Hakko Shokudo Kamoshika — Restaurant in Kyoto

A place where we nourished our human self, but more importantly our microbial self!

Delicious, grounding and nourishing food rooted in the fermentation tradition of japan. The miso soup is the best we have tasted, in Kyoto style, flavorful, rich and sweet. The set meal felt clear and complete. Later we bumped into the owner, Megumi upstairs, who shared that serving the best miso soup they could make was her most important principle in starting the restaurant.

Upstairs, we were lucky to be greeted by the amazing owners, who not only shared passionately about the products they made and sourced from, but who also selflessly pointed us in the direction of workshops, classes, places to visit etc if we wished to take our fermentation discovery journey further and deeper.

All the best wishes and hope to...

Perspective of a foreigner living in Japan. I visited around 2pm on a weekday. There were 5 customers including me. It took a bit long for the food to come out. I am a meat eater and I don't like pickled food that much. I did not do my research and come here to find out that there are only 3-4 choices on the menu. I order the one with 8 selections of fermented food. It was better than I expected but not excellent. Would say Ok. The staff seems a bit confused and inexperienced for some reason although I speak Japanese fluently. This can be a hit or miss so I cannot recommend this place. If you are a tourist and want to try only fermented food maybe this is the good one for you. I just try to avoid the crowd and come here by chance. A...

We stumbled upon this place because we wanted somewhere a bit further away from the touristy crowds. We’re so glad we found this little restaurant! We had the most incredible noodles with an assortment of fermented dishes. The house made soda and ice tea were delicious, and we finished our meal with (what we think was) Amazake ice cream. All in all, it was a great meal with interesting flavours, and warm service. We had no issues ordering in...