Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Kanazawa from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Kanazawa
Kataori, Zeniya, and Kisanuki serve kaiseki in Kanazawa, and Respiracion serves a modern Spanish tasting menu in Kanazawa. Each restaurant has a wine list and a sake program.
Kataori, in Kanazawa, serves Hokuriku kaiseki at an eight-seat counter. Chef Takuya Kataori follows the regional seasons, cooking fish and other Hokuriku ingredients with a focus on dashi. The restaurant serves omakase and tasting menus, with wine and a sake program. It holds Tabelog Gold for 2025.
Zeniya, in Kanazawa, serves Kaga-style kaiseki as a tasting menu at the counter. Second-generation chef Shinichiro Takagi cooks with market-fresh Ishikawa produce, and the courses are seasonal and tailored to each guest. The wine program has a sake program. It holds a Relais Chateaux Award for 2026. La Liste scored 75.5 points in 2025, and Opinionated About Dining ranked it 208th in 2025.
Kisanuki, in Kanazawa, is a kaiseki omakase counter for 5 to 6 guests, led by chef Nobuo Kisanuki in a newly built Japanese house. Formats are omakase and counter dining. The wine program has a sake program. Tabelog Silver ranked it 57th with 4.6 points in 2026. The restaurant opened in April 2025.
Respiracion, in Kanazawa, serves a modern Spanish tasting menu in a renovated 140-year-old machiya, using Kanazawa seafood and vegetables. Chef Tatsuro Ume holds Tabelog Silver for 2025. The room is a 14-seat counter. The wine program has a sake program. Asia's Best Restaurants ranked it 92nd in 2026, and Opinionated About Dining ranked it 73rd in 2026.
This restaurant in Kanazawa serves kappo-style kaiseki as multi-course seasonal meals in an intimate counter setting. Formats are counter dining and a set menu. The wine program has a sake program. It holds a Tabelog 100 selection for 2025.
Budoonomori Les Tonnelles and jibunchi, both in Kanazawa, have exceptional wine programs. Makinonci has an extensive list with French cooking, and ORIGO pours natural wine with a seasonal Italian-Japanese tasting menu.
Budoonomori Les Tonnelles, in Kanazawa, serves French cooking with Mexican influences and produce from the surrounding farm. The dining room occupies a greenhouse by architect Shigeru Ban. The restaurant serves tasting and prix fixe menus. Its exceptional wine program is sommelier-led, with an extensive wine list. It holds Tabelog Bronze for 2026.
jibunchi, in Kanazawa, serves contemporary Italian cooking. The kitchen grows its own rice and vegetables and also prepares fish and local game. The townhouse offers counter dining and tasting menus. Its exceptional wine program is sommelier-led, with a 600-label wine list and sake. It holds a Tabelog Italian WEST 100 selection for 2025.
Makinonci, in Kanazawa, cooks modern French food with local Japanese influences, using wood fire in an open U-shaped counter kitchen and Ishikawa ingredients. The format is a tasting menu. The wine program has an extensive wine list and a sake program. Tabelog Bronze ranked it 251st with 4.3 points in 2026, and Tabelog 100 ranked it 20th with 4.2 points in 2025.
ORIGO, in Kanazawa, serves a seasonal Italian-Japanese tasting menu using only wild and locally sourced Ishikawa ingredients, with no farmed meat or fish. The room has 8 seats. Formats are a tasting menu, a prix fixe, and small plates. The list is natural wine. Tabelog 100 ranked it 44th with 3.6 points in 2025.
This Cantonese restaurant in Kanazawa serves chemical-seasoning-free dishes with wine pairings from a chef-sommelier. Formats are a la carte and a set menu, in a 22-seat room. The wine program is sommelier-led. It holds a Tabelog 100 Chinese cuisine WEST selection for 2026.
Sushi Kibatani, Sushi Ikuta, Tobi, and Komatsu are sushi counters in Kanazawa, and Sushi Dokoro Mekumi is in Nonoichi. All five serve omakase with a sake program.
