Private Lunch in a Kyoto Home

Sightseeing  :  Japan  :  Kyoto Prefecture  :  Kyoto  :  Dining Experiences

Join your host for a private, traditional lunch in her Kyoto home. Specializing in Obanzai cuisine, your host will make this an unforgettable experience. Sitting on cushions on the floor at a low Japanese-style dining table, you will enjoy a delicious home-cooked meal and a good conversation about Japanese cuisine and culture. Leave with a full stomach, new recipes, a new friend, and lifelong memories.Meet your host at the local subway station and drive together to her home. You will be welcomed into her local home and served a drink and a sweet as a typical Kyoto greeting. You will then join your host in her kitchen to learn to cook a traditional Obanzai meal. The meal will feature seasonal produce and fish, prepared simply with local ingredients. You can expect to not only learn about a style of Japanese cuisine but also share a delicious meal with your host at their Japanese-style dining table.

Your obanzai menu may include Japanese home-cooked dishes such as nikujaga (a dish of meat and potatoes stewed in soy sauce), kinpira gobo (a sweet and savory sauté of burdock root and carrots), saikyo-zuke (Kyoto-style miso-marinated fish) and dessert. After your cultural experience and lunch, your host will drop you off at the train station. Leave the experience with new recipes, a new friend, and lifelong memories. 

Please note, this is not a professional cooking class, rather this experience is a visit into an authentic, local home to meet a local person and share the culture and cuisine together.