Asari Honten — Restaurant in Hakodate

Booking in advance is a must. No walk-in is allowed.

Upon arrival, all guests must took off shoes. Thrn be seated on the second floor. Very traditional tatami seating. The server would leave us a menu to choose from the main sukiyaki sets. For dinner, each guests needed to order at least one main sets. For us, we ordered (1) kuroge young cow's beef ranked A5 sirloin at 5000 yen. (2) kuroge wagyu ranked A5 rump meat at 4000 yen.

Firstly, the server will put the cow's oil first, then vegetable, then add in some sukiyaki soup and sauce. Then, she will put in kuroge young cow's beef ranked A5 sirloin. When the beef becomes medium to well, then we could start to eat. We been told to dip every pieces of beef and vege into the raw egg as this is the way Japanese people eat sukiyaki. This dipping really elevated the taste to next level. Wow. 5 stars.

We chose one rice and one udon as base to compliment the sukiyaki.

After finishing, the server would add in more soup, and kuroge wagyu ranked A5 rump meat. She asked us just to eat it as shabu shabu.

After finishing, we was presented the sorbet dessert. Delicious.

When we about to leave, the server had already taken our shoes from the shoe rack and placed them near the door. What's a...

Reservation required, no walk-ins as it’s a small business with few staff. We managed to get a next day lunch booking as we travelled in late Aug (non peak period). Didn’t see the 1,500¥ lunch special other people talked about. We ordered 2 set menus - 100g of A5 sirloin 6,000¥ and A3 sirloin 4,800¥, both come with tea, yuzu sorbet, vegetables, choice of udon noodles/ rice. You can taste the difference in the cut of the meat quality with the price difference. Personally A3 is very tasty already. Service is excellent, they prepare the sukiyaki for you. No AC, can be very hot / humid in summer. Our bill with drinks came...

I called to make reservation before dinner date almost 1.5 month earlier. It was almost fully booked. Then I have to revise my dinner time to be 4pm which was only period still available. The restaurant is around 5 min walk from Tram station and I was there 3:50PM. The restaurant told me that there is my name for reservation at 4PM. They had been trying to ask many questions but the result is no seat for us!!! It is really bad... very upset and disappointed!!!! For anyone who like to eat at this restaurant, pls ensure that they have been reserved a table for you. But for me this restaurant is not professional doing...