Chef Yoshimi Tanigawa made a national splash with a 2001 triumph on the Iron Chef TV show. His ...
A record store at the front, selling hiphop, house, soul and nu jazz on vinyl, draws DJs and ...
Kyoto’s oldest soba restaurant began life in 1465 as a confectionery store. Gradually, its ...
Top-grade Japanese beef usually commands sky-high prices, but Hafuu is run by a veteran Kyoto ...
Mr Sawaguchi was 55 years old when he wound down the family greengrocer business and converted ...
This century-old building began life as a kimono store, but the interior was revamped in 2002, ...
Grilled chicken liver is the most popular dish here, but most other bits of the bird are also ...
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 ...
Chef Yukio Kato studied in Italy and returned with a culinary repertoire of top-end Tuscan ...
The speciality here is sumashi, a one-of-a-kind nouveau ramen garnished with quirky ingredients ...
This time warp’s eerie blue lighting may not be to everyone’s taste, though it was installed on ...
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 ...
This tea salon dates from 1934, back when Kyoto was a centre of left-wing, anti-war politics. ...
They call it ‘French kaiseki’, but the cuisine here is classic French - it’s the presentation ...
A romantic Pontocho address plus Kyoto cuisine with a river view usually adds up to a steep ...
One of Pontocho’s newest faces, Kuro opened in summer 2008 and hit all the right notes from the ...
This sepia-lit dive is a vaguely Rolling Stones-themed bar (hence, apparently, the name - which ...
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