11 Popular Restaurants to Enjoy Gifu’s Must-Try Local Food

Mingei Shokuji Suzuya is a folk craft-style restaurant in Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture, set in a renovated traditional old house with a long history.
Its specialty is a wide range of dishes centered on Hida Beef. Among them, the most popular is the Hoba Miso Steak.
Served on a large magnolia leaf, the dish lets you enjoy the taste and aroma of specially blended miso, Hida Beef, and vegetables.

Kyoshi is a local sushi restaurant serving regional sushi made with local ingredients. It offers traditional local cuisine and creative sushi with a focus on local production for local consumption.
Halal Hida Beef is also available, allowing the restaurant to meet a range of dietary needs. It is known as a place that shares the region’s food culture.
The menu mainly features dishes made with only the highest grade of Hida Beef. Its signature dish is the Premium Hida Beef Assortment.

Hida Beef Steak Specialty Restaurant Kitchen Hida is known as a steakhouse deeply rooted in the local community.
Since opening, it has continued to serve a food culture rooted in the region. Its main ingredient is premium Hida Beef, graded A5 and A4.
The restaurant uses the French cooking method known as braise and sauté. The steak, gently cooked with aromatic vegetables, brings out the rich flavor and tenderness of Hida Beef.

Hida Takayama Meat Restaurant is located in the historic old town area in central Takayama City.
It uses branded local ingredients raised in nature, including Hida Beef and Hida Takayama PLEASURE PORK.
Popular specialties include Hida Beef steak, which brings out the meat’s natural flavor, and Hida Beef Steak Jubako, made with high-quality round meat.
Another highlight is enjoying domestic whiskey, wine, and local Hida sake with your meal.

This takeout-only Hida Beef nigiri sushi specialty shop is located in Takayama’s famous Old Town area. It serves carefully crafted Hida Beef nigiri sushi made with rare cuts of top-grade, Grade 5 Hida Beef.
The rice is Hida-grown Hitomebore, and the soy-based sauce is the shop’s original nikiri soy sauce.
You can enjoy a dish made without compromise, using ingredients and seasonings carefully selected to bring out the full flavor of Hida Beef.

Tsuzumi Soba is a specialty Chinese noodle shop founded in 1953. It is a noodle restaurant serving carefully made handmade soba.
It is also known as one of the places where you can enjoy Takayama Ramen, a local dish of Hida Takayama.
The signature item is Chuka Soba. It features handmade thin curly noodles and a clear soy sauce-based soup made with pork bones and vegetables. The flavor is light yet rich and savory.

Since opening in 2012, this restaurant has served a bowl that pursues its own unique flavor while being based on traditional Takayama chuka soba.
It is also a renowned shop featured in the Michelin Guide Aichi, Gifu, and Mie 2019 Special Edition.
The menu is simple: regular or large Chuka Soba, plus an optional seasoned egg.
The soup is made by slowly simmering chicken bones, bonito, dried sardines, local vegetables, and other ingredients for at least seven hours.
The bold umami of the soy sauce pairs perfectly with the firm, thin curly noodles.

This Japanese restaurant has been serving nourishing Mino cuisine for over 100 years. It has also received awards from the French gourmet guidebook Gault & Millau.
Its specialty is seasonal crab dishes. You can enjoy the natural flavor of carefully selected fresh crab.
Course meals are the main offering, and the Hida Beef shabu-shabu available year-round is also popular.

Uotaro-tei Kani Branch is located inside Yunohana Market. Operated by a fishmonger with auction rights on the Chita Peninsula in Aichi Prefecture, it ships fish purchased directly at the fishing port to the Kani branch every day.
It is a seafood diner where you can enjoy fresh seafood in a market-like atmosphere, and it is also popular for letting visitors enjoy seafood in an inland area with no sea.
The signature dish is the Uotaro Set Meal. You can enjoy it not only as a sashimi set meal but also as a seafood rice bowl by placing the sashimi over white rice.

Masuen Bunsuke is a river fish restaurant in Shirakawa-go where you can enjoy iwana, amago, and rainbow trout raised in spring water-fed fish tanks, prepared in a variety of ways.
The fish used in the dishes are taken from the tanks and prepared only after you order, ensuring exceptional freshness.
The grilled salt-seasoned fish and fried dishes can be eaten whole, including the head and bones, and are well received even by people who do not usually like river fish.

This long-established Japanese confectionery shop has been in business since the Genroku era of the Edo period, from 1688 to 1704.
It is widely known as a famous shop for kurikinton. It offers richly flavored Japanese sweets unique to Nakatsugawa, a well-known chestnut-producing area.
A variety of chestnut sweets line the shopfront. Among them, the signature item is kurikinton, which goes on sale in September.
Made only with carefully selected domestic chestnuts and sugar, it lets you enjoy the chestnuts’ natural sweetness and smooth texture.