takayama SAKANA

Fine dining of selected seasonal ingredients and the highest quality of Hida beef can be enjoyed in a peaceful location.

Sakana Restaurant in Takayama serves seasonal cuisine. Most of dishes are made from local products such as highly acclaimed Hida-Beef, also we go into the mountains by ourselves to get wild ingredients. In this diary, I'd like to make some notes of seasonal food and scenes of Hida area.

Season of wild vegetables

Spring food Spring scene

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Tara-no-me　（Aralia elata）

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Koshiabura（Acanthopanax sciadophylloides）

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Kogomi（Ostrich fern shoot)

Spring shoots and buds are sprouting everywhere. We go out the fields and mountains to pick them for the menu.

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Wild garlic

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Wild vegetables are very popular for Japanese guests and they come from everywhere in Japan to enjoy this season's limited local cuisine. 

However for some guests who come from overseas it may be challenging to have unfamilier tastes, so I personally recommend for those people, to have Hida-beef course rather 'eating local landscape'.

by Kay