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The latest restaurants are all here! Daimaru Kyoto Store in Shijo-Karasuma opens a restaurant floor on the 8th floor!

The 8th floor of the long-established department store [Daimaru Kyoto Store] will open as a restaurant floor on September 29, 2023. Eight restaurants, including an eel specialty restaurant where lines are inevitable, a delicatessen and BBQ restaurant operated by a bar where vegetables play a leading role, and a soba noodle restaurant offering a variety of Japanese sweets and dishes to go with sake, will be gathered. You can also enjoy dinner after work in a relaxed atmosphere.
Stop by this oasis in the city where you can find everything you want to eat in Kyoto right now.

1.Flattened eel bowl at Charcoal Grilled Eel Fuji, an eel specialty restaurant from Nagoya

The eel specialty restaurant that has wowed the palates of experts in Nagoya, a fierce eel battleground, has opened its first restaurant in Kyoto. The founder, who used to work for an eel feed manufacturer, sources extra-large blue eels through his own channels. The skin is crispy and fragrant, and the meat is fluffy and tender, thanks to the ultra-high-temperature charcoal grill. Enjoy the exquisite eel dishes soaked slowly in the secret sauce that has been added since the establishment of the restaurant, in a modern Japanese-style space with the warmth of wood.

Charcoal Grilled Eel Fuji's Top Eel Bowl with Liver

Top eel bowl with liver, 6,600 yen (tax included). The liver, which can be removed clean by opening the belly, is best enjoyed with Aichi Prefecture's local sake. (Includes soup, pickles, and one dish; limited quantities available)

Char-grilled Unafuji's top hitsu-mabushi with liver

Top hitsu-mabushi with liver, 6,600 yen (tax included). The juicy, meaty eel is delicious enjoyed in a variety of ways in hitsu-mabushi. (Includes soup, pickles, condiments, and broth; limited quantity)

Charcoal Grilled Eel Fuji

2.Taste fresh local ingredients in an outstanding location [VEGGIE ISO TERRACE].

The new restaurant by the Gojuke Group is a delicatessen and BBQ restaurant. The adjoining terrace seats can be used for BBQ and outside drinking both during the day and at night. The restaurant offers high quality vegetables purchased by selectors with a keen eye at their own farms (ISO FARM) and contract farms, and cooked in a way that brings out the best of the ingredients. In addition to a variety of colorful vegetable dishes, a new menu featuring fish from Kyoto has been added to the lineup. Stop by on your way to the shops or after work and enjoy the open terrace seating to recharge your energy.

VEGGIE ISO TERRACE

DELI & MAIN A SET 1850 yen (tax included) with a choice of two deli items made with plenty of seasonal vegetables and one main dish. (Includes soup, rice and drink bar)

VEGGIE ISO TERRACE

3.[Soba Cuisine Yoshimura Daimaru Kyoto Villa

The Daimaru Kyoto Villa of Soba Restaurant Yoshimura, which has its main restaurant in Arashiyama, features a glass-enclosed soba noodle-making area where visitors can observe the skilled techniques of stone milling and buckwheat noodle making. The broth is made from four types of shavings, including Rishiri kelp and honkare shavings that have been aged for more than two years. The restaurant also offers a wide variety of dishes, including a set menu featuring homemade yuba (bean curd), creative dishes using local ingredients, and soba sweets, making it a versatile place to enjoy everything from lunch to cafes and soba mae (soba noodle stands).

Soba Cuisine Yoshimura Tenzaru at Daimaru Kyoto Villa

Tenzaru (tempura) with nihachi soba and tempura for 1,720 yen (tax included). Taste the freshly fried tempura with homemade soba tea salt.

Soba Cuisine Yoshimura, Daimaru Kyoto Villa

Buckwheat tea roll 550 yen (tax included). Original sweets filled with naturally roasted savory buckwheat tea cream

Soba Cuisine Yoshimura, Daimaru Kyoto Villa

4.A bowl of Japanese Ramen Rin, produced by Lab Q, is full of the power of Japanese food culture.

This is the second Kyoto branch of the famous Sapporo restaurant Japanese Ramen Noodle Lab Q, run by its owner, Mr. Hiroki Hiraoka. Under the theme of "Japanese food culture in a bowl," he is exploring new possibilities for ramen using ingredients and broths unique to Japan. While Rin Kyoto in Karasuma mainly offers soy sauce and salt ramen, Rin Karasuma's signature dishes are chicken shiratsuyu and miso. The restaurant spares no effort in all ingredients and cooking processes, such as the different tastes of each piece of chashu (pork), to create a "flavor sequence" in a single bowl of ramen that is similar to a course meal.

Nippon Ramen Rin Rashira produced by LabQ's Jidori Chicken Chicken Shiranyu Ramen

Jidori Chicken Chicken Hakuchu Ra-men 1,300 yen (tax included). Homemade noodles made of domestic wheat are intertwined with a mild chicken shiranyu soup made by slow-cooking domestic chicken.

