Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Gifu from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Gifu
Gifu’s course-led dining is clearest in these rooms, where Japanese, sushi, and creative cooking all use fixed formats.
Yanagiya in Mizunami serves seasonal Japanese irori country cuisine through tasting menu, set menu, and prix fixe formats. Its programme includes an extensive wine list, and the meal is built around wild ingredients and local game grilled over an irori charcoal hearth in a relocated farmhouse.
Kobanzushi in Gifu City is a traditional Japanese sushi omakase counter with counter dining and a sake programme. It holds Tabelog Bronze in 2025 and 2026, plus Tabelog 100 recognition in 2025.
Yoshina in Gifu City offers creative Japanese course dining through tasting menu and set menu formats. The meal centres on seasonal courses and the chef’s signature dish, with a Tabelog 100 selection in 2025.
Gifu’s meat-led dining is broad, from Hida beef steakhouse cooking to yakitori and charcoal grilling in compact rooms.
Hida Gyu Grill Bakuro in Komeyacho is a modern Hida beef steakhouse with set menu, tasting menu, and a la carte options. It focuses on vacuum low-temperature aged Hida beef in refined course form, and the restaurant holds Tabelog 100 Steak / Teppanyaki EAST recognition for 2025.
Mizuki in Yanagase is a yakitori restaurant with counter dining and a la carte service. The kitchen grills Omi Jidori chicken over Kishu Binchotan charcoal, and the room pairs that with a sake programme and Tabelog Bronze awards from 2025 and 2026.
Sake no Tori in Jūnoecho / central Gifu is a traditional yakitori and sake bar with counter dining, small plates, and a la carte service. Its drinks side includes sake and beer, and the focus stays on grilled chicken in a compact evening room.
Gifu City has 5 venues in our guide, including Kobanzushi, Yoshina, Mikazuki Bar, and Setsu Gekka Nagara. Mizunami has 2: Yanagiya and Belle Equipe, both with wine lists. Nagara venues are DA GENNARO and Senryu. Yanagase includes the yakitori restaurant Mizuki. Kandamachi includes Benten Do, a wagashi and Western sweets shop. Kinpocho includes BAROSSA cocktailier, which serves cocktails made with local botanicals.
Gifu has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide: none of the 38 restaurants included in our citywide guide holds a Michelin star, and there are no Michelin stars in total among those restaurants.
The tasting-menu rooms in our guide include Yanagiya in Mizunami, Yoshina in Gifu City, Sakana in Takayama, Shosai Chinese Hiro in Takamicho, Hida Gyu Grill Bakuro in Komeyacho, and BAROSSA cocktailier in Kinpocho. Yanagiya serves seasonal Japanese irori country cuisine. Sakana serves Hida seasonal Japanese kaiseki, and Hida Gyu Grill Bakuro specialises in vacuum low-temperature aged Hida beef steak.
Yanagiya in Mizunami has an extensive wine list. Belle Equipe in Mizunami, Sakana in Takayama, Tsubaki in Uchikoshi, and Mizuki in Yanagase also have wine lists. Sake is the main drink at several yakitori and sushi rooms, including Sake no Tori in Jūnoecho / central Gifu and Kobanzushi in Gifu City.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
Best of Gifu
Gifu
Selected entries from the current guide for Gifu.
Gifu, Japan
Yanagiya in Mizunami, Gifu prefecture, is one of Japan's most consistently decorated regional restaurants, holding Tabelog Silver and ranking as high as #19 on Opinionated About Dining's Japan list. Built around an irori hearth and the seasonal rhythms of central Japan, it serves wild game in autumn and river fish in summer to guests willing to make the journey out of the city.
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Koban Zushi Tanagura has held the Tabelog Bronze Award every year from 2017 through 2026, placing it among the more consistently recognised sushi counters in Fukushima Prefecture. Fifteen seats, private tatami rooms, and a programme centred on Edo-style technique and locally sourced fish make it the anchor dining address in Tanagura. Dinner runs JPY 15,000–19,999; lunch from JPY 8,000.
