Pizzeria da Peppe Napoli Sta’ Ca” — Restaurant in Tokyo

Located just around Tokyo Tower 🗼 this restaurant draws plenty of tourists—perhaps more for its location than its food. We arrived 30 minutes before opening and noticed an older gentleman—presumably the Italian owner—smoking on the staircase beside the restaurant’s entrance. Later, once inside, we saw the lady taking our order being hurried and subtly reprimanded by the same man, which felt uncomfortable to witness.

Unfortunately, hygiene seemed questionable: the owner was visibly dialling/picking his nose just moments before serving our tiramisu. If that’s part of the Naples charm, it was lost on us.

Ordering was restricted to a single round, with a minimum of one item per person. We had hoped to try one pizza first before deciding on more, but the policy forced us to commit upfront.

The food itself was disappointing. The pizza arrived lukewarm, and the burrata tasted bland and rubbery—clearly mass-produced. While the plating was visually appealing, the food ingredients including the pizza base lacked quality, taste and the flavors were underwhelming. The tiramisu was overly soggy, with no depth of coffee flavor.

Interestingly, the walls were filled with photos of the owner and his sons posing with celebrities—perhaps meant to lend some credibility.

Prices were comparable to fine dining, but the experience felt more like one of those European tourist-trap restaurants than a genuine...

Scam！Don't go to this restuarant！The tricky way they‘ve been using to make the customers pay more is immoral！And they are still keep doing that.I Never had any experience like this in Japan.They should be ashamed of themselves. (reply to the comment) 1 ,I wanted to see the wine menu to order one glass of red wine , the Japanese waiter told me “ for glass wine we only have one choice there is no menu”,I’ve been told it’s around 750円.when I wanted to order the second glass of same wine，this Japanese waiter said“if you order 2 glasses or more，definitely should order 1 bottle，that's more reasonable ”，so I trusted him and agreed with him .from begining to the ended I never been showed wine menu price list.I thought I ve been served same wine by bottle…when I checked bill ，the bottle price was around 7000円just for that 1 bottle house wine, and they also charged the first glass. that's how you trick customers！ 2，Same day this japanese waiter served a main dish which me and my friend didnt order and its pricy，but who wanna break a good dinner mood？especially for couples or someone who is treating friends？So we didnt insist to return the food. Also the waiter was too busy to care for us and rarely had chance to tell.

In these series of unbelievably weird and surprisingly suspicious way of treatment, there is no doubt that this restaurant give cheap service and tricky way of taking...

Awesome pizza, so-so and overpriced everything else

Packed on a Sunday evening with locals, tourists, and Italians alike. Created and owned by 2 Italians and a kitchen staffed with all European-looking people except 1 Japanese guy. Everyone orders their special pizza shaped like a star (which should've been the first hint not to order anything else). We ordered their specialty (replacing ham with Porcelli mushrooms), seafood linguine, and appetizer taster.

In order, the appetizer taster ($20) was average at best. instead of replacing the things that had meat with non-meat appetizers, they just excluded it without increasing the portions of everything else the pizza ($20) was bomb. obviously home-made dough with the crust stuffed with Mozza cheese + mushroom sauce. looked super greasy and cheesy but it's the perfect balance of cheese and tomato sauce seafood pasta (~$50). obviously boxed pasta (a HUGE no-no for us at an Italian place). low quality seafood and cooked on the side of overdone.

Overall the sticker shock from paying $50 for a pasta you can literally get for $5 at any ole italian place (and I make better at home) left a bitter taste in my mouth. would go back for the pizza,...