Tavetarina Restaurant Kyoto
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Address: 32 Magobashicho Yamabata dori Sanjo Kawabata dori,
Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8385
Phone: +81 075 771 3388
Fax: +81 075 771 3881
Nearest station: Sanjo/ Keihan Line
Neighbourhood: Sakyo-ku
Opening hours: 11.30a-2p. 5.30-11p daily
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. It is the best of both worlds.
Courses range from JPY2, 500 to JPY4, 000 and include seven or eight nouveau cuisine size dishes: pasta, garlic-bread, vegetable salads, fish and meat dishes plus dessert. For JPY2, 000 you can drink as much as you like for two hours#now there is a challenge! Tavetarina seats about thirty people or parties of seventy for a standing buffet.
The interior of this restaurant is, as you would expect, a Japanese imitation of an Italian restaurant. It is definitely not the real thing, but it is not bad, either.
Average cost: JPY 2500. No admission charge is required. You don’t need any booking. There is no home delivery facility or takeaway available, there are no top picks. Disabled access is not there.
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.
There are some more Italian restaurants in Kyoto like Viva Viva, Cipolla, Cento Cento, Anchovie Cafe, and Second House.
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