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Yakitori Mizuki occupies the second floor of a building in Gifu's Kandamachi district, where Shiga Omi chicken grilled over Kishu binchotan charcoal has earned consecutive Tabelog Bronze Awards from 2022 through 2026 and seven successive selections to the Tabelog Yakitori Top 100. An à la carte format lets guests order at their own pace, with counter seating, tatami, and private rooms for parties up to twenty.
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Tsubaki gives Gifu’s yoshoku tradition a serious, ingredient-led reading rather than a nostalgic one. Its Tabelog Award Bronze run from 2022 through 2026, Tabelog score of 4.18, and inclusion in Tabelog 100 Yoshoku EAST 2025 place it in a narrow national conversation around Japanese-style Western cooking, steak, hamburger steak, fish, and wine-minded service.
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Sakana belongs to the sourcing-led side of Gifu dining: regional Japanese cooking shaped by Hida produce, fish, sake and the mountain-town appetite for beef. Its Tabelog Bronze recognition from 2024 through 2026 and 3.93 score put it in a narrower bracket than casual soba or sweets stops, with a format better suited to planned meals than spontaneous grazing.
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hiro gives Gifu a serious Chinese dining address rather than a token category entry. The draw is not spectacle but format: a compact room, counter and table seating, private rooms, Tabelog Bronze recognition in 2025 and 2026, and a Chinese-plus-dim-sum register that fits Japan’s ingredient-led fine-dining habits.
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Aka Renga gives Gifu’s yoshoku scene a serious, old-school reference point: Japanese-style Western cooking with steak in the mix, selected for Tabelog’s Yoshoku EAST 100 in 2025. The appeal is less about ceremony than category discipline, a compact room, a no-frills payment culture, and the kind of local following that makes regional yoshoku worth planning around.
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Akane Ya sits in Gifu’s compact dinner culture as a small yakiniku-and-Chinese room with counter seating, a Tabelog 100 Yakiniku EAST 2025 selection, and a format built for grill-led meals rather than ceremony. The appeal is the overlap: Japanese barbecue technique, Chinese side dishes, sake, shochu, and wine in a city better known to many travelers as a gateway to cormorant fishing and castle views.
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Gifu’s Spanish dining scene is small enough that format matters: bar counter, wine, cocktails, paella, and a meal paced for conversation rather than ceremony. BAR-BAROSSA brings that Spanish baru rhythm into Kinpocho, with 18 seats, a Tabelog 100 Spanish Cuisine 2026 selection, and a menu orbiting vegetables, fish, wine, cocktails, and paella.
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Gifu’s serious cocktail culture is small, selective, and less performative than the hotel-bar circuits of larger Japanese cities. BAROSSA cocktailier sits in that lane with Tabelog Bar “Tabelog 100” 2022 recognition, a compact counter-led format, wine as well as cocktails, and a price band that signals a focused drinking room rather than a casual after-work stop.
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A 2026 Tabelog Award Bronze winner and Tabelog French EAST '100' selection, Belle Equipe brings French technique to Mizunami in Gifu Prefecture, a region better known for ceramics than cuisine. With a Tabelog score of 4.04, a 24-seat room with private dining options, and dinner averaging JPY 10,000–14,999, it offers serious French cooking at a considerable distance from Japan's metropolitan fine-dining circuits.
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Benten Do places Gifu’s wagashi culture in a low-cost, take-out format rather than a restaurant setting. The Kandamachi shop is listed in Tabelog’s 2023 Hyakumeiten selection for Japanese traditional sweets and sweets cafés in East Japan, with a sub-¥999 spend band, no seating, and a practical city-centre position near Meitetsu Gifu Station.
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Chaya Akawani places Gifu’s sweets-cafe tradition in a compact, low-key register: Japanese sweets, kakigori and udon rather than ceremony for ceremony’s sake. Its Tabelog 100 selection for Japanese traditional sweets and sweets-cafe categories gives it a clear signal in a city better known to many travellers for Hida beef and riverside culture.
