Blue Bottle Coffee - Kyoto Rokkaku Cafe — Restaurant in Kyoto

If you're a fan of Blue Bottle, you know that you're going to get consistent quality coffee at all their locations, and the Kyoto branch is no exception!

The baristas are efficient, polite, and exceptional at what they do. There is fairly reliable wifi here, which is not common for many of the Blue Bottles I have been to throughout the world.

The Kyoto exclusive Matcha Terrine is definitely a wonderful accompaniment for the coffee. The building and interior are beautiful, and my only knock against the atmosphere is not a reflection of the management or baristas, but of the ill mannered international tourists (it seems Blue Bottle is not as popular with the locals) who can be loud, bring outside food in to try to sneak in a...

A little pretentious.

Huge contrast in service levels between staff, was a little difficult to communicate with, considering most patrons was tourist, perhaps my accent?

I understand English is not their primary language, that is perfectly understandable, but that's not the point, it's the attitude.

Lemon Cardamom Cake, please avoid, taste is lacklustre and like the Waffle, very, very dry, but taste for waffle was okay, you might want to skip if you're expecting the usual fluffy waffle with some syrup of sorts, it's not, just some sprinkled sugar with a "healthier" texture.

Coffee was good, nice ambience.

Really sad to say my experience yesterday at Starbucks was better,...

It's hard to find good espresso in Japan but Blue Bottle is one of the chains that has it AND opens early enough for a morning coffee. I arrived at 09:45 on a Saturday and there was a short queue. The server was nice and helpful but oddly told each customer that seats weren't available when in fact there were. Multiple tables had reserved signs on them but eventually staff removed those and made them available to others. I got the latte and was surprised at how big it was. I would've preferred a smaller size. I also purchased a bag of the Giant Steps coffee beans which are delicious. Good...