
Food & Drink | KYOTO RESTAURANTS Feb 12, 2016
Muraki: Handmade soba in a tavern for hobbits
by J.J. O'Donoghue
There's a hobbit-in-the-Shire feeling in Muraki, a homely husband-and-wife run soba restaurant west of Kyoto city. The entrance is uncharacteristically marked not by traditional noren curtains but sliding wooden doors — the ki in Muraki is the Chinese character for tree or wood. The ...