Photo from Salvatore Cuomo
The Italian chain Salvatore Cuomo is everywhere. And when I say everywhere, I mean there were three within a mile-or-so-long stretch of the main drag near our hotel, and a quick look at their website shows there are over two dozen in the Tokyo area. It’s moderately priced: we paid ¥4,000 for lunch, that being ¥1,500 each for the pizza set and ¥500 each for a latté afterwards. The margherita pizza was very good, as was the coffee, but unfortunately the rest of the set was a salad with tuna on top and a cup of vegetable soup made with chicken stock. Still, I was able to eat around the tuna without too much trouble, and if you’re willing to eat meat-stock broths (which I’m not), I don’t think there were any actual pieces of meat in the soup. They also had one or two vegetarian pizzas besides the margherita, and they may have more during the full dinner service.
Not quite a vegetarian paradise, but good food — and while there hasn’t been a shortage of Italian restaurants in the areas I’ve been so far, Salvatore is certainly nice to have as an easy-to-find fallback.
