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Incredible Setting, Service, and Food!
The food is amazing and the setting is beautiful. Each guest/group gets a private room and the service is exceptional. If you are looking for a super whimsical Michelin 3 star then this is not for you, but if you want to experience quintessential Japanese hospitality with beautiful and culturally rich food then I think this will exceed expectations.
Be the first to ReplySad experience
My partner and I were so excited to come here based on the reviews and the 3-star rating. If you want to dine at a place with very kind service and cute Japanese decore this is it! But if you want to eat great food stay far away. I would say the food at its best is bland. After bland, some of the food is inedible. It was so sad after all the anticipation. We had to laugh it off and pretend we were too jet lagged to finish each dish. I wish I could say differently, but save yourself the time and money.
Be the first to ReplyMust try at least once
When in Kyoto, you must have a kaiseki dinner. Google and Tableall listed this as a top kaiseki place with 3 Michelin stars. We booked for their premium dinner. Total was about CAN$1000 prepaid. I have had kaiseki dinners in North America but never Japan. My ratings: Service 10/10 (very attentive, large private room, waterfall garden in the backyard, personal server); Food 9/10 (the idea is to let the fresh ingredients speak for themselves, minimal salt, super fresh, abalone, uni, muscat grapes, are some highlights); Ambiance 10/10 (dine like royalty); more in my photos
Be the first to ReplyMust try
I read the reviews, and I was worried about this booking. This place was absolutely wonderful. Fantastic cuisine. Really delicious, they wet so kind and the food was absolutely amazing. We will return. ๐ Arigato to the whole team. โค๏ธ
Be the first to ReplySubarashi! (Fantastic!)
A culinary tour de force. Three Michelin stars may not be enough. Sophistication and delicacy beyond belief. The Kaiseki dinner is a journey through a sensory and emotional universe. Subsrashi. Arigato.
Be the first to ReplyWonderful cultural experience but too much eel
Beautiful location in the hills above Gion. This was a cultural experience with tatami mats and a low table, individual dining rooms, spectacular service by kneeling women in kimonos, multiple small courses of artistically arranged food, peaceful view of trees and garden, quiet and private. You choose which level of ingredients to pay for and that sets your menu...I think ours was a middle price range, over 500 USD for 2 people. So while it was a once in a lifetime experience, I hate to say it, but for the price, I was a bit disappointed in the food. We were very excited for a different culinary experience, but we are not tremendously fond of eel. One dish had a bit of eel sashimi and that was fine, but another dish was completely eel sashimi, and the big rice dish near the end was eel with rice. I was, as I said, a little disappointed. Otherwise, the experience was wonderful.
Be the first to ReplyKikunoi Honten disappointed me
Kikunoi honten is very disappointing. One could never imagine that they servic sharkfin soups in Kyoto. No style. Dishes are more than disappointing for the price.
Be the first to ReplySimple, no fireworks, absolute perfection.
This meal isn't about fireworks, razzle dazzle, or showing off. It's about simple perfection, elegance, and perfect execution. We'll always come here. We had to walk over a mile in the snow back to our hotel because a cab could not pick us up. We didn't care. It was fabulous.
Be the first to ReplyDonโt go for the FOOD!!!
Most beautiful restaurant a person can go to, the cerimonial service was immaculate, the garden that was right outside our private room was to die for. But the most important element in any restaurant, the FOOD, was tasteless, uninspired, wrapped in this gorgeous presentation and completely tasteless. The best part of dinner was the sashimi for me and the persimmon that came as a plate for one of the servings. Iโll will never forget of how bad the food was. At one point I thought they were pranking me and for 3 hours I was apologizing to my wife. If anyone thinks that it was just me being a foreigner and not getting the Japanese cuisine i ashore you thatโs not the case because my ryokans breakfast and dinner was 10 times better. If you want to waste your money go for the pictures and experience of being served like a emperor, not for the FOOD.
Be the first to ReplyWOW, beyond what I (we) was (were) expecting
As I plan my next trip to Kyoto, and trying to get another booking, I have finally gotten around to reading my notes and photos and having time to reflect on this gastronomic experience.
If you are coming here for a meal or because it is 3 Michelin (which I found out after I booked - I booked because I had the Chef's Kaiseki book), probably not a good idea. You come here to experience Japanese culture, at its finest.
Do your home work about the positron of restaurant, the family's history, tea ceremonies, the Imperial Palace, who does dinners hosted by the Emperor.
This is not dining, this is not food, this is Japanese gastronomy and culture at its finest - embodied in the craftsmanship of the Chef and his team in food and drink.
I read the reviews on here, particular the bad ones - i eat at 3 Michelin all the time and so on - they have all missed the point. Reading his book and his trip to France as a young man, what he returned with from that experience, the history (that I am not putting here but invite you to do your home work), why do you drive through a Tori to get to the restaurant? what does that actually mean about the land the restaurant is on, the park land next to the restaurant...... it is all part of the story and the experience.
Yes this is not a cheap restaurant but think about this logic - when you put the first dish in your mouth the flavors remain, so the next dish builds on that - and so on for each course - very different yo you picking an entree, main and dessert based on your favorites not thinking about the flavours that are building in your mouth and do they compliment or compete with each other.
This is the only restaurant I have ever been to where I would consider it to be heaven on earth in the way the whole experience had everything in harmony. (The Buddhist wedding reception and the faint chanting we could hear certainly contributed to us thinking we were in a celestial heaven that evening).