではないのですが、サバのそぼろをベースにしたこのちらし寿司はいけました。美味しかったです。百聞一見に如かず...
Kyoto Cuisine Juntei

4.0

13 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Nishikyou-ku Katagiharashigitani 50

Juntei is a restaurant that serves traditional Kyoto cuisine in the city's Nishikyo Ward. It grows its own fresh bamboo shoots and treats customers to seasonal menus featuring bamboo shoots, with names like Takenoko Tray and Moon Princess Tray. Customers who want to try these specialties need to make reservations, except in April and May. Both local residents and tourists enjoy eating an elegant traditional while admiring the scenery in the changing seasons.

五条通りからちょっと入った竹やぶのすぐそばにある料亭です。椅子や掘りごたつの席もあります。筍の季節ではなかったのですが、筍ご飯が締めで出てきました！美味しかったです。
Ikemasatei

3.5

9 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Prefecture Kyoto City Nakagyo-ku Nishiki Shoji Tsuyoshi Baba East Toyofiya Machi

This Japanese restaurant is run by a veteran fruit and vegetable shop in the Nishiki Market in Nakagyo Ward, Kyoto City. In addition to set meals made with fresh seasonal Kyoto vegetables, they also have rice bowls and more. It opens as a pub in the evening, where guests can try the Kyoto dish obanzai with seasonal vegetables.

元々は八百屋さんの料理屋さん。京都のおばんざい定食や丼もの、があります。夜の営業は週末のみ湯葉丼がちょっと他所では食べられないお味。ちょっといかつい店長が、予想外に優しい。
Ashibinoten

4.0

10 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kidugawashi Kamochounishio Futaba 56

This is an eatery close to Jyoruri-ji Temple in Nishiofuda, Kamo Town. They serve their Tororo Teishoku and Sansai Teishoku set meals with homemade low-salt miso, naturally brewed soy sauce and homemade tsukemono pickles, as well as Sansai Tororo Soba, ice cream and zenzai (sweet red bean soup made with red beans). They also sell souvenirs including their nama-fu tsukudani, (preserved food, steamed white gluten flavored with soy sauce) and hand-made low-salt miso.

浄瑠璃寺拝観後に利用。参道にあると言っていいほどすぐ近くです。のどかな自然の中に佇むいい雰囲気。野菜、山菜も美味しいとろろそばが超おすすめです。紅葉の季節はもちろんいいと思いますが、椿の時期も良さそう。
Tokuwo

Gourmet / Alcohol

It is ru Tennocho 151 in Kiyacho, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto Street Buddha light temple, 600-8013
Kikunoi Mugesamboh

Gourmet / Alcohol

524, Washiocho, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto, 605-0072
Nakamura

4.0

31 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Authority of Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto wealth alley Ikeshita ru, 604-8093

Many of these 3 star Michelin places in Japan do not take reservations over the internet and many do not speak English. I used my Chase Sapphire Reserve cards Visa concierge service to secure the...
KIZAHASHI

5.0

8 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

THE THOUSAND KYOTO2F, 570, Higashishiokoujicho, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto, 600-8216

Wonderful food. Seafood fresh and flavorful, Wagyu beef spectacular. Very open and welcoming atmosphere. Good sake and beer.

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Kyoto Areas

Its wooden tea houses, shuffling geisha, and spiritual sights have seen Kyoto hailed as the heart of traditional Japan, a world apart from ultramodern Tokyo. Despite being the Japanese capital for over a century, Kyoto escaped destruction during World War II, leaving behind a fascinating history which can be felt at every turn, from the fully gold-plated Kinkakuji Temple down to traditional customs such as geisha performances and tea ceremonies, which are still practiced to this day.