Formal — to stranger
Cultural · Dining
これから懐石料理のお食事です。一品ずつ順番にお出しします。ゆっくりご堪能ください。 — We will now begin your kaiseki course meal. Each dish will be served one at a time. Please take your time and savor every course. (Cultural · Dining, Formal — to stranger, JLPT N3)
You
これから懐石料理のお食事です。一品ずつ順番にお出しします。ゆっくりご堪能ください。
これからかいせきりょうりのおしょくじです。いっぴんずつじゅんばんにおだしします。ゆっくりごたんのうください。
We will now begin your kaiseki course meal. Each dish will be served one at a time. Please take your time and savor every course.
Romaji: Korekara kaiseki ryouri no oshokuji desu. Ippin zutsu junban ni odashi shimasu. Yukkuri gotan'nou kudasai. / Reply Romaji: Arigatou gozaimasu. Itadakimasu.
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ありがとうございます。いただきます。
ありがとうございます。いただきます。
Thank you. Let's eat.
Gesture & etiquette
Bow slightly as you present the first course. Move quietly and unhurriedly — in kaiseki service, the server's calm presence is part of the atmosphere. Wait until the guest has acknowledged the dish before stepping back.
懐石料理 (kaiseki) is Japan's most refined multi-course cuisine, rooted in Zen and tea ceremony traditions. Dishes arrive in a choreographed sequence — each course must be fully finished and removed before the next appears. The experience is as much about pace and contemplation as the food itself.