Yamazaki Coffee — Restaurant in Kyoto

Here on a Monday morning. Quiet cafe, with a pleasant ambience and spacious dining area. English jazz music can be heard in the background.

I had Japanese-style egg sandwhich and hot mocha - perfect for a small breakfast. The egg sandwhich tastes really delicious! Try it and you'll get what I mean. A small salad bowl is served along with the sandwhich. The salad has this dressing which I think is uniquely Japanese - makes the salad taste great. Wish I could get the recipe for this dressing.

Service staff are friendly. I was attended by someone who seems to be on her first day of the job as she was being oriented around the cafe. But oh my - her service was...

Excellent pancakes with red bean sauce. The lattes are excellent as well. Service is very friendly, though their timing is a little off as the man (owner?) who works the griddle making the pancakes also is the one who makes the coffee.

The atmosphere is like a classic American diner, nice jazz, etc., kind of a Mid-Century Modern vibe.

We ate there in November 24. One thing I recall was when we sat at the larger round table set back against the wall there was a a bit of a drain issue as if maybe a pipe had broken behind a wall or under the floor. Not sure if that was ever addressed or not. Anyway the place is excellent, the guy’s a...

Don’t come here if you have things to do in the morning. We came here on time, we saw the openings hour was starting from 08:30. And at 08:50 it was still not open and there was no billboards telling why it’s a late open.

We then waited around 1 hour for our breakfast. The breakfast itself is OK, but definitely not worthy of the 1 hour waiting time.

Thank god they at least have a decent WiFi so I can do some thing meaningful while wait for...