Ristorante Kaoru （レストランテ 薫）| Italian Restaurant | Ebetsu （江別）

I've found a wonderful Italian restaurant in Ebetsu.
This is "Ristorante Kaoru （レストランテ 薫）", not located on the main street, and easy to miss it. Please be careful!

The secret restaurant has only four tables, and you should make a reservation in advance!
Time passes very slowly here. There are no noisy kids, or housewives, neither. Wonderful, isn't it?

This is a 1,500 yen course.
(If you want to order a 3,500 yen course, you should make a reservation at least one day before your visit day)

The focaccia is homemade and yummy x 2!!!

Look a the salmon, scallop, and asari clam↓, which are cooked at a low temperature.

The soup is not too rich, enhancing the seafood flavor itself!

All of them are heated properly, and appetizing!!!

This is today's pasta.
The Berkshire pork produced in Niikappu （新冠） is very tender and tastes deep!!

Next time, I'll order a 3,500 yen course!!!!
I'm so sad that I've missed their main dish today!!!!

This is today's dessert; mascarpone cheese cake and chestnut ice cream.

As I don't take caffeine, I ordered pineapple vinegar juice. How healthy it is!

I love everything in this restaurant; service, dishes, atmosphere, and smiles of the staff. They choose best ingredients produced in Hokkaido very carefully.

I'm sure I'll be back!

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Sake and Soba Kinsuian （酒とそば 錦水庵）| Soba Restaurant | Kuriyama （栗山）

We came to Kuriyama （栗山）, 1 hour away from Sapporo, to enjoy delicious sake. Let's go to "Kobayashi Sake Brewery （小林酒造）" first↓

We can try almost all kinds of sake brewed here↓ Wonderful, isn't it?
(If you are interested in the sake brewery and its sake brewery festival （酒蔵まつり）, please refer to my other post→★)

After enjoying fragrant sake, we went to "Sake and Soba Kinsuian （酒とそば 錦水庵）", a popular soba restaurant.

The house was built in the early 1900's and renovated as a restaurant recently. I love this nostalgic atmosphere!!!

If you love sake, I recommend prix-fixe menu.

They make soba from buckwheat produced in Hokkaido and mother water for sake. How great it is!

I'll show you a 2,000 yen prix-fixe.

■Baked soba miso （そば焼き味噌）
It really really really goes well with sake!!! You could drink a bottle of sake with this small amount of saba miso!!! Hahaha!

■Soba Salad （そばサラダ）
The topping is fried soba. How amazing it is!

■Deep-fried eggplants with minced duck （鴨みそ田楽）
The duck meat is seasoned with soy sauce and miso, and sooooooooooo delicious!!!

■Grilled duck （鴨料理）
Duck produced in Fukagawa （深川） is very famous. When you come to Hokkaido, you should try it!

We really enjoyed sake with these dishes.......

■Two kinds of soba （そば合盛）
I love this course.
Inaka soba （田舎そば） is made of whole grains of buckwheat. That's why it is dark brown. And seiro （せいろ） is made of milled buckwheat.

Both of them are made of same buckwheat, but have different fragrance!!! We enjoyed comparing with each other....

Just for reference,
this is soba with duck tempura （鴨天そば）↓, a seasonable soba available only during the winter time.

Hot soba and cold soba taste completely different, although the noodles are the same! How interesting it is!!

The tempura absorbs the yummy x yummy broth!!

We cannot finish the course without sobayu （そば湯）, soba water.

■Soba mochi with red bean sauce （そばがきしるこ）

This is a hot dessert, which is very soft and spongy. I love it!

It goes well with green tea! I feel so happy I was born in Japan!!

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Dining Kinoya （ダイニング 木の家）| Italian Restaurant | Ebetsu （江別）

It is snowing heavily in Hokkaido..... How about your place?
Today we went to "Dining Kinoya （ダイニング 木の家）" to eat delicious pasta↓

Happy New Year!!

Let me see.... What should I order?
I wanted to eat pasta, but now want to eat risotto, too.... Hahaha!

■Appetizer
Homemade ham, zucchini omelet, carrot and sweet potato salad
I love this omelet. It is fluffy and yummy x 2!!

The focaccia is freshly baked, and hot, hot, hot!!!

■Main 1
I ordered two mains(!!) This is pasta with beef tendon ragout and mozzarella cheese （牛すじ肉のラグー）. As I took a lot of collagen today, my skin will look younger tomorrow! Hahaha! I love this delicious ragout!

■Main 2
Cream cheese risotto with scallops （ホタテのクリームチーズリゾット）
As Japanese rice is used for this risotto, it is a kind of mixture of Japanese and Italian cuisine...
Surprisingly, it has a lot of scallops! Lucky me!!

■Dessert
Custard pudding and chocolate cake
Before coming here, I wanted to eat pudding for dessert!
Look at this↓
My dream comes true!!!

They constantly serve around 10 kinds of lunch sets at the price of 1,260 yen.

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Kokuichiban Ramen Midoriya （こく一番ラーメン みどりや）| Ramen Restaurant | Sapporo

When you come to Mt. Moiwa, why don't you drop by "Kokuichiban Ramen Midoriya （こく一番ラーメン みどりや）", a very popular ramen restaurant especially for big eaters like me↓

This restaurant is located by "Ropeway Iriguchi station （ロープウェイ入口）", and it's easy to find it.

Let's enter it!
Yes!! Their ramen is popular especially for men....
(If you finish reading this post, you'll understand the reason why a lot of young men often come here.!)

What should I order?

The pandas are so cute in the tatami-floored seating area! Hahaha!!

There two kinds of chopstick bags...... Why?

"Katsu Taisho （かつ大将）" is next to this ramen restaurant, and we can also eat their delicious curry and rice with cutlet. Naturally I ordered............

THE curry and rice!!
The breaded pork cutlet is very juicy and yummy x 2!!

This is miso ramen （味噌ラーメン）↓
Personally I recommend miso the best among all kinds of ramen served here.

The bowl is so big that you can get really full!!

The char siu is so tender that you don't need to bite it!!

The diced meet on the top has different texture! Perfect!

The ramen must make you hungry! Hahaha!

The broth is not so rich that you can drink it up!

This is fried rice （チャーハン）↓, the most delicious dish in the restaurant. I guess more than half of the guests coming here order it!
Well, well, well........
There is a big surprise here! It comes with so-called "soup".....

Voila!!
Did I make a mistake? I did say it comes with "soup"......!

Actually "soup" means in this restaurant "ramen"!
Yes!
When you order fried rice, it comes with half-sized ramen! How wonderful it is!!!

If you want to order something different, how do you like curry ramen?

I recommend a ramen and gyoza dumpling （餃子） set, too!

I'm sure you've already be a big fan of this ramen restaurant!!

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