Sushi Kibatani, in Kanazawa, serves Edomae-style omakase with Hokuriku seafood sourced daily from Toyama market by chef Mitsuhiro Kibatani. The counter has eight seats. Formats are omakase and counter dining. The wine program has a sake program. Tabelog Bronze ranked it 174th with 4 points in 2026, and Opinionated About Dining named it Recommended in 2026.
Sushi Ikuta, in Kanazawa, is an 8-seat counter for seasonal Edomae-style sushi omakase, with Hokuriku seafood, red-vinegar sushi, and local sake pairings. Formats are omakase, counter dining, and a set menu. The wine program has an extensive wine list, a sake program, and a beer program. Tabelog 100 ranked it 71st with 3.8 points in 2025.
Tobi, in Kanazawa, is an 8-seat counter-only sushi restaurant for high-end Kanazawa sushi omakase, with seasonal fish and sake. Formats are omakase, counter dining, and a tasting menu. The wine program is minimal, with a sake program. Opinionated About Dining named it Recommended in 2026, and Tabelog 100 ranked it 43rd with 3.9 points in 2025.
Komatsu, in Kanazawa, is a traditional omakase sushi counter where a master chef over 90 years old prepares each piece by hand. It serves omakase and set menus at the counter, with a minimal wine program and sake. It holds Tabelog Bronze for 2026 and a Tabelog Japanese Cuisine WEST Top 100 selection.
Sushi Dokoro Mekumi, in Nonoichi, serves traditional Japanese omakase with hyper-fresh local seafood and seasonal crab courses, prepared by chef Takayoshi Yamaguchi. Formats are omakase and counter dining. The wine program is minimal, with a sake program. Opinionated About Dining ranked it 8th among restaurants in Japan in 2026.
Hamagurizaka Maekawa, Yakitori Manjiro, BIRD, Tori Take, and 333 are yakitori restaurants in Kanazawa, and each has a sake program. Hamagurizaka Maekawa and BIRD have wine lists, and the other three have standard wine programs.
Hamagurizaka Maekawa, in Kanazawa, serves yakitori in a renovated 100-year-old townhouse, with Takasaka chicken and seasonal Kaga vegetables. Chef Yoshiteru Maekawa runs the counter. Formats are omakase and counter dining. The wine program has a sake program. Opinionated About Dining ranked it 114th in 2026 and 224th in 2025.
Yakitori Manjiro, in Kanazawa, is a 6-seat counter for yakitori. Formats are omakase, a la carte, counter dining, and small plates. The wine program is standard, with a sake program and a beer program. Tabelog 100 ranked it 12th with 3.6 points in 2025 in the yakitori selection.
BIRD, in Kanazawa, serves yakitori as grilled chicken skewers in a counter-focused room. Formats are omakase, counter dining, and a la carte. The wine program has a sake program and a beer program. Tabelog 100 ranked it 68th with 3.7 points in 2025. It holds Hyakumeiten Yakitori WEST selections for 2024 and 2025.
Tori Take, in Kanazawa, is a 10-seat counter for yakitori, focused on grilled chicken skewers. Formats are a la carte, counter dining, and small plates. Drinks include sake, shochu, and wine. The wine program is standard, with a sake program. Tabelog 100 ranked it 94th with 3.7 points in 2025.
333, in Kanazawa, specializes in Hinai chicken yakitori, with soy-marinated kin-kan. The room has 14 seats, with counter seating. Formats are a la carte and small plates. The wine program is standard, with a sake program. Tabelog 100 ranked it 57th with 3.8 points in 2025 in the chicken cuisine selection.
Most venues in our Kanazawa guide are in Kanazawa. Kanazawa Station and Owari-cho each have two venues in the guide. The guide also includes venues in Katamachi and Omicho Market.
