Oryori Hayashi — Restaurant in Kyoto

If you came to Japan to eat (which I'm telling you, trust me, is not a stupid reason to pay for the flight out there) you gotta try and get a reservation here. Tourists beware though, because I was a special case. I speak some Japanese and went with a Japanese friend of mine, who made the reservation and whom actually knew the chef, Hayashi-san. I say that because I asked some questions about the food (because I like to document all the great food I eat in Kyoto) in my broken Japanese and before Hayashi-san realized he knew my friend, he was a bit spikey and grumpy with me because I was asking questions that I sometimes didn't understand the answers to. With the very famous and high class resteraunts like this (and I'm not kidding, this place is the real deal) you might find this kind of disdain from the chefs who seem to find it fashionable to be grumpy nowadays, but I hope you'll still try to go. I do recommend having a native speaker make the reservation and go with you though. Food meant nothing to me before I went to Japan, but after going to places like this, I'm a different person. It...

I was not allowed to take photos there while having my birthday dinner with my husband this summer but recently I found that others shared their cuisine pictures on the Instagram and what they had was exactly what we had at the restaurant. It disappointed me very deeply. Either Japanese or Chinese posted pics to share their happiness during dinner here but I did not have the right to do so. Is this a...

2週間前に日曜ランチの予約　1人 予約時にコースを案内され、カウンターにて席取るねと言われる。

その日は近くで有名の大福を予約しそびれて、 １時間以上並んできたよ〜

ランチコース3つあり、6,000円、8,000円、10,000円+消費税とのことで、今回は真ん中のコースにしてみた〜コースは全部で2時間半ほど、コースの始まりに伝え、2時間ででれるように調整してくれてくれた。

当日カウンターは他のお客さんがいない場合は写真撮影オッケー！まぁ、聞かなければ、言われないかもしれない。 一応カウンターは埋まったけど、常連さんぽい方がお弁当？定食的にを食べて、ビール一杯ひかけて帰った

御料理はめっちゃてしおをかけた感が伝わってくるし、古き師匠と弟子さんの上下関係がしっかり見れるのがカウンターの醍醐味だね。お説教も普通に始まっちゃうから、食の厳しい一面をしっかりみしせていたはだいた(笑) 御料理の説明は一切なく、質問しても聞き取れないから、和食の知識つけてから行くべし！ たまに食べ方や和食の正しい有り方をお客さんまでに授業してくるよ（笑）

和食の奥深さ、丁寧さ、繊細さを再度感じる時間だった。

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