Gyuzen Sapporo Ekimae Doriten

Had my first shabu shabu in Hokkaido! Nice food good beef!

First of all, we booked a table at 19:30, Staff are nice and table is ready for us. We decided to take Sukiyaki ‘All you can eat’ option. Food is fine except it takes a while for staff to response. The big problem is ‘All you can eat’ allows 120 minutes is clearly stated on the menu, around 21:00( about 90 minutes passed)the staff came in and said last order has gone so we are not allow to order anymore. To be honest, I would be satisfied if the staff came in and say this will be the last chance to make an order instead of denying. Also, when we have the bill there were 4drinks where we only ordered 3drinks only. I still think the staff messed up the table number causing this series of problem. Overall attitude is good but very disappointed by the restaurant services.

Quality of meat : 3/5 not good but not bad Service : quite slow. Look like they shortage in manpower. Taste: pretty ok. Variety of food: 3/5 Overall, i rate around 2 out of 5.

There’s nothing better for dinner on a cold day than Shabu Shabu aka hotpot. Gyuzen offered an all you can eat wagyu menu ranging between 4 different cuts and regional beef. Keep in mind that all Japanese beef is wagyu beef. You can also choose the hotpot style either shabu shabu water), sukiyaki soy based mixture), or a mix of both. We ordered the mix pot with the black cattle 黒毛)package which costs 6,180 yen for 120 minutes. Along with the beef you can also order unlimited amount of vegetables, mushrooms, and noodles.The shabu shabu comes with the sesame and ponzu sauses table side while sukiyaki comes with the raw egg unlimited refills). The restaurant was very spacious enough room for us and our shopping bags. There are English menus so you shouldn’t have too much trouble, that being said the staff doesn’t understand much if any English so if you have questions use google translate. We came here during a weeknight so there were no lines or reservation required. The staff was very friendly and introduced the menu, but we did have to flag them down a few times to order more food and to add more soup before the pot dried up. The restaurant was on the pricey side and you can probably save money by ordering the domestic chuck or Hokkaido rib roast for ~3,200 yen and ~4,200 yen respectively. This is a chain restaurant around Japan so depending on where you are the cuts and region of the beef offered maybe different.

Very good quality meat at reasonable prices. Service was great and the experience was good. We had the all you can eat package for just under 4000 yen each. Very worthwhile.