Our Kanazawa guide lists no Michelin-starred restaurants. Kataori holds Tabelog Gold for 2025, and Respiracion holds Tabelog Silver for 2025. Both Makinonci and Sushi Kibatani hold Tabelog Bronze awards for 2026.
Most tasting menus in our guide are in Kanazawa, including those at Kataori, Respiracion, and Makinonci. On the tasting-menu list, Sushi Dokoro Mekumi is in Nonoichi, and an omakase sushi counter is in Shimeno Nakamachi.
No venue in our Kanazawa guide holds a Wine Spectator award. That includes Budoonomori Les Tonnelles and jibunchi, the restaurants on our tasting-menu list with exceptional wine programs and sommelier-led lists.
Sake programs and wine lists are the common styles in our Kanazawa guide. Four exceptional wine programs are in the guide, citywide. Budoonomori Les Tonnelles and jibunchi, both in Kanazawa, are sommelier-led with extensive lists, and jibunchi has a 600-label wine list. ORIGO, in Kanazawa, pours natural wine.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
Best of Kanazawa
Kanazawa
Selected entries from the current guide for Kanazawa.
Kanazawa, Japan
An eight-seat kaiseki counter in Kanazawa's Namikimachi district, Kataori has held Tabelog Gold every year from 2021 through 2026, scored 4.72, and ranked first in Japan on Opinionated About Dining in 2025. The counter format, a particular focus on fish, and a deep commitment to Ishikawa's seasonal calendar place it among the more closely watched kaiseki addresses outside Kyoto and Tokyo.
Kanazawa, Japan
Respiracion brings Ishikawa's ingredient culture into a Spanish framework at a 14-seat counter in Kanazawa's Bakuromachi district. Chef Tatsuro Ume holds consecutive Tabelog Silver Awards from 2022 through 2026 and an 88-point La Liste score, with review-based spend landing between JPY 30,000 and JPY 39,999. The restaurant operates on group-start seatings, reservation-only, with a sommelier on hand and a wine program selected with particular care.
Kanazawa, Japan
Kanazawa’s French dining scene is strongest when it treats Ishikawa produce as the main argument rather than decoration. Makinonci belongs in that conversation: a compact house-restaurant format led by Kouji Makino, with Tabelog Bronze recognition from 2023 through 2026 and a place on Tabelog French WEST 100 in 2025.
Kanazawa, Japan
Zeniya is a two-Michelin-star kaiseki counter in Kanazawa's Katamachi district, where second-generation chef Shinichiro Takagi cooks directly at the counter using market-fresh Ishikawa produce. Holding a Green Star alongside its culinary honours, the restaurant ranks among Japan's most-recognised provincial kaiseki addresses and operates as a Relais & Châteaux member property.
Kanazawa, Japan
An eight-seat counter in Kanazawa's Hikosomachi district, Sushi Kibatani works Sea of Japan fish through Edo-style technique with a regional inflection shaped by Noto coastline sourcing. Tabelog Bronze recognition every year from 2020 through 2026, plus consecutive selection to the Tabelog Sushi WEST 100, confirms its position in western Japan's tightest omakase tier. Dinner runs JPY 30,000–39,999; reservations require advance booking through the venue website.
Kanazawa, Japan
Tempura Koizumi puts Kanazawa’s seasonal discipline into a nine-seat counter format, treating tempura less as a fried-food category than as a paced, multi-course progression. Its Tabelog Award 2026 Bronze recognition, Tabelog Tempura 100 selections, and OAD Japan Recommended listing place it in a serious national conversation rather than a local-only dining bracket.
Kanazawa, Japan
Ryori Komatsu holds a Tabelog Bronze Award (2025 and 2026) and repeated selection in the Tabelog Japanese Cuisine WEST Top 100, placing it among Kanazawa's most consistently recognised Japanese cuisine counters. Operating as a reservation-only house restaurant near Nomachi, it serves dinner exclusively at a counter, with a dinner budget of JPY 15,000–19,999 per the listed price and JPY 30,000–39,999 based on actual reviewer spending.
