murmur coffee kyoto

It is aside a river and open one side toward the river. So the atmosphere is very relax and nice. Its coffee and honey toast also very good. The staffs’ service are perfect. It is valuable to spend your time and money in here.

The toast and coffee breakfast options are decent value, but i was a bit disappointed with the quality of coffee, both milk and pour-over varieties. A little burnt and lacking character. The service and the decore and ambiance however are excellent, great spot to sit in the sun by the water.

TLDR: Avoid if crowded or coming right at opening time. You will be made to wait abhorrently long time for the food. We visited the cafe right at opening time. There was already a short queue of people, but nothing dramatic and definitely nothing unusual on a holiday at a cafe which does have a great location right by a canal. I think that we were the 4 couple of people who sat down, maybe 5th or 6th to order. We ordered raclette and pizza toasts with soup which was pumpkin, hot coffee and nuts cake. Oh boy. We waited literally an hour for two pieces of toast and the toast was only ALRIGHT, nothing extra special. My biggest complaint would be the absolute lack of any sort of communication from the wait staff. After waiting for about 30 minutes, I asked her what is the holdup and if she could bring at least the coffee and the soup and maybe the cake? To which she replied that orders are made in a sequence in which they took them followed by the typical self-flogging style of apology. I refused to be satisfied with this explanation so started doing some back of the envelope calculations. There were a total of 4 staff - 3 loitering in the kitchen area "making" the food and the poor soul serving the front of the house having to be apologizing to everybody for the wait. Now to a analysis of their operation: The cafe has approximately 20 seats. In my second round of interrogation "where the hell is my food" of the waitress, she slipped and actually told me that they can make only 4 toasts at once. My very cheap oven toaster with IR lamp can toast an average piece of Japanese "shokupan" in about 2,5-3,5 minutes depending on the type of bread (moisture of the bread/thickness). For their benefit, let's say they use some special bread/toaster and it takes 5 minutes for them to toast a slice of bread. By quick arithmetic, we can get to a hypothesis that they should be able to toast 20 slices of bread for the whole cafe in about 25 minutes + 2 minutes for taking the bread out. Since the toast in this particular cafe has a topping which needs to be melted, we need to account for that time as well. Let's say 3-4 minutes extra melting cheese etc. per batch. That puts us at about 8-9 minutes per batch of 4 toasts. Plus 1-2 minutes per batch for putting on the toppings. Which gives us about 10-11 minutes per batch of 4 toast. In conclusion they should be able to serve the whole cafe in 50-55 minutes, which definitely wasn't the case, since we did not order last from the group of people who were waiting for the place to open and filled all the seats. Not to mention there were some people who ordered just a coffee to go. It is obvious that the operation has some bottleneck and it needs to be resolved ASAP. It is insulting to keep someone waiting an hour for a piece of toaste bread.

I stopped in on a cold, rainy day, and I had a lovely, productive time! My table was the perfect size to be a little workspace, and I was thankful I could charge my laptop. The staff were welcoming and attentive—they even walked around and gave everyone little blankets so we could enjoy the open-air space more comfortably. The coffee was good straight, and I enjoyed my little Biscoff cookie ☺️ The little french toast bites looked soooo good, but I resisted them in an effort not to spoil my lunchtime appetite. Hope y’all order it in my stead! ??‍♀️

The food is really good and tasty but I think we could expect a bit more for breakfast. The staffs were nice and the place very nice and quiet. I really recommend it for a light and quick breakfast.

Absolutely amazing coffee,nice place for enjoying Kyoto. It's hidden place, really beautiful during "sakura" season. It's super cheap. High quality of coffee beans. Love this place. They offer a good sweets too - home made taste.

I’m giving two stars for the location and okay food. However, the food is still just a toast for which you have to wait a whole hour! We came to the place for a quick breakfast, wanting to be as early as possible in one shrine, but ended up spending 90 minutes there, out of which 60 minutes we were just waiting for two pieces of toast. I’m sorry, but if you go out for a regular lunch or dinner, you definitely don’t have to wait that long. We asked them to bring us coffee while we were waiting, but we were told they only serve it with the toast.. if there was a decent communication since the beginning (like if we were informed we would have to wait for an hour to receive what we ordered), we would have gone somewhere else. But nothing like that happened (even though we speak Japanese, so no language barrier). Anyway, if you have time, might be nice. But don’t go there too eager to get your meal as soon as you order.

Limited menu, but so very tasty and obviously made with care. I got the honey butter toast + drink set. Perfect afternoon nibble! The shop has limited seating, so if you’re concerned about social distance, keep that in mind.