Kyoto Food, Cafes and Bars
Kyoto Food, Cafes and Bars
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Food we had from our 2020 and 2023 trips and some places we wanted to try but didn’t get the chance. There’s so much to eat and try in Kyoto!
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Nishiki Market
There is so much to eat here! We couldn’t eat everything but below are the places that we tried and loved. You also can’t go wrong with any of the seafood stalls.
Okakidokoro Terakoyahonpo Nishikiichiba Sohonten
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Yakimochi rice cracker.
Recommendation: Mayo, daikon, yuzu topping
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Konna Monja
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A personal favourite!
Recommendations: soy milk doughnut, soy milk croquette, soy milk ice cream
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肉のひろ重 錦市場本店
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Beef offal don
Each person must order a dish or drink. It’s good if you don’t mind offal, but we wished it was a little bit more saltier!
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Torisei
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Chicken! We kept walking past, taunted by the giant chicken thigh roll. We finally gave in and so glad we tried it!
Recommendation: chicken thigh roll
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Miki Keiran Nishiki Market
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Dashi tamagoyaki is more savoury compared to the standard tamagoyaki. I highly enjoyed this!
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Kiyamachi-dori, pontocho area
Street runs along a canal, and is right next to nishiki markets. Full of nightlife with lots of restaurants and bars to enjoy! If the weather is nice, I recommend sitting along Kamo river after dinner.
Izakaya Kokoro
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Had a great time here and want to go again. We actually could not read the menu at all but the staff were friendly :) Google translate helped a little bit.
Menu changes but we had: lemon sour, high ball, shirako, oysters, pork offal and young chicken thigh(slightly grilled on the outside but raw)
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京の焼肉処 弘 四条木屋町店
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Staff were sooooo nice here!
We got the daily special meat, tongue and offal plates. Later found out that one of the staff’s favourite is beef with negi sauce.
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Hakata-Nagahama-Ramen Miyoshi
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This ramen was amazing when we first visited kyoto in 2020. Perfect when the weather is cold. Haven’t had a chance to try it again though
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Chao Chao Sanjo Kiyamachi
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Kichi Kichi Omurice
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Make sure you book a month in advance. I heard there’s also a chance you can walk in.
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Yanagi Koji TAKA
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Sanneizaka and nineizaka (near kiyomizu-dera)
Lots to enjoy here, just walking through the streets is nice :)
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Kirakuan Okamoto Sanneizaka
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Starbucks Coffee - Kyoto Ninenzaka Yasaka Chaya
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Tatami Starbucks in a traditional Japanese building. I don’t like Starbucks but still find this really cool!
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Itoken x Sou・Sou
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Coffee, Matcha, Cafes
Kurasu Kyoto Stand
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My favourite coffee place in Kyoto
Recommendation: Batch, any hand drip, matcha latte espresso
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Cafe Bibliotic Hello!
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Bars
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Stand bar Shomin
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Fushimi Sake Village
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Others
Kyosaimi Nomura
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Kyoto specialty - obanzai
Highly recommended as you can try different things in one sitting! Good value and delicious.
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Men-ya Takakura Nijo
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Kyoto Ramen Koji
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Ramen street on the 10 floor of the kyoto station building. We had ramen from Matsutani which is a kyoto based ramen brand. This ramen has thin noodles in a thick pork and soy broth with a strong taste and chunks of pork fat floating in it. Delicious and comforting :)
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Fushimi
There’s also heaps of food stalls around fushimi inari to enjoy. We had a meat rice ball at the market near fushimi inari :)
Vermillion - cafe.
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Need coffee after hiking fushimi inari? This is the spot! Very nice natural outdoor seating. I like black coffee so I recommend the hand drip.
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Inari Saryo
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Kaka Itouken Fushimi Inari Branch
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This was cute AND delicious. I think it changes through the seasons, the one I had had strawberry, yuzu jelly and red bean pan
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Arashiyama
I don’t quite remember which restaurant we went to, but definitely reccemend the yuba and tofu here
Uji
I decided to include Uji as we only tried one place and couldn’t try the others because we went to ham on the first ahah
Nakamura Tokichi Main Branch
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Traditional matcha restaurant, visit early as there is a long wait time. There’s a ticketing system which you can scan the QR code to your phone to monitor the queue time, so you could walk around Uji while waiting.
English instruction and information is mostly available.
Reccomendation: green tea soba set (hot or cold), parfait, usucha, matcha jelly
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Masuda Chaho
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