Junmai Sake Kasu Tamanohikari — Restaurant in Kyoto

We didn’t book in advance, but luckily there were seats on the second floor. Only a 4000-yen set menu was available. Due to the language barrier, we didn’t order sake initially and only got a small carafe halfway through, which wasn’t enough. Later, we noticed several bottles of sake on a front table, with some guests helping themselves. After asking the staff, we learned that for an extra 2000 yen per person, you could enjoy unlimited sake. We added this option, but the language barrier made it hard to understand the sake varieties, and by then, we were almost done with the meal, which felt a bit late. Apparently, this restaurant is affiliated with Kyoto’s Tamanohikari brewery, no wonder all the sake bottles were Tamanohikari. It’s a pity we couldn’t fully appreciate the essence of their sake this time. The appetizers and sashimi were very fresh and high-quality. The pork cutlet was well-cooked but a bit bland for my taste. Overall, the food was good, but knowing about the unlimited sake option and sake varieties in advance would have made the experience...

My sister and I discovered this restaurant while looking for a place to eat oden. The shop serves oden at night only but luckily for us, their set lunches were really good. Turns out they are a sake brewery and their dishes incorporate sake lees.

The set lunch was about 2500 yen per person and it came with a welcome drink, a platter, soup, rice with fish and a small dessert. The set lunch menu is changed each month featuring special seasonal ingredients. The platter was very pretty and while each food item may not look like a lot, the meal was actually very hearty. Our favorite was the sake lees cream cheese which you can also buy from the shop.

By the end of the meal, we could not finish the rice and a kind shop attendant helped us to pack the rice into 2 onigiris for us to take away. She even drew a cute smiley face on the packaging and it looked adorable.

Overall, it was a nice and peaceful restaurant located in a convenient area. My sister and I had a wonderful meal together and we are sure we will return if in Kyoto.

I will definitely need to...

Down stairs there is a bar set up with roun tables and bottles of sake. Up some steep stairs there are 8 tables with 30 seats. The deco is minimal with a Loft style design and airco. Nice jazz music in the background.

Wonderful 3 sake tasting of two different types - both was very nice- cost of 1200 yen and 1300 yen. Then had the chefs recommendation 5 course meal with a black label sake of 150kls for 3000yen.

Firstly a dish of 6 bite size items with salad Then the additional prawn turned up

Next was the Salmon teriyaki which was very nice

Then Kolrabi, avocado, half boil egg and tofu in a brown sauce which was very nice.

Rice with fish and wasabi and green veg accompanied with some light fish broth.

Sake ice cream to Finish. Service was...