Update-date: Apr 11 2024
White Day will soon be here. Enjoying a special time eating luxurious cuisine and drinking alcohol with that person you want to get closer to, or the partner you already have an amazing relationship with, is a truly wonderful thing. Here are 5 restaurants in Fukuoka with excellent, mature refuge-style atmospheres, where couples and other guests can enjoy extraordinary foods and spaces.
French Cuisine - French Cuisine orchidee
Delicious French courses with a highly seasonal feel that let guests enjoy rich Kyushu ingredients.
Located a 5-minute walk from Watanabe-Dori Station. French Cuisine orchidee is a refuge-style restaurant that is a little ways from the busy central area. In this relaxing atmosphere, guests can enjoy course cuisine (reservation only) that is overflowing with creativity and incorporates Japanese elements into French cuisine. Enjoy the beautiful dishes made with highly fresh Kyushu seafood along with the chef's amazing Foie Gras Poêler.
The restaurant interior has a brown base, and is a relaxing space with the tone of the lighting moderately decreased. At the counter seats that face the open kitchen, guests can enjoy the chef's skills and beautiful arrangements before their eyes. Besides the spacious table seats (for 2-8 people) that let guests comfortably enjoy their meals and conversation, they also have private rooms (for 2-4 people) that are great for couples to spend time in. Visitors should state their seating preferences when making their reservations.
French Cuisine orchidee
TEL: +81-50-5385-7522
Address: 201 Imanishi Bldg., 1-11-8, Takasago, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka
Access: 5 minutes walk from Watanabe-dori Station
Address: 201 Imanishi Bldg., 1-11-8, Takasago, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka
Access: 5 minutes walk from Watanabe-dori Station
Italian Cuisine - nishinakasu Dorokawa Takeshi
A delicious experience with the cuisine, space, and sounds all together that move mature food connoisseur couples.
Located a 5-minute walk from Tenjin Minami Station. nishinakasu Dorokawa Takeshi is a popular Italian restaurant with food that resonates with the 5 senses of guests, that uses carefully selected seasonal ingredients with a focus on local foods, and expresses delicate flavors and scents. The menu consists of one Chef's Choice Course that changes every month. Choose the Pairing Course that lets one enjoy glass wine that goes perfectly with the food, making the flavors of each dish and glass that much deeper.
This restaurant is managed by the up and coming Italian cuisine chef Mr. Dorokawa. The restaurant's appeal is being able to naturally relax and enjoy its dramatic food setting. Guests will be soothed by the warmth of the high quality materials, including the Italian Walnut wood counter and the wallpaper made with Echizen handmade Japanese paper. The restaurant also lets guests feel the original scenery of the ingredients with its originally produced water and wind sounds. Share moving moments enjoyed with all 5 senses with that special someone.
nishinakasu Dorokawa Takeshi
TEL: +81-50-5870-5071
Address: 1F, Nishinakasu Corpo, 5-6 Nishinakasu, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka
Access: 5 minutes walk from Tenjin-minami Station
Address: 1F, Nishinakasu Corpo, 5-6 Nishinakasu, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka
Access: 5 minutes walk from Tenjin-minami Station
Italian Cuisine - Ristorante Tsurunoso
Enjoy the original Italian cuisine which expresses the 4 seasons of Japan along with the wine carefully selected by the owner and sommelier.
Ristorante Tsurunoso is located a 5-minute walk from Tenjin-Minami Station. It is a refuge-style ristorante located in a narrow alley in Nishi Nakasu. Here, guests can enjoy original Italian cuisine that incorporates Japanese elements. The cuisine, made by the chef with all his effort, finely expresses Japan's 4 seasons with seasonal Kyushu ingredients. It can be enjoyed along with the wine which is carefully selected by the owner and sommelier. This brilliant combination is perfect for couples to enjoy.
The first floor is a space for meals, which is coordinated with white walls, wood, and stones. It has bright counters with comfortable seating and table seats that feel like private rooms surrounded by an arch opening. The second floor has a bar annexed to it, so guests can relax and enjoy alcohol after their meal or use the venue only as a bar. In this space where adults can forget their everyday lives and relax, guests can spend a special time with their partner.
