Bio-Tei

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• If you're yearning for a meal in a health-food restaurant, head to this very informal second-floor restaurant down the street from the Museum of Kyoto and catty-corner from the post office. Using organic, preservative-free ingredients, it serves only one thing at lunch: a great teishoku (fixed-price meal). Last time I was there it came with genmae (brown rice), salad, miso soup, pickles, and a curry-based tofu stew with potatoes and carrots. For dinner, a set meal and vegetarian a la carte dishes are offered from a Japanese-language menu. Seating is at sturdy wooden tables hewn from Japanese cypress, and meals are served on tableware from local kilns. As befits a health-food restaurant, smoking is not allowed.

• © Frommer's 2012