Slow Food and Wine KiboKo

After seeing this place pop up on our Happy Cow app, we decided to try it while visiting Shinjuku.
The cafe is up a few flights of stairs but is well worth the hike. We arrived early for dinner (515pm) so we had the cafe almost to our own. We ordered coffees and for meals we had gyoza and a pumpkin frittata, everything was well priced and a good size. The food was very flavoursome!
We purchased a take away vegan muffin on our way out also.
The owner is very lovely but does not speak much English although it's nice not to have to ask if something is vegan since the cafe is 100% vegan (Happy face!) Overall an excellent experience and recommend it highly!

Slow Food Cafe hippopotamus is closed on March 27, 2016, we have moved to a new good location of the view to expand the scale. Of new shop name is Slow Food and Wine KiboKo. The owner does not change, we are further grade up taste.
New store address is Tokyo, Shinjuku-ku, Shinjuku 2-5-8 Shimura building 4F.

This was a small and cozy restaurant where you sit and watch the owner cook in front of you. It feels like being in someone's home, a very nice feeling. The food was delicious, especially the coriander dumplings! I higly recommend this restaurant!
Updated from previous review on Thursday March 31, 2016

The place it's pretty tiny and has only a bar for sitting, but feels cozy and it's nicely decorated. It's in the 3rd floor (take the elevator). The food was delicious and had a wide variety of veggies in it, all of them perfectly cooked. the thing is the portions were to small and I ended up having to buy something else in my way home at the conbini because I was still hungry. The prices, which at first seem to be quite fair, end up being a bit too much for what you get. The lady seemed very nice, but in our case the food took a very long time to arrive, even though we were only 7-8 people in there. She did apologize for it and maybe it was a one time thing. We went for dinner and I saw they had a menu for morning-lunch time, which looked nice. It's also a wine bar so probably a lot of people go there to enjoy that with a bit of food. Plus they had a wide range of coffee and tea.
I only recommend it if you're around east Shinjuku and don't want to go to Ain:soph Journey (which is more on the pricey side, but it's a better experience overall), or if you're just looking for a place to have a coffee/tea/wine along with some light meal.

3,5/5