Hotel Metropolitan Morioka is running "Metro Summer Fes 2026" from July 17 (Friday) to September 19 (Saturday), 2026, with chefs at four restaurants across the main building and NEW WING each crafting their own summer-exclusive dinner menus. The event coincides with the hotel's 45th anniversary year.
Pre-sale tickets are priced at ¥5,500 (regular door price ¥6,500) and are available from June 1 (Monday) through July 16 (Thursday) at the front desks of both hotel buildings and at each participating restaurant.
Fair Overview
- Price: Pre-sale ticket ¥5,500 / Door price ¥6,500
- Pre-sale Period: June 1 (Mon) to July 16 (Thu), 2026
- Ticket Sales: Hotel Metropolitan Morioka Main Building and NEW WING front desks, and each restaurant
- Event Period: July 17 (Fri) to September 19 (Sat), 2026 – Dinner hours at each venue
- Participating Restaurants:
- Main Building: Chinese Dining "JUEN"
- NEW WING: Dining & Bar "Giovanni," French Restaurant "Mon Frère," Japanese Cuisine "Mukaituru"
For full event details: https://morioka.metropolitan.jp/topics/metrosummerfes.html
Main Building 4F – Chinese Dining "JUEN"
A Tour of China's Four Great Cuisines
JUEN's summer course takes diners through the distinctive flavors of Sichuan, Cantonese, Shanghai, and Beijing cuisine, each reinterpreted with the chef's own techniques. The seven-dish course pairs with refreshing alcoholic drinks and original mocktails over 120 minutes of free-flow service.
7 Dishes + 120-Minute Free-Flow Drinks
Food:
- Cantonese: Steamed chicken with green onion sauce
- Sichuan: Stir-fried shrimp and water chestnuts with Sichuan chili
- Beijing: Boiled dumplings with Chinese black vinegar aroma
- Shanghai: Steamed white fish with dark soy and Shaoxing wine sauce
- Sichuan: Mapo tofu
- Shanghai: Shanghai-style stir-fried yakisoba noodles
- Dessert: Almond tofu
Drinks:
Draft beer, Chinese spirits, Shaoxing wine, barley shochu, whisky, and soft drinks (including 4 types of mocktails)
NEW WING 2F – Dining & Bar "Giovanni"
Giovanni Free-Flow Garden Buffet – Grill Fest with Mocktails & Cocktails
Giovanni transforms into a summer festival-style venue, with live-action grilled dishes, a wide variety of drinks, and refreshing cold menu items. A lively option suitable for families, friends, and special gatherings.
Food + 120-Minute Free-Flow Drinks
(Food only, without drinks: ¥3,500)
Food highlights:
Grilled beef and vegetables BBQ brochette with Sriracha sauce / YAKITORI Giovanni-style (Sichuan BBQ sauce, kebab & salt pepper) / herb-marinated pork grill BBQ-style / okonomiyaki & fried takoyaki / festival-style yakisoba spaghetti / yangnyeom meatballs / chicken nanban / duck and local vegetable ajillo / Giovanni's 4-hour slow-cooked curry, and more
Drinks:
Cocktails & highballs / beer (large bottle) / various wines / non-alcoholic drinks & mocktails (0.0% alcohol cocktails)
NEW WING 2F – French Restaurant "Mon Frère"
A Journey Through France
Mon Frère presents a five-course French menu inspired by regional cuisines from across France, with each dish highlighting a different area's local specialties — from a Bordeaux-style starter to a Breton seafood main and a Languedoc-inspired dessert.
5-Course Meal (Food Only)
- Pork and fig compression with red wine flavoring, served with salad (Bordeaux region)
- Chilled corn soup (Alsace region)
- Cotriade with saffron-infused risoni, accented with shallot and lime (Brittany region)
- Ripe melon and almond blancmange with IPA hop-infused ice cream (Languedoc region)
- Coffee and bread
NEW WING 1F – Japanese Cuisine "Mukaituru"
The Crane's Bridge
Mukaituru serves a special kaiseki course celebrating the produce of Iwate's sea, mountains, and countryside. The menu features a generous eight-piece appetizer platter and seasonal simmered dishes incorporating ingredients whose Japanese names include the syllable "n," traditionally considered auspicious.
6-Course Meal (Food Only)
- Starter: Grilled eggplant in dashi broth, sea squirt kimchi
- Sashimi: Thinly sliced sea bream, tuna, wakame seaweed, longevity shrimp
- Simmered dish: Pumpkin, ginkgo nuts, carrot, daikon, kombu, winter melon
- Eight-piece platter: Sasuke pork skewer, Amatake red chicken herb-grilled, Iwate beef croquette with salted edamame, sardine and cheese fritter, squid shiokara grilled, tomato lemon-simmered, grilled corn, Tankakuniu beef prosciutto roll, local vegetable pickles, Ginga no Shizuku rice ball with plum and quail egg
- Rice dish: Longevity soba noodles
- Dessert: Strawberry sherbet
