{"id":323,"date":"2007-01-02T12:47:07","date_gmt":"2007-01-02T03:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2007-01-02\/323"},"modified":"2007-01-02T12:47:07","modified_gmt":"2007-01-02T03:47:07","slug":"american-food-in-kyoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2007-01-02\/323","title":{"rendered":"American Food in Kyoto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n

I enjoy Japanese\nfood<\/a>, but occasionally get a craving<\/span> for quintessentially American food\nlike a good<\/span> burger or, for breakfast, pancakes, eggs, and hash browns.\nRecently I had<\/span> the opportunity to enjoy both here in Kyoto, and although I\nhave<\/span> only one data point for each, they were sufficiently good enough to\nrisk a recommendation.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Freshness Burger<\/h2>\n\n

\nIn the Vivre<\/a> at\nKitaoji\/Marutamachi<\/a>,\non the first floor across from Mr. Doughnut (barf!) is a restaurant<\/span> with\nthe unpromisingly generic name “Freshness Burger.” I tried<\/span>\ntheir Classic\nBurger<\/a>, and it was excellent. Lots of fresh veggies stacked up to make\na formidable<\/span> burger, not much different from the picture on their\nsite<\/a>.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nThey have locations<\/a>\nall over the country (and in Korea as well).\n\n<\/p>\n\n

Speak Easy<\/h2>\n\n

After my fall foliage trek with\nNils<\/a>, he introduced me to a small<\/span> cafe near Higashioji\/Kitayama<\/a>\ncalled “Speak Easy,” which bills itself as an “American style\ncafe&bar.”\n\n<\/p>

\n\nThe breakfast menu<\/a> (good\nuntil 6pm) shows lots of tasty things like eggs and toast and hashbrowns.\nOddly, pancakes are not available. I was torn<\/span> between the breakfast menu\nand their burgers, which I was<\/span> told were good, but it's easier to get a\ngood<\/span> burger than a good<\/span> American breakfast, so I opted<\/span> for breakfast.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nI had french toast for the first time in many years, and it was excellent. It was not<\/span> the sickeningly sweet style I feared,<\/span> but more like the kind I had<\/span>\nat home when I was<\/span> a kid<\/span> (thanks Mom).\n\n<\/p>\n\n

\n\n

Both places had English menus, but I didn't<\/span> get the impression that\nanyone I interacted<\/span> with at either place actually spoke English.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I enjoy Japanese food, but occasionally get a craving for quintessentially American food like a good burger or, for breakfast, pancakes, eggs, and hash browns. Recently I had the opportunity to enjoy both here in Kyoto, and although I have only one data point for each, they were sufficiently good enough to risk a recommendation.<\/p> Freshness Burger

In the Vivre at Kitaoji\/Marutamachi, on the first floor across from Mr. Doughnut (barf!) is a restaurant with the unpromisingly generic name \"Freshness Burger.\" I tried their Classic Burger, and it was excellent. Lots of fresh veggies stacked up to make a [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}