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Recommended Lunch in Kyoto! 10 Hotel Restaurants You Can't Miss!

How about a luxurious lunch worthy of a reward at a hotel in Kyoto? For those rare occasions to get together with family and friends, or for those who have worked hard all year, the chefs have created special menus that will welcome you with open arms. We introduce a variety of restaurants, from luxurious courses to casual buffets. All photos are images, all prices include tax and service charge.

1.[Weekly lunch at Hotel Okura Kyoto Cafe Reccoat / in front of Kyoto City Hall

The café facing the main lobby of Hotel Okura Kyoto, which was established in 1888, has been given a new lease of life by Executive Chef Kei Hayasaki, who was appointed Chef de Cuisine in 2023. The popular lunch menu changes weekly, alternating between meat and fish dishes every other week. Soup, salad, bread or rice, and coffee or tea are included. Gapao rice with soup, salad, coffee or tea

Hotel Okura Rec Court Weekly Lunch

Weekly lunch for 3,200 yen. Clockwise from top left: Seafood Ravioli with Spinach Sauce, Gapao Rice, Reccoat's Special Sausage with Fresh Onion and Tomato Sauce, Breaded Sardine with Citrus Flavor

Weekly lunch (all year round: menu items are renewed every two months)
Period of offer / March 1, 2025 (Sat) - April 30, 2025 (Wed)
Price/JPY 3,200
<Contents.
Saturday, March 1 - Sunday, March 9, 2025 and Monday, March 31 - Sunday, April 6, 2025 Seafood ravioli with spinach sauce
Monday, March 10 - Sunday, March 16, 2025 and Monday, April 7 - Sunday, April 13, 2025 Gapao Rice
Monday, March 17 - Sunday, March 23, 2025 and Monday, April 14 - Sunday, April 20, 2025 Breaded sardines with citrus aroma
Monday, March 24 - Sunday, March 30, 2025 and Monday, April 21 - Wednesday, April 30, 2025 Reccoat special sausage with new onion and tomato sauce

Hotel Okura Interior

Same-day reservations/No reservations
Children are allowed in the store/allowed
Private room / No

Hotel Okura Kyoto Cafe Reccoat

  • Hotel Okura Kyoto Cafe Rec Court
  • Hotel Okura Kyoto 1F, Kawaramachi Oike, Nakagyo Ward, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture
  • Directly connected to Kyoto Shiyakusho-mae subway station
  • Tel. 075-254-2517 (direct)
  • 11:30 - 14:30 (LO)
  • 7 days a week
  • 200 parking spaces
  • https://www.hotel.kyoto/okura/restaurant/lec-court/

2.A special moment where tradition and modernity intersect [Ace Hotel Kyoto KŌSA] / Karasuma Oike

[KŌSA, located on the 3rd floor of Ace Hotel Kyoto, is a restaurant under the supervision of Chef Katie Cole, who hails from Los Angeles, USA and is the owner of the popular Locale restaurant in Meguro, Tokyo. The spring menu features New American cuisine with Kyoto vegetables from Higuchi Farm, which has been farming in Takagamine, northern Kyoto, for more than 400 years. Enjoy your lunch time in an open space with a view of the sky and greenery.

kosa Lunch

KŌSA Spring Lunch 2025

KŌSA Spring Lunch 2025
Period of offer / From early March 2025
Price/5,000 yen
<Contents.
1st Dish
Smoked soy milk, radish, light peas
2nd Dish (choose one of the following)
Brie, kumquat agrodolce, fresh onion puree, pine nuts, capers
Carrot soup, madras spice, carrot leaf pistou
3rd Dish (choose one of the following)
Sea bass, seaweed beurre blanc, potatoes, green beans, spinach and roasted tomatoes
Duck confit, lentils, dried cherry vinaigrette, roasted turnips and puree
Kyoto black wagyu beef, two kinds of asparagus risotto, wasabi greens (+2,600 yen)
4th Dish
Olive oil citrus cake, strawberries, vanilla custard

kosa introspection

Same-day reservations/available
Entry with children/allowed
Private rooms available (additional 22,000 yen)
Reservations arehere

KŌSA

  • kousa (African flowering plant, Hagenia abyssinica)
  • Ace Hotel Kyoto 3F, 245-2 Kurumaya-cho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto
  • Directly connected to the south ticket gate of Karasuma-Oike Subway Station
  • Tel. 075-229-9005
  • 11:30-15:00 (LO/14:30)
  • 7 days a week
  • No parking
  • https://www.kosakyoto.com/

3.[Kyoto Brighton Hotel Terrace Restaurant Ferrier" is a restaurant where you can enjoy the pleasure of creating a course to your own taste / Gosho Nishi

This Western-style restaurant on the first floor of the Kyoto Brighton Hotel has a casual atmosphere with a high quality feel that is typical of a hotel. The lunch menu, Mon dejeuner, offers a buffet with a wide variety of hot dishes and lovely desserts, as well as a special course with a choice of soup or pasta and one main dish, such as seafood or meat, to suit your taste. The original menu chosen according to your mood of the day will surely fill your heart. Enjoy your own special course to your heart's content. Advance reservations are recommended.

