Kyoto Restaurant

Address:
315 Congress
Austin, TX
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Part of Town: Downtown
Phone: 482-9010
Cost:
Type of Food: Japanese

Recommended Items: Salmon and Tuna Sushi (The fish is on top of the rice) and Veggie Rolls (be careful to make sure there is no tempura in your veggie roll) Steamed soybeans.

Sashimi is just plain fish and also a good option,

Comments: For the first time, I had some trouble brining my own soy sauce somewhere. =(

The Japanese woman who I believe runs/owns the restaurant was nervous about me bringing my soy sauce. She said that sometimes people will call and threaten lawsuits over "bad fish" even when the whole restaurant ate the same thing and only one person got sick.

(Remember, this is always a risk with raw fish, and I do not believe Kyoto is in any way a restaurant that can't be trusted to be clean, etc. It is a good restaurant. )

I explained my situation, and she came around and was very gracious. Again, big tip, because I had to be real clear about cleaning the knife so that for example, a knife used to cut a roll with tempura was not used to cut my sushi rolls.

The soybeans were only prepared with salt (watch out: some restaurants marinate their soybeans in soy sauce) so that was good as well. overall, a good experience.

Other locations:there is a location out north, but I would not feel comfortable commentiing - even with the same ownership, managers and waiters are so different at each location that I would not want to say =)

This recommendation thanks to anonymous