Service: Smiling and attentive
Equipment & Facilities: Old but very clean overall. Excellent gender-separated washroom
Prices: Reasonable
Strong points: Kyoto-style izakaya cuisine. Okamura Honke Brewery sake! English menus.

Yuki Gion does not advertise much but it is always crowded even on weekdays as it is an old-style izakaya where the atmosphere is really informal and where customers sit elbow to elbow enjoying some very reasonable cuisine and fine sake!
Japanese tourists, foreign tourists and locals mix in at ease and the staff is simply easy-going but very attentive at the same time.

The restaurant is actually the property of Okamura Honke Brewery in neighboring Shiga Prefecture!

The whole range of their sake is available from 90% to 40% millage!

One of the sake we had, with rice milled down to 60%!

A nama genshu, it was served to you directly the Japanese izakaya traditonal way, that is very generously!

Everything is prepared in front of you!
Note that the top chef (there are at least four of hem!) is the only one wearing a neck tie and also the only in charge of the raw fish!

As this is typically slow food style, you have plenty of time to enjoy the sight of chefs at work!

We started with sashimi moriawase/raw seafood assortment!

Urchin, tuna, salmon, black seabream!

More of the same as we were two of us!

Tomorokoshi kakiage/Japanese-style corn fritters!

Local vegetable salad!

Kyoto City specialty: Hamo/conger eel pike tempura!

Grilled nodokuro/a variety of rosy seabass!

Sake white lees pickles vegetables!

To finish, mentaiko gohan/steamed rice with spicy cod roe for the Dragon!

And grilled salmon chazuke for me!

A discovery!

YUKI GION, Izakaya Restaurant

605-0078, Kyoto City, Higashiyama Ku, Gion Tomi-naga Cho, 111-1
Tel.: 075-525-2666
Opening hours: 17:00~23:00 (weekdays), !7:00~24:00 (Saturdays and days before National Holidays)
Closed on Sunday and National Holidays
Credit cards OK

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