What’s special about Izutsuya? We carefully select and use the best seasonal ingredients.

Our Passion for Quality Meat

• Our Kyoto beef is from pedigreed cattle of outstanding quality
• Quality meat is graded as A5, A4 or A3 as per the Japan Meat Grading Association’s grading system for dressed beef
• Of all the Izutsuya staff we allow only experienced experts to choose the ingredients for our dishes
• The meat we use must have outstanding characteristics in the following areas: fat and meat distribution, texture, firmness and color
• The meat we use must have excellent sweetness, flavor an aroma

Our shop owned farm

We breed and raise our own pedigreed cattle at our shop owned ‘Izutsuya farm’ in Tanba, located at a quiet, rural area near Kyoto.

Our Passion
for Ingredients of excellent quality

We carefully select and use the best seasonal vegetables grown in the mountains of Satoyama on the outskirts of Kyoto as well as abundant fresh seafood.

We revere the traditional Kyoto townhouse style and the heritage articles passed on to us from the early Showa era. Making the most of the characteristics that are unique to a Kyoto townhouse -namely its deep, narrow formation- we at Izutsuya offer three beautiful dining spaces to suit your preferences

The Owner of Izutsuya Sanjo

Iwasaki Takuya

We at Itzutsuya take food seriously. By choosing only the most excellent seasonal ingredients we are determined to introduce you to the unique flavors of Kyoto’s nature. We want you to relax and ‘live’ our food in a charismatic warm atmosphere.