Tagoto - Kyoto Porta — Restaurant in Kyoto

Located inside the restaurant complex under the bus rotary to the north of Kyoto station, this is not a serious soba place at all. I think it replaced another establishment that folded during the pandemic, because the layout is a bit strange for a soba place. The deep fried tofu sheets were OK, but the soba, oh boy. The dipping soy sauce is store bought, the wasabi is from a tube (meaning it's actually horse radish colored green), the soba noodle is mostly wheat flour and flavorless. The mostly young staff (part timers perhaps) are just chatting and giggling, even outside the kitchen. To top it all off, I found hair in the soba. Just, don't come here, there are definitely better places...

Just needed something vegan and something stat after arriving from Tokyo and most restaurants were closed. Found this place had a vegetarian menu being mostly vegan options. Food was quick. It was tasty. It was maybe inexpensive? I don't honestly know and didn't really care. I ordered soba salad, tempura, and French fries. I was thinking about ordered the tofu skin sashimi or wheat gluten sashimi but there was shredded tofu and cubed wheat gluten in my soba dish so I got to try...

This restaurant gets very busy come dinner time, but the turn around is relatively fast. While you are waiting, you will be given a menu to look at - there is are English menus available, but the restaurant has its most popular dishes in plastic replica form at the front, so another method is to just take a picture of what you'd like to eat and then show the wait staff.

While the food is not particularly outstanding, nevertheless, the food is good and the...