The restaurant was fully booked during the Obon holiday period. It seems to be a popular place in Kushiro. I'm looking forward to it! - Asahi Super Dry Medium Size ￥605 - Gyu-kaku Kalbi ￥649 - Medium Rice ￥319 - Gyu-kaku Kimchi ￥429 - Highball ￥550 - Black Wagyu Kalbi Comparison ￥1848 - Gyu-kaku Makgeolli ￥869 - Thick-cut Mino with Salt Sauce ￥759 The portions are relatively small and the meat is thinly sliced. The quality of the meat is not bad. I ordered the Black Wagyu Kalbi Comparison, but since the meat names were not specified, I couldn't really tell which was which. The Mino was a bit tough... The sauce tasted like a store-bought one with a slight acidity. Overall, it's not bad but not exceptionally delicious either. It's just average. The prices are a bit on the high side, but I guess it's understandable considering the high cost of living.

Until 6:00 PM on weekdays, all-you-can-eat buffet with 40 items costs 2,178 yen. Soft drinks and alcohol are not included. The quality of the food is not amazing, but considering the price and the current situation, they are doing quite well.

I arrived at the restaurant around 8 pm on Sunday in October. There were no customers waiting, but I was told the wait would be until around 9 pm... So I waited (๑•̀ - •́)و because I really felt like eating at Gyu-Kaku today. If I wait inside the restaurant or in my car, they will call me on my phone when it's my turn. I thought I would be called before 9 pm, but it was already past 9 pm_(-ω-`_)⌒)_ The restaurant was about 90% full. I was so hungry, so I quickly placed my order! But it's been a few years since I last came to Gyu-Kaku, and now they have touch panel screens for ordering! They said I need to take the touch panel to pay as well... Drinks will arrive in about 5 minutes. However, the meat dishes took over 10 minutes to arrive... The food was just too slow to come. It seemed like there were significantly fewer staff members, and they weren't able to clean the tables promptly. I was getting irritated because my order was taking forever to arrive even though I was so hungry haha. But the meat was still delicious as always ŧ‹"(๑´ㅂ`๑)ŧ‹" Especially the garlic-soy sauce marinated kalbi and the limited-time moon-viewing kalbi were so tasty! Even at a chain restaurant, the food is this good, which is great, right? But I feel like the ramen has lost some of its flavor compared to before... I ordered a half portion, but it was small in quantity... We also had dessert, but generally, after eating at a yakiniku restaurant, I just want to leave quickly. If the food had come faster, I would have given a higher rating. Compared to that, Goshikien, where the food arrives almost instantly after ordering, should have been rated higher... The limited-time menu looks good, so I think next time I'll try to go right when they open haha.

On this day, I had dinner with my colleagues. We decided to go for yakiniku and visited Gyukaku, which offers all-you-can-eat options. We chose the Early Bird all-you-can-eat (2,480 yen + tax) with all-you-can-drink soft drinks (300 yen + tax). The food we ate included pork tongue with salt sauce (△), thick-cut kalbi with tare sauce (○), thick-cut kalbi with salt sauce (○), deliciously fatty kalbi with tare sauce (○), miso beef hormone (◎), spicy and delicious paitoro (△), sagari with tare sauce (○), sagari with salt sauce (○), kalbi rice (○), rice (○), and wakame soup (△). Considering the price, the all-you-can-eat option was valuable. The food was delicious. Thank you for the meal!

Dinner with my partner. I've been craving meat for a while, so tonight we had yakiniku. We ordered addictive cabbage and non-alcoholic beer, then took our time choosing various meats. We had lamb jingisukan, negi gyutan, mino, gyu horumon, kalbi steak, and gyu kaku kalbi. My partner's favorite, chicken thigh! We also got extra rice to fill our stomachs. The lamb jingisukan came with its own sauce, so we got to enjoy it two ways with the additional sauce. The portions were a bit small for one serving, but the staff were kind and even changed the grill for us. It was a great restaurant. Thank you for the meal!

I visit Gyu-Kaku several times a year. This time, I used a coupon that came with the flyer. Although there was a discount coupon, I couldn't use it together, which was disappointing. The portion seemed to have increased compared to before, and I was very satisfied with the amount. The customer service was also very nice. It was great that they proactively offered drinks and changed the grill. Thank you for the meal, I definitely want to come again next time.

