Trattoria Quarto Nishi Shinjuku — Restaurant in Tokyo

Set Lunch Course 🇮🇹🍝🦆 @ quarto.nishishinjuku

An Italian restaurant located in Nishi-Shinjuku, I dined here for lunch on the recent national holiday with a group of friends from boxercise. 🥊

With room for over 80 people, it has a bustling, lively atmosphere, friendly staff and offers great value. There is an large open kitchen where you can watch the chefs in action from the popular counter seats. 👨🏻‍🍳

Taking advantage of a free glass of sparkling wine (all you need to do is follow them on Instagram), we each chose our starters, main & dessert and chatted excitedly about the boxercise lesson we had just completed. 🥂

The food was good, especially the roast duck breat, which was tender & moist, with plenty of seasonal vegetables to add different texture and flavours. 🦆

I was also lucky to sample their oven-baked lasagne, which is a huge portion containing roasted vegetables, homemade bolognese & bechamel sauce. 🫑🍆🥔🥕

Even if you have a big appetite, it is likely that you will be satisfied by the volume of food served up by this lunch course! 😋

The only complaint was that the timing of the dishes was a little bit off (starters took too long, but then the main dishes came immediately after). However it was really busy so I can imagine the kitchen was backed up... 😅

If you are looking for a decent Italian lunch in the Shinjuku area, then Quarto is highly recommended! Be sure to reserve in advance. 📲

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The food was fine but the service was disappointing. I arrived at 1:30 and was seated in a corner table in the back, sandwiched between two bigger tables and underneath a speaker blaring K-Pop, even though there were other tables and a counter available. The staff seemed totally consumed with clearing tables from lunch rather than taking care of a corner table. Never asked if I wanted more bread (it's free). Water was never refilled. No real greeting when I entered the restaurant, either - the server just held up one finger, turned around and started walking to the table. Another server had to tell me to follow him. Yes, I'm a foreigner, but I've been living in Japan for 31 years and appreciate a friendly greeting when I come to a restaurant. This restaurant is part of a small chain, and their location in Kagurazaka, Azzuri, is much, much friendlier and has...

Went here for a small company group dinner and reserved course meals. Other than the carpaccio and fritters, everything else was pretty bad. The pasta didn’t have much taste, and the steak was way too chewy so much so that we had left 80% of the big plate untouched.

The place has plenty of tables, but I felt that there was not ample space between groups to fully enjoy - I could easily hear other people’s conversations so I was always concerned if someone was listening to ours.

Service was OK, nothing to complain about. But it was just a bit weird how too strict they were with the time and asking us to leave as soon as...