In December 2025, the Sapporo Prince Hotel, located near Odori Park in central Sapporo, completely renovated its restaurant. The newly opened "All Day Dining Grandeur" offers a lunch buffet with about 50 different dishes, focusing on ingredients from Hokkaido. From a live carving station featuring Hokkaido pork roast to Ezo deer pasta and exquisite hotel-made sweets, it has it all. Here's a detailed look at this hot new Sapporo hotel buffet, which you can enjoy with no time limit.

The Sapporo Prince Hotel, which started its lunch buffet in 2004, boasts excellent access, just a 3-minute walk from Nishi 11-chome Station on the Subway Tozai Line and a short distance from Odori Park. In December 2025, the restaurant underwent a full renovation, revamping the lunch buffet and adding a new lounge area. The bright, open, high-ceilinged space is designed with Hokkaido's great nature as its motif, creating a casual yet serene atmosphere.

Relax in the earth-toned interior

The concept is "Everyone Made Special - A Gift from Fun Hokkaido." The menu focuses on Hokkaido-style cuisine, primarily using meat, fish, and vegetables from the region. Each dish is a testament to the chef's passion for the ingredients, all prepared with intricate care. They strive to make as much as possible from scratch, including their sauces and dressings. The buffet features about 50 Western-style dishes, with the menu changing approximately every two months.

The "White Bouillabaisse Hokkaido Cotriade" has a deep, rich flavor from seafood stock

A rare find for a buffet: "Ezo Deer Ragu Sauce Pasta" made with Hokkaido Ezo deer

While it's a buffet, they aim for the perfection of a single dish from a hotel restaurant, paying close attention to ingredient combinations, flavor variations, and visual beauty. Another great feature is their commitment to freshness; dishes are served in small portions and replenished frequently.

Camembert cheese skillet made with Inca no Mezame potatoes

"Rockfish, Olive, and Tomato Étuvé" uses a French cooking technique

At the spacious live kitchen stretching across the back of the buffet area, freshly cooked dishes are constantly served. Large cuts of roast meat are impressively carved right before your eyes and plated with sauce, like a course meal. The seafood chirashi is also beautifully arranged by the chef, providing the satisfaction of hotel-quality service.

Bone-in Hokkaido pork roast is carved on the spot

Served with two kinds of sauces and accompaniments

The noodle dishes of the day were bisque noodles and truffle mazesoba

While buffet salads are typically just a lineup of individual vegetables like lettuce, tomatoes, and cucumbers, here they are prepared as deli-style side salads. Each has a different seasoning and flavor, ensuring you never get bored. The hotel-made breads, perfect for pairing with the deli items, are small and ideal for a buffet! With a wide array of dressings and toppings, making your own open-faced sandwich is also recommended.

Elaborately crafted deli salads with tangy, smoky, and other flavors

Small, easy-to-eat breads can be reheated in the toaster

The star of the dessert corner is the strawberry shortcake. Its appearance is stunning, and the quality is what you'd expect from a hotel, with plenty of strawberries, fresh cream, and fluffy sponge cake! Other sweets like tiramisu, apple pie, and Hokkaido milk pudding are all top-notch. And you can't miss the gelato. Made with Hokkaido milk, cream cheese, and haskap berries, this authentic gelato is rich, creamy, and delicious!

With its light sponge and high-quality fresh cream, you could eat this forever

They scoop it for you when you order, just like at a specialty shop. You can even get two or three flavors!

The drink bar offers standard coffee and tea, as well as vinegar drinks and flavored beverages. This drink bar is also available for café use without the buffet, for an all-you-can-drink price of 800 yen per person. They also have à la carte lunch items and light meals, so if you don't need a full buffet, pairing a lunch item with the drink bar is a great deal.

The refreshingly tart vinegar drinks are perfect for cleansing your palate

・Many dishes featuring ingredients from Hokkaido ・Bright and open space with high ceilings and windows ・Always fresh thanks to small portions and frequent refills ・A wide variety of live kitchen menu items! ・Exquisite, hotel-made sweets

*Photos were taken in February 2026. Menu items may vary by season.
*All prices include tax and service charge.