[PICANTE Head Office in Sapporo] I Ate Pica-Special at Popular Soup Curry Restraunt

PICANTE

PICANTE (ピカンティ) is a popular soup curry restraunt founded in 2000 in Kita ward, Sapporo city, and is near Kita 13-Jo Gate that is famous for Lined Gingko Trees in Hokkaido University. The restraunt is popular with Hokkaido University students, and was given the Michelin Plate by MICHELIN GUIDE Hokkaido 2017 Special Edition. Mr. Osamu Sudo (須藤修) is a restraunt owner. By the way, the PICANTE means "Spicy hot" in Portuguese. Originally, the PICANTE used to be a restraunt called VOYAGE founded in 1996. PICANTE Sapporo-ekimae Branch and Vajraroad in Sendai are sister restraunts.

Lined Gingko Trees with Fall Foliage in Hokkaido University

Lined Gingko Trees with Fall Foliage in Hokkaido University (北海道大学イチョウ並木) is a beauty spot for fall foliage near Sapporo Station. It takes about 1 minute from Sapporo Subway Namboku Line Kita 12 Jo Station (地下鉄南北線「北12条駅」) to here. The Hokkaido University is commonly called Hokudai (北大), and becomes popular nationwide. The total site area of the Hokkaido University include various forests used for research is about 660 km2, and is comparable with about 1/570 of Japanese land. It is very vast site. Read More

The restraunt has an atomosphere such as an Indian restaurant. Red walls stand out. Counter seats and table seats are provided, and there are a lot of tables, so I guess that family customers enjoy their meals. But a line may be expected at lunchtime.

SAPPORO

Sapporo (札幌) that about 1,960,000 people live is the largest city in Hokkaido. Although there are various theories, its origin of the name is "Dry Big River (乾いた大きな川)" in Ainu language. A population of the Sapporo is the 4th largest city after Yokohama, Osaka and Nagoya in japan, and the population accounts for 36 % of Hokkaido's population! So the Sapporo has been flourished as the center of the Hokkaido. The area of the Sapporo is 1,121.26 km2, and is about as big as Hong Kong, and is the 7th largest city in the Hokkaido. The Sapporo is also famous as a tourist city, and about 15 million people come. As for a climate, it is hot that temperature rises to nearly 25 degrees in a summer, but it is easy to live without moisture. I always feel a little cool. It is cold that temperature falls to nearly -10 degrees in a winter, and amount of snowfall sometimes has more than 1 m. Read More

Soup Curry

Soup curry (スープカレー) is a dish to eat rice into soup using various spices with vegetables and meats. Only curry and rice was once a curry dish in Japan, but the soup curry has become popular for these 20 years. Ajanta (アジャンタ) and Magic Spice (マジックスパイス) in Sapporo sparked the soup curry boom, and it is said that the origin of the soup curry is medicinal cooking curry (薬膳カリィ) cooked by Mr. Muneo Tatsujiri (辰尻 宗男), ex-restraunt owner of the Ajanta, and a new genre of a curry dish has been established. After that, Mr. Taizan Shimomura (下村 泰山), a restraunt owner of the Magic Spice, named the curry dish as the soup curry, and it has widely spread. Read More

Soup Curry

I visited here around 11:30 on a weekday. I sat at a table seat, and read a menu. A way of ordering is as follows. Step1 is that customers should choose a type of soup, Step2 is that the customers should choose a type of soup curry, Step3 is that the customers should choose a type of hotness, and Step 4 is that the customers should choose toppings. I chose standard soup named 38okunen-no-Kaze (38億年の風) at Step1, and chose Pica-Special (ピカスペシャル * fried soft boiled egg, maitake mushroom tempura, chicken leg and fried burdocks) soup curry at Step2, and chose typical hotness named Chikaku-no-tobira (知覚の扉) at Step 3, and did not choose the topping at Step 4. The price was JPY 1050.

About 25 minutes later, the Pica-Special Soup Curry was served. While waiting for the soup curry, the restraunt was about full. As I expected, here was popular. The Pica-Special had full of ingredients, and each cutted ingredients were large-size! I particularly favorited the fried soft boiled egg, the maitake mushroom tempura and the fried burdocks. Rice was turmeric rice, and went well with the soup. I savored a spicy hot taste, too. Thanks for the tasty meals!

Pica-Special Soup Curry and Atmosphere of Restaurant Can Be Watched on Youtube

Movie of Pica-Special Soup Curry

List of Accommodations

Refer to following websites for the accommodations in the Kita Ward. You can get information regarding online reviews and photos.

Sapporo Clark Hotel(札幌クラークホテル)	HP	Booking	Jalan	Rakuten
Hotel Mystays Sapporoeki Kitaguchi(ホテルマイステイズ札幌駅北口)	HP	Booking	Jalan	Rakuten
Apa Hotel TKP Sapporoeki Kitaguchi(アパホテル(TKP札幌駅北口) EXCELLENT)	HP	Booking	Jalan	Rakuten
Hotel Route Inn Sapporoeki Kitaguchi(ホテルルートイン 札幌駅前北口)	HP	Booking	Jalan	Rakuten
Toyoko Inn Sapporoeki Kitaguchi(東横イン札幌駅北口)	HP	Booking	Jalan	Rakuten
Hotel My Stays Sapporo Aspen(ホテルマイステイズ札幌アスペン)	HP	Booking	Jalan	Rakuten
Hotel Sunroute Sapporo(ホテルサンルート札幌)	HP	Booking	Jalan	Rakuten
Hotel WBF Sapporo North Gate(ホテルWBF札幌ノースゲート)	HP	Booking	Jalan	Rakuten
Hotel Keihan Sapporo(ホテル京阪 札幌)	HP	Booking	Jalan	Rakuten
Hotel Mets Sapporo(ホテルメッツ札幌)	HP	Booking	Jalan	Rakuten
HOTEL LiVEMAX Sapporo-Ekimae(ホテルリブマックス札幌駅前)	HP	Booking	Jalan	Rakuten
Hokkaido Christian Center(北海道クリスチャンセンター)	HP	Booking	Jalan	Rakuten
Keio Prelia Hotel Sapporo(京王プレリアホテル札幌)	HP	Booking	Jalan	Rakuten
Residence Hotel Stripe Sapporo(レジデンスホテル ストライプサッポロ)	HP	Booking	Jalan	Rakuten
Business Inn Norte II(ビジネスイン ノルテII)	HP	Booking	Jalan	Rakuten
Ten to Ten Sapporo Station(Ten to Ten 札幌ステーション)	HP	Booking	Jalan	Rakuten
Sapporo House Seminar Center(札幌ハウスセミナーセンター)	HP	Booking	Jalan	Rakuten
Hokkaido Daiichi Hotel Sapporo(北海道第一ホテルサッポロ)	HP	Booking	Jalan	Rakuten
Hotel Sapporo Sun Plaza(ホテル 札幌サンプラザ)	HP	Booking	Jalan	Rakuten
UNTAPPED HOSTEL(UNTAPPED HOSTEL)	HP	Booking	Jalan	Rakuten
SAKURA239(SAKURA239)	HP	Booking	Jalan	Rakuten
North Ridge Hotel Sapporo(ノースリッジホテルサッポロ)	HP	Booking	Jalan	Rakuten
Chateraise Gateaux Kingdom Sapporo(シャトレーゼ ガトーキングダムサッポロ ホテル＆スパリゾート)	HP	Booking	Jalan	Rakuten