
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.
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
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
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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
Same-day reservations/No reservations
Children are allowed in the store/allowed
Private room / No
[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.
KŌSA Spring Lunch 2025
KŌSA Spring Lunch 2025
Period of offer / From early March 2025
Price/5,000 yen
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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
Same-day reservations/available
Entry with children/allowed
Private rooms available (additional 22,000 yen)
Reservations arehere
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.
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Mont Desgenais
Period of offer / Saturday, March 1, 2025 - Saturday, May 31, 2025
Price/ 4,800 yen and up
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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)
Same-day reservations/available
Children are allowed in the store/allowed
Private room / No
Reservations arehere
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.
Gozen Gozen 5,500 yen
Yuzuru Gozen
Period of offer/~April 30, 2025 (Wed.)
Price/5500 yen
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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
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
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.
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
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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
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
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