Visit date March 11, 2019 On this day, I was in the mood for some meat, so my companion and I decided to visit Gyu-Kaku. The weather forecast predicted rough weather ahead, and as we made our way to Gyu-Kaku, it was already snowing quite heavily. Perhaps because of the weather, the restaurant seemed quite busy even on a weekday, with about 3-4 groups of customers before us and 1-2 groups after us. Our order included: - Enjoyment Course 4380 yen - All-you-can-drink alcohol 1480 yen - All-you-can-drink soft drinks 480 yen It was nice that the alcohol and soft drink all-you-can-drink options were separate. We started with appetizers of addictive salted cabbage and salted beef tongue. Then we kept ordering: - Pork tongue with salt - Moon-viewing short rib - Harami with sauce - Grilled vegetable assortment - Aged top sirloin steak - Cold noodles (half) - Aged lean wagyu - Beef tongue with salt - Beef tongue offcuts - Seafood and kimchi tofu stew - Kalbi steak (no photo) - Lamb Jingisukan - King's harami with salted butter - Green onion salted digital kalbi Everything we tried was delicious, but the highlights were the seafood and kimchi tofu stew, which had a strong spiciness balanced by the seafood broth, and the kalbi steak with a perfect hint of garlic flavor. There wasn't anything we tried this time that made us go "meh," but the service was a bit slow. I wonder how it would be if it was busier. After eating to our heart's content, we walked out to find a blizzard had started while we were inside. It had accumulated quite a bit of snow in a short time. (;´д｀) Tragic.

I don't have much memory of Gyu-Kaku itself. I think I've only been to the one in Sapporo once. I was lured in by a flyer and decided to try the one in Kushiro. It's located across the street from the Aeon Kushiro Showa store. There seems to be enough parking for a few tables. When I entered, they asked, "Do you have a reservation?" I wonder if a reservation is a must? When I said no reservation, they said, "Please wait." I was prompted to sit and wait. After a short wait, I was shown to my seat. I took off my shoes and sat in a sunken kotatsu table, a private room for two people. When I showed the flyer, the waitress said, "I'll bring you an easy-to-understand menu," and left with the flyer. She brought a triangular menu. It's easy to see the discounted prices on the menu. The discounted menu included salted beef tongue, pietro, king harami, and chicken thigh, each for one. I ordered two soft drinks and decided to see how it goes. Oh, I forgot to order rice! I ordered rice, and when I asked for a large size, the new female waitress didn't quite get it. (It would be nice if she made a hand gesture to indicate the size of the rice bowl!) I trusted my instincts and ordered one large size. (As a result, it was just right to share between two people). I added the discounted thick-cut kalbi and a whole salted okra, each for one. By this point, I was only 30 yen away from reaching 3,000 yen. Finally, I ordered a Gyu-Kaku ice cream for dessert. The total bill, including tax, came to 3,477 yen. To fill up, we needed just one more dish. Maybe one or two more plates. It depends on what you order, but the balance between taste and price with the discounted menu is "okay." As for the taste... the king harami could do without the miso garlic. The meat is good, but the flavor could be different. The thick-cut kalbi had a big gap from the photo. It was too greasy. The beef tongue with salt wasn't what I was looking for. The chicken thigh (salted) was average. The pietro (sauce) was delicious. The okra was crunchy and delicious, although it tasted a bit raw. The Gyu-Kaku ice cream was mostly black syrup, with no hint of kinako flavor. If there is a next time, I would reorder pietro, chicken thigh, king harami, and whole salted okra. One thing I thought was... the delicious sauces provided on the table are wasted because the meat already has all the flavor. I want to use them, but I can't because it would make the taste too strong. It would be nice to have some unseasoned meat as well. There is also an all-you-can-eat course, but if you eat like this, you won't make up for the cost. Above all, the time limit is the biggest drawback because you can't eat slowly.

