Sendai Gyutan Fukusuke — Restaurant in Kyoto

Eating beef tongue might sound weird at first. However, after trying them once, I fell in love. This restaurant is located inside the AEON Mall Kyoto, which is conveniently located in front of the Kyoto train station! The place was pretty clean and cozy. Customer service was also great here!

Food:

No. 14 (Thick sliced salt-grilled beef tongue) (10/10): This was my favorite dish of the day. If beef tongue aren't properly cooked, they might be really hard to chew. However, that weren't case with this one! The meat was tender and mildly chewy. The seasoning on this dish was just right. I enjoyed every single bite. Totally recommended!

No.15 (Grilled Beef Skirt Steak) (10/10): This dish was also delicious! They were really juicy and seasoned well! It was so good, I could probably eat 2 plates of these amazing steak!

No.16 (Mini Beef Tongue Stew) (8.5/10): This dish was definitely tasty as well! The only reason why it wasn't a 10 for me is because I thought the seasoning wasn't salty enough. Nevertheless, my girlfriend loved it more than I did!

Overall, I would definitely recommend this restaurant to anyone that loves beef!

Tips: This restaurant doesn't have it's own bathroom. Nevertheless, finding one from this restaurant is...

7/15 with four hours down to go before my first lecture in kyoto, i figured i should eat something relatively filling in case dinner would not be enough to satiate me. i usually don’t yearn for beef tongue at all because its chewiness is not the most enjoyable in my opinion, but i saw some tenderloin offered on the menu as a set. my order came out piping hot, cubes of steak sizzling on top of a mountain of veggies, with beef tongue soup and pickled radish on the side. gohan too of course! the bites of the tenderloin were magically flavorful, the black pepper punching me in the nostrils and throat. the real unexpected star of the show was the beef tongue soup; the fleeting pieces of beef tongue tasted like oxtail found in vietnamese pho and practically melted away into nothingness. the broth was clean and left a refreshing taste into my mouth to finish the rest of my steak. it was a fulfilling meal indeed, and i was proud of the fact that i made the right...

If you imagine Sendai's beef tongue, you may be disappointed...

There are only a few restaurants in Kyoto that serve Sendai-style beef tongue, but I have to say that I was disappointed. There was no mugimeshi (barley rice) or tail soup... (sweet potato rice was available as a separate option). The beef tongue was overcooked and hard, probably because it was too thin. In the Kanto region, there is a chain restaurant called Negishi, but not in the Kansai region, and I wondered if the quality was like this.

The food didn't look good, so I didn't take...