Sobo — Restaurant in Wakayama

Good Napoli style pizza and one of the best pizza I have had in Wakayama. I highly recommend calling to reserve a table for lunch (11:00-14:30) at weekends. This place is a little expensive but you can taste the high quality of the ingredients. A pizza is about 1750 yen and pasta is about 1250 yen. At lunch you can pay +450 yen to get a drink (incl wine/beer, a salad and a gelato. Considering a glass of wine alone is 500 yen this is a good deal. We had a mozzarella pizza and a parma ham pizza. The pizzas were really good and so was the gelato. We paid about 4500 yen for lunch for 2 but we were satisfied. I would...

The 4 of us thought of trying some western food after 10 days of traditional Japanese. We were warmly welcomed and had 3 delicious pizzas and a couple of bottles of French wine at just $35/ bottle. The pizza's were thin and perfectly cooked, tasty and lots of flavour. The staff were friendly and most accommodating of our lack of Japanese language. Highly recommended for a night if good pizzas and wine in a cozy setting. Well done and thank you. Bruce, Jill, Tony and Jude from...

( 日本語 )

このレストランは私が今まで行った中で最もわかりにくい場所の一つです。 木を燃やすオーブンがあり、素晴らしいピザを作ることを示しています...それは部分的には真実です。

なぜか、ピザは炭の匂いがして、味も炭のようでした。おそらくオーブンは毎日きちんと掃除されていないのでしょう。私たちはみんなお腹を壊しました。 イタリアで例えば見かけることのないような、ピザの下に皿に炭の残りかすがありました。

私のピザ、マリナーラはハーブが多すぎました。フレーバーは穏やかであるべきで、攻撃的ではありません。

私の子供のピザ、4種のチーズのピザは、おそらく2種類のチーズしか使われていませんでした。ブルーチーズの味はしましたが、他のチーズは安っぽくて全然良くなかったです。

また行くかどうか？おそらく行きません...私たちは本当にみんな少し気分が悪かったので...それは悲しいことです、なぜならシェフは料理の仕方を知っているとわかるからです...彼は少し情熱を失ったように感じます。

( ENGLISH )

This restaurant is one of the most confusing places I've ever been to. It has a wood-fired oven, which would indicate they make great pizzas... which is true... in part.

I don't know why, but the pizza smelled and tasted charcoal. Probably the oven is not properly cleaned every day. We all had upset stomachs. Under the pizza, on the plates, there was charcoal residual, not something you see for example in Italy.

My pizza, marinara, had way too much herbs.Flavours are supposed to be gentle, not aggressive.

My kid's pizza, a 4 cheese pizza, had probably 2 cheeses. You could taste the blue cheese, but the others felt cheap and not great at all.

Would we go back? Probably not... we really all felt a bit sick... which is sad, because you can tell the chef knows how to cook... it feels like he lost a bit of...