Best Tasting Menus in Gifu
Yanagiya in Mizunami and Sakana in Takayama have wine lists, and Yanagiya has an extensive wine list. Gifu’s tasting-menu scene in our guide includes omakase counters, seasonal Japanese courses, refined Chinese cooking, Hida beef steak, and cocktail tasting menus. Yanagiya serves wild ingredients and local game grilled over an irori charcoal hearth in a relocated farmhouse. Kobanzushi in Gifu City is a sushi omakase counter with a sake programme. Yoshina in Gifu City serves creative Japanese seasonal courses. Sakana in Takayama offers Hida seasonal Japanese kaiseki as omakase and a tasting menu. Shosai Chinese Hiro in Takamicho serves refined Chinese as a tasting menu and a la carte. Hida Gyu Grill Bakuro in Komeyacho serves vacuum low-temperature aged Hida beef steak. BAROSSA cocktailier in Kinpocho makes cocktails using local botanicals.
How this list is chosen: Restaurants serving a tasting menu or omakase, listed alphabetically. Updated October 8, 2026.
BAROSSA cocktailier
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.
Hida Gyu Grill Bakuro
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.
Kobanzushi
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.
Sakana
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.
Shosai Chinese Hiro
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.
Yanagiya
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.
Yoshina
Yoshina brings creative Japanese cooking into Gifu’s quieter residential dining circuit rather than the city’s station-front restaurant strip. Its selection for Tabelog’s Innovative / Creative Cuisine 100 in 2025 places it in a national conversation about small-format Japanese restaurants using local rhythm, technique, and restraint without leaning on luxury-city theatrics.
たか田 八祥
たか田 八祥 occupies a quiet address in Sugiyamacho, one of Gifu's more considered dining pockets, where the kitchen draws on the prefecture's agricultural and riverine larder rather than chasing metropolitan trends. The cooking here is rooted in place in ways that distinguish it from Gifu's broader restaurant scene. For travellers willing to approach the city on its own terms, this is a serious table.
Planning tasting menus in Gifu
- Which tasting-menu restaurant in Gifu has the strongest wine programme?
- Yanagiya in Mizunami has an extensive wine list in our Gifu guide. Its tasting menu, set menu, and prix fixe formats are paired with seasonal Japanese irori country cuisine and wild ingredients grilled over an irori charcoal hearth.
- Which tasting-menu rooms in Gifu City appear in your guide?
- Kobanzushi and Yoshina in Gifu City appear in this category. Kobanzushi serves sushi omakase at a counter and has a sake programme. Yoshina offers creative Japanese course dining through tasting menu and set menu formats, with seasonal courses built around the chef’s signature dish.
- Where can I find tasting menus built around beef in Gifu?
- Hida Gyu Grill Bakuro in Komeyacho is the beef-led tasting-menu choice in our guide. It specialises in modern Hida beef steakhouse cooking and offers set menu, tasting menu, and a la carte formats, with Hida beef at the centre of the meal.
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