Italian Gastronomy: Lunch at Soloio in Shizuoka City!

Service: Pro and very friendly
Equipment & Facilities: Great overall cleanliness and superb washroom. Entirely non-smoking!
Prices: Reasonable considering the quality
Strong points: Fresh local ingredients whenever possible. Both traditional and inventive Italian cuisine. Good wine list at moderate prices. Open late!

Although I have been patronizing Soloio Italian Restaurant in Shizuoka City for 5 years it was the first time I visited it for lunch! The reason is simple enough: they started serving lunch on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays only from this year!

And their lunch is of great value!
For 1,404 yen (less than 12 US $ or less than 11 Euros!) you have a full antipasto misti plate, one of the three main pasta or risotto dishes, bread and olive oil, coffee or tea!
And for a ridiculous 300 yen you can add a dessert!
Let me introduce what we had the other day!

I recommend a seat at the counter!

The bread and olive oil!

The antipasto misti plate/Italian appetizers assortment!

From another angle!

Chilled soup, red tomato and yellow tomato caprese with mozzzarella, fritatta, squid in its ink, chicken and yellow pimento, onion confit crostini and garden vegetables!

The Dragon’s pasta!

Homemade sausage and zucchini spaghetti!

My risotto!

Smoked Madai/seabream and string beans risotto!

The dessert!

Cream cheese mille crepes (millefeuille!)!

And coffee as it should be served!

Looking forward to the next lunch as the menu is exclusively seasonal!

SOLOIO

Chef Takehiko Katoh/加藤武彦さん/Sommelier Mieko Osawa/小澤三江子さん

420-0858 Shizuoka City, Aoi Ku, Tenmacho, 9-7, Kita, 1
Tel./fax: 054-260-4637
Business hours:
Lunch: 11:30~13:30 (l.O.) (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday)
Dinner: 17:00~22:00 (l.o.), 17:00~23::00 (Friday, Saturday)
Closed on Monday
Credit cards OK
Private parties welcome!
Entirely non-smoking!

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