Umezono Sanjo Teramachi Store — Restaurant in Kyoto

A cozy dessert shop which conserves a certain Showa period feel to it, where you can get a taste of traditional Japanese desserts. Everything was a bit too sweet for me, but I hear that is the way of Kyoto desserts.

As soon as you're seated, you will be served a nice light tea, so there is no real need to order drinks unless there is something you particularly fancy trying from the menu.

The anmitsu could have included a few more ingredients in my opinion, but the kuramitsu (black sugar syrup) was simply delicious and paired really well with the kanten (agar jelly cubes). As for the Mitarashi dango, I have tried much better ones, the texture of the dango was just not right. The Zenzai (red bean soup with dango) was so sweet, we could not...

If you want a classic Japanese-style dessert experience in Kyoto come here. They are most famous for their mitarshi dango - I highly recommend it. Super chewy with the perfect sweet-savory sauce. It can be very crowded and sometimes there is a bit of a wait. We luckily only had to wait maybe 10 minutes on a Saturday around 4PM. Unfortunately my friend and I sat across 3 high school aged girls who kept talking so loud that we couldnt hear each other speak. It's not a quiet-zen cafe vibe. Their smaller location in Nakagyo -ku was more quiet...

Friendly staffs. Minimum order is 1 per person. My partner and I wanted to share just 1 set menu as we were not that hungry so the staff suggested we order the set as separate items which was fair. We got seated on the 2nd floor which had a view of the shopping arcade. It’s a great place to people watch and enjoy some matcha desserts. They rotate their seasonal items so unfortunately even though we wanted an icy dessert that we saw posted during summer, it was not available in fall...