Nippon Ramen Rin away produced by LabQ's Mellow Miso Ramen

(Left) Mr. Hiraoka also focuses on training ramen craftsmen (Right) The aroma of the soup is enticing: mellow miso ramen for 1,350 yen (tax included)

Nippon Ramen Rin Rin away produced by Lab Q

5.Steak of [Mitaya Honten - Yasuragi-no-Sato] supported by a wide range of fans

This steak restaurant offers its signature hams made using traditional German methods and steaks made from finely textured Japanese black beef. The loin ham, served as an hors d'oeuvre with each course, is made by slowly salting high-quality pork loin for one to two weeks, then smoking and heating it with a mixture of natural cherry wood chips and coffee beans. The homemade carrot-based dressing developed for the ham also has many fans. They are also committed to passing on the culture surrounding food, such as using Mita celadon vessels.

Mitaruya Honten-Yasuragi-no-Sato - Japanese Black Beef Steak

Various types of Kuroge Wagyu steak courses are priced at 7,700 yen (tax included). Delivered to your table on a hot iron plate, you can enjoy it grilled to your liking. (Includes ham hors d'oeuvres, salad, a beef dish, onion soup, rice, pickled plums, and ice cream)

Mitaya Honten-Yasuragi-no-Sato

6.[Marufuku Coffee Shop The Parlor is a fun adult parlor at night.

A long-established coffee shop established in Osaka that is loved throughout Japan. The shop produces coffee with a rich and intense flavor and aroma using a unique roasting technique and extraction equipment, which is known as the ultimate in deep roast coffee. In addition to light meals such as sandwiches and curry, afternoon tea sets are available, including sweets made with ingredients related to Kyoto. In the evening, adult beverages such as coffee highballs and mixed juice for adults are on standby. Enjoy a dreamy time of drinking and finishing with a parfait.

Marufuku Coffee The Parlor

Marufuku Fruit Parfait 1800 yen (tax included)

Marufuku Coffee The Parlor's pancakes with seasonal fruit

A full lineup of sweets is available, including pancakes made with sake from the Shirasugi Sake Brewery in Kyotango, and night parfaits made with Kyoto fruits, which can be served with your choice of sake. (Left) Pancakes served with a drink and seasonal fruits for 2,200 yen (tax included) (Right) Night parfait with figs for 1,600 yen (tax included)

Marufuku Coffee Shop The Parlor

7.You can casually drop by like at an Italian bar [Rooftop terrace CIELO by il cipresso].

For Italians, a bar is an indispensable place to stop by for coffee, a panini or pasta for lunch, or a light drink. The Italian restaurant "il cipresso" in Gion has produced a bar that can be casually dropped in as a new place for everyday life. Here, you can enjoy a variety of drinks, including lattes made with an authentic espresso machine called "Cafe Racer," wine and fruit cocktails, and elaborate pasta and antipasto dishes.

Kyoto Premium Latte at Rooftop terrace CIELO by il cipresso

KYOTO Premium Latte 700 yen (tax included), espresso made with original roasted beans and Tango Jersey milk. The latte artwork drawn with steamed milk is comforting.

Rooftop terrace CIELO by il cipresso

8.Risotto specialty restaurant [LA RISOTTERIA] that reproduces the authentic taste of Italy in Kyoto.

Il Viale Group, which operates authentic ristorante and pizza specialty restaurants in Kyoto City, opened a risotto specialty restaurant, one of the few in Japan. Chef Takemasa Watanabe, who also serves as president of the Kyoto Italian Cuisine Research Association, is in charge of the menu. The al dente risotto is made from aged Italian rice. One bite of the risotto is sure to surprise you with a texture completely different from that of Japanese rice dishes. The antipasto, a combination of Kyoto and Italian ingredients, is also a must-try.

LA RISOTTERIA Ca'del Viale

Kyoto Mortadella & Assorted Seasonal Vegetables 2,750 yen (tax included). Mortadella (bologna sausage) is an original made with Kyoto ingredients such as Kyoto duck, pork, kujo leeks, and black edamame from Tanba

LA RISOTTERIA Ca'del Viale

The signature dish, ossobuco alla Milanese, 5,500 yen (tax included). Milan's traditional dish of braised veal bone-in shank served with saffron risotto, one plate in Milanese style.

LA RISOTTERIA

Daimaru Kyoto Store 8F Restaurant Floor

  • Marunouchi Shokutomise 8F Restaurant Floor
  • 79 Tachiuri Nishimachi, Shijo-dori Takakura Nishiiri, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture
  • Directly connected to Hankyu "Karasuma" station
  • Tel.075-211-8111 (Representative)
  • Restaurant floor 11:00-22:00
    VEGGIE ISO TERRACE closes at 23:00
    *Some stores have different business hours.
  • https://www.daimaru.co.jp/kyoto/restaurant_floor_open/
*Please note that the information contained herein is subject to change without notice.
*Since this site uses automatic translation, the translation may differ from the original Japanese content.

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