Sapporo Lion restaurants offer a whole spectrum of unique tastes to make each and every dish served an unforgettable gastronomical experience.
Our guests look to us to operate restaurants that cater to their desire to raise a toast together with family members, friends, colleagues, significant others, and valued companions. Guests can choose from a wide variety of exceptional menu items, including draft beers of the highest quality, premium saké brands, dishes imbued with ingenuity, dishes made with the freshest ingredients, and more. It should be pointed out that genuine hospitality is the only common feature to be encountered at each and every one of our establishments.
The Beer Hall is our flagship restaurant and a citadel of time-honored draft beers. Guests are invited to savor a wide variety of high-quality draft beers poured by masters.
At our beer restaurants, guests can enjoy a meal with some draft beer amid a tranquil atmosphere. An extensive selection of menu items caters to a broad range of different age groups.
Brasserie is a French word meaning “brewery.” Originating in Germany, the beer hall concept eventually caught on in Paris. Unlike traditional beer halls that tend to appeal mostly to men, Brasserie is a beer hall with a French twist.
Ushiyazodan Aguranabe, a novel written by popular author Robun Kanagaki and published in 1871, introduces the practice of sitting cross-legged (agura style) while eating kaika-nabe, a dish that was in fashion at the time. The name of this restaurant was chosen as a clever play on words inspired by the title of this novel in hopes of incorporating this delightful spirit into establishments that offer a nice mixture of comfort and joviality to guests.
As a watering hole where guests can drink saké and converse at ease, this restaurant provides a setting designed to exude the ambience of a soba noodle shop from the Edo Period. High-quality buckwheat noodles and sumptuous food and drinks made with fresh ingredients are offered to guests at reasonable prices.
Guests are invited to savor kegs of beer imported directly from Ireland as well as unpretentious, delicious Irish fare while immersed in an authentic ambience of antique sensibilities.
Diners can enjoy a light meal with tea or coffee during the day and alcoholic beverages and snacks in the evening at Beer Café Lion D’Or, a place where anyone can drop by for a casual break.
Suikoen is a casual Chinese restaurant where guests can relish authentic cuisine and Kamedashi Chinese rice wine. A cheerful ambience is rendered in a setting appointed with colorful examples of ink-brush paintings.
Have your fill of epicurean delights in a restaurant divided up into different zones according to a layout that one might encounter in a typical palatial mansion. Tomoru offers a dining experience for guests who value spending time in such a state of opulence.
Beer Dining is a new style of restaurant rooted in the essence of beer. The pursuit of tastes that transcend Japanese, Western, and Chinese influences has given rise to acclaimed dishes and drinks that please the palate every time.
Rendered to recreate the look of a traditional folk dwelling, the interior of this restaurant evokes a sense of novelty rather than feelings of nostalgia. Kakoiya offers an authentic Japanese dining experience showcasing the finest ingredients and authentic shochu liquor obtained from suppliers across the country.
Coopers is a popular London pub where attention has been paid to authentic details and where guests can casually sit back and enjoy exceptional dinners and wines that are, true to the name of this restaurant, gastronomically inspired.
The Beer Garden is a large restaurant that can be found adjacent to breweries operated by Sapporo Breweries. Freshly made draft beer and wines are served with exquisite barbecue meals.
You are invited to enjoy dinner meals while requesting and listening to live performances of everything from German beer songs to operas, operettas, canzones, Japanese songs, and more along the same line. Guests who are observing their birthday or a wedding anniversary will be treated to a celebratory tune. Come and be enthralled by beloved hits and musical masterpieces that touch the soul.
An irimoya roof in Japanese architecture is commonly seen in traditional folk dwellings and other such structures in the Okuhida region. The name of this restaurant reflects a desire to evoke feelings of warm nostalgia in guests. You are invited to have your fill of wild fish shipped directly from Yawatahama, chickens bred in Miyazaki (known as “phantom chickens”), and other epicurean delights served with drinks selected from among around sixty of the finest authentic shochu liquor brands in the country.
Maruboshi is proud to serve charcoal-grilled dishes made with ingredients native to southern Kyushu—including firm, savory Miyazaki chicken and lean, succulent black pork—as well as such hometown favorites as hiyashiru (cold soup) and satsuma age (deep-fried fish cake) for its guests. Meals are nicely complemented by local brands of shochu liquor and sake brewed in Kyushu.
