Yuzu, a Yuba Cuisine Restaurant in Gion, Kyoto
I picked a proper restaurant for lunch too. Getting a reservation wasn’t easy. Here’s the place A notice saying they’re fully booked with reservations today Soy milk La France I ordered a …
I picked a proper restaurant for lunch too. Getting a reservation wasn’t easy. Here’s the place A notice saying they’re fully booked with reservations today Soy milk La France I ordered a …
I got up in the morning and headed down for breakfast. Oh dear.. I meant to keep it light, but the food was so good I ended up going back for seconds.. Endo It’s a famous tempura restaurant, and in the…
After a good meal in Karasuma, I headed back early to the hotel in Gion. Here are the photos I took along the way. Mirinae Yang Gopchang I never expected to find a Busan-style beef tripe joint in Kyoto –…
Jumelles 29 is a French restaurant, and in Japanese the name is read “Jumelles nijukyu”. It has been on my Kyoto restaurant list for ages, and since it has kept a high ranking year after year I fig…
Inoda Coffee is a slightly upscale kind of cafe. It has branches all over the city, and there’s a queue at every one of them. This time I went to the one on the first floor of the Daimaru department stor…
Finding a good place to eat in Arashiyama isn’t easy, and plenty of them don’t take reservations, so after some agonising I settled on a soba restaurant. The walk there It’s Arashiyama, but …
I’d heard the breakfast buffet at Hotel The Celestine Kyoto Gion was excellent, so I booked a table. First, a lap around the room. Looks promising. It opens at 7, but if you turn up right at opening the…
Kumiage yuba sashimi Now that I’m in Kyoto, I have to have a slice of yuba too.. Being able to knock out all of Kyoto’s specialties in one sitting is a real treat for a traveller. Whether it actua…
This place isn’t all that outstanding, and yet I keep coming back. Thinking about why, I suppose it’s because they cook with Kyoto ingredients, and that’s the charm that keeps pulling me in. …
AEON really is the center of local life here. Whenever I go shopping I end up stopping by. Oukichubo — the name means “Wang’s kitchen” — is a Chinese restaurant in the mall’s food court…
There’s some strange building going up right behind Tokyo Tower.. The awkward part is that it’s still under construction so the lights aren’t on yet, but once it’s finished it could ru…
Curry tantanmen at Menya Itadori A really well-made bowl of ramen, as you’d expect. A shame it doesn’t come with a salad, but in Japan you can always grab one at a convenience store for around 100…