ELOVE is a vegetable-focused Italian diner and deli that opened on September 18, 2021, in Kyoto’s central Karasuma area, positioning itself as a complex restaurant that connects guests with the passion of local producers and their ingredients. Located roughly a one-minute walk from Hankyu Karasuma Station and close to Shijo Station, highly accessible within the busy Shijo–Karasuma business and shopping district. The name emphasizes a concept of “loving” vegetables and food, as well as wordplay of "Erabu" (meaning choose) in Japanese which is part of the menu where guests can select from a box of vegetables for dinner, thus letting guests experience the full appeal of carefully grown produce through Italian cooking and an adjoining delicatessen offering.​

From the street, ELOVE presents a modest, contemporary exterior that reads more as a compact urban restaurant than a stand-alone café, with signage emphasizing its deli and vegetable-led identity within a low-rise building off the main avenue. Inside, the two-story space uses wood as its primary material, creating a calm, casual interior with around 30 table seats that are arranged to feel approachable for both everyday lunches and slightly more formal evening occasions. The main point of attraction is the direct-from-farm produce program: vegetables are delivered fresh every morning from contracted farmers, then showcased both in the courses and in retail form, positioning the venue as part restaurant, part educational gateway into Kyoto-area agriculture.​

The menu centers on set courses for both lunch and dinner, with the kitchen composing dishes daily around the seasonal vegetables arriving that morning, resulting in lineups that can change frequently rather than adhering to a fixed à la carte structure. At lunch, guests encounter compositions built from around twenty kinds of vegetables, often paired with items such as domestic beef hamburg steak or carefully selected brand meats, while dinner shifts toward fuller Italian courses that place vegetable-led antipasti, mains, and pastas alongside meat and fish prepared with the same producer-focused philosophy. The beverage program is built around wine and other drinks intended to complement a vegetable-forward Italian meal, and the on-site deli and retail counter expand the experience with prepared side dishes and take-home vegetables that echo the flavors of the dining room.

​Taken together, ELOVE operates as a professionally run Karasuma restaurant-diner where farm-direct vegetables, Italian technique, and a compact wood-accented interior are tightly aligned around a clear concept. Its convenient proximity to Karasuma Station, structured course format, and combined restaurant-and-deli function position it as a practical, concept-driven option for guests planning a meal in Kyoto’s central business district.