Ern in Tokyo: Pizzaria Tonino / ピッゼリアトニーノ

Monday, June 23, 2008

Pizzaria Tonino / ピッゼリアトニーノ

Last week when it was nice and sunny outside, we decided to walk around the neighborhood of Shimo Takaido. It's the last station on the Setagaya Line. There really isn't much to see there except for the shopping street, where there's an excellent Indian curry restaurant called "Taste of India". It's also a transfer station for the Keio Odakyu Line which runs from Shinjuku to Odawara. We were going to go to "Taste of India" for lunch but we had curry rice for breakfast. Instead, we opted to have lunch at an Italian pizzaria called "Tonino" which also has a location in Bologna, Italy.

先週天気の良い日に下高井戸で散歩しました。世田谷線の終点駅と京王小田急線の乗り換え駅もある。商店街以外に見どころはあんまりないと思いすが、結構楽しい場所です。美味しいインドカレーの料理店、「Taste of India」があります。でもその日、朝食はカレーだったもんで、そこでランチ食べるのは却下しました。変わりに、イタリアのピザ店「Tonino」に行きました。

It's not often that we go out for pizza, so I was pretty stoked. We also ordered a pasta dish as well. My mother will be happy to know that I decided to pass on ordering a beer with lunch today. Today's choice for pizza was a Margherita proscuitto crudo e rughetta I (a Margherita being a tomato based pizza with mozzarella cheese and basil), the one we ordered also had the added topping of prosciutto (that's ham you know) and arugula and was cooked in a wood-fired oven. Our choice of pasta was Linguine all' Ischitana, a seafood pasta filled with mussels, clams, octopus, and shrimp.

外食でピザ食べに行くのはあんまりないので、自分は結構舞い上がりました。ピザと共にパスタも注文しました。自分のお母さんが喜ぶ事に、今日はランチのビールを頼みませんでした（何歳になっても、世界中のお母さん達は自分の子供の健康を気になるでしょ）。今日食べたピザは生ハムとルッコラのマルゲリータ。もちろん窯焼きのオブンで焼いたやつ。パスタはイスキア風業界のリングイネ。