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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