Soirée — Restaurant in Kyoto

1948年（昭和23年）に開店しました。 ソワレとはフランス語で「夜会」・「素敵な夜」、メニューの表紙にある文字「Soyez la bienvenve」はフランス語で 「ようこそいらっしゃいました」という意味です。店先には伯爵歌人 吉井勇氏による自筆の歌碑があります。 特徴となっている店内の青色照明は、創業者の友人である染色家上村六郎氏から「女性がきれいに見える灯りを」とのアドバイスからそのようにしました。このためお見合いの場に使われていたこともあります。 当店のコースターやタンブラー・ゴブレット・コーヒーカップ等に使われている画伯東郷青児（とうごうせいじ）氏の絵は、創業者が店のイメージに合うと気に入って絵を飾っていたところ、二科会作家 佐々木良三氏に連れられてご本人が来店され、以後当店のために、何枚もの美人画を描いていただいたものです。このため、東郷青児氏以外の絵画は「二科会」の会員の絵画が中心となっております。（出典：ソワレHPより） It opened in 1948 (Showa 23). Soiree is French for "evening party" and "nice evening", and the letters "Soyez la bienvenve" on the menu cover are French for It means "welcome". In front of the store, there is a monument with a handwritten poem by Mr. Isamu Yoshii, an earl poet. The characteristic blue lighting in the store was chosen after a friend of the founder, Mr. Rokuro Uemura, a dyeing artist, advised him to "make women look beautiful." For this reason, it was sometimes used for arranged marriage meetings. The paintings used for our coasters, tumblers, goblets, coffee cups, etc. by artist Seiji Togo fit the image of the restaurant. Mr. Ryozo himself brought him to the store, and since then he has drawn many pictures of beautiful women for our restaurant. For this reason, paintings other than Seiji Togo are mainly paintings by members of "Nikakai". (Source:...

If you are looking for an out of the Era ambiance, this place is for you. The interior design and music takes you out of time for a while. The food and drinks presentation and tableware adds the last touches for the perfect picture. Tastes wise, it's not extraordinary, and the prices are a bit high so I would recommend this place to people who wants more of a photo spot than a...

Went here as this cafe was featured in IDOLiSH7 OFF/旅 and was seated at the second floor. I love the light blue ambience that gave me some kind of relax feeling. It’s beautiful when you look up the ceiling. I brought my mon nagi and took photo with the colorful jelly punch drink. Knew that this cafe was popular as we waited in line around 10 minutes outside the cafe...