Private Lodge Cafe&diner - Kumamoto

A wonderful place with a wonderful, relaxing atmosphere. The owner is a very nice and friendly lady who speaks English and serves you with healthy delicious vegan / vegetarian dishes. The English menu is available. Good value for money (Lunch is about 830yen~1250yen). I had her today's Genmai lunch (880yen), which was a typical Japanese brown rice set, and it included salad, a small bowl of soup and a drink. In any case recommend

In Kumamoto there are little vegan restaurant food, but private lodge is the shiny exception. The core of their menu is healthier and delicious vegan macrobiotic food. They have two specials per day, one is typical pasta and the other is cured vegetables. 850 Yen brings you a small salad, special and coffee, tea or vegan chai. The days they are open are sporadic, so you need to check their Facebook page and be able to read Japanese. In the late morning they post the day menu when they will be open. But they are almost always open Saturdays from noon to noon. The owner also cooks in a second place elsewhere in Kumamoto, and I think this is also mentioned on their Facebook page. I am so grateful that such a vegan business exists in Kumamoto. The food is excellent and affordable, and this restaurant is very enjoyable of public support.

Dedicated vegan restaurant with personal settings and refined meals. Very recommended.

One of the older local vegan restaurants with good food at affordable prices. Definitely worth the visit. The ambiance is really chill, they have some soothing music and incense burning. Pretty Hipster. The owner said they ran this place for 15 years, and started serving vegetarian food from 10 years ago. We were visiting Kumamoto Castle from Fukuoka, and walked here for lunch. They don't have car parking so be ready for that. The restaurant's on the 2nd floor, so keep your head up when you're searching for it haha we totally walked passed it the first time. They have a lunch menu from 2 4pm and a dinner menu from 4pm onwards it wasn't clear when they close. We visited on 24/12/18 and the menu seems to be quite similar to the photos here. There was a genmai lunch(rice set) 880yen, a pasta lunch 880yen, a special lunch of 1250yen, which has both the rice and pasta, and a burger890yen. The lunch sets come with a small salad, cup of soup, free drink, and the special lunch has a dessert too. The pasta and rice set changes each day I think. The day we went, the pasta had a tomato sauce base and the rice set had a brocolli croquette with a creamy sauce with spinach. There were 5 of us so we all got different things. I got the special lunch and so ate the pasta and rice and it was great! I got to have a larger serving of pasta for free too just by asking. One friend had the burger and she loved it! For the drink we had coffee and chai. I personally had the chai and it was pretty good. The dessert was also okay. But overall, the food was quite filling and tasted great, and for all we got the price was quite affordable. I'm definitely visited if I come to Kumamoto again.

Comfortable atmosphere