Muragon — Restaurant in Kyoto

Disclaimer: not everything we ate is pictured here.

We had the following:

Chicken thighs with plum vinegar - The thighs were SUCCULENT and well grilled. The plum flavour, however, could not really be tasted.

Omakase yakitori - We were served chicken heart, gizzards, liver, thigh and cartilage with something else. It was grilled to the extent that one could enjoy the firm but not stiff texture of the different types of chicken parts. I also liked that the chef included a good variety of chicken parts. Personally, I enjoy liver, gizzards and heart.

Grilled vegetables of the day - It had the taste of the yakitori meat oil. Excellent. Texture was perfectly executed too.

Highballs (Jim Bean and KOZU) - No complaints. Great stuff, good ratio.

Overall, we had a great experience at this izekaya tucked in a quiet neighbourhood. I recommend a visit here. The chef was also a pretty cool guy. He had a signed baseball card on the wall, along with many different currencies from international visitors of this izekaya. Check him out in Instagram...

Chicken! They specialize in anything and everything chicken - which is a great thing. You can go anywhere from grilled to fried to sashimi with chicken but they also offer a good selection of other varietals in appetizers.

Simply based on my upbringing I couldn’t go all the way and stuck with the cooked stuff, but it was a pleasure watching the owner (and chef) prepare everything with care and attention! Had a nice variety across the menu items and really everything was excellent - the thighs were great but my favorite was the plum pickled jellyfish, which I haven’t had this way yet.

Excellent sake selection as well, really good recommendations by the owner - albeit there was some miscommunication as I asked the waitress to stay around 1000Y and it turned out closer to 1.5-2Y for each.

Lots of love gone into the preparation - if you are looking for traditional izakaya style away from the seas, this...

I was in Kyoto area to visit my girlfriend and as we went through the streets, we were hungry, so we just gave that restaurant a try.

The owner was more than passionate, kind and funny. We felt welcomed at his cozy tiny restaurant/bar.

I ordered fried chicken for us, wich was very tasty, made by own recipes for sure!

We tried afterwards a traditional dish called (Oden). We weren’t dissatisfied, it was more than great to my surprise and came with a side of Japanese mustard.

The atmosphere gave me just chills in a good way.

I just think it’s worth to head by and have a drink or a warm dish to calm down from the shopping...