Miyagi Co-op opens first 'Co-op restaurant'
2016.11.10
Miyagi Co-op has started a first restaurant business which started operation on October 21, 2016 in Sendai.
The official name of the restaurant is “Bistro lounge Costeria” and the business hours is from 11am to 11pm. The shop area is approximately 200 square meters (kitchen + audience) with 82 seats.
As cooking ingredients, the restaurant will rely on Miyagi Coop’s original “Sanchoku (the connection between producers and consumers) Megumino products” produced based on Miyagi Co-op’s specification and the products of “Cocon-Tohoku,” a brand supporting reconstruction of industries in Tohoku, made in the disaster area of the Great East Japan Earthquake.
The lunch menu is basically western-style and Japanese-style sing salad and fish or meat. It changes ingredients and cuisine depending on the four changing seasons in Japan, thus providing customers a feeling of seasonal changes. In the evening, banquet course menu will be available with liquor of Cocon-Tohoku brand. After the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011, local businesses in the Tohoku area became seriously affected.
Miyagi Co-op aims to expand the market of food products and revive the damaged factories as part of its effort to regenerate the economy of the Tohoku area hence the opening of the restaurant. A subsidiary of Miyagi Co-op, “Co-op General Service Co., Ltd. will operate the business.
Facilities at the store includes a simple mini stage, audio equipment and a screen which can be used for occasional entertainments in response to the request in such banquet.
Official website of “Bistro lounge Costeria” (Japanese Only)
