Kyoto, Japan｜Oryori Menami

Great little restaurant with authentic Kyoto dishes. This place is NOT easy to find from the street if you're a tourist, with no English signs, you have to walk into a doorway, past an elevator, and open a sliding door. Check my picture for clarification. Don't be discouraged if the place looks full, they have an upstairs as well. When we arrived it was all locals, the staff didn't speak great English, but there is an English meny available, check my picture. We spent 8,500 yen, including two drinks. The chicken and the spring rolls were great, but some of the other dishes (particularly appetizers) were a bit bland, hence removing 1 star on the food.

I stopped by this restaurant as my Kyoto expert friend recommended. Obanzai is basically a Kyoto style tapas restaurant and this is it. They got wide variety of different dishes and each of them were very good. Especially the beef tail stew was something I would order twice. Perfect place for dinner with great Sake.

Great place to try local dishes from Kyoto, tapas style. Some of our favourites were the lotus root dumpling in a thick soup, yuba spring rolls, grilled lamb in Japanese pepper, dobin-mushi. They have an English menu which was really helpful. We walked in early around 5pm so we got a table. It gets pretty booked post 6pm so getting a table might get difficult.