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Hokkaishabushabu

Shabushabu, or hotpot, is what you will find at this cosy place downstairs fairly close to Sapporo Station. They have tatami seats, and normal seats and they bring a big pot for you to dump slabs of meat and other goodness in, and get some warm soupy, meaty, hotpot goodness into you on a cold winters night.

Hours: 5 p.m. - 11.30 p.m. (LO 11 p.m.) everyday

Average Price: ￥3000 - ￥4000

Tabelog Rating: 3.04/5

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Jacksonville Burgers

Located a little bit away from the main drag, Jacksonville is a good place to get a nice burger. Good hearty food, cosy interior, and all English menu. Burger on I say.

Hours: Lunch 11.30 a.m. - 3 p.m. Dinner 5 p.m. -10 p.m.

Weekends and Public Holidays 11.30 a.m. - 11 p.m.

Tabelog Table Rating: 3.38/5

Average Price: Lunch <￥1000 Dinner ￥1000-￥2000

Website (pictures, videos, Japanese only)

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Sumibi Izakaya

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This is a dark place located up on the second floor up a narrow staircase.
I went at an odd time (about 3 p.m.), but there were customers sitting around looking happy enough.
If you come here it's for the Yakitori (grilled chicken on sticks), or may be a hotpot.
Looks a little lived in. They had Chinese and Korean menus also. They've got tables, tatami, and horigotatsu (tables on the floor a pit for your feet)

Opening Hours: Lunch 11:30 a.m. - 2:50 p.m. (LO 2.30 p.m.), Dinner 3 p.m. - 1 a.m. (LO 12.30 a.m.) Open everyday
Average Price: Lunch - <￥1000, Dinner ￥2000 - ￥3000
Tabelog Rating: 3.01/5

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Website (Japanese)

Yukijirushiparaa

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Yukijirushiparaa (Snow Brand Parlor) is just down the road from the Clock Tower. It is a restaurant/cake shop, as you can see from the truly awful photo that I took of the front window. Some of the parfaits, icecreams, and cakes a crazy impressive.
Not only is there a restaurant, but there is also a wee souvenir shop, selling Hokkaido related stuff. (including Royce, which is the best.)
Staff were lovely also, and the main menu was in English.

Hours: 10 a.m. - 9 p.m. everyday. (Last Order 8.30 p.m.)
Average Price: \1000 - \2000
Tabelog Rating: 3.17/5

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Website (Japanese)
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Tonkatsu Matsunoya

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Tonkatsu Matsunoya, funnily enough, are purveyors of very, very nice tonkatsu.

If you put 'define tonkatsu' into Google, you get 'a Japanese dish of pork coated in breadcrumbs and fried'. But it is so much more that. It's juicy on the inside, and crisp and crunchy on the outside. And safe to say not so healthy. Here is a kind of definitive study on Tonkatsu by Bulldog sauce, which is the ubiquitous tonkatsu sauce.

Enough. Let us talk about Tonkatsu Matsunoya. It is on the main drag between Sapporo Station and Odori Park, close to Odori Park. It's open till the small hours so you can go there after the pub, and it's open nice and early, so you can go there for breakfast.

It is a nice, new, clean and tidy looking place. A particular fun element of it is the ticketing machines at the front. You do the whole ordering thing yourself before you step inside. Very customizable, and all in great English. It's the way of the future in these kinds of restaurants in Japan, as there are fewer people coming through to man an order pad. This is a chain restaurant. Non smoking too. Cool

Hours: Weekdays 6 a.m. - 3 a.m. (Last order 2.30 a.m.), Weekends 6 a.m. - 2 a.m. (Last Order 1.30 a.m.)

Tabelog Rating: 3.08/5
Average Price: ,￥1000

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Website (Japanese)

Densetsunosutadonya

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My, what a long name you have. All the better for providing you with a great butadon experience they said.

This place is very close to Sapporo Station. Head down one block on the main drag, take a left at the first lights and it's on the right.

Butadon, a la Sukiya, but they've got a lot more of the quality/service/dinner out thing going on.

Love butadon. Fills you up and tastes so good.

Hours: 11 a.m. - midnight every day

Average Price: <￥1000

Tabelog Rating: 3.07/5

Website (Japanese and lots of photos)

Kani Honke

Sapporo is well-known for seafood, and crab is a particular favourite. Kani Honke is downtown in Sapporo, very close to Sapporo Station. It has a huge crab above the entrance, which is a bit of a giveaway to its location.

