All the nearby restaurants were fully booked on our first night in Kyoto, so we decided to explore the neighborhood and check out every single restaurant we came across. After asking for available seats at five different places, we finally found one.
It wasn’t a fine dining restaurant—I believe the place was run by just 2–3 people: one person at the front doing all the grilling and barbecuing, and another acting as a waitress.
They had an English menu, but the translation was poor, which initially misled us into thinking the food would be below average. However, to our surprise, every dish tasted excellent—better than 98% of Japanese restaurants in Manhattan. The food was so delicious that we completely forgot to take photos of every dish!
by Visible_Syllabub_300
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Looks good! What was the name of the restaurant?
Yakitori! That’s really delicious, my favourite remains negima! It was often my lunch when I was in Japan.
Regarding Japanese cuisine outside of Japan, it’s often not as good in my experience. I know one good ramenya in The Netherlands and for sushi I need to go to Germany (even though there are 25 sushi places in my city).