Ristorante Tsurunoso
Open: [Weekday,Saturday,Holidays,Day Before Holidays] Lunch 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm (last order 1:00 pm) / Other 8:00 pm - 3:00 am (last order 2:30 am)
Closed: Or a public holiday Monday (and irregular holidays)
Average price: [Dinner] 19,000 JPY / [Lunch] 8,500 JPY
Access: 5 minutes walk from Tenjin-minami Station
Closed: Or a public holiday Monday (and irregular holidays)
Average price: [Dinner] 19,000 JPY / [Lunch] 8,500 JPY
Access: 5 minutes walk from Tenjin-minami Station
Address: 3-5 Nishinakasu, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka
Japanese Cuisine - Ryori Sensui
Limited to 6 special seats. Rediscover the deliciousness of ingredients with unique Fukuoka-style Japanese food.
Located a 15-minute walk from Yakuin-odori Station. Ryori Sensui is a restaurant that features only 6 seats, and lets guests experience the ultimate in Japanese cuisine, with Kyushu seasonal ingredients that are cooked simply and delicately. The restaurant head goes to the markets every day and carefully selects local seafood and vegetables, and delights guests with cuisine that utilizes the qualities of the ingredients themselves. The unpolished rice bought from contracted farmers is home milled, and the rice cooked in an earthenware pot is also worth eating.
The restaurant's interior is a minimalist, modern, and relaxing Japanese space. The walls and fixtures are decorated with persimmon tannin, and the counter seats where food is served are decorated with wide and plain wood. Guests can feel refined tastes in the utensils as well, including the sake cups made with Kyushu ceramic and tin. For their Japanese sake, which deepens the taste of the cuisine, they always have around 10 brands from famous brewers in west Japan available. Suitable for relaxing and mature dates, this restaurant produces a high quality time.
Ryori Sensui
TEL: +81-50-5263-7155
Address: 2F, 3-7-1, Yakuin, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka
Access: 15 minutes walk from Yakuin-odori Station
Address: 2F, 3-7-1, Yakuin, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka
Access: 15 minutes walk from Yakuin-odori Station
French Cuisine - Refugeforestiere Goshima
Enjoy French cuisine that lets one feel the seasons of Kyushu and Europe in this small forest refuge.
Refugeforestiere Goshima is a 2-minute walk from Fujisaki Station. This French restaurant is surrounded by trees, as it is next to Momochi-Minami Park. Guests can enjoy course cuisine (2 varieties for both lunch and dinner) with a rich seasonal feel, created mainly with seasonal ingredients from Kyushu. In addition to local fish and vegetables from Kyushu, which the chef carefully selects by visiting the market himself, you can also enjoy seasonal ingredients from Europe.
The interior is wrapped in the warmth of wood, and is a space that lets one comfortable enjoy food while feeling the seasons in the groves, which can be seen from the restaurant windows. The containers that arrange the cuisine are Koishiwara ware from the Fukuoka pottery Motonaga Toen, and Arita ware from Saga. The unique Kyushu-style French cuisine will delight the eyes. Here, guests can enjoy a wonderful time eating cuisine while facing that special someone at the table seating, or sitting shoulder to shoulder at the counter seats.
Refugeforestiere Goshima
Open: [Sunday,Monday,Wednesday - Saturday,Holidays,Day Before Holidays] Dinner 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm (last order 8:00 pm) / Lunch 12:00 pm - 2:30 pm (last order 1:30 pm)
Closed: Tuesday
Average price: [Dinner] 14,000 JPY / [Lunch] 7,000 JPY
Access: 2 minutes walk from Fujisaki Station
Closed: Tuesday
Average price: [Dinner] 14,000 JPY / [Lunch] 7,000 JPY
Access: 2 minutes walk from Fujisaki Station
Address: 103 Esperanza Momochi, 1-5-1, Momochi, Sawara-ku, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka
Disclaimer: All information is accurate at time of publication.
