Tabelog ratingRistorante Quintocanto (クイントカント) serves a single tasting menu that changes monthly and builds Italian cooking around Japanese regional produce. Two dishes bookend every meal. It opens with a foie gras catalana, a cold, crème-brûlée-style custard with espresso and mascarpone sauces. It closes with the house spaghetti pomodoro, and you choose the portion: 30, 60 or 90g. Chef Takuya Kishimoto greets each table before and after the meal and hands over a hand-drawn illustrated menu card. The dining room is in the Taisho-era brick Daibiru Honkan.
Nearly every reviewer names the foie gras catalana and the pomodoro. The optional risotto speciale, finished tableside in a wheel of cheese, is repeatedly called a must-order. Roasts of duck, Hiroshima beef and Jidori chicken are praised for precise cooking. Service is the most common theme: warm, attentive and well suited to birthdays, with dessert plates and photos. Several foreign diners note that the wines were explained in English.
The criticism is specific:
- When the house red ran out, one English-speaking diner was charged ¥3,800 for a substitute glass.
- One guest was seated by the toilet in a near-empty room.
- A Taiwanese diner found the dishes over-elaborate.
- Some consider the wine pairing expensive.
Recent reviewers (2024–2026) paid these prices:
- Lunch Course A: around ¥7,700 (¥8,470 with service)
- A richer lunch: ¥9,900
- Risotto speciale: +¥1,650
- Caviar cold pasta: +¥2,200
- Cheese: from +¥1,980
- Non-alcoholic pairing: ¥2,750
- Grand wine pairing: ¥27,000
Expect roughly ¥8,000–10,000 at lunch and ¥15,000–20,000 at dinner before drinks, plus a 10% service charge. Lunch is the strongest value: reviewers repeatedly call nine-plus courses with this level of service a bargain. Wine is where bills climb.
- Age restriction: no guests under 16. ID may be requested.
- Booking: required, and walk-ins are effectively turned away. Call 050-5570-5516 and give allergies and dietary needs in advance. The restaurant calls to confirm before your date. Tables are released after 30 minutes without notice. Same-day cancellations or changes in party size are charged 100% of the course fee.
- Getting there: 5 minutes' walk from Watanabebashi Station (Keihan Nakanoshima Line), or 10 minutes from the North Ticket Gate of Higobashi Station (Yotsubashi Line). The entrance is outside, on the west side of the Daibiru Honkan. You cannot reach it from inside the building.
- Dress code: no shorts, sandals or strong perfume. Entry may be refused. Staff mention this when you book.
- Payment: Visa, Mastercard, JCB, Amex and Diners. Electronic money and QR payments are not accepted.
- Menu: courses only, no à la carte. No outside wine or food. Agree on the price before ordering wine by the glass.
- Time: lunch takes about 2.5 hours. Last entry is 13:00 for lunch and 19:30 for dinner.
- Seating: 26 seats and no private rooms. The restaurant can be booked for private use. Wheelchair accessible.
- Smoking: non-smoking.
- Parking: paid car park in the Daibiru basement, not affiliated with the restaurant, so you pay in full.
- Language: some staff speak English, not all.