On a regular night, I heard that a young person in their early twenties was on a business trip to Kushiro, so I invited them to dinner since I was nearby. As I was picking a place to go, I asked what kind of food they wanted, and they insisted on all-you-can-eat yakiniku because they wanted to eat a lot. I was a bit disappointed as I wasn't expecting that kind of response, but I found a few restaurants that fit the bill. I thought about going to a completely unknown place for the novelty, but decided to play it safe and go to a chain restaurant instead. The place is located off Route 113, towards the direction of Aeon Kushiro Showa store, near a intersection with a big sign out front making it easy to find. There is parking available on the side and back of the restaurant, so no problem there. It had been about 10 years since I last visited this location of Gyu-Kaku, although I have been to their Sapporo branches recently. Gyu-Kaku offers all-you-can-eat on weekdays, which used to be the main reason I went when I was younger, but now I don't really think about trying to get my money's worth. But I also don't feel like ordering individual items just to eat... It was around 7 PM when we arrived without a reservation. The restaurant was about 30% full, so we chose a table in a raised seating area. The staff, all looking like a bunch of rowdy young guys and girls, were a bit slow to initially serve us, but that's okay, I'm used to it. The server took our order for the all-you-can-eat course and all-you-can-drink soft drinks (even though I offered to drive and said it was okay to drink... I guess they really just wanted to focus on eating^^;). We started with a small plate of meat and addictive salted cabbage before placing our orders. The young person ordered something called "Kalbi Rice" which is rice topped with Korean seaweed and sauce, which I don't really understand the appeal of, but they seemed to enjoy it as usual^^; The meat was all delicious, with options like garlic and basil flavors providing some variety. However, I did notice a decrease in seafood options and a downgrade in quality compared to the past (even the ice cream at the end was pre-packaged shoe ice cream). Personally, I appreciated the presence of Real Gold in the soft drink options and ended up ordering it (^^) As the young person complained about eating too much and feeling stuffed, the server asked us to fill out a survey. It's a thoughtful gesture, but I had no intention of filling it out at all. (No ill will intended) In the end, the young person was very happy, so I guess it was a good choice... Thank you for the meal.

I went out for yakiniku as I received some extra money. I had a birthday discount coupon, so I decided to go to Gyu-Kaku. However, when I tried to use the coupon, they said it couldn't be combined with their current promotion. This week, they had a promotion where you could order certain drinks like oolong tea or orange juice for just 100 yen. Drinks are always so expensive, even if you just drink tea, it adds up. I used to love the addictive salted cabbage, but once I found out I could easily make it at home, I stopped ordering it. I tried various dishes, but one of my favorites was the cherry yukhoe. I love yukhoe, and surprisingly, the horse meat didn't have any unpleasant smell and was delicious! It was less fatty than beef and very tasty. I also ordered the kimchi jjigae soup (regular size), and it was huge! When it comes to yakiniku, rice is a must. I recommend the kalbi rice bowl. The sauce alone is so delicious that you can eat it with just rice. I no longer order plain rice after trying this. The photo shows the large size, but they also have a regular size, so don't worry. Yakiniku just makes you so happy, with the delicious sauce, meat, and the juicy fat flowing... The rice just disappears! It's so good! It's not polite, but putting a generous amount of sauce on the rice and meat and enjoying it is just amazing! The total cost was 12,000 yen for two adults. You could get change back if you went to a conveyor belt sushi restaurant with just 4,000 yen.

A few years ago, I used to frequent the Kushiro Irie store, but since it closed, I decided to try this place. It's convenient being near the Aeon Shopping Mall (Jusco), so it's easy to stop by after shopping. The size of the parking lot is well-balanced with the store size. Even when it's crowded, it seems like there's always parking available. The menu and prices in the yakiniku industry often change, and I noticed some differences in the meat menu from my previous visit. I was happy to see that soft drinks can be ordered in a pitcher. The taste is decent and you can enjoy it at a reasonable price. However, when I went, the staff seemed a bit lacking in proper training. Their customer service, appearance, and language usage were a bit disappointing. I haven't been back since then. I'm thinking of giving it another try soon.

It was my first time visiting the Kushiro Showa store. The small exterior and cozy interior, along with the friendly staff's attentive service, made dining enjoyable. It felt like a casual place to enjoy yakiniku after shopping at the nearby mall. I hadn't been to Gyu-Kaku in a while, and the kimchi hot pot and cold noodles were delicious. I would go back just for that meal. By signing up for their mobile membership, you get a free first drink, which may include alcohol. Showing the Hokkaido Shimbun Bumbun Club card gets you a 10% discount, but it cannot be combined with other offers. There are also Gyu-Kaku coupons available through Docomo's Premium Club, which can provide some savings on meals over 3,150 yen. Make sure to confirm with the staff to ensure proper usage.

I don't have a particular favorite item at this yakiniku restaurant, but the staff were energetic and made the dining experience enjoyable. I prefer ordering side dishes over just meat, so I appreciate that Gyu-Kaku offers a variety of noodle and rice dishes. I always order the cold noodles, and the fact that they offer a half-size option makes it easy to enjoy without overeating. They also have a dessert that is like a waffle warmed on the grill, but I found it a bit bothersome and prefer a regular dessert instead.