Ryotei – exclusive restaurants and entertainment establishments in the traditional Japanese style – have been influential in shaping Osaka’s culinary culture over the centuries. The venerated Kashiwaya is a prime example; a shrine to hyper-seasonal haute cuisine, where head chef Hideaki Matsuo conducts an orchestra of ingredients that includes sustainably sourced fish and Naniwa heirloom vegetables as he crafts symphonies of flavour in tastefully understated, teahouse-like surroundings.
Reservations essential.