Piasola — Restaurant in Tokyo

We were walking down Monja Street and sadly all the monja places had a lot of lines out the door. We were on limited time and we found Piasola open.

As a European, we were not expecting the pasta to be authentic Italian. But we were pleasantly surprised by the accuracy of the dishes and flavors. I went for a simple 'spaghetti alle vongole'. I could tell they prepared it perfectly (oil, garlic, parsley, clam juice). The one big mistake was that they put cheese on top of my dish. Never put cheese on seafood/fish in Italian pasta dishes. Other than that, it tasted very good.

The staff are also super attentive, friendly and helpful. We were happy they accommodated us on such a...

5 of us had different pasta flavors and all of it were so good! Pasta flavors we ordered: Mentaiko, bacon&mushroom pepperocini, bacon&mushroom carbonara, smoked salmon&spinach with cream, clams&mushroom The pizza we ordered (ham&fresh tomatoes) was good as well.

Their 'cake of the day' have choices too, which can also be ordered as a set with...

I get impression that this restaurant serves Western-style Japanese cuisine rather than Italian. The cuisine are all much volume...