Sapporo Restaurants

enough tip on this eating place, just to add some additional pointers:
1. The 'eat-all-you-can' price has a time bar of 100mins.
2. With some (reasonable) additional yens, it includes free flow of beer - good choice if you like to drink freshly brewed beer
3. With yet more additional yens, it includes free flow of red wine - not a good choice as the red wine doesn't really teaste like what we use to. ie. the Australia, French or California red wine. it is a fresh harvest wine, too light & sweet for the lamb.

Took the 3rd choice without asking to see the wine. End up only drinking beer ..

** side note **
met a strong, healthy 100 yr old lady (just past her brithday) sitting next table enjoying her grill lamb... wow, 100 yr old, eating lamb, drinking beer & move around freely, I can only dream of it ...

Favorite Dish: fresh lamb slice - a good break from seafood and Ramen & sticky rice

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If you like ramen, try at least a variety of them. Usually, the soup bases come in 3 flavours - salt, soy sauce and miso. There are a variety of toppings, mostly roast pork with vegetables, but i'd recommend trying those with seafood toppings (like squid and shells).

After all, Hokkaido is famous for its fresh seafood.

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The Ramen Alley in Sapporo is just a stone throw away from the Susukino Station. As the name implies, the Alley has two entrance or exit point and a narrow alley between.

All the eating house there are pretty small. The one we went can seat 15-20 guests maximum. The ramen dishes are labelled A, B, C, etc and the owners can call out the alphabets without much problem.

Prices range from about 500 Yen to about 1,500 Yen. Some eating house may have more expensive menu items.

This shop that we patronised had alot of signature of well-known guests on its wall.

This restaurant chain has a few restaurants in different locations in Sapporo. I went to the one at Ramada hotel.

Place is nice and was fully booked the first time I went, so I made a reservation and went again the next day.

Wide variety of food, but the baked potato was really simple and good. We ordered about 8-10 different things for 2 of us and total bill came up to about 8000 yen. not cheap but food is not bad.

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This restaurant along the main street sells live seafood. It also has a small eating place that cooks or prepare food for visitor. Prices are reasonable as compared to the other restaurants.
The shop owner, a fine young man is very friendly and put great effort to speak with you in English

Favorite Dish: Hairy crab (cooked) with the fresh creamy roe ... lovely
Live sea urchin - so fresh, wonder if I can able to get it anywhere else outside Hokkaido ?
Depend on the timing of your visit - during my visit, This is the only place I got live sea urchin (not available in Hakodate, Otaru or Noboribetsu)

Yoshinoya is a chain of cheap and cheerful counter-style eateries. We had a good hot lunch for under 500yen. Not a lot of choice but the menus have photos of each dish so very handy if yr japanese is not up to much. Saw lots of businessmen there at lunchtimes. Food was very tasty, plenty of it too. Complimentary green tea too. Ideal if on a tight budget!

Toppii is on the 10th floor of the JR train station shopping mall and is a traditonal sushi bar with its dishes all circling on the conveyor belt... you take a dish you like the look of from the belt, stack up yr empty plates (colour coded in price bands) and then ask for yr bill. Complimentary green tea. The salmon sushi were by far the best and we stacked up about 12 empty plates between us - each plate was 110yen. English menu provided so you can identify each dish. Some dishes you have to order specifically from the waiter. The sushi here was just mouth-watering. At busy times, you may have to wait so leave your name with the maitre d....HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
Open from 11am - 10pm'.

Sky J is situated on the 35th floor of the JR tower (hotel nikko) and, if you're used to travelling on a rather tight budget as we usually are, is a nice way to have a treat! There is a fixed price menu in the evening (don't forget to reserve a table) or, the rather more expensive, a la carte. Amazing views, exquisitely presented food (albeit tiny portions), sultry female vocalist with accompanying pianist, sophisticated fellow diners - a very grown-up place to celebrate being in Sapporo. Wear your glad rags and have a ball! ....(we stopped off at Susukino on the way home of course!)