Torisei

After doing some walking around in Kyoto, it was nice to visit this place on my way back to Osaka. It was a good place to eat and the staff were amazing. Bit more expensive for a izakaya, but it nice to try something different. The chicken dishes were really tasty. And we can at the right time, as it can get busy.

The freshest chicken I have had in Japan! Every piece of meat and innards tasted clean, with no foul odour! Service was fast and great! Ordered the spring chicken, which was a seasonal special, and the 6 type tasting set. Absolutely phenomenal! Definitely worth a try if you are in kyoto. Large bottle of warm sake cost only 900 yen.

If you like chicken, you must go there. It's great.

Definitely the best chicken nanban（チキン南蛮） that I've ever had. My wife's family has been coming here for generations and it shows! Only thing I wish I could do was come here without a car so I could drink.

This is a really convenient place to eat if you are in the area to visit the sake breweries. Ordering is easy as they have an English menu. All of the food I had was tasty and not that expensive. When I visited, there was a bit of a wait to get a seat, but I think it was worth the wait.

Such a great lunch, only waited 5min for a table, great quality & value with a lovely authentic vibe. The have great kids meals for 600yen and bento lunches around 1000yen. Totally recommend

We came here as part of a sake tasting your. We were pleasantly that it is a famous free range chicken restaurant! We had the chicken yakitori and chicken donburi. Both were great. The best part was the house brewed cold sake. It was the first but the best sake of our tour!!!

Popular yakitori place full of locals. Make sure to ask for their English menu since they may not offer it even when it's obvious you need one. Skewers are delicious and have a nice Japanese char aroma. Make sure to try their other small dishes as well. There is a button to call a server when you are ready to place your orders. They have a moderate selection of sakes with a sweetness/dry scale rating.

First time eating yakitori and started with the best. Absolutely delicious. The chicken skin was crispy and indulgent and the pork belly rich and flavorful!

Came here for the 5-course Yakitori. I wasn't impressed. Much of the meat was tough. The sides were decent, but unmemorable. The Yakitori experience was neat. I tried out a few parts of the chicken I hadn't before: hearts and gizzards, and liver. Overall I wasn't blown away by any of the servings. The staff was friendly and attentive, even in spite of my complete lack of Japanese. They provided me with an English menu and even assisted me with charging my phone (a task I found mysteriously frowned upon in most Japanese public places.)

Torisei (not just this location) has quickly become one of my favorite places for yakitori. I've never had a full course meal here so i can't speak to that, but I have loved everything i've tried here, including the yakitori of course, and the traditional atmosphere of their original restaurant in Fushimi can't be beat. One cool thing, because this location is connected to the Yamamoto sake brewery, they have freshly pressed unpasteurized sake for a good price that they dish out from a large keg, quite the rarity indeed. As far as i remember they have a set of 5 skewers plus a beer or the fresh pressed sake for about 1000 yen before 7pm or so on weekdays, a perfect snack to break up a walk around the Fushimi sake brewing district. The Kyoto locations should have the same deal too.

I was taken here by Japanese friends, and it was a nice experience having yakitori of a nicer scale beyond the hole-in-the-wall cheap sort of restaurant. In addition to the usual cuts of chicken they had some creative seasonal skewers that I really enjoyed, and the traditional atmosphere of the restaurant and surrounding area were a plus. The service was a touch slow, but we were there on a very crowded night. I also had an enjoyable experience at their more centrally located satellite restaurants.

good spot to visit after checking out one of the near by sake breweries. this place is really big. i don't know if we were the only tourists, but we were the only westerners. well priced yakitori and sake. they accept credit card.