Gigio

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🇮🇹 Italian / 📍 Shoin Jinja

📓 Visits: 1

Michelin-starred sandwiches!  Well, almost.  Gigio serves Italian food in the evening, is not open for lunch but is open for breakfast.  It will be included in the Michelin Guide Tokyo 2026 (presumably as yet another "Selected" restaurant).

I had all items off the breakfast menu, save the "morning set".

Today's panini (¥1000) - salsicca, rocket, courgette pickles, rosette di pane

Cornetti (¥500)

Cornetti sandwich (¥650) - croissant sandwich with mortadella and rocket

There's a selection of baked sweet goods in a showcase including bomboloni, cannoli, sfogliatelle.  I took home a slice of amor polenta and a bombolone alla crema di nocciola.

The panini was delicious - a thick, spicy and warm patty of meat, juices running off the plate.  The sweet items and coffee were good.  The cornetti was unfortunately underbaked in the centre.

The restaurant was surprisingly quiet and there was plenty of space.  You can have a nice Italian breakfast in your own time and I would go back.

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❓ My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ 3.75

📱 Booking: My visit was a walk-in on a weekday.  Drinks menu in Italian and Japanese.  Food menu in hand-written Japanese only.  Some English spoken.

📍 Location: 

4-24-19 Wakabayashi.  2 mins north from Shoin-jinja-mae Station.  Boulangerie Sudo is on the other side of the tracks.  Overrated IMHO but if you've never been and can time it right it's a good 1-2 and then you can make up your own mind.

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📅 Visit May 2025