
[2025] Strawberry Afternoon Tea in Kyoto
If you are planning to gather a large group for a meal, we recommend a buffet or buffet where both adults and children can enjoy a variety of cuisines. Each hotel in Kyoto offers seasonal menus with unique themes. Enjoy as much as you like of the chef's specialties, such as Kyoto's essence and the freshest seasonal ingredients.
All prices include tax *Photographs are for reference only
Under the concept of "Colors of Spring," a colorful menu of spring-colored mimosa salad and Provence-style tart will be offered. The menu also includes appetizers and main dishes filled with spring vegetables, as well as hotel-made sweets, which can be enjoyed in a relaxed atmosphere. In the lively live kitchen, succulent roast beef, chicken, pasta, and other dishes are prepared and served freshly prepared right in front of your eyes. The roasted sustainable salmon will also be available during dinner hours.
Spring Lunch Buffet *Photographs are for reference only.
Place/Hilton Kyoto 1F All-Day Dining [Teori]
Period / Saturday, March 15, 2025 - Friday, June 20, 2025
Hours/Lunch 11:30-14:30 (LO/14:00)
Dinner 17:30 - 21:30 (LO/21:00) *120 min.
Price / Spring Lunch & Dinner Buffet
Lunch Adults 5500 yen, 6-11 years old 2750 yen
Dinner Adults 6500 yen, 6-11 years old 3250 yen (all incl. service charge)
*Free for children 0-5 years old
Reservations/Yes (call for reservations for 11 or more people)
The top lounge [Orizzonte] on the top floor of the hotel offers a panoramic view of Kyoto, including the Higashiyama mountain range and the Kamo River, from approximately 60 meters above the ground. In March and April 2025, "World Cuisine Fair Buffet Vol. 2" will be held, featuring dishes from around the world, such as American gumbo, Dutch kibeling, Jamaican jerk chicken, Thai tom yum kung and Greek moussaka. Greek moussaka, and other dishes from around the world. Don't miss out on a variety of unusual dishes.
Place: Hotel Okura Kyoto, 17F Top Lounge [Orizzonte]
Period / March 1, 2025 (Saturday) - April 30, 2025 (Wednesday)
Hours: Lunch 11:30-13:30 (LO); Saturday, Sunday, and holidays: 2 sessions from 11:30 and 13:30
Dinner 17:30-19:30 (LO) *Open only on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays
Price / World Culinary Fair Buffet Vol.2
Lunch: Adults: 5,500 yen on weekdays, 6,000 yen on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, elementary school students: 2,800 yen, toddlers (4 years old and up): 1,400 yen
Dinner: Adults 8,500 yen, elementary school students 4,200 yen, toddlers (4 years old and up) 2,100 yen
All prices include a service charge.
Reservations / Permitted
The spring version of the lunch menu includes one main dish of the chef's choice, a colorful appetizer, salad, soup, daily curry, sweets, and other buffet items. In addition to a wide variety of dishes, the strawberry sweets corner, where you can feel the arrival of spring, offers a variety of gorgeous sweets using sweet and sour strawberries recommended by the patissier! Enjoy a sumptuous taste of the season with a lineup that will fill your stomach with pleasure.
Place/Kyoto Tokyu Hotel B1F[All-Day Dining Fuka]
Period / ~ April 25 (Friday)
Hours: 11:30-15:00 (LO/13:30)
Price/Half Buffet Lunch & Strawberry Sweets Corner Adults from 4,300 yen, Elementary school students 2,000 yen
All prices include a glass of wine and free of charge for preschool children (buffet corner only).
Weekdays: 1 drink included
Reservations / Reservations available
A dinner buffet where you can thoroughly enjoy the winter delicacies of crab, shrimp, and strawberries. At the seafood corner, where the day's recommended seafood is arranged, you can compare three kinds of boiled crabs for dinner only. Oden, ramen, and other dishes that change monthly are made with a special broth, and are served freshly prepared at the buffet table in a timely manner. For dessert, enjoy three kinds of fresh strawberries as much as you like.
