Tsuruga buffet dining Sapporo — Restaurant in Sapporo

A different experience of buffet dinner.

Tables facing the windows catch the best scenery of the plaza. It was extremely beautiful when the plaza is covered with snow.

Make sure you have booked a table if you are planning to go there during the weekend. Orelse, you have to go somewhere else.

Instead of placing a large trunk of food in the heating tray for customers to take it out, the restaurant has divided and put the food into small plates. Customers wouldn't take too much for a single type of food. This would save the food from leftovers, and on the other hand, customers wouldn't get too full in a single type of food, which allows them to try more different types.

The food there is not like a global but more like a Hokkaido recipe. More focus on vegetables and carbohydrates instead of meats. If you are looking for a buffet dinner that has something different, this is definitely the right choice.

The room for improvement is that the re-supply of some dishes had been stopped around 8:30pm, which made me feel a little bit...

Sensational buffet and actually my favorite meal throughout a 1 week trip to Sapporo.

The food variety is okay, it's definitely a quality over quantity sort of place. You're given a tray to repeatedly use and each food item is actually individually portioned out. I guess this helps to stop people from overtaking certain food items.

The steak that they had was absolutely phenomenal in particular. The best buffet steak I ever had. Usually buffet steaks suck, but this one tastes like a piece of wagyu that you'd get from a teppanyaki restaurant.

They also have a soft serve machine which I think is a bit rare in Japan, and the quality for that was pretty good as well.

Overall within its price range, this is as good as buffets get. No idea why there was barely anybody there when I...

Very rare (brave? foolish?) for a ¥2700 place to include self-service steak. Even the pricier places tend to gate it behind a person you need to request it from.

Everything was beautiful and perfectly seasoned. The desserts were lackluster, typical buffet desserts. The creme brulee was good though. The place is also well-decorated and it was so cozy watching the snow outside while warm and eating inside.

I would've expected a longer line for a place of this quality at this price, but there was none. Would come back if I'm...