Kanazawa, Japan
Kabuna places Kanazawa’s izakaya culture in Katamachi rather than the museum-lit dining rooms visitors often associate with the city. Its Tabelog 100 Izakaya WEST 2025 selection, fish-led cooking, sake focus, counter seats, tatami rooms and private rooms make it a useful read on how serious local dining can remain social, flexible and rooted in the evening rhythm of the neighbourhood.
Kanazawa, Japan
A Tabelog Award Bronze winner operating from the Budoonomori estate outside Kanazawa, Les Tonnelles serves French cuisine framed entirely around the produce of its surrounding farm. The 16-seat dining room operates by reservation only, with a dedicated sommelier, English-speaking staff, and pricing that sits between JPY 6,000 and JPY 9,999 for set menus, considerably below what reviewers typically spend.
Kanazawa, Japan
Kanazawa is better known for seafood, wagashi, and Kaga-ryori formality than for American-style burgers, which makes this small Unedahigashi counter a useful read on the city’s casual dining range. 1/3 HAMBURGER FACTORY brings a Tabelog Hamburger 100 selection in 2024 and 2026 to a house-restaurant format with counter seating, terrace space, takeout, and family-friendly details.
Kanazawa, Japan
Kanazawa’s dinner culture often moves between seafood formality, kappo counters, and compact specialist rooms. 333 belongs to the city’s focused chicken-and-yakitori tier, with a 14-seat format, counter seating, wine and sake, and selection for Tabelog 100 Chicken Cuisine 2025 placing it in a national conversation rather than a purely local one.
Kanazawa, Japan
A＿RESTAURANT belongs to Kanazawa’s smaller tier of creative Japanese dining, where the meal is treated as a timed ritual rather than a casual à la carte stop. Its Tabelog 100 Innovative / Creative cuisine selection in 2025, fish-focused cooking, sake-and-wine emphasis, and course-only structure place it closer to destination dining than neighbourhood browsing.
Kanazawa, Japan
Aburi Niku Garan puts Kanazawa’s izakaya culture in a polished Honmachi setting close to the station, with grilled meat, sake, shochu, wine and cocktails in the mix. Its 2025 Tabelog 100 Izakaya WEST selection places it in a selective regional bracket, while the price point keeps it below the city’s formal sushi and tasting-menu counters.
Kanazawa, Japan
Ajiraku Yumemi is a Kanazawa izakaya built around Ishikawa seafood, local sake, and a room format that can handle counter dining as well as larger tatami gatherings. Its Tabelog 100 Izakaya WEST 2025 selection places it in a more serious bracket than the casual tavern label suggests, with value coming from regional specificity rather than luxury staging.
Kanazawa, Japan
Amanatto Kawamura sits within Kanazawa's tradition of precision confectionery, drawing a loyal following to the quiet craft of amanatto, sugar-glazed legumes and grains that trace their lineage through Edo-period sweetmaking. The shop occupies a niche between everyday wagashi and formal kaiseki dessert, offering regulars a repeatable, unhurried ritual that few visitors think to seek out.
Kanazawa, Japan
BIRD belongs to Kanazawa’s more serious yakitori tier: a counter-led, smoke-focused restaurant where chicken, charcoal, and drink pairing matter more than spectacle. Its Hyakumeiten Yakitori WEST selections in 2024 and 2025 place it in a regional conversation beyond the city’s seafood reputation, with sake, shochu, and wine giving the format a broader drinking frame.
Kanazawa, Japan
China Dining Queen places Cantonese cooking inside Kanazawa’s smaller, specialist dining tier rather than the city’s better-known sushi-and-kaiseki circuit. The 2026 Tabelog 100 Chinese cuisine WEST selection, 22-seat room, sommelier service, and Yokohama Heichinro-trained kitchen point to a restaurant built around restraint, wine-aware service, and regional seriousness rather than spectacle.
