Montorgueil （モントルグイユ）| French Bistro | Sapporo

"Montorgueil （モントルグイユ）" is my favorite French Bistro located near Nishi 11 Chome subway station.

They serve three kinds of prix fixe lunch sets during Friday to Sunday. We can choose our favorite appetizer, main, and desserts among several choices! Perfect, isn't it??

Look at this board!!! I love black pigs (Berkshire pigs) produced in Niikappu, Hokkaido. In addition to that, they serve it with mountain horseradish sauce, a very seasonable sauce!! Yummy x 2!!!

Cheers!

This cabbage soup is my favorite. It's very creamy!!! We fully enjoyed the spring vegetable soup!!!

This patty includes foie gras and truffle! How wonderful it is! It really suits with wine!!

This patty includes pork tongue and gristle! The combination of several kinds of texture is perfect!!!

At this moment, we noticed that we need a bottle of wine! Their delicious dishes made us very thirsty!! Hahaha!
Here comes their home-made bread! Yummy x 2!!!

Voila!
We ordered "DRAPPIER"! You may think we were eating dinner sets, but actually lunch sets! We enjoyed a bottle of champagne during the daytime! Hahaha!

Look at the scallop and Sakhalin surf clam, both of which were caught off Hokkaido! I love very fresh seafood like this! Very sweet and tasty!!!
Don't forget the green asparagus!! Hokkaido vegetables taste very thick and rich!!!

This bouillabaisse was very appetizing. Of course we enjoyed all of the soup with their home-made bread! It includes read sea bream, scallop, squid, and octopus........ I really enjoyed very seasonable seafood!!!

In my opinion, this is the most recommendable dish today!! Grilled fresh foie gras is on truffle risotto rolled with conger eel!

Grilled rissoto tastes very rich, and foie gras taste richer. Conger eel works as a coordinator between them.......... I'll be back to eat this dish soon again!!!

Hokkaido is famous for its lamb! This is produced in Shiranuka. Spring reminds me of milk lamb! Yummy x 2!!!

You may not know the thickness of the meat! Actually the pork steak is 5 or 6 cm thick! Black pork (Berkshire pigs) produced in Niikappu tastes very delicious! If you have a chance, please try it! White asparagus season has come to Hokkaido! We fully enjoyed seasonable ingredients today!

I love mille-feuille! We should eat it with strawberries, very seasonable fruit!!! The milk ice cream is also yummy s 2!!!

We also ate chocolate tart with coconut ice cream! Hahaha!

Last but nut least, we enjoyed yuzu citrus tea!

This resraurant serves lunch sets only during Friday to Sunday. It is so popular that I recommend you to make a reservation in advance!

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Urausu Shrine （浦臼神社）| Habitat of Corydalis Ambigua and Dogtooth Violet | Urausu

Spring has come in Hokkaido! Have you ever seen a habitat of Corydalis ambigua and dogtooth violets? You must be impressed with the beauty after reading this post!!!

Urausu Shrine is near Mitinoeki (Roadside Station) Tsurunuma　（道の駅つるぬま）. Please park your car there, and let's go!!!

I was so excited that I ran up the steps very quickly!!! I could't wait!!! Hahaha!

This is the main hall of Urausu Shrine （浦臼神社）, which was constructed in 1910.

Well, well, well, are you ready?

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Voila!!!

This is like a flower carpet!!! 

The precinct is filled with Corydalis ambiguae!!! Beautiful, aren't they???

We were so impressed with the seasonable flowers in the spring time!!!

This flower usually blooms at the end of April to the early May!

If you want to see them, please be in a hurry!!!

How about the violet carpet??

This shrine is very famous for a habitat of Corydalis ambigua and dogtooth violets.

From the shrine, Urausu Park can be enjoyed like this↓

I love this town very much!!!

I'll be back to this town in a wine-making season. Actually there is a famous winery in this town!!

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DOME RESTAURANT Kitakitsune （北喜常）| Tsukigata

If you want to enjoy foods and ingredients produced in Tsukigata, why don't you go to "DOME RESTAURANT Kitakitsune （北喜常）" near Tsukigata hot spring? This dome building was constructed by the owner! It is so outstanding that you cannot miss it!

Let's enter it!!

The chef told me that their meat dishes are very recommendable!! Sounds wonderful!!!

Look at the board! They use local and seasonable ingredients!!! I love this concept!!

Here comes beef steak! This salad is very very fresh and yummy x 2!!! Actually Tsukigata is a famous agricultural town in Hokkaido!

I love beeeeeeeef!!!!

Looks perfect!

I poured their home-made green perilla sauce over the sirloin, and enjoyed it! Yummy x 2!!!

But actually this set was much much better!!!!

Do you have any idea what it is on the pork steak?

This is grated mountain horseradish grown in this town. Mountain horse radish in Hokkaido is different from wasabi horseradish, and we eat it with steak like this as well as with rice or fish! We really enjoyed this seasonable ingredient only during the spring time!!!

Would you like to eat it?? Hahaha!

How about sperm eggs, whose mothers are raised on floor level? Of course they are produced in Tskigata!

We ordered this natto produced in this town, too!

The beans taste very thick and tastey! Yummy x 2!!!

Look at the egg! The yolk is raised, and looks very appetizing, doesn't it?? (Yes, of course!!!)

Wow! Wow! Wow! Tastes very rich!!!!

Last but not least, we ordered milk fresh from a cow raised in this town!

We fully enjoyed ingredients in this town today!!!

Just for reference, the season of mountain horseradish is very limited, but we can buy it at this restaurant now! 

Tsukigata is also famous for tomatoes. How about their tomato juice???

Their home-made jam looks very tastey! Of course, the ingredients are produced in this town!

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