CoCo Ichibanya Nakagyo-ku Kawaramachi Sanjo — Restaurant in Kyoto

If you’re ever in Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto, near Kawaramachi Station or Nishiki Market, you have to try Coco Ichibanya there. I’ve had Coco in many cities, but this branch honestly gave one of the best service experiences I’ve ever had—anywhere.

First of all, the staff and the manager were incredible. One of our curry dishes had special requests—separate curry sauce, add-on scrambled eggs, different rice portions—and they double checked everything multiple times, with full patience and a smile. Even the manager came over personally to confirm.

Then something unexpected happened: my child accidentally broke a plate right as our food arrived, and the broken pieces landed in two of our dishes. We planned to re-order and pay, but they insisted on replacing everything for free. Even the manager said, “It’s on us,” and one of the female staff members came to check on my child to make sure he was okay. We were blown away.

Food-wise, it’s Coco standard—delicious as always: • Pork Cutlet Curry (Lv. 4): 9.5/10 • Hamburger Curry: 9/10 • Fish Curry: 9/10 • Scrambled Egg: 9/10 • Plus free-flow mineral water!

Overall: Staff 10/10 Place...

As first time visitors to Japan, 1 of us being a vegetarian, we were looking for somewhere to eat and CoCo popped up, and we are so happy it did!!

This place was fantastic for service and food options for meat eaters and vegetarians!

They have multiple vegetarian options aswell as being able to then customise your dish further with additional items, change the curry sauce from pork to vegetable, add cheese or more veg, spice level from standard to 15 and even the size of the rice portion from 300g to 1000g!

My partner had a vegetable curry with half cheese and I had a pork cutlet curry with spinach and half cheese.

We ordered a side naan aswell to soak up that delicious sauce at the end and we will 100% be back here!

どうもありがとうございます

Update- returned for a second time, just as beautiful, and we found a cheese naan!...

Would recommend this to anyone. Great food, friendly staff, reasonable prices. What more could you ask for? Most importantly for visitors and tourists looking to get a meal in Kyoto with authentic tastes. I find some restaurants are a little cocky and egotistical. Around Kyoto, restaurants are not very welcoming to non-locals. Not sure why and dont care about their past experiences - treat a new customer line a new customer, but just not a good attitude. We spent nearly an hour walking in and out for about 5 restaurants before being told sorry - not free, no seats, not tonight, reserved and other shitty excuses etc. despite looking fairly empty. So this place is a gem in the midst of this, good food, great service and...