Vegan
Japanese
Beer/Wine
Kyoto branch of a Tokyo-based vegan izakaya (Japanese pub or bar) tucked away in a side street. Menu consists of vegan fried chicken, gyozas, cold dishes like potato salad, rice and mapo tofu. Serves alcohol and some vegan beers. Open Mon-Sun 4:00pm-10:00pm. Hours are subject to holidays - check socials.
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3 Reviews
First Review by LorraineCrowley
barbora_tau
Points +71
Newly opened and very tasty - Edit
Newly opened full vegan spot! Ordering is done through QR code on the table and it is in English. The restaurant has about five tables and it was almost full when we arrived for dinner. The food was very tasty (fried no-chicken, gyoza, rice) but there was nothing on the table (no napkins/bell to call staff/extra utensils). We went in expecting the izakaya experience of sitting next to the bar or kitchen but the seating area is behind a glass wall with a door which also means the staff are not in the room with you most of the time. However, after working out some quirks, we believe this will become a great little spot. We enjoyed the food and would visit again.
Read morePros: No language barrier, Tasty food, Quick service
Cons: Newly opened with some quirks, Bar and staff not in the room with you
Guest
Brochstein
Points +220
First Review, good food! Go visit! - Edit
This restaurant was so new when I visited that it had not yet been listed on Google maps. I gave the address here to a taxi driver and he dropped me off at the door. There were two tables seated when I arrived and both left shortly after. For a good bit of time I was the only patron there.
Read moreThere are no paper menus, ordering is done on your phone scanning a QR code. Several dishes were sold out, and there was plenty left for me to eat.
I settled on 5 dishes: Spicy Sichuan Chicken, Menma (bamboo), Fried Maitake Mushrooms, Steamed Shumai, and Chinese Cold Tofu.
The Menma and Tofu came out first. The bamboo was tender and tasty except for a small corner that was a little tough. The tofu was a large portion sitting in some excellent sauce topped with spicy pickled veggies. The Maitake Mushrooms were crispy, hot, and not greasy. The steamed Shumai was basically a hearty dumpling with dipping sauce, and the Spicy Sichuan Chicken consisted of lightly fried crispy crusted balls with a Sichuan sauce drizzled over them.
Everything was very good, nothing was OMG amazing. I went in without a huge appetite and ate all five dishes myself. Had there been a few more vegetable dishes that weren't fried, I probably would have stayed and ordered more. As it was, I left still a little hungry.
As a cautionary note: during the time I was in the dining room alone, one of the two service people I saw started rearranging some glass bottles in a cabinet or a refrigerator. He did this so loudly that I got up from my meal peered through the window into the next room to see if something had gone badly wrong. He looked up at me and continued clattering about for a while. The other server presented with a mildly uncomfortable aggressive affect. Nothing would wrong, per se but worth mentioning. I suspect this service was part of the growing pains of a week old restaurant that's probably not doing as much business as it had hoped.
I would return, but probably not until I've tried more of Kyoto's other vegan restaurants. It's good with the potential to be great.
Pros: The food was tasty!, Quiet ambiance., New restaurant, open about a week
Cons: Service was odd , Still working out the kinks, Not on Google maps yet.
Guest
LorraineCrowley
Points +323
Fun and tasty - Edit
Loved the vegan fried chicken and the steamed shumia followed by the gyoza. Everything really tasted good so did the drinks, black cat beer, alcohol free beer and hot sake. O yes. Staff are attentive and fun and the setting is quirky. A lovely place to come into from the cold.
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