
Category: Food

La Maison De Curry

A small but delicious place to have lunch
Pricing Guide (Avg. cost per person) | 1000 – 2000 yen |
Opening Hours | Lunch 11:00 – 17:00 Dinner 17:00 – 23:00 |
Closed | - |
Contact | - |
Notes | Foreign Language Ability: Limited. English menu provided |
Location / Getting There | South 3 West 3 PARCO Building 8th floor |
This cosy eatery is located on the 8th Floor of Sapporo PARCO. The staff are polite and very friendly and speak limited English but they will provide an English Menu upon request. The menu includes a vegetable curry, vegetables with chicken, vegetables and pork, mushroom curry, and a seafood curry. The spiciness ranges from one to five. Two being mild, and a safe choice with a slight kick. Assorted vegetables and the selection of meat are in small pieces, and fried before being added to the soup curry in a bowl. Each dish comes with rice and is available in small, medium or large portions.
This soup curry restaurant also has an omelette with rice on the menu, and also a dry curry dish. The lunch time menu offers a set menu that comes with a drink, whether it be orange juice, coffee or tea. The drink can come with or after the meal. This soup curry shop is conveniently in the middle of town in the PARCO shopping building. Located on the 8th floor in the eatery section, there are a dozen or so other restaurants to choose from, but the soup curry restaurant is always a solid choice. Perfect after a days shopping around central ward. This is a non smoking establishment.
8th floor restaurants

Izakaya Hanayagi

Irashaimase!
Pricing Guide (Avg. cost per person) | 2000 Yen |
Opening Hours | Open 7 days a week: Monday – Thursday: 5:30pm – 1am (Food and Drink last order: 12:30am) Friday, Saturday, Days preceding a holiday: 5:30pm – 2am (Food and Drink last order: 2am) Sunday: 5:30 – midnight (Food and Drink L.O. 11:30pm) 定休日 月-木、祝日: 17:30-翌1:00 (料理L.O. 翌0:30 ドリンクL.O. 翌0:30) 金、土、祝前日: 17:30-翌2:30 (料理L.O. 翌2:00 ドリンクL.O. 翌2:00) 日: 17:30-翌0:00 (料理L.O. 23:30 ドリンクL.O. 23:30) 17:30~翌1:00迄 |
Closed | December 31 – January 3 |
Contact | - |
Notes | ¥300 charge for otooshi (お通し), a small dish of food / seating charge Capacity: 50 |
Location / Getting There | Sapporo, Chuo-ku, South 6 Jyo, West 3 Choume Daiichi Susukino Building 3rd floor. 北海道札幌市中央区南6条西3第1すすきのビル3F |
Japan is an expensive country. But like all expensive countries, there are opportunities to enjoy the local fare on the cheap. One such chance to fill your belly is by having a meal at HANAYAGI, a small izakaya (traditional Japanese restaurant) located in the southeastern corner of Susukino.
Proudly serving Yebisu beer!
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Besides the chef, HANAYAGI only employs one other staff, so get your order in quickly. By 8pm the restaurant fills for a frenetic few hours with hungry 20 somethings. The drink menu is pretty standard: Yebisu beer on tap, bottled Heartland and a handful of premixed cocktails. As for food, consider your eating needs covered. With a wide variety of items listed on both the menu and on the walls, you’re guaranteed to find something to satisfy your hunger…providing you can read Japanese!
Just ask, and the staff will do their best to accommodate your illiteracy.
HANAYAGI is perfect for a busy night. You can be in and out in an hour, satisfied with a belly full of great local cooking. Or if you’re agenda is on the boozy end of the spectrum, consider this your best deal to prime the motor cheaply (think 2 hours of all the beer you can drink for under $10…). For the price, this place has it all: good food, good vibes and good value all in one place. Just remember to give your compliments to the chef directly – he’s a salt of the earth Sapporite, happy to serve the people.
Local youngsters readying for a big night out.
Grilled chicken breast with sinus-melting wasabi.

Fried oysters and mayonaise – heart attacks never tasted so good!

Grab a seat at the counter if the tables are taken.

は – HA, な – NA, や – YA, ぎ – GI = HANAYAGI in Japanese:

Garaku Soup Curry
Pricing Guide (Avg. cost per person) | 1100 – 1500 yen |
Opening Hours | Lunch 11:30 – 15:30 Dinner 17:30 – 23:30 (last order 23:00) |
Closed | - |
Contact | - |
Notes | This soup curry is amazingly popular. Peek times may require up to 1 hour wait to be seated. |
Location / Getting There | South 3 West 2 |
Nice design
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English menu
Fried chicken

