Perfect for a Chic cafés, bakeries and confectioners short break! Muko is home to chic cafés, delicious bakeries, and confectioners selling famous local flavor. From much-loved local institutions to trendy new cafés, this section will introduce a wide range of places for you to enjoy!

Desserts Café Desserts Café Cheese and Piping hot fried sausage packed Pâtisserie Lait Lait Lait CATERING & CAFE CANVAS An atmosphere in which wonderful bread, prepared into a delicious 075-777-3695 P12D3 Tea Tiramisu Crêpe 075-931-7731 P12A2 coffee meets Japanese sensibilities cheese fried (¥680) and Crêpe A much-loved local western-style confectioner with In addition to catering service for parties, this is also with tender bread bun, for Sucrée (¥480). The more than 10 years of history. Here you will fi nd an a café on-and-off. For lunch you can enjoy a buffet loving care just ¥151! Lunch Plate is ¥880. For ¥700 you can get array of delicious pastries bursting with originality, with a selection of three different pastas as well as the voluminous Egg including the Box Series that features sponge hors d’oeuvres and deli, with fresh-baked bread, all for Toasted Sandwich, cakes to be dipped in whipped cream, the Pecha ¥1,382+. The buffet menu, featuring salad made with Croi-Cream—croissants baked in a waffl e maker packed with delicious We’ve got everything At all three of Lait Lait Lait’s locations, the Kyoto-grown white and paella, is a real treat. -fl avor thick from bread buns to and sandwiching thick custard cream—and more! Croissant Rusk (¥756) is especially popular. 5-3 Nagano, Mozumecho, Muko omelet. If you order baked desserts, all at an 7-1 Gomyorin, Kamiuenocho, Muko The roll has 15 min. on foot from Hankyu Rakusaiguchi Sta. the Lunch Set, you affordable price! 12 min. on foot from Hankyu Nishi-muko Sta. Have a healthy lunch in a plenty of cabbage! It 11:30 am – 3:00 pm Irregular 4 spaces 10:00 am – 8:00 pm Open every day can get a drink for an costs just ¥194. Great The Pecha Croi-Cream is pleasant environment Western-style toilets available 4 spaces loaded with butter and tastes additional ¥200 and/or for when you’re feeling simply exquisite, and comes a dessert for ¥500. a little peckish! in at just ¥324. Enjoy it as you walk—it’s the perfect size for a Surrounded by wood and New desserts sightseer on the go! plant life, it Desserts Café has a bright, brimming with natural feel. Ma’s Kitchen originality 075-921-5596 P12B3 You can also get our Hi! I’m the Squid & Lemon lovingly-brewed coffee This cozy bakery is operated entirely by Masako Shibata, from the oven to the counter. The cheese Pollack Roe Cream Pasta! to go: it goes great fried bread buns—an increasingly big seller—are And you can only eat me with various desserts! coated in crushed corn fl akes so the outside is on certain days! crunchy and the inside is soft, melty cheese. You can also enjoy delicious desserts including the fondant au chocolat (¥216). The Box Series comes in any 24-3 Hachinotsubo, Teradocho, Muko of 6 delicious fl avors including Desserts Café The buffet features Desserts Café 7 min. on foot from Hankyu Rakusaiguchi Sta. Chocolate and Kinako, or sweet original deli and 10:00 am – 6:00 pm (Saturday, Sunday: 7:30 am – soybean fl our, each ¥810. The The bakery may be small, but it’s extremely Cheese fl avor includes baked hors d’oeuvres 6:00 pm) Thursday, Friday N/A popular and is never short on business! cheese! made with the Shina Café Chabana Café freshest vegetables. 075-202-2452 P12C3 The elegant layout 075-922-0866 P12C2 This café serves homemade Japanese Desserts Café with the salads cakes as well as a lunchtime menu, both Enjoy homemade We have Japanese-style This is the sister café of Saredo all arranged on of which go great with your coffee! With Café at Shichijo Shinmachi in Takamura An zashiki seating, as well as dazzling glass trays Japanese-style pork rib curry using dashi bread with peace Kyoto City, and celebrated its is a sight to behold. soup stock made from pork, ginger, and 075-934-3637 P12C2 baby chairs, so kids are 2nd anniversary in June 2019. kelp for ¥800, and their delicious-but-light Serving healthy dishes, including a of mind knowing The sister shop of Mukoshi Narumimochi, a beloved also very much welcome! cheesecake garnished with berry Lunch Plate loaded with seasonal Muko institution with a history of more than 50 years. vegetables aplenty. For dessert the sauce for ¥450, Shina Café is noted for it’s additive-free Their specialty are small tasty buns that are handy and crêpes are very popular: made with its many dainty, elegant, Japanese-style Get a delicious make great souvenirs. Putting careful thought into all 100% Hokkaido-grown wheat fl our, dishes very popular with women. cream bread For just ¥313 you can get a baguette their ingredients, they use only the fi nest tanba dainagon their batter is light and fl uffy, and 1-14 Joko, Kaidecho, Muko bun fi lled with with fresh ham and camembert beans and sugar. With many kinds of tastes delicious! 