FOOD: At Kyoto’s Kaikado Cafe

Despite making traditional caddies for 140 years, Kyoto craftsmen Kaikado have only just started serving the tea itself, in a newly opened café minutes from their workshop and flagship store. Teaming up with Danish design studio OeO, Kaikado have taken over a 100-year-old government building, giving it a new lease of life as a tranquil cafe, bar and Japan Handmade show-space.

Providing a unique platform for local creativity, Kaikado Café not only serves lovingly brewed coffee from Wani Coffee in Tokyo and cakes from local bakery Hanakago, but every piece of tableware is the work of local craftsmen. Coffee brewed using drippers made by metal workers KANAAMI-TSUJI is drunk from cups by ceramicists Asahiyaki, and of course stored in re-purposed Kaikado caddies.

And for those wanting to recreate the experience at home, there’s a convenient on-site store.

Kaikado Cafe; 352 Sumiyoshi-cho, Sumiyoshi, Kyoto 600-8143