Menu to Taste

Sumibi Kappo Ifuki

Japanese/Kappo · Kyoto · Michelin Two Stars · Chef Norio Yamamoto

Holding two Michelin stars, chef Norio Yamamoto’s Sumibi Kappo Ifuki in Kyoto presents charcoal-grilled kappo cuisine. Operating from a renovated Gion machiya townhouse, the restaurant centers its seasonal omakase menu around binchotan fire, featuring signature dishes like skin-seared tuna belly cooked over live embers.

570-8 Giommachi Minamigawa, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto 605-0074, Kyoto

  • Michelin 2025

Menu

Dishes

  • Beef Course
  • game
  • Salt-grilled tilefish
  • channel rockfish paired with perilla and Japanese pepper oils
  • Seared Tuna
  • Wild boar
  • roast bear
  • Basque pork (Kintoa pig from Spain)
  • Ayu (sweetfish) salt-grilled
  • lean Jinhua pork

Tasting Menu

  • Omakase Dinner Course (22000)
  • Sumibi Kappo Omakase (Premium) (30000) — Premium charcoal-grilled kaiseki with enhanced seasonal ingredients.
  • Signature Charcoal-Grilled Course (25000) — Signature charcoal-grilled course highlighting binchotan technique.
  • Sumibi Kappo Omakase (Standard) (22000) — Sumibi kappo (charcoal-grilled kaiseki) omakase. Approximately ¥20,000-¥30,000. Chef Norio Yamamoto grills over binchotan charcoal at the counter.
  • Private Room Omakase (25000) — Private room omakase.
  • Ifuki Charcoal Omakase (22000) — Charcoal-grilled kappo omakase. Chef Norio Yamamoto. Ten percent service charge.

The Experience

An intimate room built around the chef's counter and in a historic setting. The meal is structured around an omakase experience.

Phone: +81-75-525-6665

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