15 min. on foot from Hankyu Nishi- homemade custard cheese—perfect for lunch! Japanese confectioneries, including seasonal ones, it is very popular with local Mukoans. 5-3 Kaedebata, Kaidecho, Muko muko Sta. 11:00 am – 6:30 pm (last cream for just ¥151. order; Friday–Sunday, holidays: 9:30 pm 28-1 Dencho, Teradocho, Muko 8 min. on foot from Hankyu Nishi- muko Sta. 11:00 am – 5:00 pm last order) Irregular N/A 3 min. on foot from Hankyu Higashi-muko Sta. The sofa seating looks like Very popular with women Desserts Café something out of a painting, and without Irregular N/A Western-style Western-style toilets available 9:00 am – 7:00 pm Thursday 2 spaces From the hole-in-the-floor Japanese-style even realizing it you’ll have taken your toilets available Cerfeuil Boulangerie & Pâtisserie camera out to catch a photo. the vegetable-loaded deli of elegance seats, you can gaze out upon the garden. 075-933-6063 P12B3 The This cozy little boulangerie serves between 60 and 70 entryway curtain is iconic. Enjoy a unique flavor combining Desserts Café varieties of hand-baked bread. At any given time you can Pâtisserie Pyramide select any of 5 or 6 kinds of casse-croûte sandwiches, The standard made with naturally leavened baguettes using only those Filled to the French pastry with Japanese ingenuity vanilla fl avor. It 075-925-0609 P12D3 ingredients that are personally approved by the manager. has a soft and brim with good A much-loved local western-style confectioner. From They also have a “Bread of the Day” so you’ll want to come Whether it’s a light snack or spongey texture, cakes to baked goods, this is an iconic dessert shop back tomorrow and the day after! Japanese a meal you’re after, we serve and makes an that couldn’t exist anywhere but Muko. The thick and 8-9 Nishitanakase, Teradocho, Muko up safe, additive-free bread, confectioneries, loved excellent combo puffy texture of the Kaide Rolls resembles that of 3 min. on foot from Hankyu Higashi-muko Sta. cooked fresh every day! by all be they young or with modestly a sponge cake, and into these is added exquisitely 7:00 am – 6:00 pm (Saturday, holidays: 7:00 am – 5:00 pm) fl avored cream. delicious cream to make this pleasurable piece the Sunday, Tuesday N/A old, man or woman most popular of Pâtisserie Pyramide’s products. On Western-style toilets available top of the standard vanilla fl avor, on weekends you The “Takenoko Otokuni Look out for the can also enjoy (powdered ) and iconic red awning, Monaka” for ¥190 has an The “Takenomichi Street Kofun- black tea fl avored versions, as well as limited edition between JR and outer crust shaped to look gaki” consists of a Swiss roll stuffed seasonal varieties. The variants all cost ¥650 apiece. Hankyu stations, like a bamboo shoot, which with strained bean paste, rice fl our The limited edition Kaide facing the Saigoku 9-2 Mondo, Kaidecho, Muko 10 min. on foot Kaido Road. is packed with delicious delight, and bamboo shoot, and Rolls change every month! bean paste and candied costs just ¥170. It also comes in This is the strawberry one. from Hankyu Nishi-muko Sta. 10:00 am – 8:00 pm Monday (Wednesday if holiday) 4 spaces The stylish blue and yellow storefront bamboo shoot. sweet sasa bean paste fl avor. really stands out! 6 Western-style toilets available 7 Prices indicated are generally amended to include the consumption tax as it will be on October 1, 2019, but some prices may differ. It is recommended that you contact each establishment in advance, by telephone or otherwise. All the fi nest Japanese and Our recommended Muko dishes world cuisine! Welcome gourmands, one and all! Muko is home not only to the famous Gekikara super-spicy cuisine, but also elegant Japanese washoku, as well as western- and Chinese-style dishes galore! Experience the fantastic results of Muko’s master chefs at work.

