Pizza Salvatore Cuomo Higashi-Ginza — Restaurant in Tokyo

This is a seriously amazing place. Leave it to these guys to perfect Italian cuisine with such modesty. Not many tables but the staff were accommodating and pulled some chairs for us to sit at a small table. They have an English menu available for food which is a big help.

We ordered a Margherita pizza, the chicken thigh with garlic butter and fries, and the spaghetti carbonara. The wood-fired pie had this deep smokey savoury flavour in the crust and a simple but perfect sauce carefully portioned to not overpower any other component. The chicken thigh was astonishingly juicy. Last but not least, the star of the show was the carbonara. Although a smaller dish, this had some generous chunks of pancetta and a flawless egg and...

A great place that we've been to on a couple of trips to Japan now.

Service is excellent. The first time we went, the restaurant was full, but they made a table for us by the door and gave us blankets. They can understand a bit of English, but were very accommodating as we spoke our broken Japanese to them.

The food is fantastic, authentic Italian food, almost better than what I've had in Italy! Perfectly made wood fire, thin crust pizza, and the pastas were all perfectly balanced with just the right amount of bounce to the starch.

Drinks are delicious and compliment the food, and the pistachio cake was one of my most favourite desserts...

I ordered a pizza with bacon bits (mostly fat) with what I can recall were some chicken bits, some kind of mushroom, cheese with tomato sauce for the price of 2,020 yen. The size was about 30 cm diameter with bloated exterior crust with little toppings concentrated in the middle of the pizza. Bad choice - too expensive for a pizza worth about 1,000 yen. Had to ask for parmesan cheese which the waiter brought, and I thought I had to pay for it, but it was not charged. I will never eat at Salvatore Cuomo Pizza at Higashi Ginza. Good ambience, polite staff, but sorry to say...