Pontakosakura — Local services in Kyoto

Amazing. While we have been not accepted the first day we came in (2 attempts!) and to be honest staff were not very pleasant. We booked the place through our hotel for a further attempt.... and the magic happened. Amazing takoyaki of all styles: truffles,sea urchin,with mixed sea food, duck,plum... etc exceptional beef noodle, over the top okonomiyaki. Staff was extremely pleasant. Very romantic and exclusive atmosphere despite affordable prices. wine selection is not great. A casillero do diablo fro 3.8k yen. We got a japanese white wine for 4.8k my wife did not like it so much,I thought it was ok but for 4.8k we could have had 10 glasses of sake. Sake tastes great. Overall one of the best place I have eaten in japan for food (ok we love takoyaki, so we are biased) and atmosphere. Book...

Very rude staff, unfriendly toward non-Japanese people. First, they show a piece of paper saying that they charge 600 yen per person to eat there (pretty sure they only charge foreigners) and they only accept cash. We didn't have enough money, so we went to an atm and returned a few minutes later. There were two men cooking the takoyakis and seating the people. The first man who saw us said to the other that there were 2 people to enter and when the second one saw us, he said full house. The other seemed taken aback. We could see that there were free seats available, so I couldn't help but to feel unwelcome. Such a shame, because we were very well treated along...

What an amazing one-man show this restaurant is! The propietar runs a takoyaki take-out window in the front while also running a small, elegant dine-in restaurant in the back. He runs both front of house and back of house, all with a smile on his face. The sake was excellent and the takoyaki were incredibly delicious! More expensive than other takoyaki, but only because he puts special sauces and ingredients in them. The Japanese mustard and the Andean red salt takoyaki were the tastiest I had in...