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Chuka Dining Hanabi gives Gifu’s Chinese dining scene a compact, ingredient-led address with national recognition from Tabelog’s Chinese EAST 100 selection in 2023, 2024, and 2026. Its appeal sits in the gap between everyday neighborhood Chinese restaurants and formal banquet rooms: small scale, no private-room theatrics, and a price band that keeps the cooking within reach.
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DA ACHIU places Italian, pizza, and pasta cooking into central Gifu’s station-side dining circuit rather than the resort or destination-restaurant category. Its Tabelog Italian EAST 100 selection in 2025, earlier Pizza 100 selections, compact 35-seat scale, and moderate pricing make it a useful address for readers weighing Gifu’s casual-specialist dining against heavier beef-led meals and cocktail-led evenings.
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Gifu’s pizza scene is small, but DA GENNARO gives it a serious national reference point: a Nagara pizzeria selected for Tabelog 100 Pizza in 2025 and 2023. The draw is not ceremony, but ingredient-led cooking in a 25-seat room where counter seating, family use, and solo dining all fit the format.
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Gishu puts Gifu’s dumpling culture into a compact, counter-led format rather than a formal dining frame. Its Tabelog 100 Dumplings selections in 2019, 2021, and 2024 give it a clear national signal, while the small room and take-out option keep the experience rooted in the city’s everyday Chinese-Japanese eating habits.
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Gifu’s beef culture is the point here: Hida beef moves from regional ingredient to full steakhouse subject, with grill, beef dishes, and meat courses carrying the meal. Hida Gyu Grill Bakuro has Tabelog 100 Steak / Teppanyaki EAST recognition for 2025, plus prior selections in 2024 and 2022, placing it in a serious regional category rather than a casual tourist stop.
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Gifu’s beef culture is inseparable from Hida-gyu, and this Kandamachi address treats the ingredient through yakiniku, sukiyaki and shabu shabu rather than a single-course format. Selection for Tabelog 100 Yakiniku EAST 2025 gives it a clear trust signal in a city where cattle provenance matters as much as technique.
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Kawaramachi Izumiya places Gifu’s river-city food culture in a compact house-restaurant format, with Japanese and regional cooking focused on fish, sake, shochu, and wine. Its selection for Tabelog Japanese Cuisine EAST 100 in 2025 and 2023 gives it a clear credential, while the price band keeps it closer to serious local dining than luxury kaiseki theatre.
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Kikyo En Honten gives Gifu a serious yakiniku address with repeated Tabelog 100 recognition and a format built around Japanese barbecue, tripe, and Korean-leaning accompaniments. The appeal is sourcing-led rather than theatrical: beef is the point, with private rooms, group capacity, sake, shochu, wine, and cocktails supporting a broad dinner audience.
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Kochouan Semba gives Gifu’s soba tradition a serious low-price anchor: buckwheat noodles, sake, a 26-seat house-restaurant format, and repeated selection in Tabelog’s Soba 100, including the EAST 2025 list. It suits travellers who care less about spectacle than sourcing discipline, regional noodle craft, and the quiet confidence of a specialist lunch room.
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Mikazuki Bar brings Gifu’s small-room dining culture into the Asian, ethnic, curry and Indian category, with counter seating, a 10-seat scale and Tabelog 100 selection for Asian cuisine and Ethnic cuisine EAST in 2022, 2023 and 2024. It suits travelers who care less about ceremony and more about a focused, ingredient-led cooking format close to the station district.
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Prelude Fukumitsu ten places Gifu’s cake, bread, and cafe culture inside Japan’s serious sweets circuit, with repeated selection for Tabelog Sweets EAST “Tabelog 100” in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, and 2023. The appeal is not luxury theatre but a regional patisserie format with take-out utility, family-friendly ease, and a price point that keeps it anchored in everyday local life.
Gifu
Selected entries from the current guide for Gifu.
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Gifu
Selected entries from the current guide for Gifu.
No venues found.
Gifu
Selected entries from the current guide for Gifu.
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