http://openkyoto.com/kyoto-support/tags/horikawa-doori Sad to say, but this lovely old town requires some support. en-US Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:13:46 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://openkyoto.com/kyoto-support/search.php http://openkyoto.com/kyoto-support/topic/lunch-near-houkyouji-and-nishijin-ori-kaikan#post-193 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:40:44 +0000 peko 193@http://openkyoto.com/kyoto-support/ <p><strong>Dinner at Toriiwaro</strong><br /> I had dinner for the first time at Toriiwaro last night. We had mizu-daki (Kyoto-style chicken nabe). It was very good, but unlike lunch, it was quite expensive. Dinner for two with a few drinks cost 19,000 yen. It was very delicious and the atmosphere was very 'old Kyoto' but cost performance-wise it left a little to be desired, I thought. Thought the price is high-end, the restaurant and private rooms look every bit 110 years old and may appear even a bit shabby to some.</p> <p>If you are not on a tight budget and want to dine at an old Kyoto restaurant that even a lot of Kyoto people don't know about, that has some real quaint atmosphere, Toriiwaro is a good choice. </p> http://openkyoto.com/kyoto-support/topic/lunch-near-houkyouji-and-nishijin-ori-kaikan#post-87 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:32:26 +0000 peko 87@http://openkyoto.com/kyoto-support/ <p>Rina, Thanks to you I discovered a new an excellent shinise in Kyoto for lunch. I visited Toriiwaro yesterday with a friend and really enjoyed it.</p> <p><strong>The Food</strong><br /> The oyako donburi was excellent, I think that it is the only thing that they offer for lunch. I did think that it was a little on the small side, but it is pretty heavy and 'soupy', I felt plenty full afterward. It came with a nice little cup of rich chicken stock. The accompanying takuan tsukemono was very run of the mill. But, for ¥850, I know of no better shinese lunch.</p> <p><strong>The Atmosphere</strong><br /> The atmosphere is really old Kyoto. We had lunch in a large, open room on the second floor overlooking a delightful and quite overgrown garden. This is a beautiful and quant machiya interior. You do have to sit on the floor, at low, tiny tables. After lunch we talked and sipped tea for another hour or so.</p> <p><strong>Where to Eat in Nishijin: Toriiwaro</strong><br /> Nishijin actually does not have many good restaurants, so this is a great place to go if you like chicken. I didn't see the dinner menu, but I understand that it is mizudaki, chicken nabe. I am sure that it is really good. </p> http://openkyoto.com/kyoto-support/topic/lunch-near-houkyouji-and-nishijin-ori-kaikan#post-84 Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:00:06 +0000 miwa 84@http://openkyoto.com/kyoto-support/ <p>Hello and welcome to this forum!</p> <p>There is a nice and traditional shinise chicken restaurant, called Toriiwaro (鳥岩楼), dinner can be expensive, but they serve very nice oyako donburi for 840 yen, it is a bit East, probably less than 10 minutes from Horikawa street. I think 2 hours for the lunch between the 2 places will be more than enough to walk to Toriiwaro and back and have leisurely lunch.</p> <p>Please enjoy!</p> <p>西陣・鳥岩楼 Toriiwarou<br /> <a href="http://www3.ocn.ne.jp/~mao_utty/toriiwa/" rel="nofollow">http://www3.ocn.ne.jp/~mao_utty/toriiwa/</a><br /> <a href="http://maps.google.co.jp/maps?f=q&amp;source=embed&amp;hl=ja&amp;geocode=&amp;q=%E9%B3%A5%E5%B2%A9%E6%A5%BC&amp;sll=36.5626,136.362305&amp;sspn=45.719683,56.425781&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;z=13&amp;iwloc=A&amp;cid=35030871,135746665,6977823613938839834&amp;ll=35.055435,135.754623">View Google Map</a><br /> Kyoto-shi Kamigyo-ku Gotsuji-dori Chiekoin Nishi-iru Minami-gawa<br /> tel 075-441-4004<br /> Closed on Thursdays</p> <p>西陣・鳥岩楼<br /> 京都市上京区五辻通智恵光院西入南側 　<br /> tel（075）441-4004 FAX（075）441-4500 　<br /> 営業時間　昼12時～21時まで 定休日　毎週木曜日 </p> http://openkyoto.com/kyoto-support/topic/lunch-near-houkyouji-and-nishijin-ori-kaikan#post-83 Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:10:53 +0000 Rina 83@http://openkyoto.com/kyoto-support/ <p>I'm looking for an affordable place for lunch near 宝鏡寺 and 西陣織会館. I'll have exactly two hours between going to these two places, so I suppose somewhere relatively simple on Horikawa-doori. Any suggestions would be appreciated, thank you in advance. </p>