Mendokoro Kobayashi — Local services in Kyoto

I went in with little expectation and fell in love with the cold duck soba - the noodles were firm and broth so tasty. No more ramen for me while I'm in Japan, this place has converted me to soba. This restaurant is really underrated and so far beats all the 4-4.5 stars soba restaurants I have been to in search of cold soba. Perhaps it's rating is dragged down by its rice dishes - my husband had the chicken and egg rice dish which sadly wasn't anywhere as good. Stick with the soba, solid option. Soba soba soba - you get...

I have vegetarian diet. Not good menu for vegetarians. Options were small bowl of tofu for 700 yen or tempura for 1100 yen. Ordered vegetable tempura thinking it would be enough food and received 5 pieces of small vegetables for 1100 yen. Worse deal of my life and never left a review until this one. Such a disappointment waitresses couldn’t even recognize...

I took the donburi Rice Bowl and it was just maybe 2 eggs a Little Bit of fatty Beef and massive amounts of Rice, it was basically just Rice and I paid 1300Yen for this. Also I chewed on eggs Shells once a while. If you want something like this go to Matsuya and eat there for 500yen, it’s ACTUALLY better. I live here, so let me assure you that it’s a...