Ganko Kyoto Sanjo Honten

At the Kyoto train station, there are many good restaurants, but we decided to try this one. The set-​up is very Japanese and offer a variety of Japanese foods, but we wanted to try their specialty, which is sushi.
First up, we had simmered vegetables and steamed tofu with soy sauce — a good appetizer to warm up our stomachs. Then we had the soy-​sauce fried chicken, very tender and not oily. We tried an assortment of sushi from the raw ones to the cooked. The sashimi were really fresh and the wasabi complements everything. It was really good!

Ganko Sanjo Honten experts delivers on the unauthentic Japanese culinary experience. With a broad range of choices between mediocre and overpriced sushi, forgettable Shabu-​Shabu, and western food, they provide all and deliver on none. To the credit of the restaurant staff, they were all very polite and the service was fantastic.
This establishment appears to be geared entirely towards tourists. You can get a much cheaper and better quality meal elsewhere. While the variety of the menu is appealing, it is in this their fatal flaw is revealed — Jack of all trades, but master of none.

This is a must to avoid! Basically a tourist trap. I have spent a good deal of time in Japan both on business and on vacation and can’t think of another time when I have been overcharged on one bill for more than one thing. Actually the Japanese are so honest I wonder if this has ever happened before. Amazingly they also cut some of the fish so it was completely inedible!!!
Your time in Japan is too short for this bad, and bizarrely dishonest restaurant. don’t bother!

This place is hard to miss on the large street. It’s got a big window with lots of fake food displays that’ll so anyone looking for a place to eat. Inside is also rather large so you shouldn’t have trouble getting a table, though we did have to wait a bit.
Once seated, they give you a plethora of a menus that’s stored inside the table (there is a drawer).
The service staff in nice, they only come big you once you ring the bell on the table.
The food itself, I went for the sashimi which was quite nice. It had fresh shrimp, squid, salmon, conch, tuna and a few other things I’m not too familiar with. I had to get the portion for 2 as a meal, it came with approximately 14 pieces. All wrote fresh and tasty.
Other food at the table was the individual shabu shabu (think meat cooked in your own at table in a broth). That contraption on its own is a sight. You got a flame underneath a wire basket holding up what looks like heavy duty coffee filter holding a broth. You look at it and only think, this can’t be safe. But the filter does not leak or burn, the soup does not fall through, and the fire goes out on its own.
All in all its a nice place. What’s lacking is the Japanese small store feel like your going to a mom and pop shop, but you know that going in. The prices itself are reasonable, though the menu is so large that it repeats itself on multiple menus. Also look out for different price on the English and Japanese menu. I found one instance of that.

Nice restaurant for Kaiseki dinner, have a garden that is totally beautiful that can be visited in the morning for lunch. Very nice food, they can organize Maiko performances as well.

Fantastic dinner for this evening that warranted my happy dance!
I had the sashimi dinner along with uni, unagi and toro.
This is the first time I had uni in Japan. Unlike his California counterpart the Japanese uni is much sweeter. The unagi tasted awesome and the toro just melted in your mouth. I was able to persuade my partner who is more into American rolls to try the toro. This is the very first nigiri he completely enjoyed!
He had his Japanese-​style steak and potatoes recommended by previous reviewer. The fries and steak were cooked to his liking which says a lot since his quite picky with food meat and potatoes.

Well I’m no sushi eater; however, my wife surely is, she’s Japanese and she had their sushi and she said, «she would give them three and half stars to four stars.» As for me I give them five stars for service, price, food, and for how clean their restaurant was. Listen my meal was the steak and sweet and sour chicken; now that comes with an egg salad that was so tasty and pickled cabbage that was very good, french fries that was awesome, and meso soup that was excellent. I definitely will be returning to eat lunch or dinner again before a leave because I really enjoyed my meal.

Ganko Sanjyou Honten is a nice Sushi bar on the same street as the Kyoto Royal park hotel. It is actually a nice ambiance inside… much less austere than some of the Sushi restaurants run by the same company.
I found this place totally approachable. The lunch menu is a really good deal. I had a combination of Sushi, miso, and tempura and it was all very good and very fresh. The price was 1275 yen… roughly 12.75…a bargin back in the states.
There is no english spoken here but they do provide an english menu. You can manage it and I highly recommend the sushi, the udon, and the tempura… for the price to quality it was excellent.