Brighton Hotel Lunch Buffet

Photo is an image.

Mont Desgenais
Period of offer / Saturday, March 1, 2025 - Saturday, May 31, 2025
Price/ 4,800 yen and up
<Contents.
Soup or pasta (choose one of the following)
Potage of carrot with orange flavor
Bongole rosso with clams and wild vegetables
Crepe with bamboo shoots and minced pork

Choice of main dish (choose one of the following)
Poiret of sea bream from Ehime with citrus vinaigrette sauce
Spanish mackerel fritters with butterbur flower cream sauce
Duck confit with burdock and rosemary gastrique
Japanese Beef Hamburger Steak with Herbed Viennese Sake Lees Sauce from Ine Mankai
Thyme-scented lamb and white bean cassoulet (+800 yen)
Grilled Japanese black beef filet with shaliapin sauce (+2500 yen)
Roast Japanese beef thigh with hot vegetables (weekday only)

Buffet Corner
Cold hors d'oeuvres / hot dishes / cold desserts / baked sweets / strawberry millefeuille / bread / coffee / tea
Roast beef (Saturday, Sunday and holidays only)

Interior view of Kyoto Brighton Hotel Terrace Restaurant Ferrier

Same-day reservations/available
Children are allowed in the store/allowed
Private room / No
Reservations arehere

Terrace Restaurant Ferrier

  • Kyoto Brighton Hotel 1F, Shinmachi-dori Neutral Sell (Gosho Nishi), Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto
  • 8 minutes walk from Exit 6 of Imadegawa Subway Station
  • Tel. 075-441-4411 (main)
  • 11:30-15:00 (LO/14:30)
    Saturday, Sunday and holidays: two 90-minute sessions from 11:30am and 1:30pm
  • 7 days a week
  • 103 parking spaces
  • https://kyoto.brightonhotels.co.jp/restaurant/feerie/

4. [Enjoy seasonal delicacies at Hotel Granvia Kyoto Japanese Cuisine Ukibashi/Kyoto Station

The Japanese restaurant at Hotel Granvia Kyoto offers traditional Japanese cuisine accompanied by locally brewed sake. Recommended for lunch is the Yuzuru Gozen (set meal) for 5,500 yen, which is filled with seasonal delicacies in a gorgeous setting. In addition to a colorful assortment of dishes, there is a full lineup of fried dishes and meat dishes using Japanese beef. Enjoy your meal in a relaxed atmosphere reminiscent of a machiya townhouse.

Ukibashi Lunch Spring Menu

Gozen Gozen 5,500 yen

Yuzuru Gozen
Period of offer/~April 30, 2025 (Wed.)
Price/5500 yen
<Contents.
Appetizer: Sakura Sesame Tofu in a delicious broth
Basket of seasonal colorful assortment
Tempura (shrimp, shiitake mushroom, rape blossoms)
Meat Dishes: Japanese Beef and Bamboo Shoots in Kuwagayaki
Rice: Chirimen rice with two kinds of Kyoto pickles (can be changed to bamboo shoots rice for +1,000 yen)
Tome-bowl: Aka-dashi (red miso soup)
Sweet: sakura mochi (rice cake with sakura flavored cherry blossoms) and strawberries

pontoon bridge

Same-day reservations/not available (reservations required at least one day in advance)
Children are allowed in the store/allowed
Private room / Available only for parties of 4 or more with kaiseki meals from 12,500 yen.
Reservations arehere

Japanese Cuisine Ukibashi

  • Japanese-style restaurant with a float on the top of a wooden bridge
  • Hotel Granvia Kyoto M3F, 901 Higashi Shiokoji-cho, Shiokoji-sagaru, Karasuma-dori, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto
  • Directly connected to JR Kyoto Station
  • Tel.075-342-5527
  • 11:30-15:00 (LO/14:00)
  • 7 days a week
  • Parking available (common to all station buildings)
  • https://www.granvia-kyoto.co.jp/restaurant/ukihashi/

