To eat like a Buddhist priest – albeit a rather discerning one – travel out to Kawachi-Nagano for this stunner of a restaurant, which occupies a 16th-century building constructed as the kitchen of a temple associated with the historic Kanshinji Temple nearby. Savour a rice porridge made with azuki beans and tea, traditionally eaten at Kanshinji on the first day of spring, or book a full spread of Buddhist cuisine made with local produce – but no meat, fish or ‘pungent roots’ like garlic or onions.
Reservations essential.