The most sought-after seats in Kyoto are found at the eponymous kaiseki restaurant of Hisao ...

Fancy some tinned bear? Take a look at the snack menu, made of a collection of cans on Kansou’s ...

Gion’s best cocktail bars often serve up frosty receptions to foreign faces. Satonaka doesn’t. ...

Lacquerware brand Oku launched in 2006 with a range of voluptuous designs that fuse traditional ...

Yoshihiro Murata is the Gordon Ramsay of Japanese cuisine. From TV shows to newspaper columns ...

Prince Charles once dined at this historic shabu shabu restaurant. It’s one of several ...

Issen Yoshoku is a local legend. An oversized menu unfolds to offer just a single dish: a kind ...

One of Japan’s few celebrity chefs, and the only one known for Italian fare, Yasuhiro Sasajima ...

If you want to explore sake but haven’t a clue where to begin, this is your place. The Israeli ...

The building is a 19th-century kimono merchant’s house. The dining room looks onto a rock ...

A temple that no gastronome should miss.

Top-grade Japanese beef usually commands sky-high prices, but Hafuu is run by a veteran Kyoto ...

Izakayas are traditionally rowdy, low-brow joints with a fondness for fried food. Uroco is one ...

One of the city’s top funk DJs works this little black and red bar, serving cheap drinks to a ...

Sake has fallen out of favour with Japan’s youth in recent years, but the young people running ...

This friendly restaurant on Pontocho provides glorious views of the Kamo river and serves ...

They call it ‘French kaiseki’, but the cuisine here is classic French - it’s the presentation ...

This sepia-lit dive is a vaguely Rolling Stones-themed bar (hence, apparently, the name - which ...

This small room was originally the tearoom of the adjoining Yoshikawa ryokan, but became a ...