Best Tasting Menus in Hakodate
In our guide, Hakodate’s two exceptional wine programs belong to tasting-menu restaurants in Tomiokacho and Motomachi. Enoteca La Ricolma in Tomiokacho has a four-seat omakase counter with owner-sommelier pairing and Italian cooking using Hokkaido ingredients. In Motomachi, maison FUJIYA Hakodate serves neo-classical French cooking with Hokkaido seafood, an extensive wine list and sake.
Colz adds a seasonal Italian-inspired tasting menu with an extensive wine list. Shunsai Shungyo Tajima in Tomiokacho serves fresh seafood and omakase courses in an izakaya with a sake-focused drinks list. Sushi Dokoro Minami in Suehirocho serves Hokkaido seafood omakase at a seven-seat counter with sake.
How this list is chosen: Restaurants serving a tasting menu or omakase, listed alphabetically. Updated October 8, 2026.
Colz
Colz gives Hakodate’s dining scene a precise Italian counterpoint to the city’s better-known seafood, ramen, curry, and sukiyaki addresses. Its selection for Tabelog Italian EAST 100 in 2025 and JPY 10,000–14,999 dinner band place it in the city’s serious reservation tier rather than the casual tourist circuit.
Enoteca La Ricolma
Deep wine list
A four-seat Italian enoteca operating out of a residential house in Hakodate's Tomiokacho district, Enoteca La Ricolma has held the Tabelog Bronze Award consecutively from 2024 through 2026 and appears in the Tabelog Italian EAST 100 list for both 2023 and 2025. Dinner runs on an omakase-only format, with an evening spend that reviewers place closer to JPY 20,000–29,999. Reservations are required and accepted by appointment only.
Main Dining BIACYA Restaurant
Main Dining BIACYA Restaurant brings Hakodate’s northern setting into a French-Japanese register, with Chef Norifumi Indo’s training acting as the technical bridge rather than the headline. The room’s Murano crystal chandeliers signal formality, while the kitchen’s regional focus, including Ezo venison from Tokachi, places it within Hokkaido’s produce-led dining culture.
maison FUJIYA Hakodate
Deep wine list
Hakodate’s serious French conversation is inseparable from Hokkaido produce, and maison FUJIYA Hakodate places that idea in a polished Motomachi setting rather than a metropolitan dining room. Tabelog Bronze recognition in 2024, 2025, and 2026, plus selection for Tabelog 100 French EAST in 2023 and 2025, puts it in a rare regional bracket for French cooking in northern Japan.
Shunsai Shungyo Tajima
Hakodate’s izakaya culture makes sense when seafood is treated as the anchor rather than a luxury add-on. Shunsai Shungyo Tajima sits in that fish-led lane, with Tabelog 100 Izakaya EAST selection in 2024 and 2025, a compact 35-seat format, private rooms, counter seating, and a sake-focused drinks list that suits a city built around the morning market and working port.
Sushi Dokoro Minami
Sushi Dokoro Minami belongs to Hakodate’s serious sushi tier: a seven-seat counter in Suehirocho, selected for Tabelog Sushi EAST “Tabelog 100” 2025, with dinner pricing in the JPY 20,000–29,999 bracket. The draw is less theatre than sourcing logic: Hokkaido seafood, sake, and a reservation-only format that keeps the room small and focused.
鮨処 木はら
A sushi counter in Hakodate's Yunokawa district, 鮨処 木はら sits within one of Hokkaido's most productive seafood corridors, where cold Tsugaru Strait currents deliver sea urchin, scallop, and squid to local boats year-round. The address places it away from the tourist-heavy harbour area, signalling a neighbourhood operation oriented toward local regulars rather than passing trade.
Planning tasting menus in Hakodate
- Which Hakodate tasting menus have the strongest wine programs?
- Enoteca La Ricolma in Tomiokacho and maison FUJIYA Hakodate in Motomachi have exceptional wine programs in our guide. Enoteca La Ricolma is a four-seat counter with owner-sommelier service, while maison FUJIYA Hakodate adds sake and sommelier-led service to its tasting-menu format.
- Which neighbourhoods are strongest for tasting menus in Hakodate?
- Tomiokacho, Motomachi, Suehirocho and Yunokawa have venues on our Hakodate tasting-menu list. Tomiokacho holds Enoteca La Ricolma and the seasonal izakaya Shunsai Shungyo Tajima, while Motomachi holds maison FUJIYA Hakodate. Suehirocho has Sushi Dokoro Minami, a seafood omakase counter, and Yunokawa has a sushi counter serving local ingredients.
- How many tasting-menu restaurants are in this Hakodate list?
- There are 6 restaurants in this category in our guide. The list includes omakase counters, a seasonal Italian-inspired tasting menu at Colz and sushi focused on Hakodate Bay seafood at Sushi Dokoro Minami. Shunsai Shungyo Tajima serves seasonal seafood omakase in an izakaya format.
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