SALVATORE CUOMO / The BAR Umedazaba

Pizza was great, food came quick, and the servers were easy to understand. The locale was clean and classy. Would come back.

Visited July 2024

You can enjoy dishes such as pizza and salad in a calm atmosphere. The price is 1000 yen without tax! The drink was free because I used a coupon. The price is cheap and friendly to your wallet. It is better to take freshly baked pizza because it gets cold.

Visited November 2019

The pizza was thin and authentic like a true Italian. The pasta was al dente. Simple menu but good food and nice wines. A change from Japanese foods and the staff we're gear.

Visited July 2018

Yes, it's a little pricey - but the food here includes authentic Italian, wood fired pizza - and specials that fuse Japanese ingredients with Italian flavors. On a recent visit, my dining partner and I enjoyed the Italian Green Salad which included a generous helping of Prosciutto - the Sea Urchin ...and Cheese Omelet - a daily special feature of Firefly Squid Genovese - and a Pizza Melanzana. The omelet was quite unique with the rich flavors of Uni, egg and mozzarella blending quite well. All of them being subtle flavor profiles, I expected the Uni to get lost - but it was present in a non overpowering way. Firefly Squid is usually served in Japan with a Miso sauce - but here it was paired with bamboo shoots and a pesto sauce. It was surprisingly fresh tasting with the Squid taking the forward flavor and the pesto following very nicely. The pizza was among the best I've had in Japan - with a spicy tomato sauce and bits of sausage peppered among the nice chunks of eggplant. The crust is where pizza starts, and this was a really tasty crust that was wood fired like authentic Italian pizza should be. We shared a bottle of Italian table red wine - and the price point on all the wines was quite fair - our bottle was 1800¥, and they ran up to 8000¥ for a Barolo. Menu is available in English - although the daily specials menu handed to us was only Japanese. Service was exceptional.

Visited April 2018

Foreign customers are pushed out of here to the minute. They don’t want foreign tourists. It’s no wonder this restaurant went out of business in Kobe. The pizza crust is soggy and the toppings are not fresh. The jar of tomato sauce covering the mediocre crust isn’t worth the cost. Japanese c...ustomers are allowed to stay for 2 hours but foreign customers are bullied to leave within 90 minutes even when there are empty tables and no customers waiting to be seated. Even if you’re definitely spending much more money than the water drinking Japanese customers nearby. It’s the worst run business around. The staff members are rude and unprofessional. Don’t eat here.

Visited April 2018