It has a very cool interior when you first walk in, complete with a lovely English-speaking host in a kimono/yukata (again not sure which). It has kaiseki to, which is the full on Japanese traditional dining experience. Cheap? No.

English menu, nice crab, good staff, interesting building. Why aren't you there already?

Hours: 11.30 a.m. - 10.00 p.m. (LO 9.30 p.m.)

Tabelog Rating: 3.4/5 (pretty high in comparison to most others)

Average Price: Lunch ￥3000-￥4000, Dinner ￥6000-￥7000

Google Maps (although the picture is of the underground location)

Website (the English is good, but becomes harder navigate the further you get)

Matsuya

Matsuya is a donburi, or beef don (bowl) restauarant located on the main drag between Sapporo Station and Odori Park, very close to Odori Park.

It is busy, clean, with a menu in English for you to choose from. Donburi is a fantastic way to warm up on these cold winter days. They have normal tables, and also a counter to sit at where they chef/server is serving food straight up to you, and you are seated next to some Joe Bloggs you don't know. Salaryman styles.

Opening Hours: 5 a.m. - 3 a.m. everyday.

Tabelog Rating: 3.07/5

Average ￥1000

Website (English)

Ajino Tokeidai

Ajino is the name of the restaurant, Tokeidai is the branch. It's on the main road from Sapporo Station on the left. Can't be missed on account of the cool bit of public art at the entrance.
Nice staff, and a nice English menu for your reading/dining pleasure.
Get your ramen and dumplings going on.

Hours: 11 a.m. - 1 a.m. everyday
Average Price: < ￥1000
Tabelog Rating: 3.07/5

Google Maps was a pain here, but you can find out at Tabelog
Tabelog Restaurant Guide
Website (in English and Chinese)

Toretatenemuroko

Toretatenemuroko is a classy sushi place in the basement of a large office building in downtown Sapporo.

There are a number other restaurants, some of them also very nice, but no others with English menus. There was a tantan place with a partial English menu, and a lovely lady running the place, but there wasn't enough English to make the cut. Try it out if you want. It looks cool.

Anyhow, Toretatenemuru is seafood/crab/izakaya place, and it is pretty big. Tables and counter seating, with the chefs making stuff in front of you. The waitresses are in traditional kimono/yukata get up also. Looks real nice.

Main menu is in English, specials not so much.

Opening Hours: Weekdays Lunch 11:30-14:00, Dinner 17:00-23:-00, Saturday 17:00-23:00, Closed Sunday

Average Price: Lunch <￥1000, Dinner ￥3000-￥4000

Tabelog Rating: 3.11/5

Lotteria

Lotteria has always been a favourite of mine. I used to be able to eat five burgers quite happily, and then have heartburn for the rest of the day, but the burgers don't kill people. People kill people.

Lotteria burgers used to be greasy and good. For you Kiwis, think BK. But they seem to have changed things up, and now they seem to be a lot more wholesome.

This Lotteria is within the ticket only area of Sapporo Station, but they are two a penny all over Japan.

They have a smoking section, but you can seat yourself away from it easily enough.

Tabelog Rating: 3.04 / 5

Opening Hours: 7.30 a.m. - 10 p.m. everyday

Website (Japanese only)

Mia Bocca

This is the first restaurant I have featured on other side of the train line from the main part of Sapporo. I have been walking past it every couple of months for two years or so on my way to a doctor appointment. An Italian/Pasta/izakaya establishment according to Tabelog, this restaurant is part of a chain serving decent Italian fare.

Tabelog Rating: 3.04/5

Hours: Weekdays - Lunch 11 a.m. - 3.30 p.m. Dinner 5.30 p.m. - midnight, Saturday 11 a.m. - midnight, Sunday 11 a.m. - 11 p.m.

Average Price Lunch: < ￥1000, Dinner ￥2000 - ￥3000

Ishiya Bisse

Bisse is upmarket kind of shopping mall with not many shops spread over three floors. Ishiya Bisse is on the street level, and has kind of a cooked food menu with a large showcase for choosing food from also. The menu is quite limited, so there aren't too many options, but there is English on there.

It is right next to Odori Park, so if there is an event on (Beer Garden, Snow Festival, Yosakoi, Autumn Fest etc) it is very handy. It's quite large, and in the summer there are outdoor tables.

Hours: 8 a.m. - 8 p.m.

