The Best Places to Eat in 生駒市

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

A pizza spot on Mt. Ikomayama with a view over the city and a crust that owes its soft, fluffy character to local Ikoma spring water. The chef trained in Italy and then quietly went his own way, cutting back on salt and working with vegetables from nearby farms. The result is something Naples wouldn't recognize and probably couldn't reproduce. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Bib Gourmand. It closes for the entirety of February.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

A noren curtain marks the entrance to this quietly serious Japanese restaurant in a residential pocket of Ikoma, where two brothers run the room with the unhurried ease of people who grew up doing exactly this. The older brother handles conversation; the younger handles the kitchen. Seasonal flower arrangements grown at home trace the tea ceremony spirit, and the cooking follows the calendar with the same devotion.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

An Italian restaurant in Nara where the chef quietly ignores the border between cuisines, folding wasabi, yuzu, and Japanese pepper into the kind of cooking that started as a straightforward apprenticeship in Italian technique. Vegetables come from nearby farms, and the room itself pulls double duty, with a gallery upstairs showing work by local artists. The double-height ground floor keeps things airy and unhurried.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant