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Fuxia — Paris, Saint-Paul

Friday, July 24th, 2009

A fairly good Italian restaurant in the center of Paris, I’d say mainly for pasta.

50 rue François Miron

75004 Paris

We started with a plate of antipasti (11 euros) that we shared between two people:

Nothing amazing, but they were nicely seasoned and tender (the vegetables in the dark are dried tomatoes). Then, two plates of pasta, the Fusili Fuxia (12 euros):

and the Rigatoni Funghi (11 euros):

On the whole it’s a pretty safe choice, but if you don’t need to be in this particular place of Paris I’d rather recommend “Little Italy” (search on this same website), where I find the pasta slightly better even though Fuxia’s environment is a bit nicer (bigger terrace, more spacious).

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Italian Kitchen & Cafe Marinara — Tokyo, Monzen Nakacho

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

An (unexpected) Italian restaurant in a not-that-international district of Tokyo.

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We started with a salad (green salad, tomatoes, parmigiano, 800 yen):

which was simple but good. Then the “oiru pasta” (1200 yen, see below for the name),

which also came with some green salad:

We had hoped that the name (oiru: oil) was merely indicating the presence of a little bit of olive oil. Las, the pasta was actually in the middle of a fairly oily sauce. They did taste nice though, but were a bit undercooked.The pizza “Bismarck” (at least that’s what I tried to infer from the Japanese name, 1500 yen) was a much better surprise:

It was fairly large and surprisingly good in such a place. Crusty dough, tasty ingredients. One could have said that the not-so-well-cooked egg white was questionable but it was explicitly mentioned on the menu (“half-cooked egg”) and I’m fine with that. So congratulations to the two pizzaiolas (also a nice surprise, most — if not all — the pizzaiolos I’ve ever seen were males) whom we could see hard at work from our table:

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Tre Cucine — Zurich

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

An Italian restaurant in Zurich.

Niederdorfstrasse 33

8001 Zürich, Switzerland

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(Sorry, only low quality phone pictures for this one):

The surroundings are rather comfortable, especially in this early summer.

Pasta is around 20 – 25 Swiss Francs (CHF), same for pizza, meat dishes around 35 CHF, salads around 12 CHF. The insalata mista (10 CHF) was rather disappointing:

Spaghetti Al Capone (smoked ham, egg, onions, asparagus, cream — large, 24.50 CHF) was quite good for such a strange name:

I had the pizza quattro stagioni (23 CHF), sorry for the bad picture:

and I must say it was better than expected. Not the best I know, but the ingredients were tasty, dough was crusty, thin, salty just the way it should. Maybe a bit too heavy on oregano though.

50 cl San Pellegrino: 6 CHF. They have a nice flat screen, it might be a good place to watch a game if you’re into sports:

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Pizza Marinara — Paris, Odéon

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

A real good Italian pizzeria in the center of Paris.

46 rue Dauphine

75006 Paris, France

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I’ve seen cheaper, but the pizzas are especially well made and tasty. “Pizza du chef” (11 euros) with cheese, ham and an egg:

“Pizza mollicone” (12 euros), with cheese, meat, egg and merguez sausage (oops, slightly blurry):

If you’re on a diet you could also try the “Salade del Contadino” (13 euros):

but you really should get a pizza (the ham in here is pretty good, but it hides quite a lot of green salad under a thin layer!). Some pictures of the menu: