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FOOD: Bean-to-Bar Chocolate in a Century-Old Machiya

Kyoto continues to forge its name as Japan’s new capital of cool, with the city’s latest machiya renovation housing a hip cacao bar for San Francisco-based bean-to-bar chocolatiers Dandelion Chocolate.

Taking up residence on a quiet street in the city’s Ichinenzaka district, Dandelion Chocolate’s Kyoto outpost is a lesson in sensitive restoration. Converting a 100-year-old timber-framed machiya, two beautifully designed storeys house a shop, café, traditional Japanese garden and cacao bar – the only bar in Kyoto where you can pair your alcoholic drink with the appropriate cacao-bean desert.

Dandelion Chocolate: 363-6 Masuyachō, Higashiyama-ku, Kyōto-shi, Kyōto-fu 605-0826

Images: Dandelion Chocolate, via Dezeen

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