Yakiniku Nakamura The top-ranked Japanese Black Fusen Kazura Enjoy traditional Japanese Kirinen Chinese Restaurant 075-921-6447 P12B2 beef served up to you in a Easy-Going Dining seasonal goodness in a 075-933-1370 P12B3 This popular restaurant serves Japanese Black beef of the 075-934-6630 P12D2 This Chinese restaurant has been well-loved friendly manner—pure happiness modern environment by the local people since its establishment top class. Before your eyes, the 2nd-generation chef will The Japanese/western cuisine at this restaurant is made 50 years ago. Here you can try a wide range of dishes, 1 select and cut off for you the fi nest pieces of meat, and serve with carefully selected ingredients such as pesticide-free from new and original concepts to old classics; the menu it to you in an exquisite state. The great-value set meals The vegetables. The popular lunch deal allows you to select includes such appetizing items as chili sauce with the real include super-fresh wagyu beef offal, but individual menu Nakamura Gensen a main dish and any three sides, as well as a mini-salad, taste of shrimp, made using a Chinese fl avoring called jiuniang, and Chinese Seafood Carpaccio made with fresh items are also available. Set costs ¥7,500, but white rice, and —very fi lling! Enjoy the wide with upper tongue salt, variety of meals from set meals to à la carte, such as Mie seasoned with peanut oil. 19 Donomae, Mozumecho, Muko special roast, upper Mochibuta Pork Cutlets for ¥1180. 5-54 Higashitanakase, Teradocho, Muko 10 min. on foot from Hankyu Rakusaiguchi Sta. rib, and more, itʼs 3 min. on foot by JR Mukomachi Sta. voluminous enough to 1-15 Kamigahara, Kamiuenocho, Muko 5:00–10:00 pm Wednesday (except for holidays) 20 spaces 5 min. on foot from Hankyu Nishi-muko Sta. 11:30 am – 2:00 pm, 4:30–10:30 pm (last order) Western-style toilets available serve 2 or 3 people. Tuesday 3 spaces 1 11:00 am – 2:00 pm (last order), 5:30–10:00 pm (last order) 2 Since its founding in 1971, it has been much loved by the local populace. Western-style toilets available 2 In fall 2017, it was renovated to be even more spacious than before. The 2nd floor also has Japanese horigotatsu (hole-in-the-floor) style seating. Wednesday evening, Sunday N/A Western-style toilets available 1 The 1st-floor rental space has a capacity of 20. Great for welcome Delicious cuisine in a parties, concerts, and all sorts of other Mendokoro Kusunoki Noodles GYAAA Curry Restaurant purposes! pleasant atmosphere, Compare 3 kinds of 2 The regular customers enjoy not (private) P12B3 075-921-0878 P12B3 just the taste but the lively conversation whatever your mood soup, in a clean and 1 with the owner Suguru Shimomura. The here will allow you to enjoy any of These extra-hot curry specialists use a total of 25 distinct three kinds of soup made with a Nagoya Cochin attractive atmosphere spices. The soup stock used as the basis for the curry is chicken and Omi Shamo chicken base, as well carefully selected to suit each different dish. For example, as delicious hand-made shumai. Experience the the “Veggie Broth” is high in nutrients, incorporating a variety Good food for young The Enju Bean Tray is wide variety of dishes, from the fantastically tasty of vegetables. The “That Minamimorimachi Curry...” dish Salt Ramen for ¥750 to the Thick Sesame White includes 7 different spices and its unbearable heat will make 2 and old; with dish after ¥1,760. Using fi ne seasonal Noodles rich in the taste of tahini or the Braised you cry out “Gyaaaaaah!!!” You can choose to enjoy two or ingredients. Pork Belly Takana Noodles with a strong soy even three different types of curry. delicious dish, your sauce aroma (both ¥780). 120 Hachinotsubo, Teradocho, Muko 5 min. on foot 1 Amidst a quiet, traditional Japanese 1 mouth will water! neighborhood hides this modern 2-15 Nishitanakase, Teradocho, Muko from Hankyu Rakusaiguchi Sta. 11:30 am – 2:30 pm (last order), 6:00–8:00 pm (last order; dinner is Monday, Saturday, restaurant! Look out for the weeping Right by Hankyu Higashi-muko Sta. pagoda tree (enju in Japanese). 11:30 am – 2:00 pm, around 6:00–10:00 pm and 2nd and 4th Fridays of the month only) Wednesday, Get the A Lunch for ¥780. You have The Kanitama to try the Spicy Chicken Nanban. 