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[2023] 7 Recommended Lunches at Kyoto Townhouses

We introduce seven spots where you can enjoy lunch in a machiya, including a secluded restaurant in a back alley and a cafe where you can stretch your wings and relax. Why not spend a special lunch time while being healed in a machiya space unique to Kyoto?

1.[Healthy Seiro lunch filled with the best of the season at Fuji Tora / Gion, Gion, Hyogo Prefecture

Mr. Yasuda started the restaurant in a machiya townhouse where his great-uncle ran a restaurant. In the shop where the taste of Kyomachiya has been carefully preserved, you can enjoy a seasonal vegetable bamboo steamer rice set with three layers of rice, seasonal vegetables, and meat. Meat and vegetables can be freely tasted with 7 kinds of condiments.

Fujitora
Steamed rice with seasonal vegetables from Fujitora

Steamed rice with seasonal vegetables is 2,750 yen. A healthy lunch set with [Vegesara-sha] vegetables and domestic brand pork slowly steamed in a bamboo steamer. Comes with 7 types of condiments, including Yuzu Koji Miso from [Round Table]

Fujitora

  • Fujitora
  • July 07, 2022 open
  • 1-231-1 Miyagawasuji, Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture
  • 1 minute walk from Keihan Gion-Shijo Station
  • Tel.075-561-3854
  • 11:30-17:30 (LO/17:00)

2.Hamburgers at Minced Meat and Rice Kyoto Store / Gion, Kyoto

Tokyo's popular hamburger specialty restaurant [minced meat and rice] opened in Gion. Inside the quaint machiya (townhouse), you will find a pleasant open kitchen. The hamburgers made from 100% Japanese beef, which are ground in the restaurant every morning, are grilled over charcoal right in front of your eyes. You can eat up to three hamburgers, each weighing 90 grams, with rice cooked in a rice cooker.

Minced meat and rice Kyoto store
Minced meat and rice Kyoto store

Ground meat and rice set meal: 1,600 yen. The rice soaks up the juices, and the mouth-watering hamburgers are small, weighing only 90 grams each, so that customers can enjoy the freshly cooked meat to the last.

Minced meat and rice Kyoto store

  • minced meat and rice Today's date and time
  • October 22, 2022 open
  • 363 Kiyohoncho, Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture
  • 3-minute walk from Keihan Gion-Shijo Station
  • Tel.075-708-2529
  • 11:00-15:00
    *Registration and numbered ticket required at the store on the day

3.Plate lunch at Tile's Coffee and Pastry, which focuses on ingredients and handmade products / Imakumano

This 100-year-old townhouse is located at the end of an alley. In the calm atmosphere with old wood pillars and other old wood parts, you can enjoy the products carefully handmade by Mr. Murakami, the representative of the restaurant. Bread made with homemade yeast, colorful deli items, baked sweets, and other food items made with the finest ingredients are all satisfying enough to eat.

Interior view of Tile's Coffee and Confectionery
Tile's Coffee and Pastry Deli Plate

Deli plate with homemade yeast bread 1100 yen. Today's blended coffee 480 yen. Consists of bread, deli, and soup; on this day, mountain-shaped bread, campagne, potato soup, etc.

Tile's Coffee and pastries

  • Tiles, Kisatoshi
  • September 23, 2022 open
  • 22-27, Imakumano-Kanomori-cho, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto
  • 7 min. walk from Keihan "Tofukuji" station.
  • Tel: None
  • 12:00 - 16:00

4.Vegi Sarasha's three vegetable soups, which you will want to recreate at home / Nishijin

Vegi Sarasha, a natural vegetable store, has renewed and expanded its grocery store space. The warmth of a 100-year-old machiya (townhouse) is utilized in the store, which offers a wide variety of fresh leafy greens, seasonal vegetables, fruits, and other items. The tatami room space is used as a "Sukoyaka Shokudo," a restaurant offering monthly lunch sets and sweets.

Interior view of Veg Sala House
Veggie Salad House's Sukoyaka Set

A popular healthy set with plenty of vegetables for 1,580 yen. The deliciousness of vegetables permeates throughout your body. 1780 yen with drink. The photo is an example of a set

Vegetarian house

  • Veggie salad
  • 179 Nishishacho, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture
  • 6 minutes walk from the bus stop "Qianlong School"
  • Tel.075-415-0438
  • Lunch 11:30~14:30(LO)

5.Mediterranean cuisine at RIFIFI STUDIO, which retains the atmosphere of a factory / Nishijin

This is a hideaway restaurant run by a French owner. The building was originally a Nishijin textile factory, and the earthen walls and traces of the looms installed in the earthen floor have been daringly left intact. The daily changing plate, which offers several Mediterranean dishes, comes with baguette, cumin-scented focaccia, and other breads made by the owner that go well with the dishes, as well as soup that changes daily.

RIFIFI STUDIO
RIFIFI STUDIO daily plate

On this day, a couscous salad, beet hummus, and seven other dishes are served on one plate. Daily plate of Mediterranean dishes, bread and soup for 1,500 yen.

RIFIFI STUDIO

  • Rififi Studio
  • October 31, 2021 open
  • 152-25 Shimotate-cho, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto Prefecture
  • 8 minutes walk from Randen “Kitano Hakubaicho Station”
    4 minutes walk from bus stop "Taishogun"
  • Tel.090-2630-5905
  • 10:00-18:00 (LO/17:00) *Ends once sold out

6.A relaxing lunch at cafe MOKUREN that will make your heart and stomach smile / Fushimi

This hideaway café is located in a residential area in a renovated townhouse that is over 100 years old. The interior, which was created by the staff sharing ideas, emphasizes the coziness of wooden architecture while adding a touch of sophistication. Two types of lunch using plenty of local vegetables, curry, and sweets are available.

Interior view of cafe MOKUREN
Monthly lunch at cafe MOKUREN

Monthly lunch of 1,200 yen with a choice of two types. On this day, quinoa salad with plump shrimp and asparagus, cereal rice, and clam and cabbage soup. A drink and homemade dessert are included for +500 yen.

cafe MOKUREN

  • Cafe Mokuren
  • 582-6 Omote-cho, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto
  • 4 min. walk from Chushojima Sta. of Keihan Co.
  • Tel. 075-205-5051
  • 12:00 - 16:00
    Saturdays and holidays 11:00-17:00
*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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