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Best food and drink in Kyoto

The 10 most notable food and drink in Kyoto, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.

  1. 1

    釜戸飯ふらり庵

    京都府京都市伏見区中島御所ノ内町20

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.440, percentile 100 of 20

  2. 2

    蔵代味噌

    中京区堀之上町106 アンシアン六角堺町1階\n\n(中京区六角通り境町東入る)

    507 m from Karasuma Oike Station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.366, percentile 94.74 of 20

  3. 3

    山田製油

    西京区桂巽町4

    522 m from Katsura Station, rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.343, percentile 89.47 of 20

  4. 4

    打田漬物商工業株式会社錦営業所

    京都府京都市中京区中魚屋町484

    342 m from Karasuma Station, rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.241, percentile 84.21 of 20

  5. 5

    GREEN FARM with 遠藤青汁

    左京区田中大堰町92

    362 m from Demachiyanagi Station, rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.197, percentile 78.95 of 20

  6. 6

    福寿園ポルタ店

    600-8216 京都府京都市下京区東塩小路町902

    44 m from Kyoto Municipal Subway Kyōto Station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.050, percentile 73.68 of 20

  7. 7

    りょうさんのシフォンケーキ

    上京区六軒町通一条上る若松町346-1

    493 m from Kitano Station, rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.019, percentile 68.42 of 20

  8. 8

    フレッシュバザール 城陽寺田店

    京都府城陽市寺田塚本203

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.016, percentile 63.16 of 20

  9. 9

    メキシカンダイナーコロリド

    京都府京都市下京区東町581

    443 m from Hachijō Station, rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.983, percentile 57.89 of 20

  10. 10

    創作料理 壮樹

    鍋屋町木屋町通四条上る217 1階

    155 m from Gion-shijo Station, rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.935, percentile 52.63 of 20

How this list is made

Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:

attestation by independent providers
+0.35
record completeness (website, phone, address)
+0.25
Overture existence confidence
+0.20
Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
+0.40
brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
−0.15
same-name chain collision
−0.30

Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.

No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste

Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.

The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.

Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.

Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.

Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).