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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

1888(明治21)年に創業した[ホテルオークラ京都]のメインロビーに面するカフェ。2023年より総料理長の信任厚い早﨑圭氏が料理長に就任し、新たな息吹を吹き込んでいる。毎週メニューが変わる人気のランチは、隔週メインの肉料理と魚料理が交互に登場。食後のドリンク付きで贅沢な気分を味わえる。

Hotel Okura Lunch

週替わりランチ3200円。左上から時計周りに、桜海老としらすのピッツァ、チキン南蛮 しば漬けのタルタル、ポークジンジャー 九条ねぎマヨネーズ添え、鰆のムニエル 焦がしバターレモンソース

Weekly lunch (all year round: menu items are renewed every two months)
提供期間/2025年5月1日(木)〜6月30日(月)
Price/JPY 3,200
<Contents.
2025年5月1日(木)~11日(日)、6月2日(月)~8日(日)桜海老としらすのピッツァ(スープ・サラダ付き)
2025年5月12日(月)~18日(日)、6月9日(月)~15日(日)チキン南蛮 しば漬けのタルタル(スープ・パンorライス付き)
2025年5月19日(月)~25日(日)、6月16日(月)〜22日(日)鰆のムニエル 焦がしバターレモンソース(スープ・サラダ・パンorライス付き)
2025年5月26日(月)〜6月1日(日)、6月23日(月)〜30日(月)ポークジンジャー 九条ねぎマヨネーズ添え(スープ・パンorライス付き)

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

カジュアルな雰囲気の中に、ホテルらしい上質感が漂う[京都ブライトンホテル]の1Fにある洋食レストラン。ランチメニュー モン デジュネでは、種類豊富な温製料理やかわいらしいデザートなどのビュッフェに加え、スープまたはパスタ、魚介や肉料理などのメインディッシュを好みに合わせて一つずつ選べる特別感溢れるコースが楽しめる。その日の気分に合わせて選んだオリジナルのメニューに心が満たされること間違いなし。あなただけのスペシャルなコースを思う存分堪能して。事前予約がおすすめ。

Kyoto Brighton Hotel Buffet

Photo is an image.

Mont Desgenais
提供期間/2025年6月1日(日)~8月31日(日)
価格/1人5500円~
<Contents.
Soup or pasta (choose one of the following)
 シナモン香る湯葉を浮かべた南瓜の冷製ポタージュ
 ベーコンと枝豆のジェノベーゼパスタ
 野菜のトマト煮込みモッツァレラチーズ焼き

Choice of main dish (choose one of the following)
 レモングラスの香るスズキのナージュ仕立て
 海老の香味ロースト 山椒と澤井醤油を加えたバルサミコで
 日吉豚肩ロースのココナッツパネ エキゾチックソース
 酸味の効いたパプリカを纏った国産牛ハンバーグステーキ
 黒毛和牛フィレ肉のグリル  赤ワインソース 山葵風味(+2500円)
 国産牛モモ肉のローストビーフ 温野菜添え(平日限定)

Buffet Corner
冷製オードブル/温製料理/冷製デザート/焼き菓子/パン/コーヒー/紅茶/
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

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.

浮橋 弦御膳

Gozen Gozen 5,500 yen

Yuzuru Gozen
提供期間/~2025年6月30日(月)
Price/5500 yen
<Contents.
・先附: 生姜豆腐 美味出汁 新生姜の蜜煮
Basket of seasonal colorful assortment
・皿物:天ぷら(海老 小鮎 青唐)
・肉料理:国産牛と新じゃが芋の炒り付け
・御飯:ちりめん御飯 京漬物 二種(+1200円でミニ鰻丼に変更可能)
Tome-bowl: Aka-dashi (red miso soup)
・甘味:抹茶のわらび餅

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
  • 駐車場駐車場有(駅ビル共通)
  • 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
提供期間/〜2025年6月8日(日)
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
<5・6月メニュー>
Three kinds of appetizers
・牛肉とトマト入り卵スープ
Dim Sum
Rice *Change to rice in an earthenware pot with shark's fin + ¥2,000
Apricot Kernel Bean Curd

.
Wok-fried Shrimp with Chili Sauce
・鯛とアスパラガスの塩炒め
・蒸し鶏のテンジャンユソース
・国産豚バラ肉のロール酢豚
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
提供期間/〜2025年9月23日(火・祝)
Price/6000 yen
<Contents.
Appetizers (choose one of the following)
・フォションホテル京都サラダ オーギュストスタイル  
・鱧と焼き茄子のマリネ トマトとインゲン豆のサラダ仕立て

Main dish (choose one of the following)
Fauchon Signature Cribillac with Beurre Blanc Sauce
・京もち豚のラケ 夏野菜ともち麦のソテー
Grilled Omi beef ribeye and its jus (+3000 yen)

dessert
Fauchon Signature Seasonal Biz Biz

フォション 内観

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

[リーガロイヤルホテル京都]の最上階にある、日本唯一の回転展望フレンチレストラン[フレンチダイニング トップ オブ キョウト]。フランスで修業を積んだシェフ 寺田が手掛けるのは、自身の感性と[リーガロイヤルホテル京都]で長年伝わるレシピを融合させたフランス料理。6月末までは京都南部に位置する和束町とコラボし、新茶の季節ならではの上質な和束茶を使用した期間限定の特別コースを提供。和束茶の持つ豊かな風味とフランス料理の技法が融合した料理が愉しめる。お茶の魅力を最大限に引き出したコースを心ゆくまで堪能して。

トップオブキョウト 和束町フェア

和束トゥルネ 9867 円

ランチコース 和束トゥルネ
提供期間/~2025年6月30日(月)
価格/1人9867円
<Contents.
・和束町産烏龍茶香るサブレと祇園原了郭 黒七味風味のコカ
・“茶源郷”の景観 和束町産 抹茶風味のサラダマセドワンヌ 京の地豆腐 久在屋 京ふたりのエスプーマ
・宮津港から届く大羽鰯を和束町産 番茶とともにコンフィ 久御山 村田農園 金時にんじんのガスパチョ
・和束町 和紅茶“べにふうき”と久御山 村田農園パールコーンのロイヤルミルクティー風
・お魚のポワレ 和束町産 玄米茶の香りを移して MIRA-DashiC500 と里芋のコンビネゾン
・亀岡牛バラ肉の柔らか煮 和束町産 アールグレイと城陽酒造 城州のティザンヌソース
Recommended desserts
bread
・小菓子と食後のお飲み物(コーヒー、和束町産和紅茶、和束町産ほうじ茶、和束町産煎茶)

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
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