Kanazawa, Japan
Kanazawa’s Spanish dining scene is small enough that ingredient choices carry extra weight. comer mar y montana works in the city’s seafood orbit rather than against it, pairing Spanish and European technique with a fish-led brief, a wine-minded drinks program, and recognition from Tabelog 100 Spanish Cuisine 2026 and Opinionated About Dining’s 2026 Japan Recommended list.
Kanazawa, Japan
Higashiyama’s tea-house streets make sweets feel less like an add-on than part of Kanazawa’s craft culture. Hakuichi Higashiyama ten sits in that tradition with soft serve, café sweets, take-out service, 30 seats, and Tabelog 100 Ice Cream/Gelato selection in 2023, keeping the spend in the sub-JPY 1,000 bracket.
Kanazawa, Japan
A yakitori specialist in Kanazawa's Nomachi district, Hamagurizaka Maekawa holds consecutive Opinionated About Dining rankings for 2024 and 2025, placing it among Japan's most closely watched grilled-chicken counters outside Tokyo. The format is communal and unhurried, built around skewers and smoke rather than kaiseki ceremony. Chef Yoshiteru Maekawa runs a tight, focused operation that rewards advance planning.
Kanazawa, Japan
HIRAMIPAN gives Kanazawa’s bakery culture a compact, European-leaning address in Nagamachi, where bread, café service, and bistro cues sit closer together than in a standard grab-and-go bakery. Its Tabelog Bread WEST 100 selection in 2022 and low-spend format make it a useful stop for travelers reading the city through everyday craft rather than formal dining.
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Issho places Kanazawa’s cafe culture inside the slower rhythm of Higashiyama, where tea, sweets, retail, and gallery functions blur into one afternoon ritual. Its selection for Tabelog Cafe WEST “Tabelog 100” 2025 gives it a clear signal in a city better known internationally for seafood, wagashi, and craft traditions than for destination cafes.
Kanazawa, Japan
Itaru Honten places Kanazawa’s izakaya culture in its proper frame: seafood-led, sake-aware, informal but serious. Recognition in Tabelog 100 - Izakaya - WEST - 2025 puts it in a stronger regional bracket than a casual tavern label suggests, while the room format keeps the experience grounded in counter seats and tatami seating rather than tasting-menu ceremony.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Kanazawa.
Kanazawa, Japan
At the centre of Kanazawa's Korinbo district, the Tokyu Hotel operates as the city's most accessible full-service address, with 232 rooms and walking distance to Kenroku-en, the Higashi Chaya quarter, and the Omicho market. It is a city hotel in the clearest sense: reliable, centrally positioned, and without the ryokan ritual of the Kaga region properties nearby.
Kanazawa, Japan
Michelin Selected for 2025, Hyatt Centric Kanazawa sits in the Hirooka district and brings an internationally operated hotel format to one of Japan's most food-serious cities. The property gives travellers a reliable, well-located base from which to engage Kanazawa's layered culinary scene, from morning market visits to evening kappo dinners, without sacrificing brand consistency.
Kanazawa, Japan
A MICHELIN Selected property at 6-5 Takaokamachi, Tsuruko occupies a position within Kanazawa's small tier of architecturally grounded ryokan-style stays. The city's reputation as Japan's most intact castle-town shapes the hospitality here: traditional materials, restrained interiors, and a deliberate pace that pushes back against the efficiency of urban hotel culture.
Kanazawa, Japan
Yamanoo occupies a machiya-style ryotei in Kanazawa's Higashiyama district, one of the city's best-preserved geisha quarters. The setting alone positions it within Japan's most architecturally coherent tradition of formal dining, where the physical space is as deliberate as anything served within it. For visitors tracing the Hokuriku region's culinary culture, it functions as a serious reference point.
Kanazawa
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Kanazawa
Selected entries from the current guide for Kanazawa.
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