Ana Event March 2023
On March 30, 2023, we unfortunately had to close our restaurant to our regular customers—but for a good reason: the well-known Japanese airline ANA (All Nippon Airways) is finally flying regularly between Munich and Japan again, and we wanted to celebrate this with an event at the exclusively booked restaurant sansaro in Munich. With a charismatic […]
Kaiseki event on April 12 & 13, 2023
The circle of the year is closing, our fifth Kaiseki event in the restaurant sansaro took place in the spring of 2023. With a brand new menu, we also won the hearts of repeat...
Label Rouge - What's behind the French seal of approval for good food products
Label Rouge is a seal of quality for particularly exclusive products. Find out everything about quality criteria, certification, quality assurance process, Label Rouge products and what makes LR Scottish salmon unrivaled.
Mayonnaise in Japanese cuisine
Japan – who in Germany doesn't immediately think of sushi, healthy food, longevity, the finest ingredients, and perhaps soy sauce and miso paste? It may come as a surprise to some that Japan is a country that is now virtually inconceivable without mayonnaise! The fact is: without mayonnaise, okonomiyaki (お好み焼き), yakisoba (焼きそば), takoyaki (たこ焼き), katsu-sando (カツサンド), onigiri […]
Restaurant types in Japan - (much) more than sushi!
Japanese cuisine – who doesn't think of sushi? But there is actually much more to it than that. As a traveler in Japan, it's easy to feel overwhelmed: What exactly do the restaurants offer? What types of restaurants are there, and who serves what exactly? Often, the name of the restaurant indicates what kind of food it serves. You […]
Tuna and salmon: How "typically Japanese" became what was not Japanese
The history of sushi holds some interesting surprises even for connoisseurs of the subject. Deep red tuna, delicate pink salmon—these are the widely known typical toppings for sushi. Really typical? Has it always been that way? Why are tuna and salmon considered typical sushi toppings when they are not? As always, when it comes to […]
Typical and less typical sushi toppings
Chicken, cream cheese, salmon in chili sauce—there's hardly anything you won't find on sushi these days. But what are the typical, authentic sushi toppings? It depends... If you look at sushi in the US, salmon, tuna, and avocado dominate. In Japan, you'll also find these two types of fish, but really [...]
Faux amis - age sushi, sashimi, date maki: what appears to be sushi but isn't sushi
What exactly is sushi, and what isn't? It's not enough to just look at the typical forms of sushi. Because sushi is more than we assume here in the West. And in some respects, it's less. Because the simple association „raw fish = sushi“ isn't enough. In our series on the different […]
Valentine's Day 2023 - The moon is beautiful, isn't it...?
Valentine's Day at Restaurant sansaro For many years now, special days of the year such as New Year's Eve or Valentine's Day have been an occasion for us to come up with something exclusive for our guests at Restaurant sansaro. Whether it's New Year's Eve or Valentine's Day, we always present our guests with a special menu that is not available at any other time of the year.
sansaro Menu 2023
At Restaurant sansaro, we are proud that we have been able to offer consistently authentic Japanese quality for many years and across many chefs and kitchen staff since 2007. This sets us apart from other restaurants in Germany and around the world that serve Japanese cuisine, where quality is often a matter of luck—even in Japan. At the same time […]