Most Controversial Restaurant in Japan?

[brianbridgeford]

If you liked it, who cares how authentic it was. A good inexpensive meal is a good inexpensive meal.
Great find.

[claida]

Honestly, salted leather is indeed different from usual escargots which is more like salted rubber, the only taste comes from the garlic/parsil butter. The question is why anyone would eat that.
And I ask that as a French person.

[domomonstero]

Saizeriya does not try to recreate Italian food. It is made with the Japanese buyer in mind. Everything is made to the liking of the Japanese eater and not accuracy.

[aqua]

As an Italian, for that price I'd eat up everything

[PhurySama]

Seizeria is a hidden gem that I always recommend to friends when visiting Japan ❤️

[RobbyRyanson]

60cent wine is about on par with asking for the house wine. It’s cheap and delicious.

[snaileriepimpson]

I lived in Korea for 4 years and rly grew to like their versions of other cuisines! It’s like, you know it’s not gonna be like the real thing so you just gotta enjoy it for what it is. 😊 it’s also so interesting how different cultures have subtle taste effects on how they prepare others’ foods bc they alter things to fit the local palette a little more. Very interesting!

[christophertaylor]

I don't actually mind it when they modify ethnic foods to fit the local palate, the US has been doing that for over a century.

[KrAUSerMike]

I LOVE Saizeriya!
They used to have prosciutto pizza back in 2007. I was sad when I went last year and they didn't have it anymore...
But they still had the chicken wings and the my kids loved the popcorn shrimp.

[kazyy]

Japanese here. Saizeriya is my great memory of when I was a high school student. I went there a lot with my friends because it's cheap and ordered drink bars and we were chatting and laughing for 5hours

[walkerb]

As far as I can see, sizeriya are always busy and almost fully booked especially around dinner time.
Visitor from Indonesia here ✌️

[JayDeeMC]

I've eaten at Saizeriya many times. On our recent trip back to Japan earlier this month, I did eat that carbonara, as that was my usual order. I also had the green pea salad with the egg in it. Always had that, too. Cheap food that's actually decent. My daughter loved the pizza.

[RubelliteFae]

I mean, calling Saizeriya fake Italian is like calling American Chinese fake. Every culture just makes cheaper localized versions of each other's food. And that's okay. Otherwise we wouldn't have ramen.

I thought their food was decent, but I haven't been there since 2011. Certainly nothing controversial about it.

[manuelvalencia]

I'm part Italian, and I'm definitely not offended. On the contrary, I'm glad to see that there are plenty of people from many walks of life, enjoying themselves. So what, if the food is not real Italian food. The food is good and affordable and people have fun there. That's all that matters. I personally love that place, and so does my family.

[haruruben]

That is how much escargot should cost, it’s a garden pest- they should pay you to eat it

[rrat_dead_beat]

French person here
Don't worry, escargots aren't that popular anymore, so it'd be unlikely for people to come after you for your opinion

[matteoar]

As an Italian, as long as they don't call themselves "traditional", restaurants can do whatever they want with our food.

[ricardoguanipa]

Its Japanese "French" Olive Garden

[LainKohana]

i ate at SO MANY Italian restaurants in japan!! There are so many good spots with amazing pasta and curries and seeing their menus are so interesting! Gotta be one of my favorite genres! Japanized American food!

[EvaCher]

I lived 6 years in Japan, and currently live in France. Saizeria for sure is one of my best memories of Japan. We frequently went there with friends to eat sausages, pizza, and focaccia and drink cheap beer and wine. I wish to teleport to Japan, and go to Saizeria again:))