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Kyoto rewards close attention: to the doorway, the bartender, the season and the ingredient in front of you. Precision and highly personal service give even the city’s more experimental drinks a quiet, deliberate quality.

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Kyoto

Bee's Knees

Matsuya Building 1F, 364 Kamiyacho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto 604-8024, Japan

Finding Bee’s Knees means passing through a discreet entrance in central Kyoto into a lively take on the American speakeasy.

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Nokishita711

235 Sendocho, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto 600-8019, Japan

Nokishita711 calls its work “liquid cuisine.” Tomoiki Sekine puts seasonal produce first and uses alcohol as a way to extract flavour from vegetables, fruit, herbs and less conventional ingredients, largely avoiding commercial syrups, liqueurs and bitters.

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Kyoto

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Bee's Knees

Nokishita711

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