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• Very tasty food

After our experience in the Cafe Matsounoko, we tried to find the restaurant Hale the next day Location: Importing the location from the website into Google Maps on my Smartphone did not work. So I searched for "Hale Restaurant Kyoto". We then landed at a completely wrong restaurant. There seems to another Hale-Restaurant serving almost only meat, so beware! Per accident we found it. When you are on the Shijo Dori road, there is a small side road going in between "United Colors of Benetton" and a bookstore. After about 80m there is another even smaller side road (looking like a small market road) on the right side. Enter that small market-road and you will find Hale after 50m on the left side. Staff: We met a little bit of a grumpy middle-aged lady with very basic English skills and a friendly young man (her son?) with decent English skills. Menu: Broad selection of vegan menues. There is one menu based on fish soup which is clearly indicated. There is only one menu-card in English (hand-written), so if there are more foreign customers, you have to wait until you get your menu-card to even start looking for what you want to order. The food itself is absolutely delicious and if you take the menu you will probably don't have any space for desert. We went for the menu and were not disappointed. The downside was the mandatory drink you had to order beside the water you get and there was also a 250 Yen per person charge for service (already stated in some comments here, so we were prepared). Payment: You are not able to pay with credit cards, only cash. We saw some customers leave and come again with cash :-) Price: We paid about 2'400 Yen per menu including the mandatory drink