5.Evolutionary classic French cuisine with the essence of Kyoto [Westin Miyako Hotel Kyoto Dominique Bouchet Kyoto "Le RESTAURANT"] / Higashiyama

Dominique Bouchet Kyoto "Le RESTAURANT" is a fine French restaurant under the supervision of French chef Dominique Bouchet, who has received one Michelin star in Tokyo. Dominique Bouchet Kyoto "Le Restaurant"]. The special lunch menu is based on Dominique's quintessential light and flavorful sauces, and incorporates Kyoto ingredients throughout. This season, the restaurant offers a special menu in collaboration with "Monet: A Time of Water Lilies," currently on view at the Kyocera Museum of Art in Kyoto until June 8, 2025 (Sunday). Enjoy colorful dishes like the palettes of impressionist painters, arranged in the style of Dominique Bouchet.

Westin Miyako Hotel Monet Lunch

Photo: "Monet: A Time of Water Lilies" Collaboration Course from 10,000 yen

Monet: A Time of Water Lilies" Collaboration Course - Dining at Villa Giverny, a favorite of Monet the gourmet
Period of offer / ~ June 8, 2025 (Sun.)
Price/Lunch 10,000 yen and up ※Plan including ticket to see "Monet: A Time of Water Lilies" 11,900 yen

<Contents.
Petit Sare - 3 kinds including mushrooms gratinee
Scallop Mousse with Lobster Jus
Garlic Soup
Gâteau Vale Vert
Chestnut Gâteau Clafoutis Sablé Miel
Black tea (Jardin de Monet)

Choose one of the following for the main course
Tongue Flatfish Normandy Style
Chicken Roti with Sauce Chasseur and Farmhouse Carrots

The Westin Miyako Hotel Interior

Same-day reservations/available
Children are not allowed in the restaurant/under elementary school age (only private rooms are available for children under elementary school age).
Private rooms / 2 completely private rooms (for 8 persons and 6 persons)
Reservations arehere

Dominique Bouchet Kyoto "Le RESTAURANT

  • Dominique Boucher, Le Restaurant, Kyotte
  • The Westin Miyako Hotel Kyoto 3F, 1 Awataguchi Katei-cho, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto
  • 7 min. walk from Exit 2 of "Keage" subway station
  • Tel. 075-771-7158 (restaurant reservations)
  • 11:30~14:30
  • Closed on Wednesdays (except national holidays; open on March 26, April 2, and April 30)
  • Parking available
  • https://www.miyakohotels.ne.jp/westinkyoto/restaurant/153028/

6.A fusion of Japanese and Western techniques with traditional Chinese cuisine [Kyoto Tokyu Hotel, Chinese Cuisine, Hoshigaoka] / Horikawa Gojo

Based on traditional Shanghai cuisine, the restaurant at Kyoto Tokyu Hotel combines the four major cuisines of China. Chef Yamada's originality shines through in his dishes, which also skillfully incorporate elements of Japanese and Western cuisines. The restaurant offers Star Hill Lunch, a weekday lunch set that allows you to choose any combination of two dishes from the regular popular menu. Enjoy the collaboration of different culinary cultures in the chic monotone color scheme of the restaurant, which is based on the white plaster walls that are typical of Kyoto, with dark brown wood, smoked silver roof tiles, and white shoji paper screens.

Kyoto Tokyu Hotel, Chinese Cuisine, Hoshigaoka, Star Hill Lunch

Star Hill Lunch: 3,400 yen. From the front, Wok-fried beef with oyster sauce, Szechuan-style marbled tofu, and three kinds of appetizers.

Star Hill Lunch
Period of availability/Year-round
Price / 3,400 yen
<April Menu
Three kinds of appetizers
Soup with rape blossoms and minced pork
Dim Sum
Rice *Change to rice in an earthenware pot with shark's fin + ¥2,000
Apricot Kernel Bean Curd

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Wok-fried Shrimp with Chili Sauce
fried squid and celery with salt
Japanese Chicken Thigh Yulin Qi
3 grilled gyoza with yuzu kosho sauce
Wok-fried beef with oyster sauce
Upgrade to Szechuan style Marbled Bean Curd *Omi Beef in Oyster Sauce + ¥3,500

Interior view of Kyoto Tokyu Hotel

Same-day reservations/available
Children are allowed in the store/allowed
Private rooms / 3 rooms (private rooms 5,000 yen/room)
Reservations arehere

Chinese Cuisine Hoshigaoka

  • Chinese food
  • Kyoto Tokyu Hotel B1F, 580 Kakimoto-cho, Gojo-sagaru, Horikawa-dori, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto
  • 12 min. walk from Exit 4 of Gojo Subway Station
  • Tel. 075-341-2633
  • 11:30~14:30 (LO/14:00)
  • 7 days a week
  • 80 parking spaces
  • https://www.tokyuhotels.co.jp/kyoto-h/restaurant/hoshigaoka