2 A laid-back atmosphere. They are also Wednesday N/A Western-style toilets Thursday 5 spaces Western-style toilets available (crab and egg) dish The homemade tartar sauce is amply stocked with local . available includes bamboo available in limited quantities due shoot and to the incredible demand from 2 mushroom and costs customers who love it. ¥1,050, the Shrimp 1 The stylish storefront is a The Salt Chashu Ramen (¥900) is Chili Sauce comes treat for the female clientele, at ¥1,350, and the who will enjoy a visit whether loaded with rare chashu. For just Chinese Seafood alone or with company. ¥400 you can add four different 1 2 Enju Bar & Restaurant Carpaccio is ¥1,150 2 The 4-seater tables on the shumai dumplings as a side dish 075-921-5273 P12D2 2nd floor allow you to spread 1 The restaurant’s interior has a wide-open, wood-based feel. to your ramen noodles! 2 It’s the kind of place you can feel comfortable to stop by In the “retro” atmosphere of a reupholstered old townhouse, your legs. 1 2 2 types of curry alone or to bring your family. (“Maroyaka Veg-Potage- you can taste delicious creative cuisine. For lunch the “Enju Chicken Curry” and Bean Tray” has a fi ne balance of Japanese and western. Every “That Minamimorimachi Saturday night there is an à la carte obanzai selection, making Curry...”): ¥800 (regular it even easier to come in and enjoy. 1 size). White cheese 1 2 The counter is ideal for one or two people, and for parties 31-2 Nogamiyama, Kamiuenocho, Muko there are also tables available. topping: ¥130. Japanese 1 2 Black Beef Gyu, Gyu ... 3 min. on foot from Hankyu Nishi-muko Sta. 2 The main clientele on weekdays are salarymen, but at the 11:30 am – 4:30 pm (last order; lunch until 2:00), 6:00–9:30 pm weekend folks often stop by with their families. GYAAA! Rice: ¥1080. 1 The 1st floor has both tables (pictured) and a counter. The perfect combo! (last order; dinner is reservation-only Monday–Friday) 2 The 2nd floor has seating for around 70 people, in a hole-in-the- Sunday, Monday, holidays 3 spaces floor round table style. Western-style toilets available Torisei Mukomachi

Delicious Buffalo Wings 075-931-5544 P12C3 Kyuzo Teppanyaki & Bar The special steak, cooked up for you on a (4) for ¥528. One This restaurant is located right near Hankyu Higashi-muko 075-935-3939 P12B3 skewer is ¥137+ Station. Delicious wings of Tamba Ajiwai Chicken, Kyo Drawn in by the spice; special thick teppan, is reasonably priced (you need to order at Aka Chicken yakitori garnished elegantly with a secret The batter, made with homemade tenkasu (crunchy bits of deep fried fl our- least two). Oyadoriyaki: sauce passed down among the chefs of Torisei, and more! suddenly without warning, batter) and sujikon (stew cow line meat and konnyaku), is thick and fl uffy! ¥660. You can really and has become extremely popular of late Once you’ve enjoyed a refreshing alcoholic beverage such The Special Kyuzo-yaki and other dishes that you eat with smell the garlic! as beer or Japanese sake from Fushimi, round out your you want to cry out! 1 sweet sauce are super-popular. Ordering a delicious steak, you can choose dinner with a delicious chicken-and-egg rice bowl. the part of the cow you want your steak cut from: rib roast, skirt steak... The Rib Roast Steak has a rich thickness 11-55 Shibukawa, Teradocho, Muko 3 min. on foot 6-3 Nishitanakase, Teradocho, Muko and delicious from Hankyu Higashi-muko Sta. 5:00–10:30 pm (last 3 min. on foot from Hankyu Higashi-muko Sta. fl avor, and is a steal order); (last order 11:00 pm on Friday, Saturday, and days 5:00–11:30 pm (last order) Monday (following day if holiday) at just ¥1,078. The before holidays) Irregular 2 spaces Nearby contracted parking lot available Special Kyuzo- yaki (¥858) and the Western-style toilets available Western-style toilets available Tonpei-yaki (¥748) 1 The storefront is laid-back and chic. This is the storefront, with its iconic banner. are also highly 2 The casual layout of the restaurant makes it comfortable for everyone to enjoy. You’ll find yourself repeatedly going back 2 recommended! 8 for more of the delicious buffalo wings! Prices indicated are generally amended to include the consumption tax as it will be on October 1, 2019, but some 9 prices may differ. It is recommended that you contact each establishment in advance, by telephone or otherwise.