Luxury Dining Series: Osaka

Following its successful debut in 2024, Marriott International’s Luxury Dining Series returns with an expanded line-up of cities and culinary talents. Last year’s series began at the Ritz-Carlton, Tokyo, and the 2025 edition will once again kick off in Japan – this time at St. Regis Osaka. The choice aptly reflects Osaka’s rising global profile, not only as the host of the 2025 World Expo but also as one of Japan’s most dynamic culinary destinations.

Taking place over the weekend of July 11-13, the event will be hosted across St. Regis Osaka’s restaurants and signature bar, with a programme featuring guest chefs and collaborations from both Japan and abroad. The weekend opens with a four-hands teppanyaki dinner at Wajo. Head chef Takato Kitano will team up with Yuki Ode, master teppan chef from the Ritz-Carlton, Tokyo, for a special menu celebrating Japan’s exemplary produce, particularly seafood and heirloom vegetables.

In contrast, the hotel’s other restaurants will highlight two of the most distinctive cross-cultural cuisines originating in Japan: Italian fare by way of Japanese, and the longstanding dialogue between French techniques and Japanese flavours.

At La Veduta, head chef Michiaki Yoshida will collaborate with chef Agustin Balbi from Ando in Hong Kong – a Michelin-starred restaurant and a familiar name on Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants list – to create an Italian-Japanese multicourse menu. Meanwhile, Brasserie Régine will host an elaborate French-Japanese tasting menu prepared by two masters of French cuisine: the restaurant’s chef de cuisine, Takatoki Minagawa, and acclaimed chef Ryuta Iizuka of the two-Michelin-starred Tokyo restaurant Ryuzu. 

As afternoon tea is a signature St. Regis ritual, the hotel will present a one-off interpretation by executive pastry chef Alex Chong of the Singapore Edition, renowned for his inventive French pastries with Southeast Asian accents. To cap off each evening, Hideyuki Saito from the Gold Bar at the Tokyo Edition, Toranomon – ranked on Asia’s 50 Best Bars list – will take over the St. Regis Bar with a series of cocktails created especially for the occasion. 

Following the weekend at St. Regis Osaka, the Luxury Dining Series will move on to the JW Marriott Jeju Resort & Spa (July 17–20), JW Marriott Bengaluru Prestige Golfshire Resort & Spa (July 31–August 3), Ritz-Carlton Perth (August 15–17), St. Regis Singapore (August 29–31), St. Regis Jakarta (September 11–14), and Ritz-Carlton Bangkok (September 25–28).

For more information about the Luxury Dining events at St Regis Osaka and to make your reservations, visit the event website.