Place/HOTEL GRANVIA KYOTO 2F Cafe Restaurant [Le Temps]
Period / Friday, January 10, 2025 - Monday, March 31, 2025
Time/17:30-21:00 (Last entry/19:30) *90 minute system
Price/Taste the crab, shrimp, and strawberries! Dinner buffet: Adults 8,900 yen, Elementary school students 3,900 yen, 3 years old and up to elementary school students 1,900 yen
Saturday, Sunday and holidays: Adults 10,000 yen, elementary school students 5,000 yen, children 3 years old and up to elementary school students 2,500 yen
All prices include a service charge.
Reservations / Permitted
This sumptuous buffet offers a wide variety of Japanese and Western dishes that make the most of rich spring ingredients such as bamboo shoots, sakura shrimps, and butterbur sprouts, as well as spring-like sweets decorated with cherry blossoms and strawberries. Ingredients unique to Kyoto, such as Kyotanba Kogen pork and Kujo leeks, are also incorporated throughout the buffet. On Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, special menus such as abalone and nigirizushi are also available. Semi-private rooms are also available, perfect for farewell parties and New Year's gatherings, making it a great choice for a variety of occasions. Enjoy the open view of the city of Kyoto in springtime from the large windows.
Place/Westin Miyako Hotel Kyoto 2F All-Day Dining [Rakkuu
Period / March 1, 2025 (Saturday) - April 30, 2025 (Wednesday)
Hours / Lunch 11:30 - 14:30; Saturday, Sunday, and holidays in two parts: 11:30 - and 13:30
Dinner 17:00 - 21:00, Saturday, Sunday and holidays in two parts: from 17:00 and from 19:30
*From April, Fridays will be open the same hours as Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays (two-part system).
*2 sessions on weekdays from March 21 (Fri.) to April 4 (Fri.), the same as Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays.
Price / Spring Kyoto Buffet
Lunch 6,000 yen for adults, 7,500 yen on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays
Dinner 8,000 yen for adults, 9,500 yen on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays
All prices include a service charge.
*Free for preschool children, 1 adult price includes 1 elementary school student price.
Reservations / Permitted
The half buffet, which combines a main dish with about 40 all-you-can-eat choices, is offered for both lunch and dinner. You can choose one from a total of six freshly prepared main dishes that make the most of the ingredients of meat and seafood. Some of the contents will change depending on the period of the year, so please look forward to it. The buffet lineup ranges from Japanese, Western, and Chinese, and this year's fair features a menu that incorporates spring ingredients such as shirasu (baby sardines), bamboo shoots, sea bream, and Spanish mackerel. During the Golden Week period, seafood chirashi sushi will also be available. In addition, the dinner-only table order system allows diners to enjoy the sumptuous menu as many times as they wish.
Place: Kyoto Shin Hankyu Hotel, 1F Restaurant [boulevard]
Period / Saturday, March 1, 2025 - Saturday, May 31, 2025
Closed/Monday through Wednesday *Except holidays and special business days
Golden Week period: April 26 (Sat.) - May 6 (Tue.)
Time / Lunch 11:30-13:00, 12:00-13:30, 13:00-14:30 *Three 90-minute sessions each
Dinner 17:00 - 21:00 (last entry/19:00) *120 min.
Price / Spring Blossoming Half Buffet *including all-you-can-drink soft drinks
Weekday lunch: Adults 3300 yen, elementary school students 2200 yen, toddlers (4 years old to under elementary school students) 1000 yen
Saturday, Sunday, holiday lunch Adults 3800 yen, elementary school students 2400 yen, infants 1000 yen
Dinner: Adults 4,900 yen, elementary school students 2,500 yen, infants 1,000 yen
*Saturday, Sunday and holiday rates during Golden Week
Reservations / Permitted
Creative dishes created by the chefs decorate the five buffet areas. Also, look out for the live kitchen serving freshly prepared dishes and the dessert corner with colorful sweets adorning the showcases. Recommended menu items for this season are spring dishes such as affogado of iidako (octopus) and Andean potatoes, and tabouleh with shrimps and rape blossoms, mimosa style. The variety of about 70 dishes will surely satisfy both your stomach and your mind.
