Soup Curry Garaku – Sapporo – the best curry soup in town

Soup Curry Garaku offers the best curry soup in town. Sapporo is known for several dishes, including miso corn ramen and soup curry. This restaurant is located underground and can be an easy to miss location. When we arrived just before 5:00 pm on a Tuesday night, we didn’t get into closer to 7:00 pm. The soup curry is incredibly delicious and comes with the best vegetables and condiments I’ve ever had with curry!

Soup Curry Garaku's shop front — Soup Curry Garaku’s shop front

Highlights	You can order your choice of chicken, pork or lamb with mushrooms and vegetables at your spiciness and can go small or medium rice for the same fee (or large for an extra 110 yen)
Cost	1,390 yen for pork and seven mushrooms with rice
Location	Japan, 〒060-0062 Hokkaido, Sapporo, Chuo Ward, Minami 2 Jonishi, 2 Chome−６−1 おくむらビル B１
Website	http://www.s-garaku.com/

Soup curry is a must try experience in Sapporo! What better way to experience it, then the best restaurant in town.

Soup Curry Garaku is located in Sapporo’s CBD, close to Tanukikoji shopping area. You have to take the stairs down to its basement where you can indicate the number of people in your entourage and then wait until your ticket number is called. The wait was over an hour long, but it was totally worth the wait. (Most good, affordable things require waiting in Japan.)

Use the machine to collect your ticket and prepare for the long wait

We were seating on the bench instead of a table. We were given the English menu on being seated.

The menu prices are very reasonable with curry soup prices ranging from 1,190 yen for vegetable curry soup and rice to 1,490 yen for peppered lamb curry soup and rice. There is the option to change the spiciness of the curry and there is no price difference going with either a small or medium plate of turmeric rice. But if you choose large rice, it’s an extra 110 yen.

This is a double sided menu. There is also an English menu.

As we waited for our curry soup and rice, they had aprons on the table that patrons can wear. (I thought this was really considerate, but wholly unnecessary in my opinion.)

The seating arrangement inside the restaurant.

Out of this world quality food that makes you wonder why this hasn’t been your radar

When the soup curry came out – the aromatic smell was bliss! I could taste it from afar. I ordered their pork and 7 mushroom soup curry, which comes with sliced pork, 7 types of mushrooms and several vegetables and a quail egg. The broccoli was deep fried to perfection, the potato was soaked in a delicious gravy, and just about everything was full of flavour and full of texture. For example, the broccoli retained its full shape, while still offering a blissful crisp, and you could tell that they had marinated it before it was added to the soup curry. Even something like the lotus was just beautifully cooked.

In all honestly, I had no trouble finishing the whole soup curry. No soup remained. Absolute bliss was achieved!

The turmeric rice is also worthy of attention – it served as a wonderful companion to the soup curry. It didn’t take from the spotlight, rather it help enhance the soup curry more when the rice and soup were combined in one spoonful.