eX cafe Gion Shinbashi

eX cafe Gion Shinbashi is a Japanese dessert cafe in Gion Shinbashi, Kyoto, serving matcha, dango, and warabimochi. The dango set has you grill the rice cakes yourself at the table, then eat them with red bean paste and a house mitarashi sauce alongside matcha or hojicha. The cafe occupies a kyomachiya with bar seating, a courtyard, and a separate room, so tea and dessert can be had quietly. Bar tables make up most of the seating and there are not many seats, so groups find the space cramped.