Jinbo Minami Aoyama

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🇮🇹 Italian / 📍 Minami-Aoyama

📓 Visits: 1 (2022)

Jinbo Minami Aoyama occupies the premises vacated by Hamasaki, which moved to Togo Jinja in April 2022.  Owner/chef Yoshinaga Jinbo was previously at Hatake Aoyama, which closed in February 2018.

A 6-course lunch is priced at JPY 7,480 while an 11-course dinner is priced at JPY 17,000.  Prices increased by 1000 yen in November 2022.  In December only a "Christmas" menu was available for another 1000 yen.  On my visit I went for lunch.

I didn't score every dish.  For pasta a choice between sardine and radicchio or hairy crab spaghetti.  Of course I went for the latter.  At dinner fresh pasta is used but at lunch it was spaghetti from a packet.  It's hard to get excited about pasta from packet and the best element was the aubergine puree.  For main a choice between fish (grouper) or pork or both for an extra JPY 2,500.  I chose the fish which was fine.  The best dish was probably the dessert of Mont Blanc which was a large portion and included very high quality chestnut and chocolate.  Coffee was refilled without asking and served with a lemon macaron and honey madeleine.  Bread is made in the kitchen.  The foccacia was a bit doughy but the baguette was better.  There was a good selection of non-alcoholic drinks mixed in-house by sommelier and restaurant manager Yuta Sekimoto who could speak good English.  There were no real errors with the cooking and all the ingredients were very good quality but I prefer the more robust flavours of Il Lato.

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❓ My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ 3.7

📱 Booking: 🟩  Easy.  A day before for lunch.  Same-day dinner reservations may be possible.  Book via Tabelog, TableCheck or phone.  English spoken.

📍 Location:

4-11-13 Minami-Aoyama.  Dedicated street-facing entrance.  Omotesando A4 Exit.
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📅 Visit October 2022

💴 Damage: 9,768 (7480 + 1 drink @ 1400 + 10%)

⏱️ Time taken: 1h25m