Tabelog Rating: A rather handsome 3.47/5

Average Price: Lunch: <￥1000, Dinner ￥1000-￥2000

Website (more for parent company (well-known chocolate co)

Ramen no Houryou

I had to enlist my lovely wife to work out the Kanji for this restaurant, but I got there. Ramen no houryuu.

A lovely lady (who you can see in the shot) showed me the English menu, and it was pretty through. A ramen shop obviously, and favoured by the locals when I had a look in, so they must be serving some good ramen. Looking at their Facebook page and website, they have some English staff somewhere too.

Located in Apia (and other places, but today we're talking Apia), so nice and convenient to the station, and the shops, and the subway.

A busy place serving good ramen. Can't do better. It says on Tabelog that they are a smoking restaurant, which surprises me a little, but there you have it.

Opening Hours: 10.30 a.m. - 9.30 p.m. everyday (Last order @ 9)

Average price: < ￥1000

Tabelog Rating: 3.11/5

Website (in Japanese with some English)

Meat Gang

This is one of the new meat dedicated restaurants that have been springing up recently. I've seen them in shopping malls, Tanuki Koji, Teine, and here in Apia (Sapporo Station.)

When I saw this place at lunchtime, it was super busy. We were going to have our anniversary lunch there, but after we were seated next to a smoking table, and told there was no non-smoking section (after 13:30) we left, but that's the way it is sometimes. It shouldn't be, but it is. Also, be warned, they do charge a ￥400 table charge. They shouldn't, but they do.

They serve meat obviously, and lots of different kinds. I saw the usual steaks, but I also saw quail (うずら) which I thought was nice for a change.

The English menu is a separate menu presented to you upon request, and it looked pretty thorough.

Opening Hours: Lunch - 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., Dinner - 4 p.m. - 11 p.m. (Last order 10.30)

Average Price: Lunch - ￥1000 -￥2000, Dinner: ￥3000 - ￥4000

Tabelog Rating: 3.01/5

Website (Japanese only)

Sukiya

I learnt very quickly that if you want a nice filling feed nice and quick for next to nothing, Sukiya is where you want to go. This particular restaurant is on the main road from Sapporo Station to Odori Park, but they are everywhere.
This is a gyudon (beef bowl) chain, so their main gig is bowls of rice with meat and other toppings. They also do curry now, but I say at a gyudon shop, stick to gyudon.
I checked out the English menu, and it's nice and easy to follow.
Remember, these are everywhere, and they are all pretty much the same I imagine.

Tabelog Rating: 3.01/5
Average Price: < ￥1000
Hours: 24 hours

Google Maps
Tabelog Restaurant Guide
Website (in English)
Facebook

Sorpresa Oyster Bar and Grill

photo from Tabelog

Sorpresa Oyster Bar and Grill is a classy oyster bar with Mexican feel about it in Susukino, the heart of Sapporo's wining and dining scene.

This place came recommended by my friend Miwako (many thanks). Open for dinner only, and only a stone's throw from Susukino Subway Station. It's up on the ninth floor, so maybe some views to be had. There is a 'free-flow',or 飲み放題, or all you can drink option too. Nice. Have you been there? Let me know how it was.

Tabelog Star Rating: 3.36/5 (which is one of the higher I've seen)

Average Price: Dinner ￥3000 - ￥4000

Website (only in Japanese)

Tony Roma's

Tony Roma's is well-known in many places other than Sapporo I believe so it can be a bit of a shot of home maybe if you miss it.

The main menu is all in English, but the specials aren't which surprised me a little.

Directly opposite the third most disappointing sightseeing spot in Japan (Sapporo Clock Tower) it's a safe bet, with ribs and meat and all sorts of goodness.

Any thoughts anyone? I enjoyed myself when I went there.

Average Price: Lunch ￥1000 - ￥2000, Dinner ￥2000 - ￥3000

Tabelog Rating: 3.11/5

Website (all in English, with a menu too)

Tabelog

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Umisakuraezoumi

Umisakura is very close to Odori Park on the left of the main road when walking from Sapporo Station. It is on the second floor, so the entrance is a door only. There is a Sukiya very close to the door.

I went up and it seems nice. Menu is all in English (specials maybe not), and the staff were nice.

Seafood themed izakaya, but with other choices too. Dinner only.

Average Price: No average price listed

Tabelog Rating: No Tabelog rating, but Google Maps has it rated at 4.3/5

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