Cielo Blu — Restaurant in Kiso

Cielo Blu

A quaint Italian eatery out by the woods in Kiso. We did not make reservations.

Menu was only in Japanese while staff spoke no word of English. Had to use Google translate,  but it all went well.  Got what we wanted.

We had the squid ink spaghetti and beef rahu pasta,  a red wine and a ceasar salad.  Salad was great,  both spaghetti were alright.

Service was efficient even tho it was full house. Parking was free n easy right in front of the place. Price was reasonable. Ambience was great altho it didn't one bit resemble an Italian restaurant.  I didn't mind the absence...

Overall, a nice cozy place to try somethg different from the usual Jap cuisine.  (Anyway, there's not a lot of option out in kiso..., this is probably...

Very nice place. No English menu, but with some help of other guests and Google translate we managed to order 2 pizza's (they had 3 in stead of the many photos we saw on google: Margherita, Parmaham/rucola and Gorgonzola/chestnut) and 2 carpaccio. The carpaccio wasn't the beef carpaccio we expected, but a delicious compilation of thick slices of the smoothest tuna and some salad. We...

Arrived almost at closing time and were accepted with a smile. The cook was very friendly and recommended us his favorite of the dishes. We had a green salad, two Penne All’arrabbiata, one risotto and one ragu, all cooked al dente as per our request. It isn’t Italy, but isn’t that far. Totally...