Brooklyn Parlor
Pricing Guide (Avg. cost per person) | ¥1000 ~ ¥2000 lunch ¥2,000 ~¥3000 dinner |
Opening Hours | Open 7 days a week. Lunch 11:30 – 14:30 Café 14:30 – 17:30 Dinner 17:30 – 23:00 (LO food 22:00) |
Closed | - |
Contact | brooklynparlor.co.jp +81 11-209-3737 |
Notes | Coffee shop, seating 130, non smoking, books available to read, hamburgers on menu, English menu available |
Location / Getting There | Central Sapporo. Located in Akarenga Terrace shopping centre, on the 2nd floor. Top of the escalator and turn to the right 〒060-0002 Hokkaidō, Sapporo-shi, Chūō-ku, Kita 2 Jōnishi, 4 Chome−1, Akarenga Terrace. North 2, West 4 |
Shopping in downtown Sapporo can be exhausting work. In and around Sapporo station are a multitude of opportunities to spend money. Visitors to the city flock to the big electronics stores, apparel shops and boutiques from sun up to sun down. Inevitably, with all the walking, bag toting and picture taking that comes with such activity, the need to sit, relax and replenish one’s energy will arise.
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Perfect brew to relax
Located on the 2nd floor of the new Akarenga Terrace Building between Sapporo and Odori stations, BROOKLYN PARLOR is a great place to refuel. With seating for 130 people, there is rarely a need to wait to take a table. This is important, as this establishment is the type of place where it’s very easy to while away the afternoon into the evening. Part high-ceiling café, part sit-down restaurant BROOKLYN PARLOR offers a variety of New York-styled dishes. From coconut lattes and caramel-drizzled pancakes to juicy avocado and bacon cheeseburgers and a pint of Brooklyn Lager, there’s something sure to please any hungry guest. Or for those just wanting a beverage, there are a number of specialty coffee drinks and cocktails, as well as non-alcoholic cocktails, juices and teas.
- Nice views 良い眺め
- Sink into a couch for an hour or two ゆったり休めるカウチ
The interior design has all the trappings of a good book café back in the Big Apple, with funky tables and chairs, lots of plants and hundreds of books to thumb through at your leisure. Large windows provide a great view of the brick plaza leading up to the Douchou, the former Hokkaido capital building. Jazz music helps set the mood and on weekends local and out-of-town musicians perform on a small side stage.
BROOKLYN PARLOR’s appeal lies in the comfort of its ambiance and quality of its menu. In a highly competitive area for restaurants, this is one that’s sure to be around for a long time.
- Enjoy a cuppa 至福の一杯
- ‘Blue Cheese’ burgers! ブルーチーズバーガー
- Plenty of room 広々とした店内
- Cool decor 格好良い内装

La Salamander
Pricing Guide (Avg. cost per person) | 1500 - 5000 Yen |
Opening Hours | Tuesday - Saturday 6pm to 3am Sunday 6pm to midnight |
Closed | Mondays Every 2nd Tuesday Tuesdays following a Monday holiday |
Contact | 011-272-1557 (+81-11-272-1557) 予約可 |
Notes | - |
Location / Getting There | 7-6-2 Minami 2 Jonishi Chuo-ku Sapporo Hokkaido 北海道 札幌市中央区 南二条西 7-6-2 南2条ビル 1F |
Sapporo has no end of tratorrias, bistros and pubs. If ambiance, flavor and comfort are what you seek, look no farther than La Salamander, located just around the corner from western end Tanuki Koji 7(狸小路7丁目), the covered arcade in downtown Sapporo. A French-styled bistro, this little shop is a cozy refuge from the throngs of holiday tourists and locals crowding the main thoroughfare shops.
The dinner menu offers a variety of reasonably priced appetizers, soups and entrée dishes. During our visit my wife and I started with Akeshi (an eastern Hokkaido town) oysters on the half shell, served with a tart vinegar relish. Spicy chorizo salami came next, which went well with our Pilsner Urquell beers. A thick slab of homemade pate arrived soon after, accompanied by warm bread crusts. I should note that La Salamander specializes in regional French wines, and has a limited selection of pricey beers.
A bottle of Alsace Sauvignon Blanc complimented our next dish: crab and shrimp croquettes served atop a shallow bath of zesty tomato puree. A hearty country soup followed, setting us up for the baked scallop and sea bream soufflé. By now, my wife and I were reaching the limits of our capacity for gastronomic goodness. Upon finishing the wine and our last dish, she ordered an herbal tea and I an espresso. For a final sendoff, I had a cognac and we shared a fudge brownie drowned in crème anglaise. It was sublime.
Being that it was my birthday, we splurged on our first visit to La Salamander. Had we trimmed our dinner by a dish or two and halved the alcohol, our bill wouldn’t have exceeded ¥10,000. One could easily swing in for an entrée and a glass of wine without exceeding ¥3,000. Whatever your budget, La Salamander is recommended to those seeking authentic, casual French cuisine in the heart of Sapporo, Japan. For more pictures, reviews and a map, please look here. Bon appétit!
Cozy and simple interior design.

Cozy and simple interior design.

The Akeshi oysters to start.

The hearty country soup was perfect for a cold night.

Seafood croquettes done to perfection.

Dessert!

And fuel for the walk home.