Place/Rihga Royal Hotel Kyoto 1F [All-Day Dining Kaza]
Period / March 1, 2025 (Saturday) - April 30, 2025 (Wednesday)
Hours / Lunch 11:30-13:00 and 13:30-15:00 in two parts
Dinner in two parts: 17:30-19:00 and 19:30-21:00
Price / Buffet lunch: Adults 4807 yen, seniors (70 and over) 3795 yen, elementary school students (7-12) 2530 yen, infants (4-6) 1771 yen
Saturday, Sunday and holidays: adults 5566 yen, seniors (70 and over) 4301 yen, elementary school students (7-12) 3036 yen, infants (4-6) 1771 yen
Dinner buffet Adults 6578 yen, seniors (70 and over) 5060 yen, elementary school students (7-12) 3542 yen, infants (4-6) 2024 yen
Saturday, Sunday and holidays: Adults 7590 yen, Seniors (70 and over) 5819 yen, Elementary school students (7-12) 4048 yen, Infants (4-6) 2024 yen
All prices include a service charge.
Reservations / Permitted
This popular lunch menu includes a wide variety of buffet dishes, a choice of about 7 main dishes, and a soup or pasta dish. The chef is proud of his tender roast beef, which is slow-cooked and served as the main dish on weekdays and in the buffet corner on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays. This season's theme is a refreshing herb-scented spring lunch. In addition to buffet dishes using herbs, spring vegetables, seasonal clams, and Spanish mackerel, you can also enjoy desserts such as strawberry millefeuille, a perfect combination of soft whipped cream and crispy dough. Enjoy a blissful moment with your own original lunch.
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Place: Terrace Restaurant [Ferrier], 1F, Kyoto Brighton Hotel
Period / Saturday, March 1, 2025 - Saturday, May 31, 2025
Hours: 11:30-15:00 (LO/14:30)
Saturday, Sunday and holidays: 2 sessions: 11:30-13:00 and 13:30-15:00
Price/Mon dejeuner 4800 yen and up
Same-day reservations/available (reservations recommended)
The buffet at Miyako Hotel Kyoto Hachijo, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, features a sumptuous menu of dishes such as beef steak and a variety of tuna dishes as a token of gratitude. In addition, the buffet is full of spring delicacies such as rice cooked with bamboo shoots and Japanese Spanish mackerel. In the dessert corner, you can enjoy not only the standard popular sweets, but also seasonal sweets such as sakura-mochi (rice cake with sakura blossoms). Enjoy your meal in the bright and open atmosphere of the restaurant.
Place: Miyako Hotel Kyoto Hachijo, 1st floor, buffet restaurant [Le Plaisir].
Period / Saturday, March 1, 2025 - Saturday, May 31, 2025
Hours/Lunch 11:30-14:30 (LO/14:00) *120 min.
Saturday, Sunday and holidays: 11:30-13:00 (LO/12:45) and 13:30-15:00 (LO/14:45)
Price/50th Anniversary Thanksgiving Lunch: Adults 4,500 yen, elementary school students 2,000 yen, toddlers (from 3 years old) 1,000 yen
All prices include a service charge.
Reservations / Permitted
Dusit Thani Kyoto, operated by Dusit Thani, a luxury hotel brand in Thailand, offers a weekend-only lunch course that includes a buffet of appetizers and sweets to be enjoyed as much as you like and a main dish of your choice. The main course, which was renewed this year, offers a wide variety of entrees that are sure to please the most discerning palates, and the sweets buffet is seasonal. The theme of the sweets buffet changes with the seasons. A limited menu is also available during the Songkran Festival in April, the Thai New Year. Enjoy a special lunch time with authentic Thai cuisine and a colorful buffet.
Place: Dusit Thani Kyoto Garden Level B1F All-Day Dining [Kati
Period/Saturdays, Sundays and national holidays
Cherry and Strawberry Sweets Buffet March 1 (Sat) - April 30 (Wed)
*Songkran special menu in April
Time/12:00-15:00 (LO/14:00)
Admission/ Adults 6500 yen, 7-12 years old 3250 yen (all incl. service charge)
Reservations / Permitted
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