LOB has managed to recreate a powerful New York dining experience by incorporating elements of food culture from around the world—both East and West—into its own unique menu items. Treat your palate to healthy, dynamic seafood creations and local culinary inventions and choose from among a wide selection of cocktails, wines, shochu liquors, and other drinks.
J’s Table features a chic interior that combines nostalgic elements of Oriental design with the warm conviviality of the Mediterranean as inspired by a mansion built by a merchant trader named Jose, who had come from the Mediterranean coast to open up new markets in Japan. This casual dinner restaurant offers mainly seafood dishes at reasonable prices for guests to enjoy.
Guests at this pub can savor dishes made with sumptuous delicacies from Hokkaido. Drink at ease in individual booths or with a snack served with artisanal flair at the counter.
BUBU has managed to make ochazuke, a uniquely Japanese type of fast food dish that is familiar to one and all, into something original by focusing on the broth and ingredients. Each menu item can be enjoyed four different ways. Enjoy inventive examples of ochazuke like you’ve never had it before.
This restaurant is known as a place where guests are treated to an interior setting designed to recreate the dynamic essence of a fish market and can enjoy reasonably priced snacks that vary depending on which types of fresh fish can be procured through winning bids placed each morning at the Tsukiji Fish Market.
Saja means “lion” in Korean. This restaurant offers Korean cuisine, which is reputed to be good for the promotion of beauty and health, in a way that appeals to the Japanese palate. The setting is chic yet subdued for adult sensibilities and accentuated by Asian aesthetics.
Boasting a 540-person seating capacity, this beer hall is the largest of its kind in Sapporo and evokes history with its all-brick tunnel structure that was once used as a storehouse for beer. Thirteen different types of beer not found anywhere else are on tap here.
The Genghis Khan dish served by Bakuyotei is made with 180-day-old high-quality lamb raised in Australia; the lamb is thus fresh enough that there is no trace of gaminess in the meat. Because the lamb is hand sliced, the meat is characteristically thick, tender, and juicy. Guests are invited to savor one of four varieties of seasoning imparted with secret sauces rubbed into the meat by hand.
Spoken by locals in the Tohoku region of Japan, bange is a word that means “evening” or “supper”. This restaurant presents guests with dinner and a setting that reflect a vision of a tranquil hometown in which one might expect to see a village farmer surrounded by those gathered around his open hearth as they laugh and savor a homemade meal imbued with his sage wisdom and with the crops harvested from his fields and surrounding hills.
The name of this restaurant is derived from Mount Kamuro, the highest peak in the Kamuro Mountain Range, which in turn straddles the border between Yamagata and Akita prefectures and comprises peaks that are majestic despite their rather low profile. Guests can savor Japanese-style fast food dishes consisting of Yamagata soba noodles, a veritable Yamagata institution, as well as inaniwa udon noodles, a local specialty of Akita.
This restaurant serves shabu-shabu meals featuring the flavors of such exquisite ingredients as premium beef from Japanese Black cattle bred and raised in the vast fields of Tokachi. Also showcased are some of the best foods that Hokkaido has to offer, including Tokachi pork and Hokkaido-grown vegetables, seafood, and chicken procured mainly from around the Tokachi area according to the season.
This restaurant is named after Mount Osuzu, which is situated around the middle of Miyazaki towards the eastern side of the prefecture. On the menu are succulent Miyazaki chicken, procured from poultry raised on naturally grown feed on a vast site at the foot of Mount Osuzu, and authentic shochu liquor hand-brewed using subterranean water drawn from Mount Osuzu.
Guests are treated to charcoal-grilled and otherwise uniquely prepared a la carte dishes made using select Hokkaido delicacies from land and sea. The interior is appointed in traditional Japanese-style elements and wood surfaces whose warmth soothes the soul.
Yebisu Bar is a stylish, modern Japanese beer bar primarily serving Yebisu beers. Guests are given a choice of dishes that go exquisitely well with the unique tastes of Yebisu beers, such that they will no doubt feel that luck has been bestowed upon them by Ebisu, one of the seven lucky gods of Japan.