Vicolo: A new type of crust?

Area:  about 500m north of Kokusai Center Station 国際センター駅
Restaurant:  Vicolo  ヴィッコロ
Map and Website:  http://cafedufi.com/#vicolo


Hours:  Lunch 11:30am-2pm, Dinner 6:00-10:30pm (10pm on Sun and Holidays), closed Wed

Today's lunch specials were a pork risotto plate lunch (¥880), pizza (4 cheese and honey ¥1050 or margherita ¥950) and a chilled tomato pasta.

All included access to the salad bar.  There was a mixed lettuce salad, cabbage with sesame dressing, potato salad with a mild mustard dressing (mostly just tasted of mayo), and homemade pickled carrots+squash+burdock root+lotus root (was a too vinegary in my opinion).  I was surprised to see couscous, as it is rare in Japan. With a mild vinaigrette flavor, it was light and refreshing.  The best part were the fried fettuccine bits seasoned with black pepper, a perfect accent for the salad greens and cesar dressing. 

This restaurant's specialty seems to be the wood oven baked pizza.  The margherita's tomato sauce was very simple and tasted of fresh tomatoes, still retaining it's natural acidity.  The crust was thin and almost tea biscuit like in texture (a new type of pizza crust to me), crisp on the outside.  The inside had more of a pizza dough chewiness.

A small restaurant, it might be a nice place to visit in the summer when the outside seating is open.