7.An exciting lunch in a glittering space [Fauchon Hotel Kyoto Restaurant Grand Café Fauchon] / Kawaramachi

Fauchon Hotel Kyoto is owned by FAUCHON, a gastronomic brand with over 130 years of history in Paris. On the top floor, overlooking the Higashiyama mountains, you can enjoy authentic French cuisine elegantly arranged at the gorgeous dining restaurant "Restaurant Grand Café Fauchon". The gorgeous champagne gold decorations hanging from the ceiling create an impressive sense of luxury, and lunch with a spectacular view will surely create a special moment for you.

Fauchon Hotel Lunch Course

Lunch Fauchon 6,000 yen. The signature menu item, salmon in pie, served year-round, is a crispy pie wrapped with salmon, spinach, sautéed mushrooms, boiled eggs, and other ingredients.

Lunch Fauchon
Period of offer / - May 11, 2025 (Sun.)
Price/6000 yen
<Contents.
Appetizers (choose one of the following)
Fauchon Hotel Kyoto Salad Auguste Style
Tarte flambée of fresh onion with rape blossoms salad

Main dish (choose one of the following)
Fauchon Signature Cribillac with Beurre Blanc Sauce
Quail Roti with Spring Vegetables and Thigh Falci
Grilled Omi beef ribeye and its jus (+3000 yen)

dessert
Fauchon Signature Seasonal Biz Biz

Fauchon Hotel Interior

Same-day reservations/available
Children are allowed in the store/allowed
Private room / No
Reservations arehere

Restaurant Grand Café Fauchon

8.Top-ranked lunch with a view of the city of Kyoto [Rihga Royal Hotel Kyoto French Dining Top of Kyoto]/Kyoto Station

[Located on the top floor of Rihga Royal Hotel Kyoto, French Dining Top of Kyoto is Japan's only French restaurant with a rotating observation deck. Chef Terada, who trained in France, creates French cuisine that combines his own sensibilities with recipes handed down at RIHGA Royal Hotel Kyoto over many years. The carefully selected wines paired with dishes that make the most of seasonal ingredients will bring out the best in your meal. Enjoy to your heart's content the gorgeous menu that will add color to your celebration of this season of new beginnings.

Example of Top of Kyoto Anniversary Course

Anniversary Lunch 8096 yen. Dessert can be personalized with a message of your choice.

Anniversary Lunch
Period of offer/~April 30, 2025 (Wed.)
Price/8096 yen
<Contents.
Gion Hararyokaku Coca and green shiso aromatic sablefish with black seven spice flavor
Amuse bouche
Bouquet Gift - Kyoto's Local Tofu - Hisajiya Handmade Fried Bean Curd and Kyo-Tango Mamato Hisami No Heshiko Pissaladiere Style
Tango Jersey Farm Gouda Cheese Accent

Potage of red haruka with Onojin koi murasaki accents, Gion Hararyokaku mixed spice and nut condiments
Fish marinated in Tango Jersey Ranch whey and Kotobiki salt malted rice Kojima Farm, Kameoka City Pistou-style with garland chrysanthemum

Main courses are selected from the following
Roasted chicken breast stuffed with miso flavored mousse and served with jus.
Kyotango Onojin Sake Hishio Aromatic Thigh Fritter
ANAORI carbon-plated grilled fillet of prime Wagyu beef with Daitokuji natto sauce *Additional ¥3,795
Recommended desserts
bread
Small pastries and after-dinner beverages

Rihga Royal Hotel Kyoto Interior view

Same-day reservations/available
Children are allowed in the store/allowed
Private rooms / 2 completely private rooms
Reservations arehere

French Dining Top of Kyouto

  • Rihga Royal Hotel Kyoto 14F, 1 Shomei-cho, Shiokoji-sagaru, Higashi-horikawa-dori, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto
  • 7 minutes walk from JR "Kyoto Station" Central Exit or 5 minutes by shuttle bus from Hachijo Exit
    Directly connected to "Kyoto Station" [Kyoto Porta] 9 min. walk from Exit C10.
  • Tel. 075-361-9221
  • 12:00-15:30 (LO/14:00)
  • Irregular holidays
  • 117 parking spaces
  • https://www.rihga.co.jp/kyoto/restaurant/list/top_of_kyoto

9.Main dish and buffet can be enjoyed to the fullest [Dawa Yuraku Kyoto GRILL 54TH] / Sanjo

[The grill restaurant at Darwa Yuraku Kyoto is themed around the three "D's" of "Delightful," "Dynamic," and "Delectable," with the chefs serving dishes that maximize the flavor of the ingredients in a stylish open kitchen. The chefs serve dishes that maximize the flavor of the ingredients in a stylish open kitchen. This season, a lunch buffet featuring strawberry sweets and a menu reminiscent of a Showa-era pure coffee shop is being held to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Showa period (2025), and features such nostalgic classics as Neapolitan-style spaghetti with ketchup, menchikatsu, and cabbage rolls. In addition, enjoy a blissful time with a lineup of strawberry sweets such as strawberry miruku agar and strawberry eclair.

Darwa Yuraku Kyoto Parlor and Showa Bistro Buffet

Strawberry Parlor and Showa Bistro Buffet
Period of offer / ~ May 31, 2025 (Sat.)
Price/JPY 4200, 7-12 years old: JPY 2000, children under 6 years old: free buffet food

<Main dish
Beef Curry Rice
Hamburger Steak
Crab Creamy Croquette
Neapolitan-style spaghetti with ketchup
Too mature fried shrimp + 2,000 yen

<Appetizers
Tomato salad with red onion vinaigrette
Fresh onions, smoked salmon and avocado
Asparagus Salad
Spring Cabbage Coleslaw
Potato Salad
Carrot Rapé
Macaroni Salad
Vichyssoise
Corn Potage
Croquette
Chicken Gratin

<Salads
Six types of mixed greens, cherry tomatoes, romaine lettuce, cucumbers, red onions, broccoli, etc.
9 dried fruits and nuts
4 kinds of dressings including red French dressing, Caesar dressing, green shiso dressing, and Japanese dressing

<Desserts
Strawberry eclair
Cream soda-like jelly
Milkshake Genmai Chai Strawberry
Crème brûlée and strawberry a la mode
Strawberry and milk dessert
Strawberry flavored Daifuku
Strawberry fu chocolat
Strawberry chocolate marshmallow
Strawberry-milk agar
Bavarois with strawberry sauce

Darwa Yuraku Kyoto Interior view

Same-day reservations/not available (reservations by phone)
Children are allowed in the store/allowed
Private rooms / 2 completely private rooms
Reservations arehere

GRILL 54TH

10.[Lunch plate at GOOD NATURE STATION Hyssop / Kawaramachi, Tokyo

[Hyssop, a café/restaurant in the GOOD NATURE STATION, is a casual restaurant where you can enjoy healthy vegetable-based dishes in a lush green space that resembles a botanical garden. The lunch plates are richly prepared with spring vegetables, including wild vegetables, and every small bowl of food will make you feel the taste of spring. You can enjoy an exquisite combination of Japanese and Western flavors, such as grilled seasonal bamboo shoots combined with a refreshing basil sauce, or fruity marinated strawberries and tomatoes seasoned with yuzu-flavored white balsamic. Feel the arrival of spring at this lunch where you can enjoy seasonal ingredients.

hyssop Spring Lunch

Hyssop's Choice Set Meal regular 2,800 yen. A rich variety of lunch plates consisting mainly of small bowls with deep flavors.

Hyssop's Choice Set Meal <regular
Period of supply / Scheduled for ~ end of June, 2025
Price/2,800 yen
<Contents.
plate
Dokkatsu and asparagus with sesame paste and vinegar
Marinated strawberries and tomatoes
Inca Awakening and Mung Beans with Spicy White Soybean Sauce
Grilled bamboo shoots with basil sauce
Sakura fu with white miso paste dengaku
Fritters with wild vegetables and kumquat salted malt sauce

PLATTER
Soy Meat Wontons or Chicken Tsukune Wontons with Roasted Tea and Vegetable Broth

RICE
Rice ball with cereals, homemade tsukudani or bucket

SET DRINK (choose from the following)
Coffee
Japanese black tea
Sencha green tea produced in Kyoto
Oyako Hojicha
Orange juice
Apple juice
Cafe latte (+250 yen)

Hyssop Interior

Same-day reservations/available
Children are allowed in the store/allowed
Private room / No
Reservations arehere

Hyssop

  • hyssop
  • 4F GOOD NATURE STATION, 318-6 Inari-cho, 2-chome, Shijo-sagaru, Kawaramachi-Dori, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto
  • 2 minutes walk from Hankyu "Kyoto Kawaramachi Station" Exit 4
  • Tel.075-352-3728
  • 11:30~14:30
  • Irregular holidays
  • Approx. 200 parking spaces
*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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