On October 9, Hirosaki's Japanese restaurant "Cooking and Sake Masa" (Yamashita-cho, Hirosaki City, TEL 0172-34-3369 ) updated the number of daily menus offered to 45 types.

The restaurant mainly uses ingredients from the prefecture and offers Japanese dishes such as set meal menus and seafood dishes, as well as local sake and shochu. There are 45 types of daily menus that can be eaten even during night hours, and the maximum number offered so far has been updated.

The owner, Hiroshi Mikami, often went out to eat out from an early age, so he began to admire the chef. After graduating from high school, he moved to Tokyo to become a chef. After gaining experience at a Japanese restaurant, he returned home at the age of 28 and became independent. The store name at the time of opening was "positive". The store was opened in the Joto area, and after operating in Dotemachi, it moved to its current location in March 2016.

The daily menu has been offering nearly 20 kinds for a long time, but it is said that it has exceeded 40 kinds since moving to the current store. Mr. Mikami said, "We want our customers to have fun and worry, but we offer a few different cooking methods from one ingredient. We will do what we can as a chef by devising ways to reduce the loss of ingredients as much as possible. I'm just doing it. "

Mr. Mikami, who participates in the market auction that starts at 4 am, assembles the menu for the day from the ingredients procured that day. The menu table is also made by Mr. Mikami himself using Excel on that day. The menu is devised to inform the length of the serving time, and the recommended dish names are in red letters and are highlighted with double circles and stars.

Some customers were worried for 10 minutes and asked, "What's the daily change today?", "It looks like a horse racing forecast table," and "I can't decide, so I want you to decide." It is said that some people order the product menu of the day because the number assigned to is mistaken for today's daily menu. "When we started posting menu tables on SNS that started in March 2018, more and more people are checking in advance and ordering."

Mr. Mikami said, "The large number of menus and reasonable prices are one of our selling points. Since the menu table is designed to fit in A4 size, there is a limit of about 40 types. If you increase it further, you need to reduce the character size. It seems to be difficult to read, but it seems that we can still create a space that can be increased by one or two. "

Business hours are from 11:30 to 15:00 and from 17:00 to 22:00. Closed on Sundays.