Cento Cento Restaurant Kyoto

Cento Cento offers good value and substantial buffet-style Italian food. It also makes for a good pit-stop for coffee and cake

The restaurant provides riverside terrace views or views of a stunning massive building structure; enjoy our Italian meals and cafe! Lunch (soup, salad, pasta, dessert & coffee/tea): 1,000 yen; Dinner (antipasto buffet, pasta, main dish, dessert & coffee/tea): 2,100 yen; also cafe a la carte including homemade cakes and a full bar! Here you will find excellent values, with Italian-style buffet fare priced at just JPY900 for lunch and JPY2, 000 for dinner. Housed in noted contemporary architect Tadao Ando's riverside Times Building in the center of the city, the alfresco seating overlooks the small Takase River and the cherry trees on the banks, making Cento Cento a great place to linger in Spring.

Other Italian restaurants in Kyoto are:

Al Matsuo
Al Matsuo is an up market Italian restaurant situated on the east side of the elegant Teramachi shopping street. The secluded and modern dining area is subtly lit and pleasantly furnished. Al Matsuo serves full course Italian cuisine with various pasta dishes as well as meat and fish courses such as roast lamb at JPY1, 700.

La Botte
La Botte boasts an Italian chef proud of his original pizzas and pastas with over sixty dishes on the menu.
La Botte seats sixty inside and there is also an attractive alfresco wooden terrace overlooking the Kamo River, which is extra at JPY400 on weekdays and JPY600 on holidays.

Bocconi
Bocconi is a well-designed, Italian-inspired European-style restaurant. Next door under the same York management is a store selling imported kitchen furniture, utensils, ceramics and whole fitted kitchens. It is placed near Kinkakuji. Papamilano
Located just to the east of the main downtown nexus of Shijo and Karamachi streets, Papamilano is one of a rash of imitations of la dolce vita to spring up in Japan since the early 1990s. The waiters and waitresses are dressed in the requisite brown uniforms.

Tavetarina
Japanese-Italian is a good description of the food at Tavetarina's. It is Mediterranean cuisine adopted and adapted to suit the Japanese palette. So expect a little bit of soy sauce to complement the olive oil.

There are some more Italian restaurants in Kyoto like Viva Viva, Cipolla, Anchovie Cafe and Second House.