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MATCHA & JAPANESE COMFORT

Matcha in
Palo Alto.

Japanese matcha, sandos and bentos.
Come by for a cup or stay for lunch.

Explore the menu
Sunlight fills RIKYŪ’s Palo Alto café, with wood seating, globe lights and a green stone counter.

THE MENU

Matcha, sandos & more.

Drinks, lunch and something sweet.

Iced matcha layered over milk in an authentic RIKYŪ cup on the café’s green stone counter.

MATCHA

Matcha latte

Matcha with your choice of milk.

Two halves of RIKYŪ’s actual ebi-katsu shrimp sandwich with crisp golden filling and fresh coleslaw.

SANDOS

Ebi-katsu sando

Our house-made shrimp sando, served with house-made coleslaw.

RIKYŪ’s strawberry matcha with vivid matcha, milk and a red strawberry base.

MATCHA

Strawberry matcha

Matcha, milk and our house-made strawberry sauce.

Matcha, houjicha, sandos, chirashi & sweets.

The full menu →

PALO ALTO

Our neighborhood.

Around town, from University Avenue to the Baylands.

An illustration by Roberto Calbucci: University Avenue signs, Stanford arches and tower, palms, a redwood, cyclists, a car and robot, the Dish, matcha and a sando, and an egret above the Palo Alto Baylands.

OUR CAFÉ

From fine dining
to your daily matcha.

Created by the team behind Hiroshi, a Japanese fine-dining restaurant in Los Altos, rikyū brings our love of Japanese food to an everyday café.

Our story →

RIKYŪ matcha drinks, sandos, and chirashi arranged together on a café table.

FIND US

Visit rikyū.

121 Lytton Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94301

Business hours
Monday–Saturday · 8am–5pm
Sunday · 9am–4pm

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RIKYŪ’s hanging café sign and tree-lined sidewalk on Lytton Avenue in Palo Alto.