A more than 100-year-old traditional farmhouse deep in the green hills of Takatsuki makes a fitting home for one of Osaka’s most ambitious farm-to-table restaurants. The traditional East Asian 24-season calendar provides the basis for Cocorone’s signature omakase meals (¥25,000), which showcase local game meat, freshwater fish, and wild herbs foraged by the chef himself the same morning. This is a special place indeed, more than deserving of the trek to the prefecture’s farthest northern reaches.
Reservations essential.